What clostridial vaccine do you use?

Dinzee Conlee

Hello,

Has come up a few times over the past while, and be interesting to get peoples thoughts...

What vaccine do you give your hoggets, and why?

Dinzee Conlee

This year - I used Tribovax10 - it was what they had when I went in to buy. Previously I have used both Heptavac P & Covexin10

Never had an issue with Pasteurella, so thats why I wasnt too hung up on not getting Heptavac P.

Farmer_3650

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

This year - I used Tribovax10 - it was what they had when I went in to buy. Previously I have used both Heptavac P & Covexin10

Never had an issue with Pasteurella, so thats why I wasnt too hung up on not getting Heptavac P.

Had you to do ewes with the 2 shots 4 weeks apart again when switching product?

Dinzee Conlee

Farmer_3650 wrote: »

Had you to do ewes with the 2 shots 4 weeks apart again when switching product?

No, I only buy store lambs, sell some fat and some as breeding hoggets.
I don’t lamb them.

So they get 2 shots 4-6 weeks apart and that’s it...

roosky

Is there anyone here that doesn’t do for clostridial .....I have to do a batch of bought in lambs and when doing my accounts for 2019 one of my biggest costs is veterinary so I’m thinking is the cost of heptavac now out doing the risk....I done them last year but still lost sheep! Especially when it’s not contagious like Enzo or something like that

wrangler

roosky wrote: »

Is there anyone here that doesn’t do for clostridial .....I have to do a batch of bought in lambs and when doing my accounts for 2019 one of my biggest costs is veterinary so I’m thinking is the cost of heptavac now out doing the risk....I done them last year but still lost sheep! Especially when it’s not contagious like Enzo or something like that

Hard to decide that without knowing what the ones died from last year, heptavac P works any way, did you use heptavac P or heptavac.
When we had 800 lambs here we used to wait till one or two died and Tested them, if it was clostridial we'd vaccinate and we got away plenty of years without vaccinating..... maybe only vaccinating one in three years.
But with 120 lambs now we always vaccinate them twice

roosky

wrangler wrote: »

Hard to decide that without knowing what the ones died from last year, heptavac P works any way, did you use heptavac P or heptavac.
When we had 800 lambs here we used to wait till one or two died and Tested them, if it was clostridial we'd vaccinate and we got away plenty of years without vaccinating..... maybe only vaccinating one in three years.
But with 120 lambs now we always vaccinate them twice

Ya I brought 4 to the lab last year but all were inconclusive so hard to know....it just seems a lot of money to hand out blindly......big difference in heptavac p v tribivax 10 like it’s a lot of money to cover for pasturella

wrangler

roosky wrote: »

Ya I brought 4 to the lab last year but all were inconclusive so hard to know....it just seems a lot of money to hand out blindly......big difference in heptavac p v tribivax 10 like it’s a lot of money to cover for pasturella

I'm hearing your story all over the country, yet we wouldn't get 20% inconclusive results and what's more, our vet wouldn't accept that carry on.
Until you try not vaccinating you won't know what your risk is, I'm sure it varies from farm to farm and as I said about our 800 lambs we only vaccinated one year in about three when we had that many.

jj b

Hi all
Long time reader first time poster, on my farm we always used 8 in 1 vaccines, we started having a lot of trouble with pneumonia and mastitis, we changed over to hep p 2 years ago ,we had no sheep losses since bar the odd suicide and a lot less mastitis

early_riser

roosky wrote: »

Is there anyone here that doesn’t do for clostridial .....I have to do a batch of bought in lambs and when doing my accounts for 2019 one of my biggest costs is veterinary so I’m thinking is the cost of heptavac now out doing the risk....I done them last year but still lost sheep! Especially when it’s not contagious like Enzo or something like that

Don't buy stores anymore here, closed flock now as much as possible but don't vaccinate breeding stock or lambs for anything this few years and don't loose any more ewes or lambs than any one else around here and loose the same as the years I did vaccinate everything. Didn't just stop doing all the one year, started breeding my own replacements and anything that was on a vaccination program got it till they were culled and the replacements were never done, maybe it's just luck but working here for now anyway