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<blockquote data-quote="Medic24" data-source="post: 64578" data-attributes="member: 1101"><p>Oh that is one thing, very important I failed to mention. If you do find several animals you want to buy, as stated earlier, keep them seperate from the others until you know you have a healthy animal.</p><p>We always assume that the cattle we bring in are not vacinated OR wormed, and do the first shots upon arrivel. Don't use antibiotics unless you think the animal is sick, as it may interfer with any vacines.</p><p></p><p>Keep in mind that most vacines require a second dose, usually from 10-15 days after the first, and will not actually build any immunity until approx. 15 days AFTER the second dose. unless it is specificly a one dose vacine.</p><p></p><p>so.. sometimes a real balancing act when introducing new cattle onto the farm. If you have the ways and means to keep the cattle seperated for up to two weeks or so, please do so to protect the investment you already have on your farm. This is what we do, and we have never been sorry we did that, sometimes, finding sickness in our new cattle just before we let them loose from the holding lot. Plus it will give you a chance to spend some up close time with them so that they can get used to you and you to them. I prefer working with quiet cattle, and that is the way we work, so if it turns out not to be a keeper, it is much easier to put wheels back under them back to the sale barn without possibly introducing any pathogens or bad behavoir to you existing herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Medic24, post: 64578, member: 1101"] Oh that is one thing, very important I failed to mention. If you do find several animals you want to buy, as stated earlier, keep them seperate from the others until you know you have a healthy animal. We always assume that the cattle we bring in are not vacinated OR wormed, and do the first shots upon arrivel. Don't use antibiotics unless you think the animal is sick, as it may interfer with any vacines. Keep in mind that most vacines require a second dose, usually from 10-15 days after the first, and will not actually build any immunity until approx. 15 days AFTER the second dose. unless it is specificly a one dose vacine. so.. sometimes a real balancing act when introducing new cattle onto the farm. If you have the ways and means to keep the cattle seperated for up to two weeks or so, please do so to protect the investment you already have on your farm. This is what we do, and we have never been sorry we did that, sometimes, finding sickness in our new cattle just before we let them loose from the holding lot. Plus it will give you a chance to spend some up close time with them so that they can get used to you and you to them. I prefer working with quiet cattle, and that is the way we work, so if it turns out not to be a keeper, it is much easier to put wheels back under them back to the sale barn without possibly introducing any pathogens or bad behavoir to you existing herd. [/QUOTE]
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