Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm has been rocked by the ‘unhealthy information’

Jeremy Clarkson has introduced his Diddly Squat Farm has been struck by a bout of TB. Employees on the Oxfordshire farm are “devastated” by the “unhealthy information” the previous High Gear host stated on X right now. Clarkson, 65, stated: “Dangerous information from Diddly Squat. We’ve gone down with TB. Everybody right here is totally devastated.

“The offending animal is pregnant with twins.”

The Amazon Prime star then clarified it’s Bovine TB that has been detected, and he additional tweeted: “I ought to clear this up actually. It’s bovine TB that we now have. It doesn’t have an effect on individuals, simply our poor cows.”

One X follower questioned the situation of Clarkson’s prize-winning Aberdeen Angus bull, Endgame, and the presenter replied: “His check was ‘inconclusive’. I couldn’t bear it if we misplaced him.”

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle can usually imply contaminated animals are destroyed to stop the unfold of the illness.

Final 12 months Clarkson was visited by officers from Thames Valley Police over claims by activists that he’d been blocking setts on his property, which is unlawful. He later stated he’d instructed police he shot the badgers as a substitute so had no want to dam the setts.

He revealed on the time: “Mercifully, nonetheless, I had the right excuse: “I’ve shot all of the badgers on the farm so why would I need to fill of their setts? And sure, earlier than you ask, it was all authorized.”

Clarkson has spoken out in regards to the threat of TB outbreaks on the farm prior to now and in a single episode of Clarkson’s Farm, he ranted about ‘b*****d’ badgers, which he discovered not possible to stop.

He stated: “We thought, ‘What will we do?’ as a result of if you wish to make a well-liked present you need to say, ‘Oh, have a look at the little cuddly-wuddly badgers.’ However I believed: no, it is a farming present, and also you’d lose your core viewers, the farmers, when you went round, saying, ‘Have a look at these candy little animals’.

“So, I truly referred to as them b*****ds and confirmed individuals what they really do. It is truthful.

“These are usually not good animals. Don’t be fooled by Brian Could. That is what badgers do. That is how a lot heartache they’re inflicting to individuals who’ve labored for generations to construct up a farm that is been worn out by badgers.”

Kaleb Cooper, Clarkson’s co-star on the Amazon Prime present, additionally addressed the illness as he revealed three of his personal 21 dairy cows had contracted bovine TB. Visibly emotional, he stated on Instagram in 2023: “Now right now’s a bit irritating. At this time I’ve simply discovered the place the place I’ve my dairy cows – the 21 cows that I purchased – has obtained three reactors to TB.

“I do not actually know the right way to describe the emotion. I do know I imply it isn’t all my cows and I do not understand how he [the other owner] feels – nevertheless it’s exhausting.”

An episode in season two targeted on the presence of badgers and the risk they posed to cows because of carrying the micro organism that causes TB.