The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: andywalt on January 07, 2012, 04:06:44 pm
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We vaccinated our stock with the first dose of heptavac p today, all went well my daughter helped which was good and it only took a couple of hours to get them in dose them in the neck and return them back out, second dose in 4 weeks time, we have been blessed so far with the weather in the southeast, grass is still growing !! does everyone vaccinate for pasturella and clostridial anually?
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Yes. Our lambs had a double dose last summer and all the sheep will get their booster 4-6 weeks before lambing.
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Yes we vaccinate the in-lamb ewes a couple of weeks before lambing too
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Yes, same as Rosemary.
Very jealous about the grass, stopped growing here at the start of Oct and probably won't be growing again til the end of April :-\
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We haven't used Heptavac for about 10 years and have had no problems. However, we are constantly on the look-out for signs of clostridial diseases in our animals and of course if that happens we will go back to using the Heptavac. I suppose it depends on what diseases are present in your locality.