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in 25 yrs . Never Had This Before in this area ... Closest neighbor fears he may have lost his 3rd calf to black Leg ... Helped him Vaccinate his calves,, Cost is around 75 cents per head ,... after that we soaked our shoes in clorox and changed clothes and shoes ..., Now , at the Vets urging ,We have nnalert my herd who appear healthy ... Hope the next 2 weeks hold for us with NO MORE LOSSES ,,,. You Guys That Know ,feel free to Chime in with your wisdom that Worx
 
we routinely vacinate with 8-way every 6 months but we are on the texas gulf coast. but the old timers always said it was worse in dry conditions. cause there grazing close to the ground.
 
I've always done it, my dad stressed how important it was to get them all twice a year until they are sold or if they are heifers when they have calved. Never fails if I end up missing one or two, usually late comers who just miss getting worked I'll lose about half of whats been missed right around 6 mo of age. Lab always confirms it. Never lost one yet to it that was nnalert. Usually use a 7 way plus haemophillous sommnus.
 
you HAVE to do what hay & pete say. Its a swirling invisible mass of diseases out there & any failure to vaccinate is an automatic loss. Seems to travel along rivers like a fog. If one herd has it, all will.
 
If your neighbor can rotate pasture for a few weeks then burn the pasture the infected cattle were grazing it might help. If you vaccinate after an outbreak has started then you should also give a high dose of penacillin, at least to the calves.
 
An old vet showed me yrs. ago , rub your fingers around on the animals skin and you will feel air bubbles under the skin if it is blackleg . You will know it as soon as you feel it .
 
Can't imagine any cattleman not following a vaccination schedule. We always ran EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL through the chute while they were still on feed........in late March, before they were turned out to pasture. When the calves were weaned in the Fall (before they were put on feed), they went back through the chute. Don't have a clue how to treat blackleg if you've already got it; ask your vet.
 
we see it after a long dry period and then it rains,, we get black leg... its always wet when we get it????? which is contrary to what others say.
 
It,s been nearly 50 years since I've seen blackleg, back then everybody had a few out of season calves and a so so vaccination program.
Today most ranchers in this area are college educated run 200 to 600 mommas with extensive vaccination programs and a sixty day calving season with all cows without calves sold at turn out. Failure to have a up to date vaccination program will cost you 7 to 15 cents a pound. at sale time. Our annual costs are about 20.00 per pair.
 
The vet was out earlier this week for our monthly herd check, and mentioned that a couple herds in the area had lost calves to black leg. Said it's only beef herds so far, but he expects to see some in dairy herds too. I gathered from what he said that it's more common in wet years.
 
I lost one heifer a couple years ago to suspected blackleg. You can bet every animal I had, even the older ones, got nnalert again. Havent seen another unexplained loss like that (knock on wood)....I hear that bacteria can live in the dirt for decades.
 
Am I hearing you guys right??? You vaccinate TWICE a year, EVERY cow you have? Isnt once enough for the life of the animal? That isnt a lifetime nnalert? I am slow, understandably, but I have read that into more than one post on this thread.
 
I read every post on here and I didn't know that anyone in this day and age did not vaccinate for Black Leg. We do the calves twice after 3 months of age and the cows once. Our vet says not to trust the 8 way for Black Leg. And if you read the label for cows you should do it before breeding season or after you take the bull out.

Jim
 
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