PART 2

BVD Screening

Sampling of breeding herds in accordance with compliance deadlines
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1
For the purposes of this article, a breeding herd does not include any bovine animal which has an individual BVD status of negative.
2
The keeper of a breeding herd which is not kept in the Shetland Islands and is not a dairy breeding herd must, by each compliance deadline, take samples as described in any one of the sub-paragraphs of paragraph (3).
3
The samples described in this paragraph are—
a
from each of the bovine animals in the herd either—
i
an ear tag sample of tissue taken in accordance with article 14, or
ii
a sample of blood,
b
a sample of blood from—
i
each of 5 calves between the age of 9 and 18 months in the relevant group,
ii
each of 10 calves between the age of 6 and 18 months in the relevant group, or
iii
where there are no calves between the ages of 6 and 18 months in the relevant group, each of 5 bovine animals in the relevant group which are over the age of 18 months and have not left the holding of their birth,
c
subject to paragraph (8), from each of the calves in the herd born in the immediately preceding 12 month period—
i
an ear tag sample of tissue taken in accordance with article 14, or
ii
a sample of blood.
4
The keeper of a breeding herd kept in any area within the Shetland Islands, must, by each compliance deadline, take a sample of blood from each of 5 calves between the age of 6 and 18 months in the relevant group.
5
The keeper of a dairy breeding herd, must, by each compliance deadline, take a sample of blood from each of 10 calves between the age of 9 and 18 months in the relevant group.
6
For the purposes of this article “relevant group” means—
a
in the case of a breeding herd which does not contain any separately managed groups, the herd, and
b
in the case of a breeding herd which contains two or more separately managed groups, each separately managed group.
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Where—
a
any sub-paragraph of paragraph (3) requires the keeper to take samples from a specified number of bovine animals of any description (“the described animals”), and
b
the relevant group contains a number of described animals that is fewer than the specified number,
the specified number in the relevant sub-paragraph is to be read as the total number of the described animals in the relevant group.
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Paragraph (3)(c) applies only where no calves have been removed from the herd in the immediately preceding 12 month period.