tetanus shots and banding

[cattlepower]

how many band and give a tetanus and how many band and don't give one? Just curious. We band and don't give a tetanus--just band and let em go.

 

[Limomike]

Thats what we do. band within a day or two of birth. no shot.

 

[Farmgirl]

We give two tetanus shots 30 days apart, wait 2 weeks after the second one then band. Lots of trips through the chute but with the small numbers we have it isn't that bad. Better safe than sorry.

Farmgirl

 

[snake67]

We quit knocking the nuts off them about 5-6 years ago.

Send them to market as a complete animal around 700 pounds.

There has not been one penny of additional cash for any work we used to do and we have never been knocked for not doing the extras.

We leave them with horns on, nuts in and colostrum as the only drug in them.

Round them all up and send them down the road straight off the cow.

Never had a problem. Argued for two years with the wife - let her win and lo and behold - our income has gone up and our expense gone down.

Huge labour savings as well.

Sure has taken a load of work and a pile of expense money out of the equation.

If I am not going to get anything for my extra efforts, I am darned if I am going to do the work.

So far the buyers seem to keep coming.

Cheers

Bez

 

[M5farm]

I only cut the bulls that are going to be in the herd beyond breading age. I give them a tetnus shot. I buy the individual vials

 

[Texas PaPaw]

Band and give tetanus toxoid at the same time. Do a few hundred a year and never a problem.

 

[Son of Butch]

No tetanus shot. We band them at 60-90 days and ral-gro ear implant them at the same time.

 

[inyati13]

how many band and give a tetanus and how many band and don't give one? Just curious. We band and don't give a tetanus--just band and let em go.

Check this thread. There were details that came to light here that may help.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=88646&p=1086406&hilit=tetanus+toxoid#p1086406

 

[highgrit]

We give Covexin 8 or Cavalry 9 ASAP. Then a booster when we knife cut and implant. Tetanus and Blackleg is a very cheap vaccine, and I feel it carries over to the calf from it's mother. Blackleg and Tetanus is nothing to mess with.

 

[tcolvin]

I only cut the bulls that are going to be in the herd beyond breading age. I give them a tetnus shot. I buy the individual vials

Where do you get the individual vials?

 

[Brute 23]

Where do you get the individual vials?

All the places that sell the regular vacs can get the little individual tetanus if it's in stock.

With our weaned calves we though we were going to have to use the individual tetanus and individual blackleg since we couldn't find cov 8. That makes for a lot of extra pokes and individual loadings.

I think this is the right one at Valley Vet. You can get a 10 dos vial or 10, 1 dose vials. Our feed store will sell you the individual 1 dose vials if you only need like 1 or 3 or some thing.

Tetanus Toxoid Livestock Vaccine Colorado Serum - Tetanus | Vaccines

Fast Shipping. Great Low Price. Tetanus toxoid is for the vaccination of cattle, horses, sheep, goats and swine against tetanus. For primary immunization, give cattle and horses 1 mL intramuscularly. Give sheep, goats and swine 0.5 ml intramuscularly. Repeat in three-to-four weeks. Booster...

www.valleyvet.com

 

[EasTex]

All the places that sell the regular vacs can get the little individual tetanus if it's in stock.

With our weaned calves we though we were going to have to use the individual tetanus and individual blackleg since we couldn't find cov 8. That makes for a lot of extra pokes and individual loadings.

I think this is the right one at Valley Vet. You can get a 10 dos vial or 10, 1 dose vials. Our feed store will sell you the individual 1 dose vials if you only need like 1 or 3 or some thing.

Tetanus Toxoid Livestock Vaccine Colorado Serum - Tetanus | Vaccines

Fast Shipping. Great Low Price. Tetanus toxoid is for the vaccination of cattle, horses, sheep, goats and swine against tetanus. For primary immunization, give cattle and horses 1 mL intramuscularly. Give sheep, goats and swine 0.5 ml intramuscularly. Repeat in three-to-four weeks. Booster...

www.valleyvet.com

That is the tetanus vaccine I used this year. Could not find Cavalry 9 or Covexin 8. Had to go with Ultrabac 8, which does not contain tetanus. I wonder what's going on with Cavalry and Covexin?