Anybody can order from farmacy….
Store Lamb - Treatments on to farm
- Thread starter mghley
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- Location
- East Sussex
Yes but you have to get a prescription from your Vet who down here will charge a lot for that!!
- Location
- East Sussex
The Vet will have to do a visit to prescribe so it will be a minimum of £75.00
- Location
- Cheshire
Think you want too find a new vets
I rang my vet up, had a crack with him for half hour about the sheep trade atm and wool price, then 20 minutes on his house move and 30 seconds on why I wanted a prescription and he emailed it over the next morning no charge 
- Location
- Shropshire
Surely you don’t need an actual visit just get a vet from elsewhere on a video chat there truly having Your pants down
£16.32 from mine….£12 a bottle from our vets!
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- Location
- Cheshire
This sounds like our old vets practice. Good vets but dear drugs, were bought out by a corporate. Drugs went even dearer. Up too £28/30 for alamycin and Betamox.
Two best vets fell out with management and were approached by another corporate too set up within the area of the other practise as equal partners. We moved straight away and my drug bill dropped by 2/3 over night! Old practise sent me a letter and rang up trying too be snotty about me moving and how they could match the drug prices. They were told too sling their hooks, if they could afford too match now, why had they been shafting me for years previously??
but without the competition this just doesn’t happen!
if I want a prescription it’s £24 plus vat. But nowadays they sell the stuff that keen I don’t need one anymore.
bloody sharp on vaccines and wormers too!!
- Location
- East Sussex
Vets no longer will issue a prescription unless they have visited the farm and that class of stock recently. We don't have the luxury of a choice of Vets as most only do cats and bunnies.
- Location
- Northumberland
There seems to be an awful lot of Zolvix used by Forum members.I thought that the BVA were telling people to use it sparingly as it was the wormer of last resort? What happens when it is resistant and ineffective?
Vets are advising farmers too use it as a quarantine wormer
- Location
- North West Wales
We had to use it few years ago as last resort, haven’t had to after just change every year
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Your vet is ripping you off .
- Location
- West Wales
- Location
- West Wales
£12.84 for Alamycin LA
- Location
- East Sussex
Possibly so but no choice.
However they don't charge for completing the RT documentation. Whereas my neighbour who is with one of the large Corporates was charged £600 for the same stuff and signing off the Health plan.
They are also good at helping out with TB testing and don't overcharge for the odd call out.
When you have so few Vets then they can charge what they like!
- Location
- Shropshire
Tricky really could go to one from further away but when you need a vet and it’s middle of the night and you would wish you had the closer one
- Location
- West Wales
If you have cows you need one close for calvings, for sheep they could be further away no problem
@Frank-the-Wool
- Location
- Shropshire
I’d say an hours reasonable from call to arrival on a night call so depends what the roads and the like are could be a fair distance from practice
- Location
- West Wales
Needed with cattle and some may even argue the odd pedigree sheep
But commercial sheep could be further away no problem