Posted 2014-01-06 12:57 PM Subject: Vaccinate for strangles?? or not?
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 350
I never have vaccinated for strangles but just wondering if i should...i have a mare that will foal in spring and some other geldings they are all older and have never had it to my knowledge. Ive heard that sometimes they can have a bad reaction to the vaccine if theyve already built up their own immunity. Your thoughts?
Posted 2014-01-06 1:45 PM Subject: RE: Vaccinate for strangles?? or not?
Total Germophobe
Posts: 6443 Location: Montana
I don't, I've read too many bad side effects from it, and my horse isn't a youngster. My horse also isn't among other horses usually more than twice a month in the competition season, so I see no need.
Posted 2014-01-06 1:46 PM Subject: RE: Vaccinate for strangles?? or not?
Elite Veteran
Posts: 770 Location: Kansas
My horses were never vaccinated for it until I started having to board them in 2010. They are 11, 17-ish, 21, and 27. (The 27 year old was put down last summer, but had been vaccinated in the spring.) I was told that the 17-ish year old had strangles as a youngster, but I don't know how old they meant by youngster. I've never had a problem with any of them.
Posted 2014-01-06 1:48 PM Subject: RE: Vaccinate for strangles?? or not?
Elite Veteran
Posts: 786 Location: Texas
We had a broodmare that got strangles at a big farm bring it home. We had vaccinated everything but it went through the whole barn anyway. I wouldn't bother with the vaccine.
Posted 2014-01-06 4:42 PM Subject: RE: Vaccinate for strangles?? or not?
Veteran
Posts: 222 Location: Texas
We gave the intra nasal one to my horse when I was a kid. Then he developed a mild case of it after one of the vaccines. The vet (old cow vet) told me it wasn't strangles but an upper resp infection. Needless to say he was incorrect. After we got him over it we never gave it again. Many years and a ton of horses later we still don't give it and our current vet recommends against it. It's one vaccine we do not require when we have clients drop off horses.
Posted 2014-01-06 5:40 PM Subject: RE: Vaccinate for strangles?? or not?
I hate cooking and cleaning
Posts: 3314 Location: Jersey Girl
I have always vaccinated for strangles for the last 20 years. My vet uses the IM and have never had a reaction. I was at a barn that strangles went thru on 2 different occasions and my horses were directly exposed and never got sick.
Vaccinate for strangles?? or not?
