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Monday 31 December 2007

Gundy campdraft, first horse competition for Hunter Valley cancelled due to Anthrax outbreak.

Anthrax claims more Upper Hunter cattle
Another three head of cattle died from anthrax on an Upper Hunter property overnight, despite the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) saying the outbreak is stabilising.
More than 30 head of cattle and one horse have died at Rouchel near Scone since Christmas Eve, and the disease has spread to nine properties, all of which are now in lockdown for 41 days.
About 1,000 cattle have been vaccinated.
Keith Miles has lost 22 head of cattle and is hoping the vaccinations will kick in before he finds more dead stock.
"We're just hoping to stem the deaths," he said.
"To go out this morning and find another three head dead and they have to be burned - and that's the hard part of this - you spend your time vaccinating and then you go out the rest of the day burning carcasses.
"It's not just setting fire to it, it takes about three days because you have to get rid of the bones to ash."

Meanwhile today's Gundy campdraft, the first horse competition to be held in the Hunter Valley since the horse flu outbreak in August, has been postponed because of the anthrax emergency.

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