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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 136005" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>Yes, I had a taste of BVD type 2 about 3 years ago (before the vets understood what it was and back when I was just vaccinating for the type 1). NOT a good experience at all!!! A bad outbreak at about the same time finished off our county's last dairy. NOW, we have a MLV vaccine we can use on Bred cows (thank-you Pfizer) so the danger should be lessened some. I did bottle calves when I was a teenager saving up money for college and did ok; but bottle calves are a HUGE risk. IF they come from a herd with BVDV or they pick it up from the other 30 calves in the pen at the stockyard they will give it to your calves and from them to their mothers. Those immuno-challenged calves tend to get scours and later respiratory problems the likes of which nobody has ever seen and infected cows have greater reproductive failures. To me IF you own other stock, bottle calves are now no longer an acceptable risk. Now somebody with no herd to infect or with a known source for the calves (preferably one that is BVDV(PI) free can still buy and raise bottle calves (though the risk of losses is greater than it has ever been).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 136005, member: 2095"] Yes, I had a taste of BVD type 2 about 3 years ago (before the vets understood what it was and back when I was just vaccinating for the type 1). NOT a good experience at all!!! A bad outbreak at about the same time finished off our county's last dairy. NOW, we have a MLV vaccine we can use on Bred cows (thank-you Pfizer) so the danger should be lessened some. I did bottle calves when I was a teenager saving up money for college and did ok; but bottle calves are a HUGE risk. IF they come from a herd with BVDV or they pick it up from the other 30 calves in the pen at the stockyard they will give it to your calves and from them to their mothers. Those immuno-challenged calves tend to get scours and later respiratory problems the likes of which nobody has ever seen and infected cows have greater reproductive failures. To me IF you own other stock, bottle calves are now no longer an acceptable risk. Now somebody with no herd to infect or with a known source for the calves (preferably one that is BVDV(PI) free can still buy and raise bottle calves (though the risk of losses is greater than it has ever been). [/QUOTE]
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