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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/

19/08/2025

Sharing grazing land with livestock owned by other people is particularly risky, particularly in high TB incidence areas where potentially infected livestock may come into close contact with uninfected cattle through direct contact or indirectly at shared watering and feeding points.

TOP TIPS:
Where possible, avoid shared grazing with other cattle.
Isolate cattle and post-movement test when returning cattle back to farm after shared grazing.

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

14/08/2025

While it may not be possible to stop badgers gaining access to your pasture, it is recommended that you restrict cattle access to high risk areas such as badger setts and latrines, which could contain infectious material.

TOP TIPS:
Fence cattle away from badger setts and latrines but don’t obstruct badgers from accessing their setts.
When silaging, avoid mowing these areas as they may contain infectious material.
If possible, prevent cattle from grazing fields with a high level of badger activity.

As badger latrines are frequently located along linear landscape features such as field edges, the best option may be to prevent cattle grazing at fields boundaries altogether e.g. by use of temporary electric fencing.

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

12/08/2025

Permanent or electric fencing can be used to exclude badgers from areas of your farm. With electric fencing, strands of wire should be at 10, 15, 20 and 30cm above the ground.
Maize and whole crop silage clamps should be well covered and where possible, badgers prevented from having access. Electric fencing can be used to secure silage clamps. Other materials, such as metal rails can also be effective in securing silage clamps.

TOP TIPS:
Protect silage clamps with electric fencing at 10, 15, 20 and 30cm above the ground.
Cover maize and whole crop silage clamps to reduce wildlife access.

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

07/08/2025

tInfected cattle can excrete M. bovis bacteria in their faeces. Cattle manure/slurry may therefore be contaminated with M. bovis.

TOP TIPS:
Store manure for at least 3 weeks
Store slurry for at least 6 months
Only spread on arable land or pasture that is not going to be grazed by cattle for at least 2 months

This minimises the risk of infecting cattle from manure by avoiding direct contact of contaminated manure with cattle. The two month waiting period should also apply to grass if it is to be cut for forage.

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

31/07/2025

Open feed stores may attract wildlife to enter farmyards, buildings and feed where accessible.
TOP TIPS
- Use sheeted gates or panels to reduce wildlife access
- Level ground underneath gates and doors
- Maximum height of 7.5cm from bottom of gate to the floor
- Vertical gaps between gate and posts/structures should be less than 7.5cm
- Keep the area around feed bins and storage clean and tidy up any spilled feed

Source:https://www.tbknowledgeexchange.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/tbinteractive.pdf

29/07/2025

Wildlife may access farm yards and buildings for food and water sources.
TOP TIPS
Use sheeted gates or panels to reduce wildlife access
Level ground underneath gates and doors
Maximum height of 7.5cm from bottom of gate to the floor
Use wildlife cameras to monitor badger activity
Vertical gaps between gate and posts/structures should be less than 7.5cm

Source:https://www.tbknowledgeexchange.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/tbinteractive.pdf

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