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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 81548" data-attributes="member: 605">Plains said,Plains, you are too predictable. Accusing that the compensation at $10,0000 per animal would come from the taxpayers.What happened is this farm had not imported an animal in ten years. Completely self sufficient. It was two facilities, breeding part and hunting. The hunting part was in rough country several miles removed from the ranch. How they got the disease is a mystery. A two year old buck that had been bottle fed, was moved from the breeding facility, hauled to the hunting facility and was shot a few days later. He looked very healthy but came up positive. When he was born he was fed sheep's colostrum and milk. The question is, did the colostrum come from sheep infected with scrapie? Scrapie is a TSE sister disease.The Brakkes agreed to depopulate every animal they had and thought they would run the whole works through their hunting facility killing them all. They didn't want a dime from the taxpayers. However, in a rush to cooperate, they signed a piece of paper with the authorities agreeing not to sell any animals or move animals to another ranch/premise. In their wildest dreams they didn't think that included their hunting facility, a separate ranch/premise from their breeding facility. Lesson: when you sign something with the gubment use extreme caution.As the Brakkes dragged their feet for a more equitable deal, it worked out for sportsmen, rancher, scientists, researchers etc. because the Brakkes opened their ranch/premise for science. How CWD got into a herd that had been closed to any importation of animals for ten years is a mystery.</blockquote>

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