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29/10/2025

A commonly agreed recommendation during a TBAS visit between adviser and farmer is to have a visitor biosecurity plan.

When creating a visitor biosecurity plan, include a map of your farm showing boundaries and identifying where livestock are housed and grazed, roads, public pathways and bridleways and natural water courses. This can then be used to help identify the risky areas to focus on, such as entrance places to place foot dips and biosecurity signs.

Also include a list of emergency and regular contacts on farm, including a contact number for your vet and farm manager.

22/10/2025

Have you heard of the Pembrokeshire Project?

The five year project explores new measures to tackle bTB in Pembrokeshire whilst aiming to promote a collaboration between vets and farmers, empowering them to take the lead and make informed decisions on disease control.

The project is funded by Welsh Government and delivered by lechyd Da and the Sêr Cymru Centre of Excellence for bovine TB (CBTB) at Aberystwyth University to integrate research and development with practical veterinary work to support and strengthen bTB control.

The project approach is a combination of data analysis and social science. From the training of vets and farmers to improve knowledge of bTB to biosecurity tools, skin test results to farmer surveys and beyond. Encompassing but not limited to diagnostics, this project integrates research and development withpractical veterinary work to support and strengthen bTB control.

Read more: https://iechydda.cymru/projects/

15/10/2025

Inconclusive reactors (IR) are identified on farm where the animal shows a reaction to bovine tuberculin greater than the avian, but not big enough to be classified as a reactor.

IRs are placed under movement restrictions and must be isolated until they are re-tested. If the IR tests clear at the re-test, it is known as a ‘resolved IR’.

It has been found that resolved IRs have significantly higher odds of becoming reactors at a subsequent test in the same or another herd.

Managing resolved IRs as risky animals that pose a potential threat to your herd can help reduce the likelihood of a bTB breakdown in the future. Discuss producing a resolved IR plan with your vet.
VetPartners UK Kingshay Farming

09/10/2025

The 2025 Bovine TB strategy review update by Professor Sir Charles Godfray emphasises the vital role of veterinary services in providing tailored, farm-specific advice to farmers and highlights that a trusted relationship between farmers and vets is essential for effective disease control.

The review recognises the need for clearer, more practical guidance for farmers and incentives to adopt biosecurity measures. Biosecurity is described as an underutilised but critical method of controlling bTB and the report advises that better communication of the benefits of biosecurity is needed.

It also calls for more resources and access to data to help vets offer smarter, targeted solutions to farmers. Technical director for TBAS and veterinary consultant at Kingshay, Sarah Tomlinson, says this review is a powerful reminder about the crucial role vets can play in bTB prevention.

07/10/2025

A new version of the ibTB map has been launched with a number of specific improvements, the most significant being the addition of animal-level TB risk data. This gives users movement and bTB history for 6 million animals in England and provides greater information to farmers purchasing cattle, enabling them to make more informed decisions and reduce the risk of inadvertently introducing TB into their herds.

Information available for animals in English herds includes an animal’s date of birth, sex and breed, as well as the date and type of the last TB test. It also includes information about an animal’s current herd, such as its TB risk area (High, Edge, or Low), any TB breakdown history and date, and how long the animal has been in the herd. Where relevant, the same details are also available for the previous herd, ensuring transparency around an animal’s movement history—helping buyers avoid unknowingly sourcing cattle that have recently moved from a higher-risk area.

Access the ibTB map here: https://ibtb.co.uk/

01/10/2025

Are you visiting The Dairy Show today? Make sure to visit the Kingshay stand to book your FREE TBAS visit!

Many of our TBAS Advisers are also in attendance on their own vet practice stands, so please do pop along to your discuss bTB biosecurity and TBAS visits with your vets!

Bath and West Showground

23/09/2025

As we start to approach the time of year where we think about stock returning to sheds from pasture, understanding the wildlife that may be visiting your farmyard is good way to focus on certain areas to improve biosecurity.
Installing wildlife cameras around the farmyard is a good way to assess the level of wildlife activity. Here are some top tips for camera placement:
✅Feed stores – Including feed bins, under silos. Anywhere with spilled feed that badgers can access.
✅Cattle housing – badgers may enter cattle housing looking for food. Particularly if cattle are fed in low troughs or on the floor.
✅Silage clamps – Silage clamps, particularly maize, are likely to attract badgers
✅Hay/straw barns – badgers may visit these areas to forage or to collect bedding
✅Narrow gaps or entrances to the yard – if the yard is fairly secure, or if there are not suitable camera locations elsewhere, focus on potential entry points to the yard/buildings. Particularly if there are signs of wildlife activity.

Visit the TB Hub for more information: https://tbhub.co.uk/tb-in-wildlife/tb-in-badgers/identifying-badger-activity/

18/09/2025

We all think we know about TB as many of us have lived with the disease or the fear of the disease for years. However sometimes thing come up that we aren’t sure about. If you do have any TB biosecurity questions, want something clarifying or just don’t quite understand something, or would like to know more about TB and badgers or TB in non-bovines, the TB Advisory Service has a telephone advice line which is answered 9-5pm Monday to Friday. We appreciate farmers do not work 9-5pm Monday to Friday so you can also contact us via our contact us form on the TBAS website and someone will call you back in working hours.

Contact form: https://www.tbas.org.uk/contact-us/
Kingshay Farming VetPartners

10/09/2025

Are you attending UK Dairy Day?

Make sure to visit the stand to speak to a member of the team about booking your FREE TBAS visit!

UK Dairy Day

04/09/2025

Don’t forget all farms of a bTB susceptible species are eligible for a TBAS visit!
Are you a farmer of Cattle, Pigs, Camelids, Goats or Sheep in England?
Do you have a valid CPH number?

If you answered yes to the above, then your farm may be eligible to a pair of FREE visits. If trained as a TBAS Adviser, these will be delivered by your own private vet. If your vet is not trained to deliver visits, not to worry! We have a team of independent advisers who can help.

Check our TBAS Practice interactive map to see if your vet practice is trained. Available via the following link https://www.tbas.org.uk/news-and-resources/

26/08/2025

Wild deer are susceptible to bTB infection and in Great Britain are considered to be spill-over hosts of TB. They are unlikely to sustain infection within their own population in the absence of infected cattle or a wildlife reservoir.

There is some evidence that wild deer can be a reservoir of TB and can transmit to other deer and cattle. This may occur where wild deer live or congregate at high population densities and commonly interact with cattle.

TOP TIPS:
- Take measures to reduce deer access to cattle feed and feed stores.
- Report any deer culled with suspected TB lesions to APHA.

If TB is suspected in a wild deer carcass it must be reported to the Animal & Plant Heath Agency. In the High Risk and Edge Areas of England, confirmation of disease can be valuable information used to guide herd management and biosecurity decisions by local cattle keepers.
For more information visit the TB Hub: https://tbhub.co.uk/

21/08/2025

Contact with TB-infected cattle in neighbouring herds is another potential source of infection for your cattle. Infection from neighbouring herds can occur via direct contact (e.g. nose to nose) or indirect contact via contaminated equipment or aerosol spread during manure or slurry spreading.

TOP TIPS:
Maintain perimeter fencing that prevents direct contact with neighbouring cattle.
This can be achieved by installing double fencing.
The boundary should be as wide as is practically possible, but at least three metres.

For more information visit the TB Hub: https://tbhub.co.uk/

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