It was a very dark day back in November 2012, when the Kirk family of Rockley Brahmans were shocked by the discovery that Bovine Johne’s disease, a muscle wasting condition which can affect cattle, sheep, goats, alpacas and deer, had been detected in their breeding herd.
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