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01-11-2018, 08:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-11-2018, 08:27 AM by Deborah Haney.)
Wow. I love the initiative and that is quite the information packet.
Here are my questions:
My doe is registered so she's tattooed. How would she get into the scrapie program without ruining her existing tattoos with a tag or tattooing over them?
Also, I heard from someone on TGS (correct me if I'm wrong but I think it was Dave with Trinity Pack Goats) that if you sign up for the scrapie program, the government has the right to come take an animal to test for any reason. Like if an animal born from your herd or from your animal's last herd was found to have scrapie. And that the only test is fatal. Is this true? I tried to find out on the website but It was just a mess of information, most of it geared toward big time producers so I couldn't make much out of it.
I'll probably call one of your contact point people to ask but I wanted to throw the questions out there.
Here are my questions:
My doe is registered so she's tattooed. How would she get into the scrapie program without ruining her existing tattoos with a tag or tattooing over them?
Also, I heard from someone on TGS (correct me if I'm wrong but I think it was Dave with Trinity Pack Goats) that if you sign up for the scrapie program, the government has the right to come take an animal to test for any reason. Like if an animal born from your herd or from your animal's last herd was found to have scrapie. And that the only test is fatal. Is this true? I tried to find out on the website but It was just a mess of information, most of it geared toward big time producers so I couldn't make much out of it.
I'll probably call one of your contact point people to ask but I wanted to throw the questions out there.