Horse Stuff Again.
Well, there are now over one thousand confirmed cases of Equine Influenza in Australia. Nice one, quarantine!
Turns out a farrier was bought in to shoe a horse in the compound and allowed to leave in the clothes he was wearing, without having to disinfect anything. He then went over to Centennial Park and shod a horse there. That horse went to a show...
My side of the country remains free of it, thankfully. But a large part of the biggest breeding area in the country has a teaser stallion who has tested positive. A teaser stallion is used to find out if mares are in season. He's either locked up and the mares gather around him, or led up to mares and allowed to nuzzle them. Every mare sees a teaser before breeding. Including the ones with foals. Scary stuff.
My own filly was inspected for the sales today. A vet and a bloodstock agent come to look at all the nominated horses and decide which ones go into the "Select" sale, and which go in the "Autumn".
My Polly is a maybe. Which means that if the border stays locked down beyond the time Eastern States horses come to be prepped, she gets a place. If they're allowed in, she's Autumn. The prices are always lower in the Autumn Sale, and it means I'll be at the sales complex for two weeks instead of one, but I really do hope that the EI crisis is over soon. I feel bad profiting from someone else's loss.
Turns out a farrier was bought in to shoe a horse in the compound and allowed to leave in the clothes he was wearing, without having to disinfect anything. He then went over to Centennial Park and shod a horse there. That horse went to a show...
My side of the country remains free of it, thankfully. But a large part of the biggest breeding area in the country has a teaser stallion who has tested positive. A teaser stallion is used to find out if mares are in season. He's either locked up and the mares gather around him, or led up to mares and allowed to nuzzle them. Every mare sees a teaser before breeding. Including the ones with foals. Scary stuff.
My own filly was inspected for the sales today. A vet and a bloodstock agent come to look at all the nominated horses and decide which ones go into the "Select" sale, and which go in the "Autumn".
My Polly is a maybe. Which means that if the border stays locked down beyond the time Eastern States horses come to be prepped, she gets a place. If they're allowed in, she's Autumn. The prices are always lower in the Autumn Sale, and it means I'll be at the sales complex for two weeks instead of one, but I really do hope that the EI crisis is over soon. I feel bad profiting from someone else's loss.