Best Injector for Toxovax?

[Macsky]

As above, what are you using?

 

[neilo]

I just use any bottle mount 2ml injector, the same as the ones you can sometimes blag with a Toxovax logo on it.

 

[Macsky]

I just use any bottle mount 2ml injector, the same as the ones you can sometimes blag with a Toxovax logo on it.

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[primmiemoo]

The sort of simcro top mount with Sterimatic is better, imv. The needle guard helps when jabbing against enzo and toxo. Wouldn't want a dose by accident.

 

[neilo]

The sort of simcro top mount with Sterimatic is better, imv. The needle guard helps when jabbing against enzo and toxo. Wouldn't want a dose by accident.

I’d sooner use something where I could be sure the expensive vaccine got in the right place. A Sterimatic would remove that certainty for me.

 

[Macsky]

Intramuscular isn’t it? Where’s best? Back of the neck, or rump?

 

[primmiemoo]

I’d sooner use something where I could be sure the expensive vaccine got in the right place. A Sterimatic would remove that certainty for me.

Ah, but, although that's a valid point, those aren't jabs that I'd like to be directly exposed to. Not even the dead ones.

 

[primmiemoo]

Intramuscular isn’t it? Where’s best? Back of the neck, or rump?

Think it depends on which version you have, @Macsky .

 

[GreenerGrass]

I’d sooner use something where I could be sure the expensive vaccine got in the right place. A Sterimatic would remove that certainty for me.

Do you not get abscesses?

 

[neilo]

Do you not get abscesses?

Very rarely, why? Plenty of sheep jabbed without that clumsy thing on the end of the injector, without getting abscesses at every injection site.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Intramuscular isn’t it? Where’s best? Back of the neck, or rump?

yes.


and
In the neck please

 

[GreenerGrass]

Very rarely, why? Plenty of sheep jabbed without that clumsy thing on the end of the injector, without getting abscesses at every injection site.

I couldn't get any sterimatic over the lockdown as they were cleared out at mole valley, and so I had to use needles for IM injection. Sheep were dry and used a new needle about every 10 lambs. Now they are being killed for my boxes, so I get a full report back, and quite a few have abscesses.

 

[Macsky]

I couldn't get any sterimatic over the lockdown as they were cleared out at mole valley, and so I had to use needles for IM injection. Sheep were dry and used a new needle about every 10 lambs. Now they are being killed for my boxes, so I get a full report back, and quite a few have abscesses.

What were you injecting with?

 

[JD-Kid]

always use a new gun here seeing toxo a live vax unless yer going to strip a gun and boil it to make sure clean
toxo here in pillow packs so just any normal vax gun used

 

[GreenerGrass]

What were you injecting with?

Alamycin LA300, as they came onto the farm with pinkeye. Then a second wave hit so followed up with treating individuals again with Ala on Vets advice. So that's what caused these abscesses.

(As an aside following further recurrence, Vet did further deeper investigation, it actually turned out that it was Mycoplasma, so any I kept got Nuflor. Absolute bloody nightmare for me and the sheep, and expensive too.)

 

[exmoor dave]

always use a new gun here seeing toxo a live vax unless yer going to strip a gun and boil it to make sure clean
toxo here in pillow packs so just any normal vax gun used

What's toxo costing you this year per dose JD?

Over £5/dose this year from our vets

 

[twizzel]

I’m doing both toxo and enzo this year for the first time. Only 20 ewes- can I get away with a normal needle and syringe or do I need to use a auto injector and sterimatic?

 

[neilo]

I’m doing both toxo and enzo this year for the first time. Only 20 ewes- can I get away with a normal needle and syringe or do I need to use a auto injector and sterimatic?

yes, you’ll be fine. The vaccine has to be used within 2 hours once reconstituted, so there’s no time for any introduced bacteria to multiply anyway.

just be careful not to come into contact with it though, as they are live vaccines.

 

[neilo]

I couldn't get any sterimatic over the lockdown as they were cleared out at mole valley, and so I had to use needles for IM injection. Sheep were dry and used a new needle about every 10 lambs. Now they are being killed for my boxes, so I get a full report back, and quite a few have abscesses.

The abscesses were more likely to have been due to injected a largish dose of a thick, oil based antibiotic I’d have thought, rather that may have been introduced.

Don’t tell anyone, but I don’t change needles routinely either, only when they start to lose their edge or one gets bent.

 

[JD-Kid]

What's toxo costing you this year per dose JD?

Over £5/dose this year from our vets

I would have to check but kinda sure it would not be. close to 5 pound a shot