Breed Health Update
In order
to remain as an elite breed and to ensure our customers have
confidence in our product the Technical Committee had these
guidelines approved at the last Council meeting on 11th & 12th
August 2010.
 Health
Scheme Rules
Key Simmentals Herd wins ‘Most Improved’ Award
for British Simmental breed
The Key Simmentals Herd owned by John and Simon Key of Mundham in Norfolk
has been recognised by EBLEX as the Most Improved Herd for
the British Simmental breed. [more]
Achieving Pneumonia Protection Without IBR Antibodies
05/01/10
In response to numerous queries,
Pfizer Animal Health has provided us with this insight about pneumonia
vaccination of pedigree young stock.
[more]
Health Awareness Update 
Healthy Lungs Deliver Healthy Cattle Growth
Hi Health
Johne’s Disease
Johne’s Disease: Why
Test?
New Era For Pneumonia Treatment
DNA - SIRE’S PROFILE
If the Sire is
no longer available to take tail hairs and semen is not available to
obtain a DNA profile the Animal Health Trust have advised the following
criteria to obtain a profile of the Sire:-
To obtain a Sire DNA profile if the Sire
is no longer alive and semen is not available, we would need a number
of calves sired by that bull together with the corresponding dams.
We can then subtract out the contribution of the dam from the calf's
profile leaving the sires profile. Because each calf only receives
half the sire's DNA and in fact also half the dam's DNA it is necessary
to do a number of dam-calf combinations in order to approximate the
complete profile of the sire. Basically the more calf-dam combinations
you can provide the more accurate the sire's profile would be but I
would not recommend doing less than 5 calf-dam sets.
Therefore the Society would like to advise members that a minimum of
five calves sired by the said bull, plus their dam’s will need
to be DNA typed in order to obtain a sire DNA profile. To avoid this
extra expense the Society advise all members to get all stock bulls DNA
typed before they are sold on, or taken off farm for any other reason.
Please also advise any potential purchasers of this requirement when
you sell bulls that will be used on pedigree herds.
DNA RESULTS
The results for a DNA profile
can take up to 4/6 weeks from receipt of the tail hair. The Society is
notified of the result and at that point invoices are issued to the members
for the DNA charge. Any calf registrations on hold subject to DNA profile
of the sire are then released and the certificates are sent out.
NB: If you do not receive an invoice charging you for
the DNA profile after 8/10 weeks from sending in the tail hair sample,
please contact Selina at the Society office in order that she can check
with the Animal Health Trust that the sample has been received. Samples
have been known to go astray in the post and therefore it is most important
members keep a track of their submitted DNA samples.
DNA – HOMOZYGOUS BULLS
For pedigree
certificates to indicate that an animal is Homozygous polled it must
have been proven by DNA testing. These tests are available via Animal
Health Trust & Merial. If you have any animals that need to be DNA
tested for this qualification, please contact the Society office for
further information.
EMBRYO ET1 FORMS
We would
like to take this opportunity to remind our members that
the Society Rules are that an ET1 form must be received into the Society
office no later than 28 days after the flush date. Forms received after
28 days of the flush will be subject to a late fee of £10.00 per calendar
month.
|
