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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | How often are you vaccinating your actively showing barrel horses, and how often are you vaccinating your kids that stay at home? I normally just get both my guys done once a year before season starts regardless of how much i take both of them out, but i've been hearing of people starting to do them every other year? i've never heard of this before. I was told reason behind it is so they don't build up an immunity to them but, isn't that the point of a vaccine? So that they DO build up an immunity to the disease we vaccinate for?... thoughts? |
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Location: my piece of paradise | I vaccinate every 6 months per my vets recommendations. I do flu innovator as well. Most people don't but I also vaccinate for rabies too. I'm an RN and vaccinating is a big thing to me. If I am going to get all my vaccines so will all my animals. |
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| Once a year per my vets instructions and I haul a LOT. The only one I have ever done more frequently is West Nile. If I am traveling to an area with a high infection rate my vet will booster west nile if its been over 6 mos from last vaccination. She says with WN they are totally protected for 6 solid months. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | Once a year. I don’t see how every other year is beneficial. Unless manufacturers change the vaccines to where they last longer. For example, like they have for rabies vaccines for dogs which now last 3 years. From what I understand if you don’t give vaccinations yearly you need to do a booster. How do you get immune to a vaccine that’s purpose is to build immunity? That just really makes no sense? I think if vaccines weren’t working an epidemic would be on the rise and that’s not the case.
For our old mares that never left the place we used to just give west nile and nothing else but we lost all of them now. It doesn’t hurt to go ahead and give them all the same because if you have horses going in and out they could bring something in that one of the non vaccinated horses could catch. |
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Location: my piece of paradise | FLITASTIC - 2018-03-07 10:20 AM
Once a year per my vets instructions and I haul a LOT. The only one I have ever done more frequently is West Nile. If I am traveling to an area with a high infection rate my vet will booster west nile if its been over 6 mos from last vaccination. She says with WN they are totally protected for 6 solid months.
We live in deep south and the mosquitos could pick you up and fly away with you! lol |
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Location: North Dakota | Every year in mid spring. The horses that stay home get vaccinated the same as the ones who haul. The horses who haul can easily bring something back with them so the ones at home need the same protection. The only way I wouldn't vaccinate the ones at the home the same is if they were never in contact with the ones who are hauled. |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | I normally do everything once a year in spring time before anyone leaves the barn (combo, rabies, WN, strangles, and of course a coggins) because i normally show very hard. But this year we wont be as much. Itll just be my guys as weve finally been able to move them home. I never knew that about WN. The mosquitos arent very heavy in my area as we dont have any standing water around but they do come out a bit.
I didnt get it either thats why i was like ??? is there something im missing?? lol dont get me wrong i totally agree with vaccinating horses. I just didnt know if anyone else did the same every other year. |
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| Ohiobarrelracer - 2018-03-07 10:16 AM
I normally do everything once a year in spring time before anyone leaves the barn (combo, rabies, WN, strangles, and of course a coggins) because i normally show very hard. But this year we wont be as much. Itll just be my guys as weve finally been able to move them home. I never knew that about WN. The mosquitos arent very heavy in my area as we dont have any standing water around but they do come out a bit.
I didnt get it either thats why i was like ??? is there something im missing?? lol dont get me wrong i totally agree with vaccinating horses. I just didnt know if anyone else did the same every other year.
Same here, I live in a desert area of SOuthern CA, I could probably get away with never giving WN but on wetter years etc.. And its easy to give so why not. I am traveling to Washington State this summer and for sure need a booster. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | y'all gone give your horses autsim
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Location: Texas | it depends on which vaccines you give. EWT and rabies you do yearly.. WNV every 6 months...F/R can be every 3-6 months depending on age and amount of hauling/contact with other young horses. |
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