Black Leg and Bimectin

smiley girl

Hello All, I'm after your expertise again

Can you give the black leg vaccine at the same time as giving the bimectin pour on?
One trip through the crush for both?

patsy_mccabe

I would say yes but inject first so you don't get the pour-on on your hands.

smiley girl

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I would say yes but inject first so you don't get the pour-on on your hands.

Thank you! That's just what I was hoping to hear, and good thinking about injecting first

The man in red and black

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I would say yes but inject first so you don't get the pour-on on your hands.

Absolutely agree with this. Happened me once. Was vaccinating a whole herd for a guy in Canada. Bizarrely it wasn't the custom to wear latex gloves there on farms...asked the guy to not do the pour on until I had injected the animals...he got impatient and ran on ahead and did every animal in the barn. I got enough of the ivermectin through my hand hitting the cattle before injecting them to give me a ferocious dose of the trotts but thankfully nothing more serious. Don't get pour-on on your skin

smiley girl

The man in red and black wrote: »

Absolutely agree with this. Happened me once. Was vaccinating a whole herd for a guy in Canada. Bizarrely it wasn't the custom to wear latex gloves there on farms...asked the guy to not do the pour on until I had injected the animals...he got impatient and ran on ahead and did every animal in the barn. I got enough of the ivermectin through my hand hitting the cattle before injecting them to give me a ferocious dose of the trotts but thankfully nothing more serious. Don't get pour-on on your skin

Oh no, that's not good. Although reading this I did chuckle... sorry! I will try to learn from your misfortune and keep it off my skin

Cavanjack

The man in red and black wrote: »

Absolutely agree with this. Happened me once. Was vaccinating a whole herd for a guy in Canada. Bizarrely it wasn't the custom to wear latex gloves there on farms...asked the guy to not do the pour on until I had injected the animals...he got impatient and ran on ahead and did every animal in the barn. I got enough of the ivermectin through my hand hitting the cattle before injecting them to give me a ferocious dose of the trotts but thankfully nothing more serious. Don't get pour-on on your skin

On the plus side You did a hell of a thrive all year after it and there was a great shine off Ya!!

Hard Knocks

smiley girl wrote: »

The man in red and black wrote: »

Absolutely agree with this.  Happened me once.  Was vaccinating a whole herd for a guy in Canada.  Bizarrely it wasn't the custom to wear latex gloves there on farms...asked the guy to not do the pour on until I had injected the animals...he got impatient and ran on ahead and did every animal in the barn.  I got enough of the ivermectin through my hand hitting the cattle before injecting them to give me a ferocious dose of the trotts but thankfully nothing more serious.  Don't get pour-on on your skin

Oh no, that's not good. Although reading this I did chuckle... sorry! I will try to learn from your misfortune and keep it off my skin

Don't forget, second shot of Black leg 4 weeks after the first

greysides

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Don't forget, second shot of Black leg 4 weeks after the first

Advice from the School of Hard Knocks.

patsy_mccabe

Is it not 6 weeks?

Hard Knocks

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Is it not 6 weeks?

I use to do 4-6 weeks, but recently at a KT meeting a vet said no do 4 weeks apart