Why Shorty, our bull, was never going to be up to job

摘要

Despite June being astinker weather-wise, itended on a bright notefor us because our TB"inconclusive" from theApril test was given the all clear. This has not been the case on somefarms in the area where there areoccasional seeming unexplainablebreakdowns that appear to havetheir origin in older home-bredanimals. The source of infectioncannot be pinpointed because testshave been done on road-kill badgersand they come up negative and soquestions are being asked of thegrowing population of roe deer. The animal in question here was a20-month old AAX bullock whichwould have gone as a store forfattening in the spring. However, heand his mates are still here so thebig question for us is whether tofatten them or find someone tofinish them.