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Originally Posted by Stormageddon
That's the part that makes me laugh. People apparently don't realise how astronomically expensive antibiotics are, they figure farmers like to spend money and chase down their calves to vaccinate them for fun. Antibiotics are administered to help a sick animal recover, not to prevent sickness, the idea of which makes no sense at all really.
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Not true at all from my experience. Its not about doing it for fun. $2 a shot isn't a high price to pay to keep the animal healthy. It was routine to give all the calves coming off the mother shots before they went into the feedlot.