Does anyone know the rules on slurry spreading and storage

[eggsarascal]

Dean,

 

After a couple of deaths on a shoot I work on I looked at Alabama Rot, I found out:

 

It's a toxin generated by a strain of ecoli (dead chickens?...) that gets into dogs and seems worse if they ingest, it gets worse if fed raw meat diet, prevalent in racing dogs is US, grey hound are worst affected. A guy in the south uk had three gun dogs, two dropped in kennel, young and fit, and died, the old one, taken into house after exposure survived, just. It had been bathed. Maybe the link. I dunno if it's Alabama rot but the ingestion of ecoli toxins can be a organ failure killer in humans as we'll as animals. If there's a ecoli outbreak it's the toxins that kills, not the bacteria.

 

As I say it may not be Alabama rot but may be a similar Bacteria borne illness. We have the Newmarket animal health trust near us who looked into the deaths at my shoot, it was chemical spilt on land, ingested, and has been dealt with, the deaths were put down to Lepto at the time, lot of brambles, cuts, easy for Lepto to get in.

 

 

Good luck finding the cause. I don't let my dogs drink ANYTHING I don't pour out of a tap on shoots, it's just too risky. Hard but there too many things about, and now I'm gonna bath my dogs too. There are some very unhappy faces here in our house. You'd think id swore.....

 

Hope you find some thing out. Try the AHT at Newmarket, they are world leaders. Mrs egg.