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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 580413" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Used to be the same here too, BUT there is always the first one and usually the first one isn't the last either.</p><p></p><p>I vaccinated with the Supavax/Duovax combination because it was handy as it did anthrax and botulism and blackleg all in one shot. I started finishing bulls for a production sale and fed them the evening all of them being 100% healthy with excellent appetites. The next morning when I went to feed the best one was lying there dead and swollen to twice its size, suspected blackleg, but send a meat sample in for analysis just in case.</p><p></p><p>Clostridium Septicum (gas gangreen) was isolated and the only Clostridium strain not covered in the vaccnies I used. Moved the bulls that same day and vaccinated the whole herd that same day with Multiclos, repeated that after two weeks and again 6 weeks later (as per recommendation in case of an outbreak), was lucky not to loose anymore. Some of the neighbours weren't quite as lucky.</p><p></p><p>Blackleg typically affects fat cattle under the age of three years and most often in fall and early winter.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Closed herd or not, the Clostridial strains live in the soil and can live for generations without surfacing, one day the conditions will be ideal and a susceptable animal will happen to pass that spot and get infected, cattle are nosy creatures and likes disaster and everyone in the herd will go and sniff the dead animal. As fas as other diseases, like BHB said there are many vectors outside the bovine world to help spread a disease.</p><p></p><p>The passive immunity passed on through the colostrum to the newborn calf is enough incentive to go ahead and vaccinate your older cows as well.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to a vaccination program its not so much a case of can you afford to than its a case of can you afford NOT to vaccinate?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 580413, member: 4353"] Used to be the same here too, BUT there is always the first one and usually the first one isn't the last either. I vaccinated with the Supavax/Duovax combination because it was handy as it did anthrax and botulism and blackleg all in one shot. I started finishing bulls for a production sale and fed them the evening all of them being 100% healthy with excellent appetites. The next morning when I went to feed the best one was lying there dead and swollen to twice its size, suspected blackleg, but send a meat sample in for analysis just in case. Clostridium Septicum (gas gangreen) was isolated and the only Clostridium strain not covered in the vaccnies I used. Moved the bulls that same day and vaccinated the whole herd that same day with Multiclos, repeated that after two weeks and again 6 weeks later (as per recommendation in case of an outbreak), was lucky not to loose anymore. Some of the neighbours weren't quite as lucky. Blackleg typically affects fat cattle under the age of three years and most often in fall and early winter. Closed herd or not, the Clostridial strains live in the soil and can live for generations without surfacing, one day the conditions will be ideal and a susceptable animal will happen to pass that spot and get infected, cattle are nosy creatures and likes disaster and everyone in the herd will go and sniff the dead animal. As fas as other diseases, like BHB said there are many vectors outside the bovine world to help spread a disease. The passive immunity passed on through the colostrum to the newborn calf is enough incentive to go ahead and vaccinate your older cows as well. When it comes to a vaccination program its not so much a case of can you afford to than its a case of can you afford NOT to vaccinate? [/QUOTE]
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