Vaccinations- does 2 days late matter??

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Does it matter if you are 2 days over 1 year?

My girl was done on 14/2/08 last year, but I don't break up from school until Friday the 13th, so couldn't get the vet out until the Mon 16th.

Will this throw the whole course out or won't it matter??
I can't get someone there for me, I have to be there as she is having teeth done as well.
 
Yes you would have to start the whole course again

It can be months inside due date but not a day over .

Atleast this is what I have always been taught .
 
will your vet back date it? If not you will have to start again if you plan to do competitions where the vaccinations are checked.
 
Being 2 days late may not matter for your horse but your vet may not agree to back date the vac record. There were a couple of instances of vets being repremanded/struck of for backing in 2007 by the RCVS. Good luck.
 
That depends if you compete.

THe horse will still be protected by its previous vaccine, but for competition you will need to be inside the one year timeframe.
 
If its the flu vaccine and you want to compete it will matter!!! As they are very strict on flu vaccines at competitions.... Even if its a day over you have to start again.

Think the vet would advise that you start the course again....

Can you not get it done earlier than the due date? I did mine a month early as the vet was on the yard and thus made it cheaper to share call out.
 
It won't make any difference to her protection against disease, but will affect her eligibility for any competitions which demands up-to-date vaccinations - if you want to compete under those sort of rules you will have to start the vaccination course from scratch.
 
Yes it does matter unfortunately. I suspect technically it doesn't matter (after all, no-one asks it to be a day earlier in a leap year!) but officially it does. Could you maybe do the teeth another time? Would be more expensive, but less so than re-starting. I highly doubt the vet will backdate - they could potentially get into trouble for that if caught.
 
Do you use Scarsdale? they have a vacc amnesty at the mo, i missed katies by 2 days and had to start the course over again, she had her 2nd vacc last week and they just charged me for the visit not the vacc.
 
it only matters if you want 2 compete somewhere that asks for vaccination certificates, some vets will back date a jab for you but its getting more unlikely with the risk of them geting in2 trouble for it, but if you dont need it for competition purposes then i really wouldnt worry!!
 
Keltic no I'm with Chine House... argh I'm going to cry if they won't do 2 days late.
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It's very expensive to start again!! My horses's previous owners let my boy's vaccs lapse - Grrr! I had to have them started again, cost a fortune. If you can, get them done inside the time or you can't compete in many competitions, as others have said already.
 
If, as you say, you don't compete then it doesn't matter if you are two days late, and your vet won't refuse to vaccinate the horse at all. Your horse will still have protection (this carries on for some time after the 12month period - it doesn't just stop at the 12 month stage!).
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RC can be very strict about vacs, my friend got sent back without being allowed to compete in unaffilliated, RC dressage because she was 1 day late because of a leap year three years earlier. Even her vet had not noticed but they picked it up and she's had to start from the beginning
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BooBoos- but I've been with that RC before, it really is just a little local thing, with shows in summer which I go to... not camps or anything. I went last year and never once got asked anything about vaccs....

And with her previous owner she had no vaccinations and competed there...
 
Hi , you say you are only competing at low level atm but what if you one day you qualify for a prelim or novice jumping for rc or you sell to someone who does?
If you went to lincoln for nation champs they would inspect your vac record before your lorry is allowed on the showground. Just imagine the disapointment for you and your family to be refused entry for one day out 10 yrs ago!!!
We have been 7 times and it is a wonderful wk/end for many normal riders ie don't ruin your chances now!
 
Chine House will not backdate. Its not worth their risk.

Can you not take her to the practice before? Or ask the receptionist very nicely for a late afternoon appointment so you can get there after school?

Personally I just used to sod it and leave school and go for vacs
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If the horse ever went to another rider who wanted to do Area Qualifiers at British Riding Clubs' competitions, they would have to restart. BRC stipulate horses must be vaccinated against equine influenza 'in accordance with Jockey Club regulations' and there is ZERO tolerance - after the initial course, boosters must be done at intervals of not more than 365 days. At Area level the full vaccination record should be checked by the team chef d'equipe before the entry is made, it would be checked again before the horse could compete, and at Championships it is checked before the horse is allowed onto the showground.

You can ask the vet to backdate it, but you certainly cannot expect that they should risk their professional integrity to do so.
 
No decent vet would backdate the vaccination. They could be struck off for doing so, hardly worth it for the money involved is it?

In an ideal world it would be best to get it done within the 365 day period (and dont' forget 2008 was a leap year, so actually you've got a day less to get it done in), but if you're not going to be doing serious RC stuff, it probably wouldn't be the end of the world. If ever that changed though, you would have to re-start the vaccination course all over again to get it right.

I speak from bitter experience, being 2 days late with my boy's annual booster in March '08, and having to restart the course. and the year before he had been in the RC team, so we had had to show the vaccination certificates.
 
Can you ask vet for the last call of the day and have it done after school? Or get someone else to be there.
Last year was a Leap year too, so make sure you are a day in hand.
You may only do unffliated comps, but if you wanted to go to camp or be in a team, you'd need it spot on.
 
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