Title: FW: OJD
Vince wrote:
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From: "Vince Heffernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:41:42 +1000
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OJD
>>
>>OR a wasting disease similar to the Johnes that has been
>>around in sheep
>>and
>>cattle for ages?
>>I haven't studied Johnes but the Acres US articles make it to be
>>mainly
>>nutritional problem.
Hi
I'm currently quarantined for Ovine Johnnes Disease [OJD]. I don't
have it but the local beaurcracy will not let me "move" sheep off my
place because of a positive test that showed the disease from a
fellow I bought rams from a decade back (he had one sheep in 600,
it would seem he got the disease as a result of a neighbour). The
Government here knows Sweet-nothing about the disease and how
to handle it but there has been some from the Ag science
community who have built extremely successful 'empires' within
the state department of agriculture. They are ore interested in
keeping their inflated positions of power than solving the disease
and people like me who refuse to partake in their capers piss them
off. [hence the quarantine they stuck on me.]
It is a wasting disease but has little to do with nutrition in that i
know people who have it and only saw it's impact 3 years ago
(we've had a run of good seasons [bad one now] so it wasn't that
stock lacked feed)
An old sheep farmer neighbour tells me its always been about but
is prevalent now because of dog nuts. the manufactured dog feed
that farmers buy because it is easier to do so than skin a sheep.
Previously weak sheep would have had their throats cut and been
fed to the sheep dogs, but now the weak sheep are allowed to
survive and eventually the OJD spreads through a mob or infection
escalates.
For the record, I refused to partake in the Dept of Ag OJD program
because farmers were being wrongly accused of having the
disease. Three examples from within 50 miles of me [close
neighbours]:
1. Dept of ag returned a positive test based on the liver of a sheep
when the only organ tested was the kidney of the slaughtered
sheep (the grazier still had the liver in a jar at home!
2. D of A said that 2 of the three sheep tested had OJD - only two
sheep were tested though
3. at a sheep stud down river from us the tests were done and
disputed by a grazier who then asked they be done again and they
came back with different results. Department of Ag accused him of
"swapping ear tags" on the sheep!
In every case they bulldoze their way forward while the real people
in need cannot get help and those without the disease are treated
like lepers due to Department bungles.
Sorry, I see something on OJD and feel I need to tell the world the
truth...
Cheers
Vince
Vince Heffernan
Halo Communications Pty Ltd
PO Box 149
Fyshwick ACT 2609
mobile 0418 628 241
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Thanks for the clarity Vince.
It bring us back to the concepts of Miasms and just what is the nature of Dis-ease.
Love in the time of Commodities (sic).
L*L
Markess
