in case you have not heard already there is a strain of the horse flu (Influenza) Australia is at a stand still for 72 hours ending tuesday horses are not aloud to travel or leave the property nor are floats aloud to be towed with or without horses
a fine of $40,000 and 1 yr in prisonment......note THIS IS NOTE A GAME.
I live in Bundaberg(Queensland)and we don't have any cases upb here yet but i hope it doesn't reach up here. we canceled pony club and Gymkanas. Do you have to put your horse down if it gets it ?
The flu is EVIL! :twisted: :evil: :twisted: :evil: :evil:
Gaaaah! You beat me to it!!!! I was going to tell everyone!! LOL!!
But yeah its pretty bad! Like I was gona go to the Warwick Three-day event but no-ones allowed in who isnt supposed to be there and I think some have been found with the Influenza so the bans goung for another 72 hours!!!
hahaha lol yeh though i might post this just in case peps didnt no lol....i live in ballarat area, your answer to if they get it do they have to be put down....answer to that is no lol as Bee said its just lik human flu but in horse industry.
i no that later on today there were two people caught bringing two horses from NSW in Vic they were on the main high way that goes from sydney to melbourn....now people like that make me really mad just how they dont even listen....thats how this can spread and thats what the lock downs for so that this doesnt happen, but no some people dont listen do they GRRRR...
just another thing for farriers if you get caught trimming or shoeing any horse thats not theirs then there is a $400,000 fine so its pretty much a forced holiday for farriers.
yeah I really hope it doesnt get to our pony stud!!
if the flu makes it to aunty lanas stud then we are absolutely stuffed!!
it is a bit like chicken pox in children......it just spreads like wildfire!
but back onto the stud farm.......all breedings have been cancelled and we cant take them to any shows.
i really hope it doesnt get tango
because she is so young it will really affect her
and we are also pretty lucky because we got the farrier in before then ban was declared
i dont mind the racing ban because all the people involved (gamblers, owners, guests, visitors, jockeys etc.) should be more worried about the health of their horses but not being able to ride around the forest and stuff is pretty annoying.....also i have been training for the adelaide show for ages (we were gonna take some horses/ponies out there and ride them in some events) but now we cant even ride outside our front gate!
good luck to all the other horse/pony owners out there......hope no other horses or ponies come down with equine flu.
fingers crossed that it doesnt reach honey ridge (our stud farm)
EI is not fatal to fit and healthy horses eg. your fit eventing gelding/racehorse can still get sick but it won't die. It IS fatal however to foals (about 40% of infected foals die), pregnant mares (causes them to abort) and your older retired horses
the thing that is really anoying me atm is the fact that there only sayin that tbs have it but its in the WHOLE equine industry not just tbs but there not sayin anything lik that on the news.
just think how bad this has affected everyone though so bad....the races are off, show season is off, breeding season might not even be aloud to happen so then we wont hav our 2 yr old sales, police horses hav been stopped its affecting every one so bad...its shocking.
there hav been at least 70 properties that hav been affected most are in NSW, with only two in Queensland at this stage.
there had been about 60 confirmed cases of equine influenza but test results from Centennial Park in Sydney would probably add about another 100 to that figure.
best thing for all of us to do is tell all horseie peps to keep there horses on there own properties and do what is bein asked and if anyone else comes onto the propertie make sure that they are clean first lol so then our own horses dont come down with it lol
were still at a stand still but they are letting horses go back on the track to work only id they are in that area of the place to work otherwise we are still on the stand still everywhere its so anoying
yet they are saying An outbreak in Australia of the equine influenza virus has spread to police horses in the state of New South Wales.
Eight horses showed symptoms of the virus and all 36 animals have now been placed in quarantine.
More than 400 horses across New South Wales and Queensland are now showing symptoms of the highly contagious virus, which does not affect humans.
yeh it is scary but it makes ot more scary when you find out that a horse has died from this, now coz of this incident the spring festivle has been stopped...thats not happning no more which is anoying
:x Yeah, and i heard on the news that a couple of people have been fined $150,000 for transporting their horses, i mean thats heaps of money! And if you can't afford that you have 2yrs in jail :shock: But i have to admit the people deserve it!!
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