A case found on a 9 month old bovine near Guerra in Jim Hogg county. I was planning on hauling a bull to the Guerra holding pens for Three Rivers auction on Sunday for sale Monday. Now all bets off. I'm communicating with everybody I can think of to haul him but will be traveling thru surveillance zones and affected areas any direction out of Zapata. This is some wild stuff.

Where are you seeing this? I don't doubt you, I just don't see it posted on USDA's or TAHC's website. Could be a lag in reporting though.

Once reported by producer, vet, etc., USDA has been very fast at updating info.

Expect to see it by this afternoon. I got it first from NRCS guy that's running some cattle close to the site. I later confirmed it with USDA tick inspectors, and later confirmed through the TAHC hotline, and I think she's region IV TAHC head I guess it's called, a vet in Encinal named Sandy Leyendecker. I feel like I've thoroughly vetted the chisme to a confirmed case.

But who knows.

Anybody in the area that wants some phone numbers, I've collected several today.

Sandy knows her stuff!

USDA usually updates their dashboard daily at 5 p.m. central.

SanAntoneAg said:

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Sandy knows her stuff!

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Yea I'm a few years older but grew up neighbors near Encinal. She's been my vet of record for some time, so really handy when I need definitive answers.

I had plans of hauling a bull to auction this weekend. I was hoping to beat the quarantine that I think is inevitable in the near future. There's many unanswered questions regarding livestock movement right now that I think will iron itself out in time.
Today I had resigned myself to give up on the shipping . Guerra in Jim Hogg County is within the hot zone now, and that is extended to east or south side of 16 in Zapata county. My bull was on opposite side of 16.
Ran into two TAHC inspectors in Zapata today on their way from Laredo to the Guerra holding pens, where I haul to for Three Rivers auction. Although USDA tick guys thought that dipping was the answer, the inspectors said I don't need to do anything, so I grabbed the trailer, loaded the bull and dropped off.
The procedure going forward will be to call TAHC to schedule an inspector to come to your facility within 3-5 days There they will inspect livestock, witness you inject Dectomax that you provide, they will ear tag and issue a permit that is valid for a few days to a week, I forget. At that point you can move the animals. You must stop at all checkpoints and provide the movement permit.
The interesting thing to me is that under USDA tick program protocol, the animal must be vaccinated at USDA expense every 21-28 days and must not be sold before a 35 day withdrawal period.
By contrast, under TAHC guidelines the animal must be vaccinated every 21 days with Dectomax and must be shipped within the withdrawal time period.
Ivermectin doesn't enter conversation regarding movement under TAHC guidelines.
Take this as you will, just trying to maybe prevent an unnecessary headache. A friend tried to ship to Pearsall out of LaSalle county last week and was turned around at TAHC checkpoint.

HumbleAg04 said:

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Got called by TPWD today. Quarantine zone in Medina Co and Surveillance where I am in Bandera. State lining up landowners willing to host traps, sterile larvae boxes, and allowing access for surveillance.

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unless your thumbs down wasn't what you wanted to use, just say you don't give a **** about this issue.

I was in a blind yesterday that is within a couple of miles of the first reported case. I had a blow fly in the blind that I could almost feel the radiation coming off of. It wouldn't give me quite a good enough look to really identify it, but that's what I'm going with. Lots of proactive work is happening.