The UPA-COAG Federation has warned about the problems that the lack of serotype 4 vaccines against Bluetongue is starting to generate in some areas such as Salamanca, Ávila, Zamora and Segovia where the compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination involves the treatment of hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep.
The regional government’s lack of vision for the supply of vaccines is “behind a problem that veterinarians in Castilla y León reported months ago, and that is already a reality in our autonomous community,” the Federation noticed.
For this reason, the UPA-COAG Alliance has requested that extending until the month of May the moratorium with which calves were sold going to feedlot The vaccine can be re-vaccinated if the facility accepts it.
On April 19, the Junta de Castilla y León approved an action to continue the mandatory vaccination program for the vaccination of cattle and orchard species in the departments of Bermillo de Sayago, Alcañices and Puebla de Sanabria in Zamora , as well as the others affected by it. provinces. Despite this, there are farmers “who have been waiting up to 10 or 15 days to vaccinate their animals because of the lack of vaccines,” The Federation has denied “how slow it is being revealed”, a situation where they want to be re-vaccinated “at least until the end of May” in the destination feed stores, so that they do not keep the animals longer than necessary on the farms”.
2024-05-06 12:09:58
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