Ignorance and hysteria more dangerous than EI.
It hasn’t taken much for the horse industry to start tearing itself apart.
Claims of unfairness and favouritism because one sector has been better at lobbying than another.
Does ANYONE actually think this helping to stamp out EI
There are dedicated people like the local vets, SES volunteers, horse industry people working themselves into ground for the sake of ALL horse owners. But it seems there are some people happy to throw their hands in the air and say just let it go and bugger the rest of Australia.
There is also a dangerous outbreak of instant experts in horse forums right across Australia–who knew we had so many bloody exotic disease specialists in Australia!
The amount of misinformation and outright garbage that has been bandied about as the great one solution for this outbreak is very disappointing. THINK about the damage you are doing in the horse communities when you mouth off with nothing to back it up.
Well to use another’s phrase WAKE UP PEOPLE!
There is NO instant fix
This disease will take time to control
It will take concerted effort by EVERYONE.
ALL horse owners need to work together.
There was one ‘so -called" manager of an agistment property on TV tonight complaining that DPI hadn’t turned up to set up foot wash station on his property. What the! Who are these lazy sods? Get out and set up your own biosecurity.
Stop playing victims and get off your backsides and DO YOUR BIT
Joan McSpadden
Claims of unfairness and favouritism because one sector has been better at lobbying than another.
Does ANYONE actually think this helping to stamp out EI
There are dedicated people like the local vets, SES volunteers, horse industry people working themselves into ground for the sake of ALL horse owners. But it seems there are some people happy to throw their hands in the air and say just let it go and bugger the rest of Australia.
There is also a dangerous outbreak of instant experts in horse forums right across Australia–who knew we had so many bloody exotic disease specialists in Australia!
The amount of misinformation and outright garbage that has been bandied about as the great one solution for this outbreak is very disappointing. THINK about the damage you are doing in the horse communities when you mouth off with nothing to back it up.
Well to use another’s phrase WAKE UP PEOPLE!
There is NO instant fix
This disease will take time to control
It will take concerted effort by EVERYONE.
ALL horse owners need to work together.
There was one ‘so -called" manager of an agistment property on TV tonight complaining that DPI hadn’t turned up to set up foot wash station on his property. What the! Who are these lazy sods? Get out and set up your own biosecurity.
Stop playing victims and get off your backsides and DO YOUR BIT
Joan McSpadden
posted by Horse Deals at
10:36 pm
2 Comments:
Hi Joan
Firstly I would like to welcome home the horse owners who are returning back to their own homes today from Morgan Town in Warwick.
In reply to Joan McSpadden, I agree with what you are saying regarding Bio-security, I do not have EI as yet (that is not to say I wont), I live smack bang in the middle of the highly infected Lowood-Minden-Tarampa area, where there are still new cases popping up daily.
The EI is all around me, on all sides, the nearest property is approx 500metres away.
I enforced my own Bio-Security and decontamination process within the first week of the outbreak at Warwick and Minden.
I immediately stopped my son’s friends from entering the property as they regularly walk the bike track past infected properties, my sons were very understanding.
Upon them returning from school all bags and shoes were sprayed and clothes were immediately put into the washing machine.
They then they had a shower, all this was done every day, before they went anywhere near the horses.
I myself sprayed, showered and changed if I went to the shops.
I anyone visited me I asked him or her if they would mind if I sprayed them first, I never had one person say NO, to my delight. They were sprayed regardless of them entering the house or not.
The wheels and Hubs of the cars that we drive every day were sprayed upon returning from where ever we went.
We don’t know if any of this will work but at the present time it seems to be.
I don’t want to seem anal about the EI, I know that I am doing my bit to prevent my horses from getting EI, but in the back of my mind I feel that if they really don’t have enough vaccines to do all horses then they will have to have had it to be able to compete next year. Because as soon as movement resumes (whenever it does) my horses will come into contact with the horses that have it, and bang they are out for a couple of months again in quarantine.
I know that all this will not stop the virus if they are to contract it via air-born contamination, but I certainly wasn’t going to invite it on to my property at that point.
So why sit and wait for the DPI to turn up, if you are not infected and don’t want to be, put your own bio-security measures in to protect your animals.
I am just hoping that I am doing the right thing in the long run.
thanks
karen
i agree with you joan.Too many instant experts. It is more complicated than they realize. The handling so far has been OK. You have to roll with the blows. There is no textbook to handle it and the situation in Australia is probably alittle different to other country situations. I still agree that the 2 legged wind has been a major stumbling block.
Kathy Blay
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