The link below is a great article on horse vaccinations. We use to follow the twice yearly schedule recommended by our vet when we lived at Bridlewood, then started reading up on vaccinations and realized horses are about the same as children. The information we were most interested in was Pneumabort K thinking it was necessary to vaccinate at the 5th, 7th and 9th month of gestation. According to ALL the data a mare will ONLY ever abort ONCE if she hasn't had the shot, then she develops immunity by building up her own antibodies. This article was written by a veterinarian and a very understandable read.
http://hl.depaoloequineconcepts.com/?q=node%2F6
Now after reading that I will still use my common sense and vaccinate all the horses going down to the IL Horse Fair in March.
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