Thread: TB In Hawkes Bay

Lots of TB showing up in hawkes bay at the moment. So check your kill over.
Want be long and the green rain will be getting dumped in surrounding areas. Make the most of it before it happens.

Hawkes Bay is a big area, any particular areas

Hamish

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@HNTMAD i will try to find out this week.

Try this
https://ospri.co.nz/our-programmes/t...mca-areas-are/

@HNTMAD around tutira and the mohaka river they reckon its making its way down from taupo. I Know mohaka river is big area. They should be a area rep from ospri that could give you more details

Te Pohue , Tutira etc

Guess where they say they got a positive reactor. Mind boggles.

Originally Posted by HNTMAD

Hawkes Bay is a big area, any particular areas

Hamish

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There is a high number of Tb infected animals in the Tataraakina Tarawera Mohaka Forest area and subsequently across the Mohaka river into the Waitara valley through to tutira there has been a massive out break. It has headed towards the coast into areas that have traditionally never had Tb, out to waipatiki beech etc.
The other area that has had a few very recent reactors after being clear for several years is Patoka.
It is pretty surreal that this region went from having virtually no herds on movement control to 15 infected in less than a year

Talk is the "owners" round Tataraakina won't let contractors in and do their own control. They possibly don't want intruders interrupting their cropping..

guess where they say they got a positive reactor.

Go

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Chernobyl had a positive reactor
A nuclear troll perhaps ?

Originally Posted by HNTMAD

Hawkes Bay is a big area, any particular areas

Hamish

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Not really a news flash mate
Patoka

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Massive? In 1994 there were 1,700 infected cattle & deer herds. Today there are about 30.

https://www.ospri.co.nz/tb-and-pest-...-herd-numbers/

If you are talking TB in feral deer OSPRI doesn't regard deer as being a major in the TB cycle any more and they don't have the budget to target them anyway.

In fact deer and pigs can be a useful sentinel to monitor if there is TB in possums. Possums are the out and out problem in the spread of TB and thats where OSPRI''s focus is. If they reduce the possum to a certain point TB can not be maintained in the population and TB will be eradicated. That is their goal.

There is a big OSPRI possum poisoning program kicking off soon in the lower NI and it will go on for at least 3 years or longer. Tararuas, Rimutakas and Haurangis. 100% deer repellent with the new repellent that gets mixed in when the baits are made.

Other areas should lobby OSPRI for repellent. They view it now as part of gaining the social licence so the probability of them using it is the highest its ever been. If you don't think it works, go and have a look at the deer population in the Haurangis where its been used for the last few years.

the two legged spreader is pretty bad too...the dark of night trailer load n unloads havent done anyone any favours.