Calf vaccine

Mrfarmjunk

Member
What's the best vaccine for calves on the bucket? Getting 10 calves. I was thinking Rispoval intranasal.
What's everyone else using?
What age do you vaccinate?
 

Davy_g

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Down
Bovipast, 2 injections 28 days apart. Another 14 days till immunity.
Plus IBR marker live for all the heifers. Don't do Bulls as they couldn't go to ai station.

Always relied on good management before. Last winter I nearly lost a good few with the mild and wet weather it went through them.
This year I took the cheap insurance of vaccination.
 

bovine

Member
Location
North
It's a bit like asking us all to describe our ideal woman - we will all have different ideas, risk, requirements.

What problems have you had historically, what age, what diagnostics? What are your buildings like, how do you source animals?
 

JPB

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Location
North Yorkshire
Hi. Sorry to bring up an old thread but just after some help. Seem to have a lot of bother with calves getting pneumonia that goes through the whole pen. High temperatures, bit of snott off food a little etc. Try and vaccinate with bovalto intranasal after 5 days of arrival if healthy then aim to do ibr maybe a month later. Would you do ibr sooner and att same time as intranasal? Getting a bit fed up as I spend ages cleaning out after each batch and try my hardest with everything and sheds aren't bad either. Any advice I'd be grateful for
 
Location
Cleveland
Hi. Sorry to bring up an old thread but just after some help. Seem to have a lot of bother with calves getting pneumonia that goes through the whole pen. High temperatures, bit of snott off food a little etc. Try and vaccinate with bovalto intranasal after 5 days of arrival if healthy then aim to do ibr maybe a month later. Would you do ibr sooner and att same time as intranasal? Getting a bit fed up as I spend ages cleaning out after each batch and try my hardest with everything and sheds aren't bad either. Any advice I'd be grateful for
Why not just use ripsoval 4?
Is the ventilation adequate and correct in the shed?
 
Location
Cleveland
Are they covered straight away with rispoval 4? I'm willing to give it a go with next batch. Would you vaccinate straight off the trailer or leave them a few days to settle in. Sheds not bad, not perfect but they are what they are.
No they aren’t covered straight away…I think it’s a week after the second dose…personally I would give them their first dose straight away before they settle

when you say the sheds aren’t perfect, I would be seriously trying to improve them before hoping a vaccine is a miracle cure
 

JPB

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
No they aren’t covered straight away…I think it’s a week after the second dose…personally I would give them their first dose straight away before they settle

when you say the sheds aren’t perfect, I would be seriously trying to improve them before hoping a vaccine is a miracle cure
Well they aren't bad either, the vets who come always say they are pretty good sheds for ventilation so I don't think that's the issue really.
 

JPB

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
What’s their BVD status? We had terrible trouble with calf pneumonia (sucklers) when BVD was circulating in the herd.
Some are bought out the auction so unknown really, but there's a farm locally I try and get them from if possible and they don't have a problem really. So regards vaccinating. Is the general opinion to vaccinated off the trailer? I've been told two different opinions from vets
 

twizzel

Member
Some are bought out the auction so unknown really, but there's a farm locally I try and get them from if possible and they don't have a problem really. So regards vaccinating. Is the general opinion to vaccinated off the trailer? I've been told two different opinions from vets
Guess it depends what’s causing the pneumonia? We sorted the BVD which in turn sorted pneumonia (for the moment) and general calf health, then had trouble with rsv and pi3 pneumonia the following winter so started vaccinating for that with Bovilis intranasal and nipped it in the bud. The intranasal needs a few days to kick into action and protect the calf. I think I’d get the vet to test for BVD antibody (see if it’s circulating in the groups) and also sample some of the calves with pneumonia, and go from there. But that was just our experience of pneumonia in our sucklers.
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
I’ve said this before on here. but it’s still relevant.
2 years ago we were like you, I’d tried every vaccine, it was costing a fortune and we still had pneumonia circulating all the time. I had test after test done on them trying too isolate the main cause. They never managed it before I changed system too try and stop it. Even put up a shed with only 2 solid sides too keep draught out and a totally open ridge. They still got it in there. I bit the bullet and bought a ruck of calf kennels with the big mesh runs. Take 2 x 3 week old calves in each until 8 weeks. Then weaned and I to the shed with the open ridge. As the calves arrive (mostly from market nowadays) 10ml Alamycin LA too stop any market chills abd scour (vets recommendation) and into the kennels. In summer they are out on the field behind the farm, soon as it goes wet they move into the sheep shed, still set up as if outside. We try too have batches of 18/20 calves at a time. Use no vaccine at all now and jab 1/2 per batch for a sniffle as it starts. Really really pleased with the results.
One major plus of the kennels is you can clean them properly without taking hours. Real good steam wash then a weak spray of FAM. Leave too dry and air for a couple of days and you’re good too go again. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t done it myself, but kennels may well be worth looking at.
 

JPB

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
I’ve said this before on here. but it’s still relevant.
2 years ago we were like you, I’d tried every vaccine, it was costing a fortune and we still had pneumonia circulating all the time. I had test after test done on them trying too isolate the main cause. They never managed it before I changed system too try and stop it. Even put up a shed with only 2 solid sides too keep draught out and a totally open ridge. They still got it in there. I bit the bullet and bought a ruck of calf kennels with the big mesh runs. Take 2 x 3 week old calves in each until 8 weeks. Then weaned and I to the shed with the open ridge. As the calves arrive (mostly from market nowadays) 10ml Alamycin LA too stop any market chills abd scour (vets recommendation) and into the kennels. In summer they are out on the field behind the farm, soon as it goes wet they move into the sheep shed, still set up as if outside. We try too have batches of 18/20 calves at a time. Use no vaccine at all now and jab 1/2 per batch for a sniffle as it starts. Really really pleased with the results.
One major plus of the kennels is you can clean them properly without taking hours. Real good steam wash then a weak spray of FAM. Leave too dry and air for a couple of days and you’re good too go again. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t done it myself, but kennels may well be worth looking at
 

JPB

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
That's very interesting, sounds similar problems to what I'm encounting. Strangely enough I've just bought 4 hutches, I know it's not many but going to get some more soon. So will see how it goes. They are second hand but pretty good condition.
 

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