{"id":9003241321365471,"date":"2026-03-14T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/?p=9003241321365471"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:38:33","slug":"the-importance-of-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/the-importance-of-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To vaccinate or not is a big debate. Even if you\u2019re a closed herd, there are things in the environment your cattle can be exposed to and you will have consequences to deal with if they are not immune to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combination vaccines can cover several diseases including black leg, tetanus, pink eye, respiratory diseases and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can\u2019t protect our cattle from all disease with vaccines, but we can avoid many of them and therefore eliminate heartache and loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umn.edu\/beef-cow-calf\/cattle-vaccine-basics\">https:\/\/extension.umn.edu\/beef-cow-calf\/cattle-vaccine-basics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines are important and can help eliminate loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":9003241321365476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[475,340,516,320],"class_list":["post-9003241321365471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herd-health","tag-blackleg","tag-herd-health","tag-pinkeye","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003241321365471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9003241321365471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003241321365471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9003241321365477,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003241321365471\/revisions\/9003241321365477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9003241321365476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9003241321365471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9003241321365471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9003241321365471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}