Reply to “Buffer Zone in Qld”.
In reply to “Buffer Zone in Qld”. The buffer zones actually need to be up to 200km out from thenearest infected property. The infection has been known to travel up to 8km a day. Currentreports is that is currently moving at about 5kms per week outwards.
If you vaccinate a horse immunity doesn’t start until 14 to 21 days after the vaccination – so if itcan travel up to 8km a day, your buffer needs to be far enough out to insure horses in the bufferhave immunity when EI reaches the buffer. ( 8km x 21days = 168km).
The qld buffer zone is a close as 21km from the nearest infected property in the southern sections.So you can see how pointless it is. Also vaccinating a 10km ring around a IP is also a little bit ofwasted effort.
A buffer works great - if all activity stops and horses were the only means of infection…..Brumby population in SE QLD is estimated at 1.5 horses to a hectare in the state forests.
Remember what happened when Nat Parks did a cull in NSW………..
Steve
If you vaccinate a horse immunity doesn’t start until 14 to 21 days after the vaccination – so if itcan travel up to 8km a day, your buffer needs to be far enough out to insure horses in the bufferhave immunity when EI reaches the buffer. ( 8km x 21days = 168km).
The qld buffer zone is a close as 21km from the nearest infected property in the southern sections.So you can see how pointless it is. Also vaccinating a 10km ring around a IP is also a little bit ofwasted effort.
A buffer works great - if all activity stops and horses were the only means of infection…..Brumby population in SE QLD is estimated at 1.5 horses to a hectare in the state forests.
Remember what happened when Nat Parks did a cull in NSW………..
Steve
posted by Horse Deals at
5:37 pm
1 Comments:
8km a day is under the absolute ideal weather conditions.
But I agree that they have set the buffer to close in some areas - there's already some suspected cases that area.
IMO opinion the buffer needs to be more like 70kms at the bare minimum, so much so that it'll be unlikely for a person to take it to the other side. We've had human error outbreak 20kms from the nearest IP. Once it hits the buffer, someone is going to take it across I guarantee that.
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