Too late to heptavac?

[spark_28]

Sheep are due in about ten days. Only have 42 sheep but will be a slow start though so won’t really kick in until April I think. Weathers been really wet the last ten days so didn’t want to pen them in the pissing rain.

Should I just go ahead on Tuesday when it clears up or double do the lambs?

 

[TexelBen]

Better late than never! It's bloody close tho, take it steady with them

 

[Gator]

As @TexelBen said your cutting it close, might not be much use in the early ones but anythings better than nowt.

 

[spark_28]

As @TexelBen said your cutting it close, might not be much use in the early ones but anythings better than nowt.

I know plenty people around here who don’t heptavac at all.

It’s just lleyn lambs so wonder if they’ll be fine to just double dose save the hassle on the ewes

 

[spin cycle]

i havn't hep'd my lot cos ram got out oct and hard to know whats gonna lamb when ....just gonna be sharp vacc'ing the lambs...fingers crossed

 

[TexelBen]

i havn't hep'd my lot cos ram got out oct and hard to know whats gonna lamb when ....just gonna be sharp vacc'ing the lambs...fingers crossed

Think you can do 1st jab at 3 weeks old iirc

 

[Y Fan Wen]

My vet told me that when you see the first lamb and suddenly realise you haven't jabbed them, do it anyway,

 

[spin cycle]

Think you can do 1st jab at 3 weeks old iirc

i change marker colours every 25 or 50 (depending on how fast they're coming then count 3 weeks from last marked

 

[Y Fan Wen]

As @TexelBen said your cutting it close, might not be much use in the early ones but anythings better than nowt.

I understand boosters act much quicker than the primary ones.

 

[hill shepherd]

Think I'd still do them, I'm sure years ago the guidance was a fortnight before lambing don't know when or why it changed to 6/4 weeks

 

[Pistonbroke]

I know plenty people around here who don’t heptavac at all.

It’s just lleyn lambs so wonder if they’ll be fine to just double dose save the hassle on the ewes

We went five years without doing our hill ewes,then got dysentery and lost about about 10% of the lambs. Get it in to them

 

[Y Fan Wen]

We went five years without doing our hill ewes,then got dysentery and lost about about 10% of the lambs. Get it in to them

Same here with pasteurella so I'm neurotic about getting the double jabs in the lambs sooner rather than later.

 

[steveR]

Sheep are due in about ten days. Only have 42 sheep but will be a slow start though so won’t really kick in until April I think. Weathers been really wet the last ten days so didn’t want to pen them in the pissing rain.

Should I just go ahead on Tuesday when it clears up or double do the lambs?

Vets told me to crack on, even if it is beyond the optimum timing. Essentially what @Y Fan Wen said above, re. Booster in older ewes.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Same here with pasteurella so I'm neurotic about getting the double jabs in the lambs sooner rather than later.

A neighbour was talked into doing his sheep with homeopathic heptavac . Boasted to everyone how cheap it was and how effective, until the sh!t hit the fan( literally ) and they started dying with dysentery. I said what it looked like and he wouldn't listen until there were about 30 gone out of one field. Back to jabbing the next year

 

[spark_28]

Was a bright afternoon so just got them done.