vaccines

tismesoitis

just looking at whealans post on pneumonia and thinking its time to vaccinate used rispoval intra nasal and bovillis intra nasal last year...anyone any idea whats the best price goin for these?

whelan1

saw an ad on done deal last week for all these vaccines from a place in armagh , is this legal? is it much cheaper?

johngalway

Farmrite wouldn't send veterinary medicines down to the Republic when I checked this Spring. Can't remember why exactly, either they needed a license or they weren't allowed at all.

whelan1

thats what i was wondering :rolleyes:

johngalway

I know that I went looking on their site but I can't find reference to it anywhere now, mind you I don't see the products on there now either

reilig

Most vaccines are POM (Prescription only Medicines). Farmrite won't sell them to Southern Ireland Farmers - even if the vaccine isn't a POM in the North and is in the South. For this reason, local Co-ops don't have as good of stock of animal medicines as they had in the past either. They can only sell non pom.

IMO this is the reason that we are one of the most expensive countries in the world for animal medicines. Vets have a monoply on it and can price fix. In some cases they have mark up of 150% from the wholesale supplier that they are buying from.
I believe that controls are necessary over the sale of some animal medicines (horse tranquilisers and pain killers and stuff that humans chance to take for highs). But the day that the youth of ireland start getting high on Bovilis or Ivomec is the day that we can all give up.

blue5000

If they did I can see a big market for all sorts of pour ons!!

krazyklown

http://www.pfizer.ie/livestock_products.cfm

Try your local veterinary pharmacy - alot of vaccines are POM(E) with the E meaning exempt in that it can be sold without a veterinary prescription. If you have a look at the link towards the end you will see Rispoval Intranasal is exempt.

Disclaimer: I work in a pharmacy selling veterinary medicines.

babybrian

I emailed that company in the north for fluke doses last year and they can sell them direct to the farmer from the south if the farmer goes and collects them but for some reason they cant send them in the post.

johngalway

babybrian wrote: »

I emailed that company in the north for fluke doses last year and they can sell them direct to the farmer from the south if the farmer goes and collects them but for some reason they cant send them in the post.

If I were a betting man, I would think that the man from the South would need to go across the border to save the company from getting the blame for exporting something they're not allowed to. Therefore leaving the blame solidly on the man bringing them back home.

C0N0R

I will be in Armagh this week and in Connaught next week if it's any use to anybody!