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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1376706" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Bryant, </p><p>I'm presuming the 'meal' you're speaking is a CTC-medicated mineral mix that you're keeping out for the cows to consume, free-choice? </p><p></p><p>CTC-medicated mineral may be the best some folks are gonna be able to do, in the way of providing vector-season protection - but it's not always adequate, and folks may - and do - have catastrophic failures. The level of CTC which has been allowed for inclusion in medicated mineral mixes is sufficient to protect a 750-lb animal against clinical anaplasmosis - provided that they eat their theoretical 4 oz. of mineral EVERY DAY. It's not sufficient to reliably protect a 1000, 1200, 1800 lb cow - and if they're not eating mineral every day, they're not maintaining a constant protective blood concentration of the drug. </p><p></p><p>I'm just not going to drag a bunch of feed bunks from paddock to paddock - we move almost daily, during the grazing season - and feed enough feed containing CTC to provide the 0.5mg CTC/lb of body weight for each animal that is required for effective control. Vaccination would be the ticket for me. YMMV.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1376706, member: 12607"] Bryant, I'm presuming the 'meal' you're speaking is a CTC-medicated mineral mix that you're keeping out for the cows to consume, free-choice? CTC-medicated mineral may be the best some folks are gonna be able to do, in the way of providing vector-season protection - but it's not always adequate, and folks may - and do - have catastrophic failures. The level of CTC which has been allowed for inclusion in medicated mineral mixes is sufficient to protect a 750-lb animal against clinical anaplasmosis - provided that they eat their theoretical 4 oz. of mineral EVERY DAY. It's not sufficient to reliably protect a 1000, 1200, 1800 lb cow - and if they're not eating mineral every day, they're not maintaining a constant protective blood concentration of the drug. I'm just not going to drag a bunch of feed bunks from paddock to paddock - we move almost daily, during the grazing season - and feed enough feed containing CTC to provide the 0.5mg CTC/lb of body weight for each animal that is required for effective control. Vaccination would be the ticket for me. YMMV. [/QUOTE]
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