Jake":rgbjmock said:
We had it come in one year, treated a few calves but had some that were too far gone by the time we found them, the next year it came on with a vengeance we treated 75% of the calves, we had an implant vaccination made for the strain we were fighting and that took it down to no problems at all.
Jake, what is an "implant vaccination"? Dr. Darin Stansfield offers a vaccine (bacterin) that is custom made to his request. It is a suspension of attenuated stains of the genus
Moraxella that he has has recovered by swabbing the eye of cattle he treats and sends off for an aerobic culture. I started using it in the last month so I have no idea how effective it will be.
I had an occasion to walk through my neighbors herd yesterday. He has several cows that look like they have permanent eye damage due to pinkeye. Just an observation; not everyone has nice calves like we see on Cattle Today!!!!! His spring calves except for a couple of exceptions look like different species compared to mine!!! One thing that was interesting. He has a mixed herd. No uniformity what so ever but the charolais type calves seem to look a little better than the black calves.