Flu/tet jabs query

[Lucy_Ally]

Have booked Springy in for her jabs on the 11th Deember, howver just checked her passport and its actually due on the 9th. So question is, how many days can she go over without having to restart the whole course? Can ask the vet at work on monday but need to know if I have to change the appointment.

Thankies

 

[Happy Horse]

If it is the booster then no days if you want to compete.

 

[Chex]

It should be before, but your vet miight be nice and mark it down as being done on the 9th, rather than the 11th. Not correct, but 2 days is hardly a huge difference.

 

[Lucy_Ally]

Pants, that is what I thought.

*sigh* will have to change the date then....

 

[LEC]

These are RC rules for comps on it:
Unfortunately BRC are pedantic about flu vacs and are adamant that each vaccination has to be within 356 days. Your flu vac certificate shows that the booster is outside 356 days on quite a few occasions - fine for the Jockey Club, BE and the vets but not for British Riding Clubs!

The Solution - You have to start again with the primary vaccinations in order to be able to compete for BRC.

He can have the first primary vaccination when you like. He then has to have the second primary vaccination after 21 days (but less than 92 days) As soon as he has had the second primary vaccination he is eligible to compete. So, you could get him eligible within a month.

After the second primary vaccination he needs a first booster after 150 days but less than 215 days. He then has an annual booster no more than 365 days apart - watch out for leap years!

Annoys me personally so much as jabs last for 18 months and RC is such a poxy level of competition where horses are hardly even travelling outside county let alone round UK.

 

[star]

riding clubs and big shows like at racecourses and stoneleigh are the only people who want the jabs up to date, but they absolutely must be within the 365days or you have to restart. if you just want protection then you can go a couple of months over no probs.

 

[Lucy_Ally]

Thanks, I don't plan on competing her much this year but hoping to get out and about to RC things next year so think better to be safe than sorry and get the appointment moved to Friday instead. Bloomin stupid rules

 

[Happy Horse]

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It should be before, but your vet miight be nice and mark it down as being done on the 9th, rather than the 11th. Not correct, but 2 days is hardly a huge difference.


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Not unless they want to get into huge trouble! If clients go over it is not the vets fault.

 

[Zebedee]

I don't know where you get your information from. Flu jabs are not effective for 18 months, anti-body counts start to drop about 9 months & by 12 months the vacination really does need repeating to keep up the levels of immunisation. (There is one manufacturer that claims that their product lasts longer than 12 months but I don't think any studies have actually backed the claim up). A couple of days probabally doesn't make any practical difference to the immunisation status of the animal, but where do you draw the line? Two days? Three? Five? Seven?
At a horse welfare conference held earlier this year, & attended by all sorts of luminaries from the equine world BRC were praised for their stance on Flu jabs, & the disicplines were all advised to follow suit, although I think B.E. were the only organisation to take the advice on board.
Jockey club certainly didn't use to accept out of date flu certs, and as far as I know B.E. fine you if the certs are wrong, & won't let you compete again until it's correct.
If riding club competitions are such a 'poxy level' then why do you bother?
At the end of the day it's not rocket science is it? The simple answer is to keep the vacinations up to date correctly, as Lucy has arranged to do.

 

[Zebedee]

Oops -sorry Star, I wrote the above not having read your post! I'm interested to read that you say the horse is still protected after a couple of months over - the info I've posted above was gleaned at a vets talk I went to quite recently.

 

[Jemayni]

This is a wee bit naughty, but I let my horse go over by 2 days and didn't realise. Spoke to vet about it, vet was happy to pre-date it!

 

[Thistle]

Gosh. I had never thought before to take leap years into consideration. I bet in reality some of ours are invalid then.

 

[Zebedee]

The rules make allowances for leap years so don't worry!

 

[star]

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Oops -sorry Star, I wrote the above not having read your post! I'm interested to read that you say the horse is still protected after a couple of months over - the info I've posted above was gleaned at a vets talk I went to quite recently.

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equip is licensed to be given at up to 15month intervals. the others are all licensed for 12 month intervals, but probably last a while longer. it really depends what you consider a decent level of protection. the FEI dont consider that once a year is enough, hence needing boosters every 6 months. RC's consider yearly is enough. your average horse could probably get away with every 15 months with no problems, but obviously levels of protection will be lower than at 6 or 12 months.

 

[PapaFrita]

Star, I might've asked you this before, but can you think of any reason why we in Argentina are required to give flu jabs every 3 months? If you go over the date it doesn't matter for competition as long as last jab is within 3 months.

 

[Sparklet]

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Annoys me personally so much as jabs last for 18 months and RC is such a poxy level of competition where horses are hardly even travelling outside county let alone round UK.

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Oh dear - did you not get selected to go to the area qualifiers?

 

[Lucy_Ally]

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Oh dear - did you not get selected to go to the area qualifiers?

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Now now, no need to be bitchy

 

[Sparklet]

Couldnt resist

If you are looking to protect against infection you are probably okay being late with a booster, however I know that RC's are very strict on dates and will not permit riders to compete if the horse has any vaccintation which falls outside the Jockey Club timeframe. All previous vaccinations are checked and at the RC Nationals you are not even allowed to unload if any vaccination is a day out.

If you have no interest in RC or going to Stoneleigh then I would not worry too much.

 

[Lucy_Ally]

I want to do RC stuff with her so have the vet coming on Friday now so its all in order.