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SOCIETY SALE HEALTH ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
1 1. AllvendorsneednotbeamemberofaCHeCSrecognisedHealthScheme,buttheSocietydoes still require your individual animals to be tested, prior to sale.
2 All animals entered must be:-
a) Pre-salebloodtested(orPCRculturetestedifabloodtestislikelytoconflictwitharecentBovine TB test) for Johnes disease, within 3 months of the sale; animals testing positive cannot be entered and presented for sale. Exclusions being animals from a Risk Level One (Accredited) herd or is under one year
b) PresalebloodtestedforBVDtoexcludeany'PI's';theexceptionbeingaccreditedherds;animals testingpositivecannotbeenteredandpresentedforsale. Allanimalsmustbevaccinatedagainst BVD
c) Asfrom1stJuly2020,acopyofthetestresultsforBVDandJohnesMUSTaccompany each individual animal's entry into a sale. No entries will be accepted without this information
c) All vendors give the Society/Auctioneers the right to verify all health data supplied with the vendors Health Scheme provider and by signing the Herd Health Declaration form, the onus in on the vendor to ensure that the information provided is correct.
3 TheSocietyreservestherighttoconductrandombloodtestsonanyanimalenteredforsaleforillicit substances. All animals on Appeal, which have been rejected for mobility, will have a blood sample taken, with the Society reserving the right to send this for analysis at its discretion.
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