Vaccinating pigs against disease can be a time-consuming, back-straining process for humans and an unpleasant experience for the swine – but it doesn’t have to be that way.

“Oral vaccines pamper people and they also pamper pigs,” Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica (BIVI) Technical Manager Dr. Greg Cline said during an event at World Pork Expo last week. “It certainly is a lot easier to vaccinate a group of pigs through the water supply system than it is to go through and restrain the pigs and inject them.”

Dr. Cline explained how producers can administer several vaccines at the same time by water. “We have a license for the concurrent use of Enterisol Ileitis, Enterisol SC-54 and Ingelvac ERY-ALC,” he said. “So we’ve got an opportunity to have both ease of administration and add those vaccines together and get multiple pathogens at the same time.”

BI offers an oral vaccination learning program and producers can find out more through their local veterinarian or BIVI representative.

Listen to my interview with Greg here: Interview with BIVI's Greg Cline

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