Dave
Not a remote risk. In NZ the wild deer (and wild pigs) have TB which
gets spread back to farmed cattle and deer either directly or via
stoats, possums, etc. Has made the eradication of bovine TB an
impossibility and even the control measures are costing farmers large
sums.
Regards Dick
Gneisers wrote:
>Of a related concern is the remote possibility that grazing critters could
>be infected with TB or another nasty spread by the deer in our
>pastures????? Hopefully most disease doesn't jump species but???
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>Dave G.
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