Heifer is the term for young female bovines… though generally, those about to have their first calves. The girls we worked with today are just itty bitty heifers, about ten months old. They received their bangs vaccination today. I’ve gone into that in more detail other times, just type in bangs in my search bar,…
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Required
We spent the day doing the required bangs vaccination of our young heifer calves. The Good Doctor and some helpers were on hand. He has his own tattoo he must place in the ear as proof of vaccination as well as a numbered orange button tag. By the end of the day, green tattoo ink…
Deal With It
We bangs vaccinated our young little heifers today… Most of the work preparing for today, I have missed. That was bringing them to the corral, sorting off any older heifers and cows, and weighing them. Today I was late as well because I had to get lunch going first. We did half of the bunch…
Bangs Vaccination Day
They predicted 2″ – 4″. We are laying under a blanket of 9.5″. With .9″ of moisture. It looks like Christmas now! Today was Bangs Vaccination Day, did you celebrate??? Well, no, I don’t suppose you did… but this annual inoculation for our yearling heifers took up most of the day. This morning was spent…
Vaccinate Some More
Bangs vaccination. By law, heifers must be vaccinated against brucellosis, a bacteria that can cause spontaneous abortion of calves. Proof that your cattle have been vaccinated include a tattoo in the right ear with your veterinarian’s ID and an eartag. That’s the vet’s tattoo being squeezed onto her ear. No choice of colors on this…