Vet on the Moove: More than 10 reasons to use a 10-in-1 Blackleg vaccine

Spores can also enter the body from injection sites or cuts that the animal may receive and multiply rapidly to cause sudden death

In the middle of the heatwave, it was, unfortunately, time to vaccinate the calves for ‘Blackleg', the colloquial term used to describe a multi-variant Clostridia vaccine. 

It’s ironic that after me writing about fly prevention last week that I got bitten by a horse fly in Glangarra woods near Cahir that very weekend and a very irritating blue bottle is currently circling the room as I write.

I have ridden horses my whole life and got my first horse bite on a hike with no equids in the slightest present, I had to laugh but the itch and swelling was no laughing matter.