Vaccination
A child is vaccinated before it is ill in order to prevent it
becoming ill.
An animal should be vaccinated before it is ill, to prevent it
becoming ill.
Vaccination tires animals a little, but it is not dangerous if
the animals are well housed and well fed.
For example:
Chickens are vaccinated for fowl diphtheria, fowl cholera, fowl
pest.
Cows are vaccinated for pneumonia and anthrax.
Pigs are vaccinated
for anthrax and swine erysipelas.
Sheep are vaccinated for anthrax and foot-
and- mouth disease.
You must take all the animals to be
vaccinated.
Usually vaccination is compulsory and free of charge.
If all
farmers do not take their animals to be vaccinated, the animals which have not
been vaccinated may catch the disease. Then the disease remains in the
district.