Seven llamas have been culled at a British farm after an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) – with a further 27 in isolation amid fears they could also have the disease.
Lisa Fox, the owner of Briery Hill Llamas in Gloucestershire, was ‘heartbroken’ to see her animals killed under instructions from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
It came after a llama called Stardust fell ill and died, with a post-mortem revealing that he had been suffering with TB.
This prompted urgent testing across the ‘trekking and therapy’ farm which revealed that seven more animals were infected.
Those llamas were later euthanised, with a
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