Recommended weaned vaccines?

[Formal]

Bout time to work our cows and weaned calves. Was looking for recommendations on brands or procedures that work for everyone else? What vaccines do you give? How long have you been giving them? Top bands? Self administered or vet visit? Worming? Will probably just do it on my own with some help. Feel free to add anything else that may be beneficial. Getting a little mixed feedback around home and I know there's some of y'all that have been doin this awhile. I see some older threads, but wanted to get some recent opinions. Thanks in advance!

 

[TCRanch]

Talk to your vet to find out what is recommended specifically for your area. A lot of producers don't vaccinate for pinkeye because it's not really a problem. And they'll help you figure out if a mod live or killed vaccine would be better for your operation. Also, a lot of the vaccines I typically use have been backordered/out of stock for a long time; your vet will help you come up with an alternative or possibly a combo of vaccines.

That said, I'll give you an example of what I usually use and how I had to improvise this year when we worked them in May.

Normally:
Cows, retained heifers and bulls in the Spring: 5cc Vira Shield 6+VL5 Somnus, 2cc Cavalry 9, 2cc autogenous pinkeye (moxarella bovis, moxarella bovocili, mycoplasma bovoculi), Cydectin.
Calves in the Spring: 5cc Triangle 4+PH-K, 2cc Cavalry 9, Autogenous pinkeye (moxarella bovis, moxarella bovoculi, mycoplasma bovoculi), Cydectin. And that's in addition to a First Defense bolus or Optimizer gel and Inforce 3 at birth.
Cows, retained heifers and bulls in the fall: Cydectin.
Calves at weaning: 2cc Bovishield Gold One Shot, 2cc Calvary 9, Cydectin. Heifers get 5cc Lutalyse.

This year:
Cows, retained heifers & bulls in the Spring: 5cc ViraShield 6, 5cc Spirovac VL5, 2cc Pinkeye Shield XT4, Cydectin.
Calves in the Spring: 5cc Ultrabac7/Somubac, 5cc BAR-VAC CD/T, 5cc Triangle 4+PH-K, 5cc Pinkeye Shield XT4, Cydectin 5/12.

 

[wbvs58]

How many cows or calves are you doing? With small numbers and due to pack sizes it may be more economical to have the vet do it, they may have others to do at the same time so unused vaccine does not get wasted. For best effect the calves should be vaccinated prior to weaning so the immunity is already there.

Ken

 

[Dave]

We give an Ultrabac 8, Bovasheild gold, and NasalgenPHK. They are all available in 10 dose packages. The cost of those is less than the cost of having a vet come out. Just do your best to match the pack size to your cow numbers and pitch what is left over.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I have a spring and fall calving group.
I use MLV on all my cattle. If I give all my cows MLV once a year, I can vaccinate all the calves with a MLV while they are still nursing.
Spring cows prior to breeding - Vib-Lepto shot, DeLice with Clean II
Spring cows in fall - BoviShield 5L5 HB, UltraChoice 8 (clostridials), Pour On dewormer
Spring born calves - birth Inforce 3, Multimin
June - BoviShield 5L5 HB, OneShot Ultra 8, Valbazen (drench paste dewormer) & Pour On dewormer. Ear notch for BVD-PI test
Spring born calves - July - BoviShield 5L5 HB (yes, a 2nd dose as a booster - never get 100% effectiveness from any vaccine), UltraChoice 8 (booster)

There are many effective choices. But, like TC suggested, you need to at least check with your vet to see what is a problem in your area and what has been effective. I do not ever treat for Pink Eye - it is never a problem.

 

[GoWyo]

Cows get Cattlemaster (killed vaccine), Ultrabac 7 and Scourgard in the fall at preg check time and that's it. Replacement heifers get the Bovishield Gold FP and Bangs in the usually around November/December. Calves get Inforce 3 Ultrabac 7 and Bovishield One Shot at branding and again at preconditioning before weaning and boostered again about 14 days after weaning. We use modified live on calves at preconditioning even with bred cows that are not on a modified live program. My vet says the calves do not shed transmissible virus from the modified live vaccine and do not cause cows to abort. We tried to get cows on a modified live program, but the logistics just don't work well trying to get cows worked 30-45 days before breeding season, so we stick with the killed vaccine program for the cows.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Cows get Cattlemaster (killed vaccine), Ultrabac 7 and Scourgard in the fall at preg check time and that's it. Replacement heifers get the Bovishield Gold FP and Bangs in the usually around November/December. Calves get Inforce 3 Ultrabac 7 and Bovishield One Shot at branding and again at preconditioning before weaning and boostered again about 14 days after weaning. We use modified live on calves at preconditioning even with bred cows that are not on a modified live program. My vet says the calves do not shed transmissible virus from the modified live vaccine and do not cause cows to abort. We tried to get cows on a modified live program, but the logistics just don't work well trying to get cows worked 30-45 days before breeding season, so we stick with the killed vaccine program for the cows.

I fought that problem for years. Finally dawned on me to just switch WHEN I vaccinate them. All cows go thru the chute spring and fall, so I just switched the cows to a fall ML vaccine. Then when we wanted to vaccinate calves, we were safe.
"I" would not take the advice of 1 vet over all the researched MLV's instructions (I think ALL brands). 1 abortion is way too costly for me and it was super easy to just switch out what time of year I vaccinate the cows. My fall calving group gets a MLV in the spring.

 

[GoWyo]

I fought that problem for years. Finally dawned on me to just switch WHEN I vaccinate them. All cows go thru the chute spring and fall, so I just switched the cows to a fall ML vaccine. Then when we wanted to vaccinate calves, we were safe.
"I" would not take the advice of 1 vet over all the researched MLV's instructions (I think ALL brands). 1 abortion is way too costly for me and it was super easy to just switch out what time of year I vaccinate the cows. My fall calving group gets a MLV in the spring.

The logistics of putting cows through the chute in the spring is the issue for me. Theoretically we could do it when we brand - oldest calves are 60 days and youngest about 15 days with a few stragglers less than that. Branding day is also about 30 days before we start A.I. But, branding day is busy trying to get that work done and the help isn't going to want to stick around to vax cows. The cows are up a mile and a half from working facilities until we bring them in to sync. It could be done, but very inconvenient and to add another gather, sort and move back to the May pasture hasn't been worth the effort. I do trust my vet. He has worked through some very challenging issues with his clients on BVD bad in a couple herds, a novel mycoplasma in another, and Johnnes in a purebred Angus herd. He knows his stuff on cattle. All replacement heifers start out MLV. Working on a facility closer to the spring pasture to make working cows in place easier, but it is a year or two off yet.

 

[gcreekrch]

The logistics of putting cows through the chute in the spring is the issue for me. Theoretically we could do it when we brand - oldest calves are 60 days and youngest about 15 days with a few stragglers less than that. Branding day is also about 30 days before we start A.I. But, branding day is busy trying to get that work done and the help isn't going to want to stick around to vax cows. The cows are up a mile and a half from working facilities until we bring them in to sync. It could be done, but very inconvenient and to add another gather, sort and move back to the May pasture hasn't been worth the effort. I do trust my vet. He has worked through some very challenging issues with his clients on BVD bad in a couple herds, a novel mycoplasma in another, and Johnnes in a purebred Angus herd. He knows his stuff on cattle. All replacement heifers start out MLV. Working on a facility closer to the spring pasture to make working cows in place easier, but it is a year or two off yet.

We work groups of 200 to 300 in a day. Calves get split away from cows and cows go through the alley for their prebreeding MLV in am, in for lunch and calves get branded in the afternoon.

 

[elkwc]

On our weaned calves we give a killed virus, Covexxin 8, Somnus, injectable wormer and multi min 90. We worm our cows at least twice a year. Been using a pour on. In order to rotate wormers we are trying feeding the safe guard cube with Fenbendazole one time and an pour on the next. Due to how our cows are spread out and lack of working facilities this works well for us. We always talk to our vets about our best options.

 

[Brute 23]

Get with a vet in your area and ask for vac schedules/ recommendations.