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Market visits
At every market there is a risk of coming into contact with potentially infected livestock or
equipment. Minimise these risks by:
Wearing protective clothing and boots when entering the animal areas
Not leaving the animal area without cleansing and disinfecting your boots
Remove protective clothing for laundry after leaving the animal area
Ensuring your vehicles and equipment arrive and leave the market clean and disinfected
Are there any best practices above you could adopt?
Manure and slurry
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Manure and slurry from quarantined animals and imported manures taken from other farms
should be considered a high disease risk. Whenever possible try to ensure that high-risk manures
are spread on arable land rather than pasture.
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Before spreading, ensure that high-risk manure or slurry has been stored for a suitable length of time.
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Before allowing stock to graze recently spread fields ensure a suitable length of time has passed.
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Suitable waiting times should be discussed with your vet, particularly if there is a worry about
Johne’s disease.
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Prevent calves from grazing pastures where manures have been spread for at least 12 months.
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MEDIUM RISK
LOWER RISK
HIGHER RISK
No manure hauling
equipment shared
No imported manures
taken from other farms
Manure from
quarantined animals
is stored separately
Muck heaps fenced
off or stock unable
to access muck heap
Livestock kept away
from freshly spread
manures for an
appropriate period
of time
Manure hauling
equipment shared
with another farm,
but thoroughly
cleaned and
disinfected
between farms
Farms from which
imported manure
is taken have
been assessed
for potential risks
Manure hauling
equipment shared
with another farm
Imported manure or
slurry from other farms
Imported manure
or slurry spread
on pastures
Stock can access
muck heaps
No separate storage
of quarantine manure
Livestock not
prevented from
accessing recently
spread fields