ARE WE FINALLY TB FREE?! | TB in Northern Ireland is getting ridiculous!

Thursday was a very important day on our farm! Are we finally able to sell animals to other farms again after being closed for over a year!?
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[@andythewelder6181]

Its funny that people claim that its not the badgers but i bet badger numbers have increased in the last 20 years. Alot of people seem to forget that actually effectively controling tb and hopefully eradicating it with also benefit the wild deer population as well

[@TractorTorque]

Glad to hear that. Keep up the good work educating the masses.

[@stephenpalmer741]

congratulations, i am aware that’s a huge relief. Sell sell sell . have a great weekend.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Thank you! You too!

[@mervynrodgers9465]

Another good vide. Looking forward to your TB video, don't hold back.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I won't!

[@jimryan5724]

Great news 👏

[@roymclean4763]

Congratulations. Unless you have hypertension salt is good for you, helping with hydration etc. Many people who don't eat a lot of fast food and processed food actually can benefit from adding salt to their diet. Butter also is a good nutrient dense food source.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Good to know! 🤣

[@nthnmcclure3020]

You mention that complacency around rearing too many heifers made tb more difficult. How would it be any different if you had 40 more beef calves instead of heifers? They still need to be kept for as long as you're down surely?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Bull beef can be sold to the abattoir at 14m, heifers have to be kept and milked.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Bull beef can be sold to the abattoir at 14m, heifers have to be kept and milked.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Bull beef can be sold to the abattoir at 14m, heifers have to be kept and milked.

[@rosspattinson5846]

Good news on the tb front. Any chance you could elaborate more about your opinion and experience on genomic tested Ai bulls you mentioned it a few videos ago but didn't go into details

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I will stick more detail in a video. 👍

[@rosspattinson5846]

@@FarmTheoryNI great

[@roberthiggins6401]

Great news your free of tb. It's ridiculous there's no cull there as its the case in Wales when it's been shown it works in Britian.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Absolutely agree! It's insane a few badgers are worth millions of tax payers money.

[@roberthiggins6401]

@FarmTheoryNI To us, yes in a normal world but when you think of the tens of millions going on all sorts of nonsense and we don't even know where these millions are going half the time. Tom P gave you a shout in his latest vid so hopefully you'll get a load more subs.

[@jordanhill1780]

Full badgers is the solution deer as well

[@spu5990]

I feel your relief!! Well done. I would be doing a badger cull myself on the hush hush!! Your scramble egg also needs a lot of pepper.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

We had healthy badgers for 7 years, so I don't want to risk making things worse. 😅

[@DN-ij4pk]

As you know the reason no1 will try to come up with a new plan to deal with tb. Is their is a hugh industry built up round tb. Too many people making money out of tb. Their are some people and businesses that solely make their living off tb eradication the way tb eradication is as now. Not in their interest to change. Their is people in the tb section of the department that have/will spend their whole career working this system of tb eradication

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Very valid point. What we need is leadership with a desire to sort out tb!

[@saabsonsan]

Part of the solution is to reduce the compensation to farmers to 75% of market value? Such cute wee badgers with black and white faces.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Maybe if it was part of a package including badger culls, to suggest cutting compensation in isolation is insanity!

[@AuctionNI-tb6em]

Can u video you selling your stock

[@danmurphy6541]

Congratulations…sell away…always a great vid, ta

[@finbarreburn5112]

'The Cow' that keeps on Grifting 💰 😥 😠 😡

[@jamescarmody1710]

I have badgers and deer on my farm and have never failed a tb test in my fathers or my time farming yet hopefully it stays that way 🤞🏻 so I don’t agree with culling badgers I think they r the easy option to blame

[@FarmersSss]

Badgers live in groups ( clans ) and are territorial. Your badgers on your farm must be good badgers so a cull could affect you as badgers with tb could move into your territory. It's all fine and well saying you don't agree with culling badgers but you have never experienced any hardship that it causes. Around 10 miles away from me there was a hotspot for outbreaks on farms, and it went on for a couple of years. So in the last few years there has been a cull of badgers and now that area is now tb free with no new cases on farms for well over a year now.

[@DN-ij4pk]

That does happen. If for some reason something happens to the badgers on your farm. Other badgers wud move in. And id bet ud get tb. Your farm and the badgers on it work. Other badgers wont be let on your farm by those badgers already on your farm

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I hopefully made it clear it's not as simple as cull badgers solve the problem... However they make an effective control strategy impossible in N.I.

[@jamescarmody1710]

@@FarmTheoryNI I think there should be a vaccine made to prevent animals of getting it like it’s a problem thats going on 2 long now

[@jamescarmody1710]

@@FarmersSssa few farmers next to me have gone down with tb before for 2 years straight and lost a lot of animals from it so I do understand the effect it has on farms

[@gerrymulligan2602]

O man.lot extra cattle.feed if can't sell them

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Delighted for.ye some parlor thire sheds surprise sell.cows ya do.winter milking

[@gerrymulligan2602]

Best.luck.with.that