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How to Add Your Own Sheep Vaccine or Treatment Reminder
How to add your own vaccine or treatment to the EkBoer app, step by step: choose the kind, name it, choose who gets it, set the timing and booster, and write the label facts in Notes.
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In this video
What you will learn
Start
- Open Setup
- Tap + Add my own vaccine or treatment
- Choose what kind it is
To add your own vaccine or treatment, open Setup and tap, Add my own vaccine or treatment. Then choose what kind it is. The next slide explains the choices.
The kinds
- Once a year: fixed date, or counted from lambing start
- A vaccine for new sheep: first dose, then follow-up
- Repeat every so many days: a drench
- A shot for lambs at a certain age
- Just a record: no reminder
There are five kinds. A vaccine or treatment once a year, for yearly vaccines on a fixed date, or counted from your lambing start. A vaccine for new sheep, a first dose once a new animal has settled in, then a follow-up. A treatment you repeat every so many days, like a drench. A shot for lambs at a certain age, counted from the birth date. And Just a record, for something you only want to log, with no reminder.
Name and who gets it
- Type the name as on the bottle
- Choose who gets it: ewes, rams, lambs
Type the name as it is on the bottle, for example, Footrot vaccine. Then choose who gets it: ewes, rams, lambs.
Timing and booster
- Fill in the timing
- Needs a booster? Tick follow-up and set the days
- Write the label facts in Notes
Fill in the timing. If the product needs a booster, tick the follow-up box and say how many days later. Write the label facts in Notes, the dose and the withdrawal period.
Add it and check the Plan
- Tap Add
- Open Plan to see where it falls in the year
Tap Add. Then open Plan to see where it falls in the year. Check it looks right before you rely on it.
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