A declaration by Bryan May and Dick Sibly, that they had found the answer to bovine TB and declared they could clear any farm of bovine TB has now ended abruptly, surprise, surprise. They stated that it was spread through cow muck, from cow to cow, nothing to do with wildlife. Their message has been…
WARNING TO ALL CATTLE FARMERS Cattle vet Dick Sibly has declared on Spotlight Southwest, with cow shit in his hand. TB is all down to dirty cattle farmers, nothing to do with badgers. He gave a commentary on a list of all the multi thousands of pounds we ignorant peasants need to spend to follow…
On 31st May this year I submitted my Interest in taking part in the Strategy for eradicating TB run by a team including Sir Charles Godfrey, the results of which you will have seen across the media today. This is my correspondence with them and my response to what has subsequently occurred. _______________________________________________________________________________ My…
BBC radio 4 farming today I was very interested to hear the vet Dick Sibley on radio 4’s farming today, I met him at a WI meeting with one of MAF’s so called main TB experts 20 years ago. The scientist that was with him, to my amazement claimed that he didn’t know if…
Since the tragic death of Derek Mead, the loss of a great friend & champion for agriculture, I’ve kept a dignified silence.Waiting on the hope that the results after 4 years of culling in Somerset & Gloucester would have shown some positive results. But sadly the results were exactly as I expected, that random culling…
Although Personally I din’t go,(I can fall asleep in a chair at home, I didn’t need to go to London to do it). my inside informers tell me that the most significant thing about the day, which spoke a thousand words was the buffet lunch was completely vegetarian!. Normally, surely there would be a choice?…
I hope cattle farmers have been too busy with spring work to listen to the political waffle that’s just been happening in parliament. I’ve just sat and listened to it myself and feel physically sick, I’ve had to listen to this waffling for the last 20 years and it never gets any better. People using…
It’s time that there was a judicial review of the badger protection act as it’s no longer fit for the purpose it was intended, as I’ve said before badgers are worse off now than they have ever been, because there is no management system in place the disease has become endemic in large pockets of…
As you know I am not in favour of the randomised badger cull in its present form, not because I’m against the killing of badgers, I know 100% badgers are causing the TB problem in cattle. But after 20 years of experiencing the ever out of control TB situation, Many Cattle farmers can’t survive another…
The next couple of months will be badger carnage on the roads. This time of year with Cubs being born, There will be more movement now than any other time of year. Healthy dominant sows and Boars will mostly be the ones killed, out doing what Healthy badgers do best, marking territories, keeping the diseased…