{"id":116,"date":"2016-03-29T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=116"},"modified":"2016-03-30T22:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:30:04","slug":"management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/29\/management\/","title":{"rendered":"Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tbfreeengland.co.uk\/assets\/5201\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"347\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badger sneaking into cattle housing while foraging for food, as possible route of transmission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While management\u00a0strategies alone are not likely enough to eradicate bTB, cattle management practices can be used to greatly reduce\u00a0the probability of badger-to-cattle transmission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Management Practices:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prevent badgers from accessing\u00a0cattle housing\n<ul>\n<li>Keep buildings and gates closed, secured<\/li>\n<li>Raising cattle feed off the ground to exclude badger access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rotational grazing system\n<ul>\n<li>To reduce exposure of cattle to potentially badger-contaminated pasture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fencing off badger setts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While management\u00a0strategies alone are not likely enough to eradicate bTB, cattle management practices can be used to greatly reduce\u00a0the probability of badger-to-cattle transmission. Possible Management Practices: Prevent badgers from accessing\u00a0cattle housing Keep buildings and gates closed, secured Raising cattle feed off the ground to exclude badger access Rotational grazing system To reduce exposure of cattle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/29\/management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Management<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[486623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}