{"id":355714,"date":"2026-03-20T07:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355714\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:14:09","slug":"why-we-changed-our-minds-on-bluetongue-vaccination-at-a-cost-of-e2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355714\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we changed our minds on bluetongue vaccination \u2013 at a cost of \u20ac2,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Is it money wasted? I hope so!\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Infertile animals, abortions and calves born with congenital defects like dummy calves with very little brain tissue were described in what was at times graphic detail.' Photos: Brian Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/717e459f-ad6f-47d4-bb4a-b53b4dc17144.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;Infertile animals, abortions and calves born with congenital defects like dummy calves with very little brain tissue were described in what was at times graphic detail.&#8217; Photos: Brian Farrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To vaccinate or not? That is the question that has been dominating our thoughts over the last few months. Bluetongue, the latest plague to afflict our national herd of both cattle and sheep, has been in the headlines for a considerable amount of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We had originally written off the idea of vaccinating but as the weeks have progressed and new information emerged we have changed our minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it money wasted? I hope so! &#8216;Infertile animals, abortions and calves born with congenital defects like dummy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[90453,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-355714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-farming-dairy-advice","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}