Does everyone vaccinate their horse?

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Following on from the thread below, I was just wondering if everyone vaccinates their horse? All of mine are religously done but I know a few people that don't bother as "it will never happen to me". Having seen a horse that has recovered (miraculously) from teatnus, I would never take that risk.

Also, if you were to buy a horse, and in it's passport it had vaccinations stamped for the last x number of years, but no record of the initial jabs (for example its first course was done before passports came in, and therefore not recorded for whatever reason in passport, and no seperate record) would you just continue with yearly boosters, or would you have the whole course started again? I had exactly this happen with one of mine, but we started the course again as we wanted to compete (and must be a record of first course). I just wondered if you weren't intending to compete would if bother you that your horse had no record of initial jabs (even if you knew that they'd definately had tem).
 
I get all mine done.
I know people who don't because they only hack every now and again but even if i did that i would still do it

i would ask your vet but i would start again ( i do compete though)
 
Both mine are vaccinated. I bought an imported horse & wasn't sure of his jabs so I started again. Both compete so have to be fully vaccinated, but in any case I would ensure mine were always covered.

I can understand some not wanting to vaccinate against some things but not to have tetanus jabs is stupid. Possibly they don't understand the ease with which it can be caught & the devastating horrendous illness it actually is? & that the chances of recovery are extremely low.
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mine are always vaccinated, never been a consideration to not get them done. i have just bought a new horse who has not been vaccinated for 2 years because owner had so many horses ( a breeder) that it proved too costly for her?! i've had him 5 days and he's had his 1st lot of jabs already
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All of mine as always vaccinated. I would never ever take the risk and can comprehend why any one wouldn't vaccinate. Mine are all done Flu and Tet again because I compete, but tet is a minimun requirement.

If I didn't compete and knew a horse had always had vacc's but had no record I'm not sure what I'd do. But if I was in any doubt I would always start again. Its a very very small price to pay for such peace of mind!
 
This is interesting because i was watching a programme the other day and it said animals do not need vaccinating every year. She said the first lot will be al they need, and it is a money making ploy. Whe you think about it, we don't have our children vaccinated every year, it would cost the goverment too much. She said it is more harmful to the animal too. I'm not sure what i think but she did kind of make sense and i'm sure it does rake the money in. But as i say this is not my opinion, just what i watched on t.v
 
I think this is to do with immunity levels. They vary from animal to animal. After some years of vaccination some animals do build up very high immunity. Trouble is, without a blood test, you can not be certain who is OK.

I had an elderly welsh pony, who was treated with homeopathy by a very well known vet.

We had a closed herd situation, so he recommended that the pony not be given flu. But on no account were the pony's bi-annual tetanus vaccinations to be ceased. Tetanus is in soil, so even if there are no horses for miles and they never leave the premises, they are still at risk from this deadly infection.
 
Yep I always always vaccinate my horses (and my dogs
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I have had two horses which needed restarting because their initial vaccs werent within the correct date parameters, I must admit I did that because I wanted to BE with them, but knowing me I would probably have got it done anyway
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This is interesting because i was watching a programme the other day and it said animals do not need vaccinating every year. She said the first lot will be al they need, and it is a money making ploy. Whe you think about it, we don't have our children vaccinated every year, it would cost the goverment too much. She said it is more harmful to the animal too. I'm not sure what i think but she did kind of make sense and i'm sure it does rake the money in. But as i say this is not my opinion, just what i watched on t.v

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There is a certain basis for this. However there are floors to this - HUGE great floors.

It is possible to have a titre done on the levels of each vaccine in the body and then vaccinate in accordance to what is required. However this still needs to be done annually and costs far far more. Alot of people into dog showing do this.

The vaccination time ranges have been done in accordance to the drugs companies and years and years of trials.
 
If the initial program is missing you will need to restart if you want to compete BE / BRC. BSJA & BD don't insist, but some venues where comps are held like the Royal Showground at Stoneleigh & racecourses will insist that any horses coming on site are fully vacinated.
The inital program of three vacinations(two for tet) is there to make sure that the antibodies build up correctly so regardless of competing if I was to buy a horse that didn't have the initial course recorded in its passport I would restart.
 
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This is interesting because i was watching a programme the other day and it said animals do not need vaccinating every year. She said the first lot will be al they need, and it is a money making ploy. Whe you think about it, we don't have our children vaccinated every year, it would cost the goverment too much. She said it is more harmful to the animal too. I'm not sure what i think but she did kind of make sense and i'm sure it does rake the money in. But as i say this is not my opinion, just what i watched on t.v

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If you blood test for antibodies towards the end of the twelve month period there is a significant reduction. The first things most vets do if there is an outbreak of equine flu in the area is re-vacinate their own horses regardless of whether or not they're due !!
Equine Flu is a killer of horses in the same way that Influenza (Swine or otherwise) kills people. It tends to be the young &| the weak but it can take a healthy horse who's had Equine Flu months to fully recover, & as with many severe viral infections some never do return to their 'usual' selves.
 
Mine are all vacc'd against flu & tet. Only 1 of them competes (so has to be - in fact had to have him done 6 monthly this year for FEI rules to do a CIC*!). Other 2 old ponies are done also as you can never be too careful. I have bought horses who's vacc's have lapsed and have always started them from the beginning but only because they compete. If I bought say, a companion, then I probably would just keep with their boosters.

I've heard horror stories of horses dying from tetanus so I really don't understand people who dont vacc against that.
 
Yes it's true about tetnus etc, she was mainly talking about dogs and said other animals such as rabbits, horses etc also do not need vaccinating every year. Then of course you had the phone in part where people rang in to say they had their dog/ horse vaccinated and it died two days later and so on. I do know (well again have read ) that the flu vaccine for humans kills more than it saves, but this is a huge conspiracy theory in which i am very much interested in and it amazes me some of the stuff i find out. Wether or not it is all rubbish is another thing!
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I have to say i personally wouldn't get the swine flu vaccine now after what i have read.But thats a diff subject
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P.s I would like to add that this was on the same channel that said on another programme that we have a fused chromosone
(sp) that enables us to breed with aliens!!
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P.s I would like to add that this was on the same channel that said on another programme that we have a fused chromosone
(sp) that enables us to breed with aliens!!
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Oh now you have to tell us which channel that was !! I'd love to see the science behind that claim.
 
i have 2, one is vaccinated the other is which is 30 and on vets advice i was told not to tet, the last 3 times he has had such a big reaction to the tet jab, large swollen injection area its not worth it, all we achieve is a very large reaction instead
 
Haha, it's all very interesting
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It's channel 200 on sky ' controversial t.v' say's it all really. I watch it every now and again, and sometimes it all a bit much, other times it tells you about things that kind of make sense. I do know that there are a hell of a lot of things we are not told, but alien mating? the jurys still out on that one
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Edited to correct my awful spelling
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Mine get flu and tet. The new horse has just has his started again as when I bought him owner said he had been done regularly and that he was registered with my vet but after purchase my vet could find no records of previous injections on computer - and they've had computer records for last 3 years! What with choking, swollen legs and now restart of injections it has been a lovely 6 week hols with my two!
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