Free HS vaccination drive for livestock launched in flood-ravaged area
District administration providing 4Kg cattle feed per animal daily in flood-ravaged areas
Veterinary doctors treat around 157 sick animals in flood-ravaged areas- Dr Gurmeet
MOGA, August 27, 2019: With an aim to protect animals affected from floods in Dharamkot sub-division here, the district Animal Husbandry on Tuesday launched a free vaccination drive for livestock to prevent them from deadly Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (HS) disease.
Divulging the details, Deputy Director Animal Husbandry Dr Gurmeet Singh, who was reviewing the situation at flood-ravaged villages said that though the department had already administered the HS vaccination a month back but to protect animals at flood-affected areas the department will give another precautionary booster dose of HS vaccine to the bovines to increase their immunity.
He said that there are around 3000 cattle found affected in the 15 flood-ravaged villages falling in the Dharamkot and the HS vaccine will be administered to all the cattle there at free of cost. Otherwise, the government rate for this vaccination is Rs 5 per animal.
He said that a special five-membered team for vaccination headed by a veterinary doctor will complete this task to administer the vaccination to about 3000 cattle in a week.
The district administration has also been providing four-kilogram cattle feed per adult animal while two-kilogram cattle feed per small animal on a routine basis via Markfed. Dr Gurmeet said that around 75 quintals of cattle feed being distributed in the flood-ravaged area daily.
Dr Gurmeet said that to protect the livestock in flood-ravaged villages five animal relief camps including at Sherewala, Sanghera, Bhaini, Mandar Kalan and Daulewala have been set-up by their department and veterinary doctors are stationed there under the supervision of nodal officer Dr Himanshu Syal to treat animals there.
He said that so far they have treated at least 157 sick animals in flood-ravaged areas. He said that they have sufficient medicines to treat the livestock.
Meanwhile, Dr Gurmeet said that besides this, the department has also been administering medicines to prevent animals from ticks and worms.