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November Animal Health Checklist

Nov 5, 2021 | Dry stock

Lambs 

Docking

  • Clostridial vaccines – don’t forget their booster shot!
  • Fly treatment 
  • Rings
  • B12 injections 
  • Scabby mouth vaccine
  • Tapeworm drench

 

Ewes 

  • Exit drench for ewes if you used long-acting drench products at pre-lamb
  • Early weaning 
  • Cull ewes – prepare work certs for liver copper tests 
  • Order Toxoplasmosis and Campylobacter vaccines

 

Rams

  • Palpation and Brucella ovis testing 
  • Surgery for teaser rams – at least a month before using 

 

Dairy Grazers 

  • Monitor for lame bulls
  • Plan removal date of bulls
  • Ready for young stock arriving?
  • Quarantine drench
  • Tick treatment
  • Vaccination history 
  • Mineral, nutrition history 
  • Check if any disease problems e.g. Scours, pneumonia?

 

Young Beef 

Ready for weaning?

  • NAIT tags 
  • Combo drench
  • Rings for castration
  • Clostridial vaccinations
  • B12 injections
  • Tickicides
  • Book disbudding/dehorning/castrates

 

Calves

  • Order NAIT tags for calves early
  • Order clostridial vaccine, drench ready for weaning 
  • Plan lepto vaccine
  • Book disbudding/dehorning/castrates
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