05/06/2015: BVD Phase 4 official guidance
The Official BVD phase 4 guidance can be found at the links below:
Official Farmer guidance (Phase 4)
Official Vet guidance (Phase 4)
The Official BVD phase 4 guidance can be found at the links below:
Official Farmer guidance (Phase 4)
Official Vet guidance (Phase 4)
The possible implementation of voluntary bovine EID as part of European legislation offers significant opportunities to the industry. However, the existing GB cattle numbering system is incompatible with the EID standard (ISO 11784) to be required by Europe. Therefore, there is a significant challenge in finding a cost-effective solution which will not discourage voluntary uptake of bovine EID. This paper details the problems, possible solutions and trade-offs.
Bovine EID numbering
PED is a virus that causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration in pigs. A new highly pathogenic strain of the virus has spread quickly across North America and was confirmed in the Ukraine near the Polish border in December 2014. If keepers see an episode of unusual or rapidly spreading diarrhoea in pigs of any age they should contact their private vet immediately. To encourage prompt reporting test sampling kits Have been distributed, free of charge to all active pig keepers in Scotland.
If you have any further enquiries please contact Jill Thomson SAC Consulting on 0131 535 3130.
The Phase 4 report describing the work done by ScotEID to record and report on 14.7m sheep moves, 3.7m pig moves and the BVD status of all of Scotland’s cattle holdings with 37k tests, is now available.
ScotEID phase 4 report
ScotEID report on UHF/LF transponder performance in hybrid EID tags.
Coexistence of LF and UHF in dual tags
Technical note on the proposed updating Low Frequency (LF) Electronic IDentification (EID) by the ISO14223 standard.
ISO14223 technical note
PED is a virus that causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration in pigs. A new highly pathogenic strain of the virus has spread quickly across North America and was confirmed in the Ukraine near the Polish border in December 2014. If keepers see an episode of unusual or rapidly spreading diarrhoea in pigs of any age they should contact their private vet immediately. To encourage prompt reporting test sampling kits are being distributed, free of charge to all active pig keepers in Scotland.
In response to various enquiries about cattle EID, a list of answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions is now available here. If you have any further queries please get in touch.
Cattle EID FAQ
On the 1st January 2015 sheep with old tags (born or tagged before 1st January 2010) will be subject to a new set of rules. The rules and the options for dealing with them have been detailed in this document.
A very succinct summary of the principle recommendation is: From the 1st of January 2015 if you are moving animals from the historic flock (identified prior to 1st January 2010) to a mart/ Scottish abattoir the advice from industry is to remove the old tags and replace with a new EID pair.
Advice on the historic flock
There is now a facility on the BVD database which enables vets to have access to the testing results conducted by their vet practice. All that is required is for a vet to contact the BVD helpline on 0300 244 9823 and ask to be registered. Once registered vets will be able to correct data (animal IDs etc.) on the database.'