Disease prevention move urged for suckled calves
UK - Suckled calves presented at sales in the next few weeks may look in full bloom, but unless routine disease prevention is practised, you could be buying a lorry load of trouble.Although he would prefer to have an isolation period for each batch of calves, building space doesn't allow. "But a strict vaccination programme is carried out consisting of vaccines for IBR, pneumonia and clostridial diseases," he says.
"A wormer treatment is also administered."
Those producers following all-in, all-out policies will effectively be isolating stock, but it's not necessarily the norm, reckons Salisbury-based vet Keith Cutler.
Source: fwi.co.uk