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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1715366" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I am not one to vaccinate them to death. But we lost 3 calves one year, seemingly healthy and then dead. Had the vet and it was blackleg. It is a cheap insurance to pop them with one shot. The calves will have some immunity from the cow for 6-8 weeks but then they seem to be susceptible for the next 6-8 months. We just decided that it was not worth the possible losses. We hadn't lost anything for years before that. We give the 5cc dose and then that's it. Sometimes we will boost all the cows on a preg check through the chute... but we also buy and trade some cattle so it helps to prevent problems.... We only use killed virus vaccines on the others and again, because we bring cattle in and want to try to protect our own and the new ones..... We buy a fair number of bull calves to castrate and then make groups of steers to sell as feeders and buy some breds or cow/calf pairs to supplement income and to utilize grass at different times of year or to take advantage of corn silage we have or something. So we have a reason to try to be a little more proactive on vaccines because of the intermingling. However, when we lost those calves all those years ago, it was on cows that had not had any other cattle in or out of them, just put out to pasture about 60 days prior to the loss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1715366, member: 25884"] I am not one to vaccinate them to death. But we lost 3 calves one year, seemingly healthy and then dead. Had the vet and it was blackleg. It is a cheap insurance to pop them with one shot. The calves will have some immunity from the cow for 6-8 weeks but then they seem to be susceptible for the next 6-8 months. We just decided that it was not worth the possible losses. We hadn't lost anything for years before that. We give the 5cc dose and then that's it. Sometimes we will boost all the cows on a preg check through the chute... but we also buy and trade some cattle so it helps to prevent problems.... We only use killed virus vaccines on the others and again, because we bring cattle in and want to try to protect our own and the new ones..... We buy a fair number of bull calves to castrate and then make groups of steers to sell as feeders and buy some breds or cow/calf pairs to supplement income and to utilize grass at different times of year or to take advantage of corn silage we have or something. So we have a reason to try to be a little more proactive on vaccines because of the intermingling. However, when we lost those calves all those years ago, it was on cows that had not had any other cattle in or out of them, just put out to pasture about 60 days prior to the loss. [/QUOTE]
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