Vaccine or risk it?

[DartmoorEwe]

I am fairly sure that I lost a ewe because of the stress of gathering for Hep-P vaccinating. Cost of vaccine is about the value of 1 ewe. That's 2 ewes down plus 1/2 a day's work for 2 people. How many ewes do people who don't vaccinate lose in a year that would be prevented had they vaccinated?

 

[HillLuing]

We had been vaccinating for a good umber of years and last year decided to try them on Ovivac P instead as little cheaper but doesn't cover for Pasturella!

We lost 6 ewes from Pasturella and 3 were confirmed by PM!

Back to Heptavac this year so could see it maybe being worse if stop giving anything.

 

[Al R]

We had been vaccinating for a good umber of years and last year decided to try them on Ovivac P instead as little cheaper but doesn't cover for Pasturella!

We lost 6 ewes from Pasturella and 3 were confirmed by PM!

Back to Heptavac this year so could see it maybe being worse if stop giving anything.

How much for PM? We've had 5 unexpected drop dead today, 2x single ewe lambs day or 2 off lambing, both started shaking like calcium, and within 15-30minutes their fitting and then die. Both died with me holding them comfortable and calm while dad was getting calcium injection ready :/
We ovivac P ewe lambs but no heptavac on ewes as never usually lose enough to justify it. After losing a very good condition 4yo TexX with 2 lovely 3 week old lambs with her we're thinking is something wrong somewhere? :/

 

[jemski]

Ovivac p does do pasturella - that's what the p stands for.

 

[HillLuing]

Ovivac p does do pasturella - that's what the p stands for.

Sorry just so used to putting P behind them [emoji23][emoji23]
Yes it was basic Ovivac we used that never covered for Pasturella

 

[HillLuing]

How much for PM? We've had 5 unexpected drop dead today, 2x single ewe lambs day or 2 off lambing, both started shaking like calcium, and within 15-30minutes their fitting and then die. Both died with me holding them comfortable and calm while dad was getting calcium injection ready :/
We ovivac P ewe lambs but no heptavac on ewes as never usually lose enough to justify it. After losing a very good condition 4yo TexX with 2 lovely 3 week old lambs with her we're thinking is something wrong somewhere? :/

We got ours done through the Dick Vet School...

All of the ones we lost were fine one check and the next they were down, foaming at the mouth and had a very very high temperature!

They all died relatively shortly after finding them like this...