@Princess Pooper - are you using Huskvac?
So what would the virus be that causes the snotty noses @martin gribbon ?I don't believe in treating every animal with a temperature. Cattle with virus will not benifit from antibiotics, unless there is a secondary infection. I have plenty of outwintered cattle that will have snotty noses for a couple of days due to having a virus, many of whom will have a bit of a temp, but because they are outside, bacterial infections are not really an issue. Bacterial infection will usually only occur where the environment is suitable. Perhaps if more mild temperatures are common or becoming more common, management may have to be altered to suit
Yes I think you mentioned that somewhere in between suggesting there was nothing that could improve your sheep system and telling me that overuse of vaccines will cause them to stop working.Yep I am because im a very good cattle man.
Like some farmers at market can guess an animals weight to within 5 kilos every time one comes in the ring ( this I cant do I add ) we all have different skills.
I find modesty very attractive in a man!!Yes I think you mentioned that somewhere in between suggesting there was nothing that could improve your sheep system and telling me that overuse of vaccines will cause them to stop working.
Is huskvac a one off jag? Use just before turnout? Lasts all summer?@Princess Pooper - are you using Huskvac?
Is huskvac a one off jag? Use just before turnout? Lasts all summer?
Thanks...will that cover them all summer?Oral vaccine.
2 doses a month apart prior to turnout.
Very true, my wife and I used to rear hundreds of calves and we really struggled til we started taking temps (advised by the vet I think) . Loads of calves can be over 102 and look ok, if I remember right anything over 102 we used to jab regardless.Actually, you are wrong again. There is a pattern emerging.
When you go through batches taking all their temperatures it is amazing how many can look 100% normal and still have a significant fever. It never fails to surprise me or the farmers. We have some guys who I'd call really good stock men who always have a thermometer in their pocket with their penkinfe.
We know that large numbers of animals with significant pneumonia (lung changes at slaughter) are missed on farm and not treated.
I'm not honestly sure @Henarar, I'm not too up to speed on viral strains. I haven't treated any and they do fine. I'm guessing that if they were indoors they may flare up with secondary bacterial infections due to humidity and lack of air movement on mild days. Or at least that's what occurred every now and again back in the days when we used to house young cattle.So what would the virus be that causes the snotty noses @martin gribbon ?
We seen to get a few with snotty noses [ours are inside] but they don't seem to get pneumonia [ touch wood ] and as far as I know we haven't had it here would they live if we did ?
I did panic ones and jab a couple off bought in sterks years ago but I don't know if they had pneumonia or not anyway they both got ok and we didn't see anymore of it so perhaps they didn't
Thanks...will that cover them all summer?
Huskvac will protect for life as long as the animal is naturally exposed to the lungworm.Thanks...will that cover them all summer?
Yep I am because im a very good cattle man.
Like some farmers at market can guess an animals weight to within 5 kilos every time one comes in the ring ( this I cant do I add ) we all have different skills.
Got a 3 day old calf gone down with pneumonia. Was breathing very fast but not rattley or snotty. Jabbed it last evening with Zuprevo and Dexadreson, little bugger seems worse this morning you can hear him breathing and his nose is now a bit snotty. Hopefully it's the drugs moving the shite on his lungs, fingers crossed and all that.