badgers...and tb..why not vaccinate them

[Guest strapper]

just reading this, surely a trial vaccination programme of catch and release would be a better option?.

i know its costing hell of a lot for farmers and through compensation....but surely it wouldnt cost as much if the badgers were tagged and vaccinated.

if they havent got tb then the youngsters would possibly not have it.

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/4720934.Bid_to_stop_Wales_badger_cull_fails/

[greenlands]

Hi Paul,would it not be possible for some type of oral treatment and lace their feed with it ??just a thought.

Lindsay

[Guest strapper]

Hi Paul,would it not be possible for some type of oral treatment and lace their feed with it ??just a thought.

Lindsay

 

if they have been found to be spreading it ,surely b4 killing them other aspects of eradication of tb should have been sort.

[Guest youngzimmy]

IF YOU VACCINATED BADGERS YOU WOULD BE MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE THEY MADE WITH RACING PIGEONS

[Guest strapper]

IF YOU VACCINATED BADGERS YOU WOULD BE MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE THEY MADE WITH RACING PIGEONS

 

there would be a difference ..as they would only be done once..as in humans.

[Guest Freebird]

IF YOU VACCINATED BADGERS YOU WOULD BE MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE THEY MADE WITH RACING PIGEONS

Correct. Let's face it without knowing all the details, the badger is a wild animal where as cattle are domesticated and pumped full of anti-biotics etc. = where does the problem lie, not with the badgers I assume. Money versus common sense again!!!

 

 

[Guest beautyhomer]

 

there would be a difference ..as they would only be done once..as in humans.

 

Humans are not routinely vaccinated anymore

[Guest beautyhomer]

Correct. Let's face it without knowing all the details, the badger is a wild animal where as cattle are domesticated and pumped full of anti-biotics etc. = where does the problem lie, not with the badgers I assume. Money versus common sense again!!!

 

 

since when were cattle pumped full of antibiotics etc then ;D ;D

[Roland]

Agree Strapper. Trouble is culling is cheaper than funding vacination and then the time consumed etc.

This is why there have never been so many badgers lying on side of roads as if 'Road Kill' :-/

Of course they are outed via a hoe and culled then placed there.

Further trouble is that it seems only the Farmers / Farm workers them selves that believe badgers have TB. I believe Strapper I'd also be right in you believe this to be the case.

Yet Dafra etc. haven't found this to be so ... Unless I am out of touch again.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/farmanimal/diseases/atoz/tb/abouttb/badgers.htm

Says thre it is in one breathe transferred as so, but then ...  :-/

[Guest strapper]

Agree Strapper. Trouble is culling is cheaper than funding vacination and then the time consumed etc.

This is why there have never been so many badgers lying on side of roads as if 'Road Kill' :-/

Of course they are outed via a hoe and culled then placed there.

Further trouble is that it seems only the Farmers / Farm workers them selves that believe badgers have TB. I believe Strapper I'd also be right in you believe this to be the case.

Yet Dafra etc. haven't found this to be so ... Unless I am out of touch again.

 

i dont believe that badgers have tb nor do i not believe they havent,i have no scientific evidence to prove otherwise ,but i thought vaccinating is a more humane way of dealing with this problem.

although ive grown up with hunting(never on foxes or badgers)i dont see killing them is right.

 

 

[Roland]

With you 100% there Strapper.

Was interesting to see Hilary Benn has a research team etc. has plowed 20 million in that - cost of cattle compensation £24 million.

Seems also that the Bovine Tb Badger is different vacines and also .... well it's there all all to read if interested.