Vet call out charges

[ollie989898]

Must be cheaper to live in Wales or something, be asking for you to pay daily parking charges and bring your own equipment and supplies next.

 

[Princess Pooper]

How much are you paying for taking bloods? I had funding up to £250 to take bloods , yet I had to pay a bit on top it worked out £24 per sample + £35 call out and vet time @ £35

Had 10 youngstock bloods done recently for our BVD free status... we normally do bloods ourselves but for official schemes they have to be done by vet practice. They use an in-house vet tech, we arranged her to come when we were vaccinating so ran them through the race, took half an hour, was less than £120 including callout, tech time, the lab fees, postage etc. Vet techs currently do bloods, mobility and condition scoring, youngstock weighing and a few other bits and pieces.

 

[ilyria]

Maybe it was a typo? Ad on Aberyswyth uni's site has a better wage.

 

[Longlowdog]

It might say full time but how many weeks a year constitutes full time at at a Uni? I bet it isn't 48 weeks work.

 

[roscoe erf]

Vets made famous by vet James Herriot will stop treating farm animals

Skeldale Veterinary Centre in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, that was made famous by legendary vet James Herriot and the TV series All Creatures Great and Small is set to stop treating large animals.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[roscoe erf]

Vets made famous by vet James Herriot will stop treating farm animals

Skeldale Veterinary Centre in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, that was made famous by legendary vet James Herriot and the TV series All Creatures Great and Small is set to stop treating large animals.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A decision purely driven by greed.There's more brass to be made from the average pet owners than a farm animal.Vets practices all over the country are being taken over by large organisations whose only objective is to generate more profit.....thay have no moral compass whatsoever.

 

[Doc]

More probably a decision made on the basis of difficulty finding Large animal vets to fill a role with dwindling demand and market.
Vet practices are businesses. If one bit doesn’t pay its way or creates employment and rota hassles, it has to go. Would anyone continue with a service or enterprise which was loss making? No Subs of course, to prop it up.

 

[JP1]

The big problem I see these days is corporations buying up vet practices, the staff get better pay and conditions with less on call etc but the trade off for this is higher fees. The independent practices find it hard to recruit staff when they can’t afford the same conditions as the corps..... the corps are all about milking the customer and their insurance company.....

I have said it before but there really needs to be an agricultural veterinary technician degree where clever but practical and able people are given the opportunity to learn the trade rather than the out and out brain boxes which you are required to be to get into vet school these days.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this

I've said it many times before, there needs to be a veterinary equivalent of a paramedic

 

[Farmer Fin]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this

I've said it many times before, there needs to be a veterinary equivalent of a paramedic

It’s an interesting concept, there are already para professionals doing many livestock health jobs. Hoof trimming, AI and now TB testing. What task do you see a paramedic doing? Not sure if you would have enough work for both?

 

[JP1]

It’s an interesting concept, there are already para professionals doing many livestock health jobs. Hoof trimming, AI and now TB testing. What task do you see a paramedic doing? Not sure if you would have enough work for both?

Licensed blood sampler
PD scanning
TB testing

Approved user of controlled drugs for specific tasks eg post calving etc

 

[Farmer Fin]

Licensed blood sampler
PD scanning
TB testing

Approved user of controlled drugs for specific tasks eg post calving etc

A lot of large practices already have theses to compliment the vet offering.

 

[Highland Mule]

Licensed blood sampler
PD scanning
TB testing

Can't you just use the local sheep scanner to do PD scanning of farm animals? I'm sure mine does that for cattle too, if I ask him.

 

[JP1]

A lot of large practices already have theses to compliment the vet offering.

I was always told blood sampling was a veterinary procedure i.e closed shop?

 

[JP1]

Can't you just use the local sheep scanner to do PD scanning of farm animals? I'm sure mine does that for cattle too, if I ask him.

I was trying to think of some examples of tasks as asked. You have to realise some of us live in a farm livestock desert too. You try finding a haulier with a rigid wagon or a round baling contractor round here ....................

 

[Farmer Fin]

I was always told blood sampling was a veterinary procedure i.e closed shop?

It is a vet procedure, but they can do it under instruction from a vet, TB testing is the same. A vet still has to sign the paperwork.

 

[Highland Mule]

I was trying to think of some examples of tasks as asked. You have to realise some of us live in a farm livestock desert too. You try finding a haulier with a rigid wagon or a round baling contractor round here ....................

For sheep, all I need a vet for is to supply medicines. If I can't cure it myself, it's likely to be a bullet. That said, I did one take a lamb with a prolapse to the local (20 miles) surgery for a stitch and it went fine. Cattle are a bit different, but that's really a commercial decision.

 

[roscoe erf]

this is a perfect storm and believe me it is coming and not just to the east

 

[JP1]

For sheep, all I need a vet for is to supply medicines. If I can't cure it myself, it's likely to be a bullet. That said, I did one take a lamb with a prolapse to the local (20 miles) surgery for a stitch and it went fine. Cattle are a bit different, but that's really a commercial decision.

You're right (sort of) in that it's a (un) commercial decision with cattle

Today I've been in touch with SAC St Boswells to help out a Scottish farmer who bought a bull I sold to another English breeder who doesn't blood test for his cattle. My aim was to prove a BVD Negative test for said bull to save him having to do a re-test for BVD Free Scotland status

All these things cost money and use vet time but for me the alternative is not worth the risk and also selling SHOULD attract respect and attention from the buyer

 

[Highland Mule]

You're right (sort of) in that it's a (un) commercial decision with cattle

Today I've been in touch with SAC St Boswells to help out a Scottish farmer who bought a bull I sold to another English breeder who doesn't blood test for his cattle. My aim was to prove a BVD Negative test for said bull to save him having to do a re-test for BVD Free Scotland status

All these things cost money and use vet time but for me the alternative is not worth the risk and also selling SHOULD attract respect and attention from the buyer

For BVD testing, just get tissue tags and do the work yourself - easy as pie, and no need for any spend over a fiver for the tag and test.

Any of the major tag manufacturers will do it, in conjunction with NML or whchever lab they're with.

 

[JP1]

this is a perfect storm and believe me it is coming and not just to the east

yep and the clever clever ones like Westpoint then find they can't make it pay and close their large animal only practice. XL carved up the statutory TB work and now they struggle to find folks wanting to go through all that annual vet licensing malarkey and the rates for the job having been stuffed

As my Grandad always told me you can't compete with someone who doesn't realise he's going out of business yet