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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Backinwellies on January 30, 2025, 04:10:37 pm

Title: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: Backinwellies on January 30, 2025, 04:10:37 pm

  Again Heptovac P  is invisible  ..............  what are you all doing instead?

Title: Re: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: PipKelpy on February 03, 2025, 11:05:09 am

Bought 3 bottles last year and the last bottle will be for the pre lambing jab next month!

Then I will be scouring the internet!

Title: Re: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: twizzel on February 03, 2025, 02:20:10 pm

Quote from: PipKelpy on February 03, 2025, 11:05:09 am

Bought 3 bottles last year and the last bottle will be for the pre lambing jab next month!

Then I will be scouring the internet!

Nowhere I’ve found online has anything in stock. I managed to buy enough to do 50 first and second lamb doses but think I’ll have a few more lambs than that. My plan if I can’t source any more heptavac is to give the surplus lambs lambivac, and make sure they are lambs that won’t be here for long and will go for meat.

Title: Re: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: Bishybarneybee on February 03, 2025, 06:33:42 pm

 I've had an order for Heptavac in with my local Moles store since early January. I had a call today to say they have just had a delivery in today so I can collect my order tomorrow.

Hopefully that means supplies are becoming more widely available now  :fc:

Title: Re: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: Backinwellies on February 06, 2025, 07:23:43 am

I've bought Crovexin for pregnant ewes to at least give passive immunity to the clostridial diseases . 

The situation with Heptovac has been ongoing now for 4 years , getting increasingly worse.  I'm glad this is my last year needing any!

Title: Re: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: Womble on February 06, 2025, 05:14:47 pm

If you live near a Mole Valley store, try them. They told me this week that they have stock in most stores - they just won't mail order it.

I managed to get one 100ml bottle locally, but only one.

The question is, do I use it for the ewes pre-lambing, or do I use it for all of them post-lambing?

Title: Re: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: twizzel on February 06, 2025, 10:00:44 pm

Quote from: Womble on February 06, 2025, 05:14:47 pm

If you live near a Mole Valley store, try them. They told me this week that they have stock in most stores - they just won't mail order it.

I managed to get one 100ml bottle locally, but only one.

The question is, do I use it for the ewes pre-lambing, or do I use it for all of them post-lambing?

Depends if you’ve got another bottle for second dose. No point giving 1 dose and not following up with the second. So if you’ve just got 1 bottle I’d use it pre lambing and source an alternative for lambs.


FWIW whenever I buy vaccines I always buy both doses at the same time. With them going in and out of stock quickly it’s well worth doing.

Title: Re: Heptovac P what are you all doing?
Post by: Womble on February 10, 2025, 04:21:48 pm

Yeah, I bought the last bottle in Scotland, and it's twice as big as I need.

If anybody else got the second last bottle and is in the same situation, do get in touch!