SALAMANCA, 13 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Asaja Salamanca has highlighted this Monday the “existing concern” among field professionals in the face of tuberculosis sanitation campaigns and the obligations acquired by the new regulations in blue language and has asked for flexibility in the mandatory vaccination of fattening calves due to “the handling difficulty.”
After highlighting the “saturation” to which the veterinary teams will be immersed “if a reinforcement in the work is not foreseen in time”, the agrarian organization has had an impact on requesting flexibility in the obligation to vaccinate calves that are in feedlots , “since the destination is the slaughterhouse and the handling of these animals that reach 600 kilograms in weight is very complicated.”
In this sense, the OPA has already stated that the veterinary units “cannot cope” to “meet the demand of the ranchers in sanitation; a situation that will be aggravated in the coming weeks, when the period of free parking of the mosquito ends genus Culicoides, responsible for the transmission of bluetongue, a date that usually occurs in mid-April”.
“Two facts coincide, that the farmers of Salamanca are going to want to finish the sanitation campaign for tuberculosis before the summer and that all animals older than three months must be vaccinated and revaccinated for bluetongue, and there are no teams for that”, The president of Asaja Salamanca, Juan Luis Delgado, has pointed out, who has transmitted this concern to the Territorial Service of the Junta de Castilla y León.
According to the takeover bid, the complaints from the ranchers that ASAJA is collecting “happen because the telephones, available to request the sanitation or for party requests, are not available.”
“There is also discontent due to the lack of technique of the veterinarians who move to the farms, in terms of the management of the professionals and their preparation for the tests, there are not enough staff and, in addition, some are very young veterinarians with little experience , which causes work delays and makes management difficult for extensive cattle farms,” added Asaja.
