Meeting at Carina
Folks last night I and a few hundred others attended an EI info evening kindly organized by the Manly Rd Vet Clinic. The upshot is this – 1. EI is confirmed at Belmont – this admission only after repeated questioning
2. The vet attending that is working for the DPI said he felt privately we will be in lockdown till Easter next year.
3. They have absolutely no plans to properly assist those of us in the Red Zone who will continue to be infected as we ride out the eradication of this disease.
A very good friend of mine at Hagslea who followed strict bio security from day one and who became infected anyway after the farm across the road got it had his most precious mare go into labour at 2am yesterday morning. Things did not progress and it took him 4 hours to get a vet to attend only to be told the foal was malformed and the mare could not deliver. He rang a Vet hospital and a vet immediately came and attended and then went back to get the necessary equipment.
At 9 am – 7 hours after the mare went into labour he was waiting for the vet to come back to perform an emergency C section in his paddock becuase no vet hospital would take his mare as she was infected.
We need, everyone of us with horses, to contact the DPI, the government and your local vet and tell them that yes we want the disease out but we want access to the same level of vetinary care we would otherwise have given ourselves before EI. We need a dirty hospital in SE Qld – this is the breeding season – mares and foals are rushed to hospital every year with life threatening complications and we want that assurance should the unthinkable happen we will get every service that is needed.
Peter Toft at Minden has lost a mare overnight because he was not able to transport that mare to a vet hospital. Lockdown is one thing, denial of proper vatinary care is a whole other thing!
Please help make a noise and tell the authorities that they need to immediately set in place a proper vetinary care plan for all those hundreds, maybe thousands of horses infected now and still to be infected in South East Qld and that we urgently need a vet hospital made available to our horses.
Janice O’Connor
www.comanchelodge.com.au
Kentville Qld
I have 35 horses – 8 pregnant mares and am only a few k’s from an infected property which is downwind from me
2. The vet attending that is working for the DPI said he felt privately we will be in lockdown till Easter next year.
3. They have absolutely no plans to properly assist those of us in the Red Zone who will continue to be infected as we ride out the eradication of this disease.
A very good friend of mine at Hagslea who followed strict bio security from day one and who became infected anyway after the farm across the road got it had his most precious mare go into labour at 2am yesterday morning. Things did not progress and it took him 4 hours to get a vet to attend only to be told the foal was malformed and the mare could not deliver. He rang a Vet hospital and a vet immediately came and attended and then went back to get the necessary equipment.
At 9 am – 7 hours after the mare went into labour he was waiting for the vet to come back to perform an emergency C section in his paddock becuase no vet hospital would take his mare as she was infected.
We need, everyone of us with horses, to contact the DPI, the government and your local vet and tell them that yes we want the disease out but we want access to the same level of vetinary care we would otherwise have given ourselves before EI. We need a dirty hospital in SE Qld – this is the breeding season – mares and foals are rushed to hospital every year with life threatening complications and we want that assurance should the unthinkable happen we will get every service that is needed.
Peter Toft at Minden has lost a mare overnight because he was not able to transport that mare to a vet hospital. Lockdown is one thing, denial of proper vatinary care is a whole other thing!
Please help make a noise and tell the authorities that they need to immediately set in place a proper vetinary care plan for all those hundreds, maybe thousands of horses infected now and still to be infected in South East Qld and that we urgently need a vet hospital made available to our horses.
Janice O’Connor
www.comanchelodge.com.au
Kentville Qld
I have 35 horses – 8 pregnant mares and am only a few k’s from an infected property which is downwind from me
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