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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: plt102 on February 13, 2015, 08:11:54 pm

Title: Early suprise lamb - vaccination question
Post by: plt102 on February 13, 2015, 08:11:54 pm

Hi there,
 
We have had one lamb pop out 4 weeks early (perhaps one of our young ram lambs matured a bit earlier than we thought and got mum before dad was put in)
He is a healthy large single ram lamb thing but we hadn't vaccinated mum 4 weeks before - we are due to do them all this weekend. Should I just vaccinate mum with the others as if she had 4 weeks to go? I am hoping lamby will be ok until he is 4 weeks old and can have his first vaccination but I guess he has no immunity for the common diseases at the moment.
All advice welcome!
Thanks
Pip

Title: Re: Early suprise lamb - vaccination question
Post by: Crbecky10 on February 13, 2015, 08:29:42 pm

If it was me I'd probably just make sure he gets into the system when he's 4 weeks with his 2 injections (though it depends what you're vaccinating with?). He will have some immunity from the colostrum  :)

Title: Re: Early suprise lamb - vaccination question
Post by: plt102 on February 13, 2015, 08:47:17 pm

Gonna go with Heptovac - P
So I'll carry on with my normal regime and hope that little boy is OK
 
Thanks
 
P