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| I used to raise cattle and sheep, I just raise hogs now. I wait until there is an economic threat of a disease present in the herd, and then I vaccinate for it every year (except for a couple of vaccines that I always gave prior to their presence as an economic threat). I'm up to 4 shots at processing, 4 shots at weaning, with none of those being antibiotics (one is iron at processing, one is wormer at weaning). It would be 5, but a combo vaccine became available. Some of those are multi-disease vaccinations. As to banding, I'd recommend cutting. I remember doing both, and the calves reacted much worse to banding. I mainly remember pneumonia treated with NuFlor as the primary issue, not tetanus. I don't believe I ever had tetanus in calves. But you run your operation however you wish. | |
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Tetanus question
