Footvax

[dazza b]

Just wondering if anyone can help thinking about using footvax, just wondering how it works, are there boosters required, what age is it best to do them at what time of year is it best to do them

 

[andybk]

Works well but will only last 6 months , best do half ml twice a year rather than 1ml , will be just as effective but less reaction lump in sheep , anything still limping a month or so after vax ,cull you will get on top of footbugs then , and can stop vax

 

[adda]

Just wondering if anyone can help thinking about using footvax, just wondering how it works, are there boosters required, what age is it best to do them at what time of year is it best to do them

I give 1ml in oct/November time been doing it for about 5 years don't get much lame ewes now costs roughly 70p a dose

 

[hill farmer]

we are thinking of using footvax for first time on the ewes this autumn, can anyone tell me if this would help with scald in the lambs next summer

 

[neilo]

we are thinking of using footvax for first time on the ewes this autumn, can anyone tell me if this would help with scald in the lambs next summer

No.

 

[neilo]

I give 1ml in oct/November time been doing it for about 5 years don't get much lame ewes now costs roughly 70p a dose

Where do you get it at that price? I asked in Wynnstays today and their price was £209 for 250ml (83p/ml).

Haven't used it for a couple of years, but 0.5ml (as @andybk recommended a while back) seems to work just as well. I always jabbed during a hot, dry spell in the summer, with the idea that the vaccine will help keep the sheep clear while the weather kills any bacteria on the pasture. Always seemed to work well.

If you run a closed flock, culling effected sheep, and definitely not keeping replacements from them, will reduce the prevalence drastically anyway. Obviously near impossible if you are buying in replacements of unknown history.

 

[gatepost]

Just check first that none of your sheep have had injectable cydectin (not the la one ) as I think there is a contra indication against using footvax. other wise very effective at sorting a flock out, what remains lame afterwards cull.

 

[Aspiring Peasant]

Just check first that none of your sheep have had injectable cydectin (not the la one ) as I think there is a contra indication against using footvax. other wise very effective at sorting a flock out, what remains lame afterwards cull.

We've given ewes 1ml when we house in Jan for the last couple of years. Haven't had to footbath or inject for lameness since.I think it's a good investment

 

[andybk]

another thing to concider is dont use it over lambing , as it will dry milk off , better to get on top of foot problems in the summer or autumn

 

[Filthyfarmer]

Do ours late summer when enough wool has grown back to help inject sub cut easier.
Defiantly helped here with foot rot, just be very careful where the pointy end of the needle is..........

 

[cotswoldcs]

Do ours late summer when enough wool has grown back to help inject sub cut easier.
Defiantly helped here with foot rot, just be very careful where the pointy end of the needle is..........

+1. I ended up in hospital last year after stabbing myself. Very painful. We give our ewes 1ml in October. Don't forget the rams as well.

 

[llamedos]

Do ours late summer when enough wool has grown back to help inject sub cut easier.
Defiantly helped here with foot rot, just be very careful where the pointy end of the needle is..........

Yep learn from my mistake first time I used it, did it before shearing on some gimmers quite a few ended up with lumps and bad shearing cuts newbie error

 

[Big Al]

Just check first that none of your sheep have had injectable cydectin (not the la one ) as I think there is a contra indication against using footvax. other wise very effective at sorting a flock out, what remains lame afterwards cull.

The contra indication is not to use cydectin 1% in animals previously vaccinated with footvax. Does anyone have any experience of doing this the other way round. I.e. giving footvax to sheep that have previously had cydectin. I have emailed manufacturers of both products to ask if its safe and they both say ask the other guy. Although zoetis were slightly more helpful explaining the reason for the contra indication is deaths and abortions caused by a reaction between polysorbate (a non ionic surfactant) in cydectin and the mineral oil base in footvax.

 

[Dave6170]

Do you have to footvax every year? Start when they re hoggets then annually?

 

[adda]

Where do you get it at that price? I asked in Wynnstays today and their price was £209 for 250ml (83p/ml).

Haven't used it for a couple of years, but 0.5ml (as @andybk recommended a while back) seems to work just as well. I always jabbed during a hot, dry spell in the summer, with the idea that the vaccine will help keep the sheep clear while the weather kills any bacteria on the pasture. Always seemed to work well.

If you run a closed flock, culling effected sheep, and definitely not keeping replacements from them, will reduce the prevalence drastically anyway. Obviously near impossible if you are buying in replacements of unknown history.

from memory I think that was last year price and yes wynnstay

 

[harperfarmer]

Jab all of ours about a month/six weeks before the tups go in on 10th September as it just seems to fit in. Ewes are in large bunches with no lambs amongst them, enough wool grown back to pull the skin away from the neck and fingers crossed, gives good cover through combining and while the tups are in. Cant stand buggering ewes about for bad feet when the tups are in and trying to do their job.