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Dosing and Vaccinating Dry Ewe Hoggets

  • 04-04-2017 11:58PM
    #1
    Jimbo789
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭


    I am new to sheep and recently I bought some ewe hoggets. I don't know what vaccines or doses they have previously received.

    I was going to dose them with Cydectin Triclamox for liverfluke, roundworms and lungworm and vaccinate them with Heptavac P Plus. Does this sound ok?

    Since I don't know if they were vaccinated before should I give them a second shot of Heptavac or is one shot sufficient since they won't be lambing until next year.

    I was thinking I might give them Dectomax or Ivomec a couple months after.


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  • #2
    Lambman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭Lambman


    Another shot off heptavac won't do any harm anyway... as for dosing I'd take a fecal sample get it tested least you know that way were you stand... once you have sheep for a while on your own land you'll work out a dosing strategy every farms different some more prone till different diseases than others... good luck with them!


  • #3
    Jimbo789
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Jimbo789


    Lambman wrote: »
    Another shot off heptavac won't do any harm anyway... as for dosing I'd take a fecal sample get it tested least you know that way were you stand... once you have sheep for a while on your own land you'll work out a dosing strategy every farms different some more prone till different diseases than others... good luck with them!

    Thanks Lambman. They were bought from 4 different farms so I would probably need different fecal samples for each batch. I thought by using Cydectin and switching to Ivomec or Dectomax that I should have them covered for most things.


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