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Down in Devon July 2008
Hello everyone.
July has been quite a quiet month, the dairy cows have started to eat the silage after grass and
are milking very well. The flies are beginning to bother the stock so we've treated the dry cows with a pour on fly repellent it's got about a six week working period, so they may have to be done
again. Hopefully this will stop them getting summer mastitis, the flies land on the end of the dry cows teats and cause and transfer the bugs from teat to teat and cow to cow, one day their udders are
fine, the next day the teats are looking a bit puffy and the udder is quite hard.
As theres not too much more to say on the farming front, I thought I'd get on my soap box
regarding Bovine T.B. On the 7th of July the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, announced the governments policy not to issue licenses to cull badgers in T.B. hot spots, for the purposes of T.B control.
This has left livestock farmers and vets in exactly the same position as before. Whether you
believe cows gave T.B to badgers or the other way around, the fact still remains that badgers carry and spread T.B. Without the cull of badgers we will keep on going around in circles, killing thousands
of livestock every year and putting farmers on movement restrictions in very awkward positions, financially, physically and mentally. This government would rather kill a cow than kill a badger.
On a lighter note, we took our annual weeks holiday the last two days of July and into the first
week of August. We went in a caravan to Cornwall, the break was fantastic and the kids loved it. Unfortunately as you are all well aware by now it rained from the 1st of August onwards and we came back a couple of days early. (There's only so much you can do in the rain.) Oh for the British Summer.
All the best
From
Steve, Down in Devon.
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