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News Winter Slows Bluetongue / Registry Audit / Standardising Health Issues / Dutch and Belgian Show / Mange Project / Show Notice / French Show and Sale Winter Slows Bluetongue BAS Registry Audit for DEFRA Bluetongue cases have slowed with the onset of winter and there is some hope that animals will be permitted to move out of the restricted zones to live during a ‘seasonally vector free period’. This would be between January and March as this corresponds directly to a period of low midge activity when midges are either dying off, inactive and/or unable to transmit virus. Bluetongue is a viral disease of ruminants spread by a biting midge that is thought to have reached the UK from Europe in August 2007. DEFRA issued a tender to supply between 10 and 20 million doses of Bluetongue BTV-8 vaccine in November 2007 and it is hoped that vaccine will be available by the summer. In the government’s Disease Control Policy Statement they say: ‘In keeping with the principles set out in the Bluetongue Control Strategy, which was developed in partnership with the farming industry, livestock keepers will be offered the opportunity to purchase vaccine from the bank. We are developing a detailed plan with representatives of the farming industry, Bluetongue scientific experts and others as to how a vaccination programme would work.’ There have also been discussions as to whether expanding the Surveillance Zone to the whole of England so that more animal movements would be permitted inside that zone would be of economic benefit. The assumption is that movement restrictions would be in place for a full twelve months. Mange Project Mange mites in alpaca, llama and goat populations in the UK are the subject of a new research project at the University of Bristol Veterinary, Parasitology & Ecology Research Group. Breeders are asked to fill in a questionnaire that will allow the researchers to study the prevalence of mites and the possible crosstransmission between sheep and nonovine species. Follow up farm visits are expected to collect mite samples for DNA analysis. Jacqueline Lusat, Dr Eric Morgan and Professor Richard Wall will examine existing methods of control and then try and find new and more effective control techniques. The bluetongue virus appeared in Germany, Benelux and France in 2006 and has inexorably spread with large areas of France now being in a restricted zone. However the five alpacas reported to have died of bluetongue in Belgium turned out, on post mortem, to be free of the disease. In December, the Veterinary Record carried a report on the death of an alpaca from bluetongue in central Germany from veterinarians M. Henrich M. Reinacher and H.P. Hamann. Three months before its death the alpaca gave birth to a healthy cria. Four weeks before it died, the alpaca showed signs of colic with recumbancy and tympanic abdomen. The animal was degassed via nasogastric intubation and recovered quickly but the cause of the clinical signs remained undetected. Immediately before the infection both mother and cria were in excellent body condition and both showed no sign of an underlying disease. Acute clinical signs started with ‘hiccup-like’ breathing and a stertorous sound discernable by auscultation. One hour later the animal was inappetant, recumbent and lethargic. Seven hours later the animal was observed coughing and mildly disorientated. Fourteen hours after the first observation of signs, the animal died. Sequences of bluetongue virus were found in tissue samples of the blood, lymph nodes and spleen. The rest of the herd, including the cria, remain healthy. Show Notice Breeders from Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and of course Germany are expected at the International Alpaca Show 2008 organised by the Alpaca Association e.V. at Ulm in Germany on March 16. The organisers hope to have around 150 alpacas at the show which will be judged by the UK’s Val Fullerlove. There will also be a market with at least twenty five different trade stands selling products associated with the alpaca business. For more information contact Jochen Kramer info@alpacaland.de A national herd audit has been accurate and up to date. This put in train by the British Alpaca follows the outbreaks of Foot and Society Registry in order to Mouth and Bluetongue when ensure that the records of all the the registry had to work closely alpacas registered in the UK are with DEFRA to locate and test alpacas in the affected areas. It is understood that DEFRA do not want to impose legislation to administer the movement or registration of alpacas but instead prefer the BAS to provide the essential interface between owners and governments. A Show for Dutch and Belgians On Sunday March 16th 2008 a animals. This also gives the smaller small group of alpaca breeders will alpaca owners who own only wethers organise the first ever alpaca show a chance to bring their animals to a in the Netherlands this year in the show. town of Hapert, about 15 km from Besides judging the alpacas there Eindhoven. Mr Dominic Lane will will be a lot of tradestands where judge the animals and fleeces and various businesses will promote their on Saturday evening he will hold company and products. There is also a workshop for Dutch and Belgian animation for the younger visitors alpaca breeders. A unique event in like pony rides and a petting zoo. For this show will be the wether-class more information visit our website at where the audience will judge the www.alpacashow.eu Standardising Health Issues Spanish alpaca breeders Nigel • Agreeing similar movement and Ginny Cobb have found the requirements across the EU for farm different health protocols for alpacas to farm or farm to show across Europe frustrating to say the • Research into camelid diseases, least. They have come up with this in particular, TB, BT, FMD and proposal for an EU Camelid Health brucellosis and development of Committee. preventative measures This committee should be appointed • What Bio-security measures should with the objective of getting better be taken at the farm standardised health arrangements for • Testing of camelids for disease camelids across the EU prevention - what is required and To achieve this it will need the how often. associations across the EU to • Possible notification of reasons for work together through an effective deaths of alpacas health committee, appointed by the We feel that all camelid owners associations and working closely across the EU should ask their with each country’s Department of associations to work together to Agriculture achieve this. The sort of issues that this health www.andaluciaalpacas.com committee could investigate might include: French Show and Sale International judge Dominic Lane will be judging at the French Alpaca Show held at Vierzon in the centre of France on March 29 that will be followed by a sale of stud animals the following day March 30. For more information contact Marie-Genevieve Lion at Lionpitou@aol.com Alpaca World Magazine Winter 2007 / 08
Newbury Racecourse Berkshire 16 th and 17 th February BRITISH ALPACA FUTURITY 2008 This is the premier two day spring show for alpaca enthusiasts in the UK and Europe. Come and see the best of British alpaca breeding in the show classes judged by Mike Safley (USA) and Paul Cullen (UK). Listen to authoritative seminars from British veterinarian Claire Whitehead, lecturer in Camelid Medicine and Reproduction at the Royal Veterinary College, Nick Weber on Practical Nutrition and Mike Safley, international judge and author, will discuss Alpaca Type. There are fantastic prizes to be won in the Prize Draw and an opportunity to see the best of British alpaca fashions on the catwalk. You can party the night away at our champagne reception and celebration dinner followed by an elite auction of nine alpacas. The excitement has started with our online auction of stud services provided by an excellent range of top alpaca males from across the country – there are no reserves. Join us at the 2008 British Alpaca Futurity and support your industry Alpaca World Magazine Winter 2007 / 08
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