Bull hire and TB testing

[SteveM]

I know that in some areas pre-movement testing is required, and 12 month testing is in place.

We are in 48 month region, and have a hired bull at moment, he has hopefully done his job for us at the moment so could go home before our routine test in early February.

He belongs to a new herd so suspect that they may be being tested shortly themselves.

Is it best to minimise the number of tests that cattle are subjected to?

[Duncan MacIntyre]

Individual animals should not normally be tested any oftener than every 60 days.
Since we are all 48 months here it is rarely a bother, but on occasions it can be tricky - eg when imported animals are due for post movement testing and ministry have not told me, and I am presented with them at a routine test before the scheduled post movement test.

Duncan