Tuesday 28th August - Day 4
40 horses now infected, and with a 3-5 day incubation period, Milo and Zac should start showing symptoms from tomorrow on.
Ken Ford from Equitec has just sent heaps of stuff to boost the horses immune systems - Pro-Mune, and a Zyphis treatment which apparently kills one cell viruses, so we'll give that a try!
Peter Beattie helicoptered in and called a meeting. The Qld government have allocated $20 000 for human food, are bringing in school teachers, and washing machines! They are setting up a TV and the internet, and allocated $50 000 to the Warwick Horse Trials Club to re-run the event. We now can watch Australian Idol!!!
Furney's Produce at Toowoomba have set up and are extremely helpful with the provision of produce, and Warren always has a smiley face for everyone!
Nicole M's sponsor, Angela McLiesh who is the sales manager for Qld Mitavite has offered to feed both of our dressage horses for nothing! and I'm not even sponsored by them!
Warwick Horse Trials Club had a huge load of sawdust come in today for stable bedding, and the vets are all still busy treating the horses as more and more come down with the disease. All horses are being routinely checked twice a day.
There is a farrier, Peter O'Day, who is also stuck on the grounds due to quarantine, and we have organised him to shoe our horses on Monday.
Overall, there is a calm atmosphere, with people just doing what they can, helping each other out, and looking after the 300 horses stuck here in quarantine.
We all just have to stop moving the horses ANYWHERE!! if we all stay put, this disease will die out! If it gets out, it is fatal to young stock, and detrimental in the long run to performance horses. We don't want Equine Influenza to be viralent in Australia.
Let's all work together for the good of our industry!
That's all for now...
From the 2 Nicole's in Warwick shutdown......
