Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD)

The BVD National Eradication Programme was introduced in Ireland on the 1^st January 2012 as optional, but then became compulsory as of 1^st January 2013.

Key points of the legislation include:

• All calves born on 1st January 2013 or later must be tested
• Sale of calves without a negative test result is banned
• Follow-up testing is required where PIs (persistently infected animals) are identified

Under the BVD National Eradication Programme, a tissue sample of each newborn calf must be submitted for testing. Where BVD virus positive calves are detected, you will have the option to confirm them as persistently infected (PI). Further testing will be required in herds with PI calves. Results will be issued by ICBF using SMS (text) messages and letters.

Options for getting BVD Tissue Tag Samples to Animal Health Laboratories are:

• Deliver samples direct to Shinagh House, Dunmanway Road, Bandon.
• Post samples to Animal Health Laboratories, Shinagh House, Bandon, Co. Cork.
• Drop samples to collection boxes at the locations below.