Testimonials

We started using ENDOVAC-Beef at pre-calving and birth in our baby calves. We give it prior to when our cows start calving. All of our cows and bred heifers getting ready for their first calf, get a shot of ENDOVAC-Beef. Our baby calves, when they hit the ground, get a shot of ENDOVAC-Beef. At branding time, which in our operation is in May, we hit those same calves again with ENDOVAC-Beef. In the middle of August, we precondition all of our calves and hit them again with ENDOVAC-Beef. The further we got into it, we realized the health of our calves has just been better than what it has been years before. We had practically no health issues as compared to other years. We’re a believer that if we can make it better for our fellow cattlemen, we want to share that same information. If you don’t use it, you don’t benefit from it. With ENDOVAC-Beef, I don’t know how you can have it any better.

Dan Leo,
Apex Cattle  |  How?

A couple of years ago we were having an E. coli scours issue. We had a wreck going and needed a solution. ENDOVAC-Beef was it! A neighbor recommended the product. I knew it didn’t cost much and what I was doing wasn’t working, so I gave it a try. I vaccinated my calves and it worked! Plus, it’s just so easy on them. I give it to my calves around two months of age and again at weaning. The heifers I hold back get it again in June when they go through the chute. It’s just a good product.

The first year we started using ENDOVAC-Beef we had good results. The second year was even better because we implemented it in everything. I vaccinated my cows in April and gave them a booster in June to ensure full protection for my fall calvers and it solved all my scour problems. For those who have spring cows, I would give them a dose in the fall and again in January, about six to seven weeks before they start calving.

Since implementing ENDOVAC-Beef, my medical bill went down and I’m just not treating calves anymore. I haven’t had to doctor one with foot rot either. I can tell you that vaccinating them is cheaper than losing them… it’s worth it. Everything that goes through the chute; cows, calves, and bulls, gets a shot of Endovac at least twice a year now.

JW Henson,
Hillview Farms

Healthy calves just mean less expense. We just don’t have extra time and labor to put into treating cattle in a pasture setting. We’ve got a man on the place that can rope or do anything that needs to be done. But the fact of it is, he hasn’t used that rope one time this year for treating any of these calves. As they grow and they develop we just have less issues if we can keep them healthier. ENDOVAC-Beef is the product that is making all the difference in the world. We like cattle to look good and to stay sound and have good feet. We’ve enjoyed the results with basically no pinkeye and no foot rot issues. I can tell you from an end-user standpoint it’s making us money.

Dan Leo,
Apex Cattle  |  Why?

ENDOVAC-Beef was first presented to me as an immune stimulant, and we started using it on commingled cattle coming from multiple high stress environments to our ranch. I saw a higher immune response in these cattle and started using Endovac on all of our cattle at all five locations. We have a 2,000 head cow/calf operation and 500 head of stockers with ranches in south Florida and south Georgia. Whenever calves go through the chute, they receive a shot of Endovac. We currently run between .5% and 1% mortality on our calves with Endovac down from 3% before we implemented Endovac. On the calves that are going to the feedlot, we are getting positive feedback of fewer treatments since starting Endovac. When you are selling on reputation that is important. And on top of all that, with the price, you can’t go wrong.

Matt Pearce,
Pearce Cattle Company

I start cattle for a living, I’m not a mechanic, I’m not a computer scientist, I have been really really good at one thing in my life…startin’ cattle. ENDOVAC-Beef has been a Game Changer for me. If you are not vaccinating, you should be!

You know, I don’t work for ENDOVAC-Beef, if it didn’t work I would tell you don’t use it, you are wasting your money….It Works! Every one I save, or every one I don’t have to doctor is better for my cattle and the bottom line.

I did my own trial, and I will just tell you the honest truth, I started 900 head for a feed yard in Nebraska. They were keeping the steers and I was keeping the heifers. I used ENDOVAC-Beef on 100% of those steers. On their sisters, that I kept and grazed, I did not give ENDOVAC-Beef…Night and Day Difference. I had a wreck on my heifers, with bad eyes. On the steers we had hardly any. It’s called the learning curve…I learned I wanted to use ENDOVAC-Beef on all of them now.

I run a good sized cow-calf operation in addition to starting cattle. 100% of my cattle get ENDOVAC-Beef. Since using ENDOVAC we don’t have to treat as many cattle for respiratory, or even other common problems like pinkeye and foot rot. I am getting my Pasteurella and the stimulant that makes the vaccine work better with ENDOVAC-Beef. If everybody knew what I knew, everyone would be using it.

Brad Haun,
Haun Ranch

There’s no way to make money planting them, I’ve yet to see one grow. We background calves, have a history in the cow/calf side, and have a finish feed yard in a GAP4 environment. For the last feeding year period, we handled 5,800 to 6,000 head through here. I just finished doing my audit back in early October and I had 27 treatment records. Endovac was recommended to me by a fellow who feeds and starts quite a number of cattle. He had good luck with it in his system. His system was more high risk than ours. We adopted it into our program because of the immune boost of it. The fact that it makes the vaccines work that we give means we simply just don’t treat cattle. For us, receiving cattle is when we set the tone for the production of our farm. Everything we do from the minute that calf walks off the truck, we will reap the benefit on the other end if we do it properly, or we will be backing up the whole time. Cattle health is extremely important in this process because a treated calf is just costly for us. But if you have a known product, the immune booster, is valid. It is what it is.

We also know that the most important thing to cattle when moving is water. You would see a definite difference if you provide fresh clean water or if you don’t. We do, so we don’t know what life is like without it. Same with the Endovac– we use the immune booster. We can’t necessarily tell you that this exact number of calves responded better than others from it, however, we know it is an important component in what we do just as much as fresh water or fresh clean feed to that calf when it is going through a stressful time. The Immune Plus is a huge benefit, and we see it from there on throughout the feeding period of that calf remaining healthy, never coming off feed, doesn’t have to be treated, doesn’t fall out of our market share, or simply just never falls behind on a sick day or feeling off. We set the cattle up the best we know how from day one to perform. We can attribute that to Endovac and the process that we use in trying to cover all those bases. 100%… the responsibility where Endovac is in our system, it works, and it helps the other vaccines we use work better. It’s a no brainer for us!

Clay Alexander,
Weems Creek Cattle Company

We raise cattle and sell beef. We figured out how to raise cattle in an all-natural environment. We are GAP Step 4, no antibiotics ever. It’s not accidental that you can raise cattle like that and not have problems with illness. When we first started, we had our share of difficulties in those activities. And then we learned over time how to do things in a way that we could keep them all natural.

We were experiencing death loss of 2 or 3 %. We thought we had a pretty robust vaccination protocol using brand name vaccines, modified lives, doing about everything you could do. Then Dr. Monty Kerley, from the University of Missouri, who I have the greatest respect for, and I got to know because of the BIF affiliation, put me on Endovac.

Dr. Kerley said “That stuff really works and it’s not only good on Salmonella, but it also confers some feed efficiency.” So we added Endovac into our protocol of vaccinations. We started using Endovac when bringing in feeder cattle from different people as well as using it on our own. All I can tell you, and you’re probably going to think I’m lying, but now we only run about a quarter percent death loss, keeping them all natural the whole way through. We are audited by a third party for those claims. We just don’t have much illness. This vaccine works!

We don’t even think about not using Endovac… it works that well! We use it on our breeding herd and on the feeder cattle we buy from people. It’s a great product and it’s very cost effective. I can’t give you all the scientific explanations behind Endovac, but coupling it with all the other vaccinations we use, keeps our cattle healthy. We haven’t had a problem with foot rot either… maybe one case in ten years. If it’s card-carrying pinkeye, where they just randomly develop it without some kind of injury, we don’t have it! What I understand is that the Endovac is an immune response booster and as a result of that, again, we’re back to the bottom line. We just have a ridiculously low problem with animal health since we’ve been using Endovac. It works! That’s all I can tell you.

Steve Whitemire,
Ridgefield Farm & Brasstown Beef

Midland Bull Test started incorporating Endovac in the vaccination protocol at processing time in 2013 and has never looked back. Since utilizing Endovac, the number of retreats and chronics has dropped drastically and the usage of antibiotics has decreased as well. The first year using Endovac, the overall antibiotic bill was reduced by 35-40% and has held at a similar number each year since. Endovac has a lot to offer, not only to the feedlot industry but the cow/calf segment as well. With Endovac’s unique properties, it is a big component of the vaccination program against gram-negative bacteria which can create havoc if not managed. Endovac covers a broad range of gram-negative bacteria in a single shot. Not many Pasteurella vaccines that are currently available provide coverage over both Pasteurella strains. Endovac covers both strains along with all the other benefits… not to overlook the immune stimulant advantage that cranks up the immune system and helps with overall response to disease and even treatment. This allows for better overall health in general. Endovac is implemented at processing time and at booster time along with pre-breeding shots at fertility testing time at Midland. I have also incorporated it into my cow and calf vaccination protocol and have seen many benefits of it. Furthermore, some of the herds that test their bull calves here at Midland have incorporated it into their regimens as well and the overall health and performance has been markedly improved.

Steve Williams,
Midland Bull Test

As a producer, trying many different vaccines and fly control management protocols with poor results costs critical time and money. After several years of battling Pink Eye and Foot Root epidemics we found a solution. Vaccinating with ENDOVAC-Beef has given me the positive results I need. Before Endovac, the incidence of Pink Eye was 30-50% of the herd. After using ENDOVAC-Beef, we dramatically reduced the incidence to nearly 0% and had minimal cases of Foot Rot. As a result, the few cases of Pink Eye that we do see are much easier to treat and result in little to no damage to the eye. We use an aggressive ENDOVAC-Beef protocol and will continue to do so.

Mike Colton,
Colton Cattle Co