>>6)3 injections on foals starting at age 4
months
>>I'd say that depends on where you live and
what the incidence is--and what time the foals are born. eg: We foal
in the summer, at the peak of mosquito season, so there would be no reason to
start vaccinating foals in September or October (or in the case of the fillies I
just weaned, in December). If you had a February baby, and lived in a
high-risk area, then yes. Otherwise, use some common sense and correlate
with peak mosquito season, just like you would with an adult.
>Down in FL there are very few cases till
August but they have peaked in October and November. You also will hear of cases
in Dec and Jan. It takes a bird and a mosquito. It takes time for the birds to
get infected and it only takes one mosquito.
:-) I guess that falls under the "where you
live" category... One advantage to living in the Frozen North is that the
skeeters die in about September...
