Glad our vets are different. Very rare we buy any needles or syringes.I'll be given 2-3 of each size and then when they're used/lost it will be Sunday and I'll have none left
Needles
- Thread starter Jdunn55
- Start date
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
I buy 16 gauge luer lock 1ā or 3/4ā for everything on calves and cows. For any hormones though itās 18 gauge 1.5ā.
consistently changing needles between cows consumes a lot of needles. Buy in boxes of 100.
consistently changing needles between cows consumes a lot of needles. Buy in boxes of 100.
- Location
- Northumberland
16g x 1" for calves
16g x 1.5" for cows
14g x 2^ for calcium.
Buy boxes of 100
16g x 1.5" for cows
14g x 2^ for calcium.
Buy boxes of 100
- Location
- Near Derby
I didn't know you could get new needles, I just wash the old one and use again. When it gets blunt I run it down a stone, seems to work alright. It was 1 inch but now it's nearer half an inch. Maybe I should buy another.
Spoken like a true Scot..... or Yorkshireman......
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
- Location
- East Ayrshire
On a similar topic, the last "single use" 10ml syringes I bought the writing wears off very easily, used once then stick in a pocket to carry home - numbers gone. Some of them used to last for years.
Had to start putting clear tape over the numbers before first use. Another added cost!
Had to start putting clear tape over the numbers before first use. Another added cost!
- Location
- West Wales
A 10ml syringe usually goes to 12ml when all the way out, half way is 6ml
My current syringe on my quad is over 2 years old, new one in the packet next to it incase it breaks. The staff seem to have a new one every lambing 
Reading some of the more recent stuff on here I`m beginning to think my old man was nearly reckless.....Is that you Dad?
- Location
- Devon
An old vet at our practice used to have a needle sharpener.
- Location
- Devon
Don't you be mentioning that H word on here, people will be getting excited.
- Location
- West Wales
A stone wall does the job good though?
Not too sure you`d appreciate one like that being stuck into your ar*e though...
johnspeehs
Member
- Location
- Co Antrim
Ā£75 keeps me in needles and syringes for a cpl of years at least, that's 3 boxes of various length and gage lurlock needles , boxes of all different sizes of syringes and few boxes of scalpel blades, well worth it. I help a neighbour inject cattle and sheep any time he has anything needing treatment and you can hear the old needles he has popping through the skin they are so blunt and he wonders why everything jumps when they get injected.
- Location
- somerset
we have the written protocol written down, in case we lose a needle in an animal, mark with a big red circle, for 30 ? years, never ever needed to do, until last year, twice. The metal tube, came away from the plastic, bad batch ? You need a big red circle, absolute ###### to find, and extract. But can't moan, x2 in 30 odd years.
And the scale comes off the syringes to quickly.
And the scale comes off the syringes to quickly.
Pistonbroke
Member
I know one bloke who swipes the new needle across a concrete block before use because the pop let's you know you're through the skin and not injecting into thin air, especially on wooly sheep
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
