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Sheep Vaccine Rule Examples: Footrot, Pulpy Kidney, Drench

Four worked examples of rules you can add in the EkBoer app: a yearly footrot vaccine with a booster, a pulpy kidney course for new sheep, a drench every 60 days, and a lamb vaccine at 8 weeks.

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In this video

0:00 Footrot vaccine once a year
0:18 Pulpy kidney for new sheep
0:31 A drench every 60 days
0:49 Lamb vaccine at 8 weeks

What you will learn

Footrot vaccine once a year

Kind: once a year
Timing: counted from lambing start, 56 days before
Follow-up: 28 days later
Who: ewes and rams

Example one. A footrot vaccine once a year, eight weeks before lambing, with a booster four weeks later. Choose the kind, once a year. Timing, counted from lambing start, 56 days before. Tick the follow-up, 28 days later. Who gets it: ewes and rams.

Pulpy kidney course for new sheep

Kind: a vaccine for new sheep
Follow-up: 28 days later
Who: ewes, rams and lambs you buy

Example two. A pulpy kidney course for new sheep. Choose the kind, a vaccine for new sheep. Tick the follow-up, 28 days later. Who gets it: ewes, rams, and lambs you buy.

A drench every 60 days

Kind: a treatment I repeat, every 60 days
Who: ewes
Log the first one yourself
Then the app reminds you every 60 days

Example three. A drench every 60 days for the ewes. Choose the kind, a treatment I repeat. Every 60 days. Who gets it: ewes. The first time you give it, tap Log something I did, and log it. From then on, the app reminds you every 60 days.

Lamb vaccine at 8 weeks

Kind: a shot for lambs
56 days after birth, follow-up 28 days later
Lambs need a Born on date

Example four. A lamb vaccine at eight weeks, and again four weeks later. Choose the kind, a shot for lambs. 56 days after birth, with a follow-up 28 days later. Lambs need their Born on date on the Animals tab.

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