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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1845513" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I attended a food animal-oriented veterinary continuing education meeting a couple of weeks back. </p><p>It takes a minimum of 17 days for any detectible anti-tetanus antibodies to be produced following an initial dose of tetanus toxoid (as would be present in the 8- or 9-way bacterin/toxoid). Booster, given after that point, will boost (that's why we call it that) antibody levels exponentially. </p><p>So... if you're giving an initial dose at the same time as banding... you're essentially 'rolling the dice' and hoping your calves just don't develop tetanus, because they are not going to be immune by the time the organisms would normally be producing the toxin in those devitalized tissues. In that scenario, if you don't lose any, you just had some good luck. </p><p></p><p>Now... if you're giving a dose of tetanus <u>antitoxin</u> AND the initial tetanus toxoid at the time of banding, the antitoxin will provide 'immediate' protection, while not interfering with response to the toxoid. I'd still give the booster 3-4 weeks later... </p><p>My own preference is to give an inital dose of toxoid, with booster at 3-4 weeks, then band. Ideally, you'd wait 3 weeks after the booster for maximum protection, but I have just banded at the time I administered the booster dose. </p><p></p><p>As an aside... the first case of tetanus I ever saw was in one of my own steers that I knife-cut at about 350 lbs; found him 'sawhorsed' out in the pasture, 2 weeks later. </p><p>We lost a 4-month old heifer to tetanus once; never determined her exposure, but we started using an 8- or 9 way Clostridial bacterin/toxoid containing tetanus, on everything from that point on.</p><p></p><p>While the tetanus organism and it's spores are widely distributed in nature, it also appears to be part of the normal gut flora of some horses, so if you have one-toed hayburners around, there may be a greater likelihood that you'll encounter tetanus in your cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1845513, member: 12607"] I attended a food animal-oriented veterinary continuing education meeting a couple of weeks back. It takes a minimum of 17 days for any detectible anti-tetanus antibodies to be produced following an initial dose of tetanus toxoid (as would be present in the 8- or 9-way bacterin/toxoid). Booster, given after that point, will boost (that's why we call it that) antibody levels exponentially. So... if you're giving an initial dose at the same time as banding... you're essentially 'rolling the dice' and hoping your calves just don't develop tetanus, because they are not going to be immune by the time the organisms would normally be producing the toxin in those devitalized tissues. In that scenario, if you don't lose any, you just had some good luck. Now... if you're giving a dose of tetanus [U]antitoxin[/U] AND the initial tetanus toxoid at the time of banding, the antitoxin will provide 'immediate' protection, while not interfering with response to the toxoid. I'd still give the booster 3-4 weeks later... My own preference is to give an inital dose of toxoid, with booster at 3-4 weeks, then band. Ideally, you'd wait 3 weeks after the booster for maximum protection, but I have just banded at the time I administered the booster dose. As an aside... the first case of tetanus I ever saw was in one of my own steers that I knife-cut at about 350 lbs; found him 'sawhorsed' out in the pasture, 2 weeks later. We lost a 4-month old heifer to tetanus once; never determined her exposure, but we started using an 8- or 9 way Clostridial bacterin/toxoid containing tetanus, on everything from that point on. While the tetanus organism and it's spores are widely distributed in nature, it also appears to be part of the normal gut flora of some horses, so if you have one-toed hayburners around, there may be a greater likelihood that you'll encounter tetanus in your cattle. [/QUOTE]
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