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Location: South Dakota | Does everyone vaccinate for Influenza and Strangles? This is a dumb question I'm sure, but my mare that had the stick in her nose this year is pretty sensitive to her nose. I'm worried I'll put that long tube in her nose and she will react poorly or I will irritate her nose again. Thoughts? I do haul her to rodeos, typically pen at the trailer though, not in a barn.
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| We do, but some simply don't. There's also the injectable Strangles vaccine, but some people say it doesn't work as well. IDK, we do the up the nose thing. |
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| My vet strongly encouraged me not to get the strangles vaccine, as the vaccine causes more deaths then the disease itself |
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Location: Montana | I do for flu, but not for strangles...I've heard too many bad things about it. My mare is old enough she shouldn't need it, and I don't need my youngster getting strangles from the shot. |
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Location: TN | We do for flu, but not strangles. Too risky. |
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Location: LaCygne, KS | 5 way plus WN to most every thing. I have used the IM stangles for several years,(20-25 head) especially anything going to a trainers barn, etc. No unfavorable reactions and a gelding withstood a strangles challenge when a trainers barn broke with strangles brought in by a horse that had came through a sale. |
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Location: Austin, Texas, where it can get really weird!! | After hearing about trainers this year letting horses go to races with strangles in their barn breaking out i did. I vaccinated for everything that could be passed around at any of the big shows. But i was being super paranoid, when i heard stories about it i hsd flash backs to that old movie outbreak (it was about ebola) |
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Location: Florida | Can someone tell me the risk with vaccinating for strangles, I do mine every year and never heard anything about it?
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I do flu but not strangles. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | I do everything but not strangles. Per my vet. |
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| destinypenny17 - 2015-05-28 6:18 AM Can someone tell me the risk with vaccinating for strangles, I do mine every year and never heard anything about it?
I agree. I've done strangles for as long as I can remember. What's the deal with it? |
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| Nateracer - 2015-05-28 9:35 AM destinypenny17 - 2015-05-28 6:18 AM Can someone tell me the risk with vaccinating for strangles, I do mine every year and never heard anything about it? I agree. I've done strangles for as long as I can remember. What's the deal with it?
I have vaccinated for Flu in the past - Just a note, but you gotta boost it every 3-4 months to keep their system primed enough to actually do any good. So if you're only going to give one flu shot, it is not worth the money. I did not vaccinate for either this year.
ETA - strangles will also manifest in the guteral pouch area and blow that out as well .... lots of skin sloughing and nasty crap come along with that.
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Location: WI | Flu - Yes
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | No to strangles for sure........m |
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Location: Jersey Girl | Always. Better safe then sorry. |
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | Always for both. Never have had a problem. |
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| DO NOT do strangles yourself. We have had horses get very very hurt from owners trying to give the Strangles. We only give it intranasal, which is the best way to give it. If you contaminate any other needle with the strangles, their necks will be ruined. It is a very dangerous vaccine that should only be given by a good vet.
We give almost every vaccine possible to our mare, because we haul her so much we will not risk it. They do get a little sick sometimes from the intranasal vaccine, but usually only the first time it is given, and we have never had a horse get very sick on it. |
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Location: Kansas | flu....no way jose on strangles. |
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-05-28 4:11 PM
DO NOT do strangles yourself. We have had horses get very very hurt from owners trying to give the Strangles. We only give it intranasal, which is the best way to give it. If you contaminate any other needle with the strangles, their necks will be ruined. It is a very dangerous vaccine that should only be given by a good vet.
We give almost every vaccine possible to our mare, because we haul her so much we will not risk it. They do get a little sick sometimes from the intranasal vaccine, but usually only the first time it is given, and we have never had a horse get very sick on it.
Great Advice! |
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