Heptavac or covexin

Lambman

As it's the time off year with lambs on the way and on the ground... I'm wondering what is people's choice for prevention off clostridial diseases... always used heptavac myself but was priceing the covexin 10 100 ml bottle is €56 euro at 1 ml dose so .56c a ewe were as 250 ml off heptavac is €112 2ml dose = nearly .90c and covexin 8 100ml is €27 5ml dose = €1.35.... I know you take your boosters and all into consideration then but I usually inject the ewes month before lambing which covers the lamb aswell till the booster. Covexin 10 seems best value for me at the min but I heard before that heptavac does frost aswell but covexin doesn't whether that's right or wrong.?

rangler1

Lambman wrote: »

As it's the time off year with lambs on the way and on the ground... I'm wondering what is people's choice for prevention off clostridial diseases... always used heptavac myself but was priceing the covexin 10 100 ml bottle is €56 euro at 1 ml dose so .56c a ewe were as 250 ml off heptavac is €112 2ml dose = nearly .90c and covexin 8 100ml is €27 5ml dose = €1.35.... I know you take your boosters and all into consideration then but I usually inject the ewes month before lambing which covers the lamb aswell till the booster. Covexin 10 seems best value for me at the min but I heard before that heptavac does frost aswell but covexin doesn't whether that's right or wrong.?

As you say Heptavac P plus covers 8 diseases plus pnuemonia, covexin 10 is 10 diseases and no protection for pneumonia, so it depends what's a problem on your farm.
Covexin 10 used here along with Ovipast for pnuemonia

Buford T. Justice XIX

Mod note; I've moved this to the Sheep forum for a better response.

BTJ.

arctictree

Sorry to hijack this thread but do you lads vaccinate your dry hoggets? Was vaccinating the ewes pre lambing at the weekend but noticed that I dont vaccinate any ewe lambs that I have kept over (and not put in lamb). I had one fine hogget die on me last year. I wonder could this be the cause. What do you lads do?

Username John

arctictree wrote: »

Sorry to hijack this thread but do you lads vaccinate your dry hoggets? Was vaccinating the ewes pre lambing at the weekend but noticed that I dont vaccinate any ewe lambs that I have kept over (and not put in lamb). I had one fine hogget die on me last year. I wonder could this be the cause. What do you lads do?

What we used to do was replacements get vaccinated here, the same time as the ewes...

So, first injection is about 8 weeks before lambing - all ewe lambs get this.

Second injection is 6 weeks later, 2 weeks before lambing, and all ewes get their annual injection this time as well.

This year I lost a lamb to pneumonia, and I bought ewe lambs, so all everything got injected twice around sept time with hep P

rangler1

arctictree wrote: »

Sorry to hijack this thread but do you lads vaccinate your dry hoggets? Was vaccinating the ewes pre lambing at the weekend but noticed that I dont vaccinate any ewe lambs that I have kept over (and not put in lamb). I had one fine hogget die on me last year. I wonder could this be the cause. What do you lads do?

Yea, its risky leaving them to 12 mths before doing them, bad weather can bring some of those diseases, frost etc

Lambman

Went with heptavac today done the ewes left the dry hoggets till I'll do the lambs the 2nd time for handyness today and saved going up a bottle size and wasting it.. hopefully no more handling them now till they lamb mighty fine weather conditions so far and grounds well seeped tempted not till house at all!