Booster blunder!

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Missed the horses booster vaccination date by 1 day. Was due yesterday and vet came today. What makes it worse is I booked it a month ago and could have had the vet any day in the last month but I thought I had another week…didn’t realise till I got the passport out of the drawer yesterday 😫

So that’s a whole new course of 3 jabs started! 😵‍💫 Vet said it would actually have been cheaper to call the out of hours vet and got it done yesterday (still in date) than a whole new course 😢 Never even occurred to me that was an option!

Argh!!!! Idiot of the day award goes to me!
 
Oh no, how annoying! I nearly did that in January, fortunately realised the week before and the vets squeezed me in, but I only realised due to luck rather than judgement 🤦‍♀️ I wouldn't have thought ringing the OOH line for booster either, it isn't an emergency so I wouldn't want to bother the on call vet. Good on you for cracking on with re-starting properly though; I know it's ok for immunity if you have retired horses or they never go anywhere, but a few years ago there was flu near here and you couldn't even enter fun rides or move yards without proof the horse's jabs were up to date.
 
SilverLinings said:
Oh no, how annoying! I nearly did that in January, fortunately realised the week before and the vets squeezed me in, but I only realised due to luck rather than judgement 🤦‍♀️ I wouldn't have thought ringing the OOH line for booster either, it isn't an emergency so I wouldn't want to bother the on call vet. Good on you for cracking on with re-starting properly though; I know it's ok for immunity if you have retired horses or they never go anywhere, but a few years ago there was flu near here and you couldn't even enter fun rides or move yards without proof the horse's jabs were up to date.
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It’s very annoying!! We do lots of pony club so have to have the horse done as they do check regularly! Also at a busy yard with horses coming and going so best to be careful. I’ll get over the annoyance eventually!!!
 
I did it too, although in my defence I had a reminder from my vet the day we flew to Greece for two weeks. The boosters (x 2 😭) were due by the day before we got back. there was no way I could expect my stand in to do an extra visit and hang around for the vet, even if I could have got them arranged from a sailing boat in the Aegean, so it lapsed.
 
Yes, i also did that this year, vet said ’errrrm do you know this was due yesterday?!’ ……. I didn’t restart, i go to a lot of events but only one place checks regularly
 
quizzie said:
Do RC specify 365 days?….because BD and BD specify 12 calendar months, so leap year not relevant.
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It was something run under BE rules that someone i know got turned away from. The organisers had a calculator and were also picking up on the initial course not being correct.

This was during the flu outbreak a few years back when everyone was checking.
 
I’ve done it! You don’t make the same mistake again! That said mine are field ornaments these days so as long as it’s a week or so thereabouts I don’t care anymore.

It wouldn’t have occurred to me to call the out of hours vet either. And I’d probably feel faintly uncomfortable doing so for that fundamentally isn’t an emergency.

Midlifecrisis said:
I think my vet would’ve errmmm forgot todays date in those circumstances…
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Not for mine, but I’ve known this happen.
 
Bobthecob15 said:
Missed the horses booster vaccination date by 1 day. Was due yesterday and vet came today. What makes it worse is I booked it a month ago and could have had the vet any day in the last month but I thought I had another week…didn’t realise till I got the passport out of the drawer yesterday 😫

So that’s a whole new course of 3 jabs started! 😵‍💫 Vet said it would actually have been cheaper to call the out of hours vet and got it done yesterday (still in date) than a whole new course 😢 Never even occurred to me that was an option!

Argh!!!! Idiot of the day award goes to me!
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I won't laugh - I have done that way to many times over the years and restarted courses at least 6 times.
 
criso said:
It was something run under BE rules that someone i know got turned away from. The organisers had a calculator and were also picking up on the initial course not being correct.

This was during the flu outbreak a few years back when everyone was checking.
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I got turned away from a riding club regional team qualifier because the initial three weren't quite correct in my horses passport from when they were started 5 years earlier 4 years before before i bought him. I was so annoyed, I was only there as an individual entry, couldn't qualify for anything anyway.

I restarted the course and on the third one within 6 months (because he'd already had his annual too long before to count as the first one) the horse had such a severe reaction he could never be given that brand again. I always put that down to the over vaccination.
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criso said:
It was something run under BE rules that someone i know got turned away from. The organisers had a calculator and were also picking up on the initial course not being correct.

This was during the flu outbreak a few years back when everyone was checking.
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In which case I would suggest that the organisers were the ones in the wrong for not allowing for the leap year, as the BE rule is 12 calendar months not 365 days!
Errors in the original course intervals get picked up surprisingly frequently.

The Fuzzy Furry said:
Ah, sorry for confuzzlement. Not RC per se (but they are members) they both show at top level, 366 days was over.
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No idea about showing rules!
 
Identityincrisis said:
Yes, i also did that this year, vet said ’errrrm do you know this was due yesterday?!’ ……. I didn’t restart, i go to a lot of events but only one place checks regularly
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We had an RDA pony spun from the RDA National Championships due to this, the vacccination was one day out 8 years previously before in our ownership, we had not noticed ourselves.
 
ycbm said:
I got turned away from a riding club regional team qualifier because the initial three weren't quite correct in my horses passport from when they were started 5 years earlier 4 years before before i bought him. I was so annoyed, I was only there as an individual entry, couldn't qualify for anything anyway.

I restarted the course and on the third one within 6 months (because he'd already had his annual too long before to count as the first one) the horse had such a severe reaction he could never be given that brand again. I always put that down to the over vaccination.
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After everyone was checking, I checked mine and his intervals were wrong from when he was in racing. The jabs were helpfully marked 1st, 2nd and 3rd but we're wrong.

I had them redone ñ, no ill effects but unnecessary from a clinical point of view and expensive
 
southerncomfort said:
First jab re-done this morning.

No RC club fun for us this summer....lesson learned!
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The vaccinations should only apply to qualifiers, not general RC things.
Plus a long as you've had the first 2 done, then you can compete ( not within 7 days of a booster).

We check all ours going to Area comps, but not for local shows and training.

In your case the horse is actually covered, just does not comply with official comp rules.
 
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