News from Tassie
Still no suspect EI cases in Tasmania. Things continue to improve nationally.
Vaccination - it looks like the local racing industry is only going to vaccinate yearlings for the yearling sales at this stage and will be making a decision about vaccinating other horses after the Summer Carnival. I understand the pacing industry has decided to hold off on vaccination at this stage as well.
Non-racing events - some minor changes to the mandatory biosecurity requirements for events with 10 or more horses. The most significant is clarification that a competitor, judge etc from NSW or Qld must have a 48 hour break between handling horses over there and handling a horse at a Tasmanian event. The new version of the mandatory biosecurity requirements should be live on our website by now. We are still getting feedback that some event organisers are running into difficulty with mainland-based insurers' attitude towards holding an event here in Tasmania. If you think your insurer would benefit from a discussion with us about biosecurity at events, please feel free to get them to call us at the disease control centre (6233 6875)
Importing a horse from the mainland - no major changes but we have simplified the stuff on our website.
The first legal movement of horses from NSW to Vic since the EI outbreak began in late August is scheduled for this afternoon (Monday). 66 horses, each having had EI and now with a natural immunity, will be making the trip. Another significant step on the road back to normality. We've got a bit of a PR campaign in the rural and regional papers urging people to continue to do the right thing EI-wise over the forthcoming holiday season, when there'll be a lot of folk out and about. And another postcard mailout to the 1.5 million or so rural smallholdings, hobby farms etc around Australia to coincide with the start of the holiday season
Info for vets - We'll be loading onto the website some advice to vets responding to suspect cases of EI - this is in case a vet or two has to do some sampling while the disease control centre is closed over Xmas/New Year. A private vet will still be able to get our on-duty vet in any emergency over that period. So will you, if you were to see anything that looks like it might be EI - the hotline number is 1800 675 888.
On behalf of the disease control centre, I hope that you - and in particular your horses - stay well over the Xmas/New Year period !!
Cheers Barry Calderbank
Vaccination - it looks like the local racing industry is only going to vaccinate yearlings for the yearling sales at this stage and will be making a decision about vaccinating other horses after the Summer Carnival. I understand the pacing industry has decided to hold off on vaccination at this stage as well.
Non-racing events - some minor changes to the mandatory biosecurity requirements for events with 10 or more horses. The most significant is clarification that a competitor, judge etc from NSW or Qld must have a 48 hour break between handling horses over there and handling a horse at a Tasmanian event. The new version of the mandatory biosecurity requirements should be live on our website by now. We are still getting feedback that some event organisers are running into difficulty with mainland-based insurers' attitude towards holding an event here in Tasmania. If you think your insurer would benefit from a discussion with us about biosecurity at events, please feel free to get them to call us at the disease control centre (6233 6875)
Importing a horse from the mainland - no major changes but we have simplified the stuff on our website.
The first legal movement of horses from NSW to Vic since the EI outbreak began in late August is scheduled for this afternoon (Monday). 66 horses, each having had EI and now with a natural immunity, will be making the trip. Another significant step on the road back to normality. We've got a bit of a PR campaign in the rural and regional papers urging people to continue to do the right thing EI-wise over the forthcoming holiday season, when there'll be a lot of folk out and about. And another postcard mailout to the 1.5 million or so rural smallholdings, hobby farms etc around Australia to coincide with the start of the holiday season
Info for vets - We'll be loading onto the website some advice to vets responding to suspect cases of EI - this is in case a vet or two has to do some sampling while the disease control centre is closed over Xmas/New Year. A private vet will still be able to get our on-duty vet in any emergency over that period. So will you, if you were to see anything that looks like it might be EI - the hotline number is 1800 675 888.
On behalf of the disease control centre, I hope that you - and in particular your horses - stay well over the Xmas/New Year period !!
Cheers Barry Calderbank
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