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My sheep are In lamb and was wondering was there any injection that could prevent abortions.
My sheep are In lamb and was wondering was there any injection that could prevent abortions.
Shockingly I know some that enzo, toxo pre tupping, inject all ewes with alamycin on housing and then inject every lamb with amoxicillin at birth. They also heptavac, ovivac fully too, dosing continuously even with cocci doses too.I have seen a man give them a jab of alamcycin. Does this help. Thanks
I have seen a man give them a jab of alamcycin. Does this help. Thanks
Not a clue I’ve never asked, when we had a quick discussion on vet/med/mineral/licks/everything purchased to put into or through a sheep costs I spent under 1/4 compared to them. I think from memory their spend per ewe on just enzo and toxo was more than my total yearly vet/med/bolus/fluke/wormer/footvax/mineral tubs cost per ewe.No bloody wonder they have losses. Their management cannot be corrected by blanket antibiotics and wormers just encouraging resistance. How does their vet prescribe so much?
Not a clue I’ve never asked, when we had a quick discussion on vet/med/mineral/licks/everything purchased to put into or through a sheep costs I spent under 1/4 compared to them. I think from memory their spend per ewe on just enzo and toxo was more than my total yearly vet/med/bolus/fluke/wormer/footvax/mineral tubs cost per ewe.
Last quote I had was closer to £9 a ewe for both if I remember right.Toxo and enzo together is about £6-7 I think [emoji15] painful ! How they ever expect drugs too work when they need them using like that I’ll never know
IIRC it can help with toxoplasmosis
IMO best options
1/ enzo....if you havn't got it on farm....keep a closed flock buying in only rams
2/ toxo....take a 'risk based' approach....are there a lot of cats about?.....particularly mothers/kittens?......is your grazing likely to be at risk from dog do from walkers.....there are probably others
3/ blood test some ewes at shearing...different aged sheep.....give you some information
as @Al R infers once on a treadmill of jabs/vaccinations it's not easy to get off
Toxo isnot a bacterial infection, so antibiotics won’t stop it. Alamycin will head off Enzootic abortion, but annual jabbing (as plenty still routinely do round here ) will only lead to resistance, and will cost more than the vaccine now that the price of Alamycin has leapt up.
I’d use antibiotics in the face of an EAE or Campy storm, but certainly not as a routine treatment.
But that’s pretty much a lifetime cost, so worthwhile.Last quote I had was closer to £9 a ewe for both if I remember right.
But that’s pretty much a lifetime cost, so worthwhile.
I think the recc on Toxovax is every 2 years now, and Enzovac every 4 years. I don’t know of anyone that doeseither more than once though, or can afford to.
intresting you say that on toxo ...still say here once in lifetime but have noticed 3 years afterwards. can have storms in ewes5 years enzo and 3 for toxo my vet said but he said most people just do ewe lambs then forget about it ... he reckons there’s research too suggest toxo vacc only 100% covers you for the first year and it slowly wears off over the rest there lifetime but nobody really notices because you just get the odd small lamb here and there and odd abortion but never enough too worry anyone