Animal health

Guidance and services

• Badger Vaccination Grant
  A new Badger Vaccination Grant window opened on 10 February. The window will remain open until 10 March 2022.
• Biosecurity
  Practising good biosecurity will protect you, and your stock.
• Bovine TB
  Bovine TB (Tuberculosis) is a respiratory disease of cattle. It is a notifiable disease and can affect humans as well as other animals.
• Bovine TB and moving cattle (licences)
  Conditions, including quarantine and testing, related to cattle movements and Bovine TB.
• Bovine TB: guidance for farmers on compensation
  Follow these rules to avoid receiving reduced compensation for slaughtered cattle.
• Bovine TB herd health accreditation scheme
  Helps cattle farmers understand a herd’s Bovine TB health status.
• Bovine TB: herd statuses and restrictions
  In order to move or trade cattle, herds need to be free from infection and classified as Officially Tuberculosis Free.
• Bovine TB: quarantine units and agricultural shows in the low TB area
  A quarantine unit (QU) can be used if cattle are attending more than one agricultural show outside the low TB area.
• Bovine TB: incidence map
  Map showing areas of high, intermediate and low incidence of Bovine TB in Wales.
• Bovine TB: moving cattle from an accredited herd into the low TB area
  Follow these conditions to move cattle from an accredited herd into the low TB area.
• Bovine TB: moving cattle from a non-exempt show
  Follow these conditions to move cattle from a non-exempt show.
• Bovine TB: information bTB
  Information bTB (ibTB) is an online interactive mapping tool.
• Bovine TB: moving cattle to a non-exempt show
  Follow these conditions to move cattle to a non-exempt show.
• Bovine TB: intensive action area map
  The intensive action area includes North Pembrokeshire and parts of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire.
• Bovine TB testing requirements for movements to and from agricultural shows: frequently asked questions
  Includes advice about the use of quarantine units (QU) when moving cattle between shows and holdings in the low TB area.
• Buying in cattle
  Find out about the disease history of an animal and the herd it comes from before you buy.
• Contact bovine TB team
  Contact details if you are concerned about bovine TB.
• Cross compliance penalties for late TB tests
  Late TB tests reduce your Basic Payment Scheme and any area based Rural Development Scheme payments.
• Cymorth TB
  Advice and support for farmers affected by TB.
• Extra contiguous testing for herds that were free from TB, but where a new outbreak has occurred: frequently asked questions
  Includes the location of the IntermediateTB Area North (ITBAN) and the current trend in bovine TB disease incidence.
• Extra contiguous testing for herds that were free from TB, but where a new outbreak has occurred: guidance
  The extra measures introduced and the reason for this.
• Intensive Action Area (IAA)
  What is the IAA, and where is it.
• Protect your herd from TB: guidance
  Explains 5 actions you should take to reduce the risk of introducing TB to your farm.
• Report a dead badger
  You should report dead badgers.
• TB in animals other than cattle
  Bovine TB can infect all mammals including humans, farmed animals, pets and wild animals.
• Testing cattle for bovine TB
  Including how often, why this is important and what happens if the test is positive.
• Use of non-validated tests in cattle herds
  Terms and conditions under which Ministers can authorise the use of non-validated tests.
• Approved Finishing Units and TB dedicated sales: frequently asked questions
  Detailed information explaining Approved Finishing Units (AFUs) and TB dedicated sales (orange markets).
• Changes to how we manage breakdowns in the Low TB Area
  Following an increase in cases of bovine TB in the Low TB Area we are making changes to how TB breakdowns are managed.
• Approved Finishing Units and TB Dedicated Sales (orange markets)
  Approved Finishing Units (AFUs) provide an outlet for the fattening and/or finishing of clear tested cattle from TB restricted holdings lacking the facilities for rearing them.
• Bovine TB: badger trapping and testing on chronic TB breakdown farms
  Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) reports on trapping and testing operations.
• Bovine TB: guidance for keepers and market operators
  Issues which may prevent the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) issuing a licence for cattle to move from a TB restricted premises to a Dedicated Sale (orange market)
• Low TB Area: frequently asked questions
  Answers to common questions about changes in how we manage breakdowns in certain spatial units within the Low TB area.
• Wales TB Regionalisation Map
  The Wales TB Regionalisation Map displays parishes, spatial units and TB Areas.
• Wales TB Regionalisation Map Guidance
  How to select and view different map layers on the Wales TB Regionalisation map.
• Officially TB Free Status Withdrawn by default and removal of Inconclusive Reactors 3 year rule
  Changes to Bovine TB herd status from 17 January 2022.
• Bovine TB: Inconclusive Reactors 3 year rule changes: frequently asked questions
  Detailed information explaining the changes to the Inconclusive Reactors (IR) 3 year rule.
• Bovine TB: moving cattle, which have not had a pre-movement or post-movement TB test, to or from common land
  Follow these conditions to move cattle to or from common land without a pre-movement or post-movement TB test.
• Bovine TB: Officially TB Free Withdrawn by default: frequently asked questions
  Detailed information explaining the changes to Officially TB Free Status Withdrawn (OTFW).
• Protect your herd from disease
  Ask for information about the disease history of an animal, and the herd it comes from, before you buy.
• Bovine TB: badger licence reports
  Annual reports on the number of badger licences issued to prevent the spread of Bovine TB.
• Bovine TB testing rules in the Low TB Area: guidance for cattle farmers on the changes from April 2023
  Guidance for cattle herd keepers in the Low TB Area effected by rule changes from 3 April 2023.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Bovine TB: annual surveillance reports
  Collection
  Summaries of cattle data and the success of measures taken to tackle bovine TB.
• Bovine TB: badger population survey
  Report
  Report of badger population and population change evidence following trapping and testing interventions.
• Bovine TB dashboard
  Collection
  Statistics including the number of new and open incidents.
• Bovine TB eradication programme
  Collection
  What we plan to do to eradicate bovine TB.
• Bovine TB in dead badgers: May 2015 to April 2016 report
  Report
  Mycobacterium bovis in badgers found dead within North Pembrokeshire and parts of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire (Welsh Government Intensive Action Area).
• Bovine TB: the increase in slaughtering
  Report
  Explains why there has been an increase in cattle slaughtered for Bovine TB.
• Differences between bovine TB indicators in the Intensive Action Area and the comparison area (1 May 2010 to 30 April 2016)
  Report
  The research reports a greater reduction in Bovine TB in the Intensive Action Area.
• Intensive Action Area review
  Report
  Outcome of the review of policy in the Intensive Action Area (IAA).
• Population and percentage of vaccinated badgers in the intensive action area
  Report
  Estimates of the total population and proportion of vaccinated badgers in the Intensive Action Area.
• Badger Found Dead: temporal and spatial Mycobacterium bovis prevalence patterns
  Policy and strategy
  Prevalence patterns as shown in the All Wales Badgers Found Dead (AWBFD) survey of infection 2014–2016.
• Progress against the 2017 TB Eradication Delivery Plan: report
  Report
  Report on the progress of commitments made in our 2017 TB Eradication Delivery Plan and ongoing actions.
• Farmer Engagement and bovine TB Task and Finish Group: recommendations
  Report
  Report and recommendations of the Task and Finish Group on Farmer Engagement and bovine TB.
• The impacts of Tuberculosis testing on veterinarians and practices
  Report
  Report and recommendations into the impacts of Tuberculosis testing on veterinarians and practices.