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You and your Veterinarian

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Michael Soldan

05-25-2006 16:42:41




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Welp, I've got two good ones in the village closest to the farm, about 5 miles absolute max. My bill for a call was $133,listed as an incision$9,call $115, federal and provincial tax for the $133 total. They are very good, will load up syringes for me for several day's dosage, I don't begrudge them making a living, but $115 for about 15 minutes of their time seems like a lot. I do respect them, they always come through for me,and I guess I am lucky that I don't run large Vet bills anyway, I usually just go out, pick up the meds and needle the cattle myself. Just curious what a call costs you where you are and what the response time is when you really need a vet. They are an important service to the agricultural community, I'm not knocking them...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Seth_ia

05-28-2006 21:01:15




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
WOW! I guess i'll stop complaining about vet prices. I uses 2 different vets. Both are about 20 miles away in opposite directions and get about $40 to drive out and figure out whats wrong. Add about $25 for after hours. I usually figure about $10-20 to actually treat for a total of $50-60 during business hours. For sheep OB work is usually another $25 and a C-section is $100. If the vets too late, a necropsy is another $15. I have yet to meet a vet that charges by the hour. So always ask as many questions as you can when its free.

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kyhayman

05-26-2006 22:15:15




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
Farm call for an OB job here normally runs me just under $200. If I take the cow to the clinic figure about half that. As far as Im concerned, its a bargain. Getting someone with a medical degree (figure at least $100,000 worth of education), office and overhead like a human doc, (plus mobile equipment).

That, and my trip to the family doc yesterday for me, 15 mins, for him to say, yup reason you cant see is you have poison ivy in your eye. $10 co-pay and $85 billed to my ins. Figure for the same education they should make about the same money.

I give the my vets credit. They charged me $300 for an after hours C section on a cow. When my kidlet was born, it took 3 docs charging $10K each to do the same thing on his mom, plus another $50K to the hospital.

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barnrat

05-26-2006 08:05:04




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
Our vet is young(29) and we are happy to have her. She comes once a month for herd health on our 50 milking cow dairy. If you set up a monthly health program with her(ultrasounds, exams, dog, cat, NYCHAP, etc.)she only bills you for the service. Which averages about $80 per month, she's here for about an hour. If you call her on an emergency she gets $120 per hour plus the cost of whatever service she performs.

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Rauville

05-26-2006 05:59:47




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
One of our rural neighbors about 1/2 mile away is a vet, and he goes by our place on the way to his clinic. Couple of years ago at about 6:00 pm we had a mare that appeared to colic, so we called the neighbor. He came over and dosed the horse. Then recommended we saddle her so he could set up a IV drip. After getting the IV going (hanging on a stick, taped to the saddle horn), he left us a couple of additional IV bags, and told us to keep her walking, and he would stop by later.
We stayed with her all night, walking her, and changing the IVs. Early the next morning the neighbor stopped by on his way to the clinic. The horse survived, and everything turned out OK...until he sent his bill! $800.00+ for his services, which included an emergency call, dosing, IV's, plus a call for him stopping in the morning (which involved pulling off the highway into our driveway).

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NorthM

05-25-2006 23:11:14




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
Had a vet out five years ago to preg check 35 cows and this was when he was in the area so no special trip and I could split the travelling with some one else. Told him to bring out a rabies shot for one dog and two cats. When the cows were done ( less than an hour) he proceeded to put each small animal on my tailgate and give it a quick lookover ( one minute), listened to their heart and give them the rabies shot. The bill came in with a charge for $25.00 each for the dog and cats for an examination. Said he could not give the rabies shot with out an exam. I stated they were a farm dog and barn cats and would be missed if they expired but would be replaced tomorrow. I had to pay him more for the rabies shots and examination then preg checking 35 cows. I now use a vet that is more realistic.

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souNdguy

05-25-2006 20:46:35




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
My local vet charges 75$ for the farm call.. and that gets you 15 minutes, then the hourly rate kicks in. Plus you pay for supplies, and meds.

Soundguy



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RodInNS

05-25-2006 19:19:42




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
I doubt I'd get a vet out for less than that. Think it's around a hundred an hour now plus the call fee, plus plus.... It's about at the point where it's not worth trying to "fix" a down cow. Either prevent the problem, or make the decision.

Rod



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BBx

05-25-2006 18:18:38




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
I would guess that by the time they gather their equipment, load it in their truck, drive to your place, perform the service, drive back, put their stuff back up, and do the paperwork, they have used up an hour or more. Even if it is only 5 miles away.



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phillip d

05-25-2006 17:28:40




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 Re: You and your Veterinarian in reply to Michael Soldan, 05-25-2006 16:42:41  
they usually run about 55 for the call fee 100 per hour for service and drugs on top of that,phill in PEI Canada.



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