Hello
Please caqn people tell me what they do regarding innoculating litters they have bred? It has always concerned me thinking of taking young (under 8 weeks) pups to the vets regarding picking something up. Also at what age would you consider micro chipping them?
Thanks joelol

I don't vaccinate my puppies unless I'm keeping one while the new owners are on holiday etc and they request vaccination.
I do take my litter between 6 and 7 weeks to have their eyes tested.  I spray the surgery and also their boxes before I bring them home.

Thankyou

I thought that I typed "I spray the surgery and their boxes with Parvocide." :)

No vaccinations unless pups staying long enough to have the full course.

I have all my pups ear tattooed by the NDTR and advise new owners to have them chipped later after they have had their vaccinations.

I chip at 6 weeks -recently done it with tiny toypups and not even they were a problem so will happily do so again. (They were MUCH less bothered by the chipping than by the vaccination!! The first vacc they screamed and screamed over, one of them for hours.The chip they never even noticed!) I'd only vaccinate pups that were staying for at least ten weeks (so toybreeds basically), never if they were going before then as it can be very difficult indeed to give one injection but not the second. I once had a 3 hour drive when I'd acquired a pup who'd had the first vacc and no vets in the local area stocked the same brand of vaccine, so it was a choice of starting from scratch or travelling far.

Thanks,

To be honest I thought it would be awkward with the new owner having to arrange the second jab and it matching vaccines with the first. And the concern of taking them to the vets(infection)

I just worry people think imaybe cutting corners
Joelol

I always give puppy owners a page on vaccinations, and why I won't do them before a pup leaves home.  It's part of the information pack that I give when pup is chosen, so they have the opportunity to get a pup elsewhere if they so choose.

I did have a couple that had a pup reserved from well before it was born, but when she found out that I wouldn't vaccinate at 6 weeks, she cancelled.  Not a problem.

i do now give 1st vacc but if new owners vet dont use same ,i give money back for new owner to get 1st done.

I'm incredibly lucky & have a visiting vet.  She vet checks them, microchips & gives them first vaccination if I want (depending on the new owner's vets!)  It was a godsend with my mum's last litter of 9 pups, having the vet come to my mother's home to do all the checks was so easy & stress free.