11/05/2026
๐ธ Cotswold Hunt Sabs. The VWH spreading more than just "tradition" ๐ฉ
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The British Hound Sport Association are looking increasingly desperate in their reasons to keep fox hunting going, from now on I refuse to play the game of calling it "Trail" hunting. It's their bullsh!t not mine.
Anyway, back to the BHSA post. They claim it will now cost farmers ยฃ1,140,000 in costs to dispose of fallen livestock. The fact that fallen livestock is fed to the hounds is not something to be celebrated. We know what happened to the Kimblewick hounds that got infected by Btb from fallen livestock, shot, but not before p!ssing and sh!tting all over the countryside. But let's just blame the badgers.
Surely it doesn't take much joined up thinking to realise that feeding fallen livestock is a major disease risk, and a bit of a p!ss take after the millions it has cost the taxpayer, not to mention the cost to our wildlife over recent years. Just like the release of millions of non native game birds, disease risk doesn't come into it if a certain section of society want to have fun.
I'll copy and paste the response a farmer gave to their post on April the 18th in the comments. It highlights the issues perfectly.
The response from a farmer over the feeding of fallen livestock to hounds "Fallen stock service, for dairy farmers, it is a catastrophic biosecurity threat. Iโve lost 90% of my herdโs pregnancies to a Neospora abortion storm caused by this exact cycle.
When you feed raw, fallen stock to hounds, you turn them into Neospora 'disease factories.' While a dog only excretes eggs for a short period after infection, hunt hounds are constantly being re-infected because they are fed a steady diet of raw, infected carcasses. Those hounds then defecate on our land, where the oocysts (eggs) are either grazed directly or ensiled into silage clamps, where they can survive for 6 months or more, ready to infect the entire herd during winter feeding.
The damage is permanent: once a cow is infected, there is a 95% vertical transmission rate from mother to daughter. When those infected cattle die or abort and are collected by the hunt, they go right back into the kennel feed troughs to re-infect the hounds again. This creates a deadly, endless cycle of disease."
The APHAโs Herdsureยฎ๏ธ protocol specifically identifies foxhounds as a high-risk factor for this transmission. You cannot claim to support farmers while acting as a disease multiplier that bypasses the biosecurity we work so hard to maintain. A truly 'pro-farmer' organisation would stop feeding raw farm waste to hounds that are then taken onto livestock land."
