--- Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As for horse vaccines, why would you not do it, what are your
> reasons?
Well, I guess I would give you some background. First Sally is a
liscened Naturopathic Physician, graduated from Bastyr university in
1999. If you have ever been to a Natuopathic Physician, their whole
take on vaccinations is very different from standard Medical docs.
We do vaccinate, but not on the schedule that the MFGs want you to.
We do some every 10 years, some every 5.....and never do we vaccinate
for something that is not in our area. Never do we vaccinate with
combo shots, those have a much higher rate of implications. We give
one at a time, like they did in the good ole days, and we never have
ever had one problem. We never give the shot for pregnate mares,
ever. We have seen too many dead babies from healthy mares that were
given the shot.
g I wonder why others would not do it... especially diseases
> that are a threat to humans and enter thru our pets like rabies.
Luckily here we have no rabies at all. In washington our vet never
had a reported case of horse rabies, so we did not vaccinate for
that.
If West Nile Virus gets here, we will vaccinate for that. It makes
sense. But once your body or a horses has made antibodies for the
virus, it stays in the body much much longer than the drug companies
want you to know. Yearly shots are good for them, costly for you,
and some times with some vaccines really not needed on a yearly
basis.
And again, this is what we do, as our horses are not in a stressful
environment, are very healthy, have a lot of room.....what makes
sense for us, might not make sense for everyone.
Skye
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