Heptavac P Supply Issues

razor8

has anyone heard if this is a temporary issue? doesn't seem to be available anywhere?

Sami23

Just use Covexin 10

DJ98

If sheep were always done with heptavac would you have to start again now with 2 shots of covexin

Sami23

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121561850#Comment_121561850

Good question - not sure about that but I switched to Covexin about 3 years ago and just gave the 1 shot and no bother.

Dickie10

does covexin cover P+, pASTUREULLA?

orm0nd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568629#Comment_121568629

No

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568629#Comment_121568629

No, ovipast works on pastuerella, we used to find pasturella common enough in post mortems so would always make sure to cover the p.

We chaged to covexin + Ovipast for a few years when the post mortems showed something that wasn't covered by Heptavac P

OrangeBadger

Is it vital to vaccinate sheep?

Jonnyc135

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121683437#Comment_121683437

Depends on your system IMHO, if its low intensive like mine where they get the run of the place along with the cattle and grass is plentiful and rarely hit a stressed point I wouldn't bother.

Few years ago, bought in stores were the only animals I gave Heptavac, but these would have been ran intensively over winter grass and pushed hard.

High intensive where they are pushed hard think it would be wise to do Heptavac P.

I think breeds help too, since I stopped using Suffolk terminal ram, far less dead lambs due to pulpy kidney etc.

I personally would vacinate breeding sheep for enzo and toxo though.

wrangler

Years ago a neighbour got bad health a month before lambing and never vaccinated, his son that had no interest in farming had to lamb the ewes.

he used to bring the sick lambs to us but we couldn't save them, they'd be in spasms when we'd get them , he lost quite a few that time.

When we had over 500 ewes, we'd always vaccinate the ewes but with maybe 8 -900 older lambs, we'd wait for two or three to die of clostridial be fore vaccinating and most years there wouldn't be even one and we wouldn't have to vaccinate

DJ98

See sheepproducts.ie had heptavac p back in stock this morning briefly, managed to source some from them thankfully.

glenkeo

I can't seem to get any heptavac p for ewes booster dose before lambing. my local store only has tribovac 10. does anyone know if it is any good and will 1 dose do to replace the hep p or would i need to start again with 2 doses