Why do you interact with your vet

[THarding]

Hello,

If anybody would be able to spare 5 minutes to fill out my dissertation questionnaire that would be fantastic. I am looking at the reasons why sheep farmers and vets interact and where there is a barrier.

If you are solely a sheep farmer or have a sheep enterprise on the side, I would be very grateful for your input.

Many thanks.

https://rau.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/dissertation-survey-2

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

Only if you are in the South West

 

[primmiemoo]

Would do it if I could @THarding , but I had a security notice appear on using your link.

 

[Davey]

I'm curious to know why sheep farmers would be so drastically different to any other livestock farmer, mixed or otherwise?

 

[ford4000]

I'm curious to know why sheep farmers would be so drastically different to any other livestock farmer, mixed or otherwise?

Because individual sheep are usually worth a lot less than cattle say, and will more than likely die anyway

 

[THarding]

Would do it if I could @THarding , but I had a security notice appear on using your link.

https://rau.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/dissertation-survey-2

Try this link. Thank you

 

[Hesstondriver]

there is no tick box "Because I'm married to her and so I have to talk to her"

 

[primmiemoo]

https://rau.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/dissertation-survey-2

Try this link. Thank you

I'll do it d'rectly

 

[Al R]

I'm curious to know why sheep farmers would be so drastically different to any other livestock farmer, mixed or otherwise?

Because sheep only farms may not have had a vet out for years where as cattle farms will see a vet regularly so a mixed farm the vet is used for sheep advice aswell as cattle..
I had this conversation with someone the other day who gets vets out quite a bit for their sheep to pull a lamb

 

[Longlowdog]

I like helping with these surveys but your's is a bit too area specific for me up here in the chilly north.

 

[steveR]

Because sheep only farms may not have had a vet out for 20+ years where as cattle farms will see a vet regularly so a mixed farm the vet is used for sheep advice aswell as cattle..
I had this conversation with someone the other day who gets vets out quite a bit for their sheep to pull a lamb

How can a sheep farm that has not seen a Vet on farm, get AB's and other drugs??

 

[Al R]

How can a sheep farm that has not seen a Vet on farm, get AB's and other drugs??

Go to the vet?

 

[steveR]

I was under the impression that they need to come on farm and/or see stock every 6 months if they wish to prescribe AB's and some other drugs. Maybe said farmer pops the animal in a Landie as my long deceased FiL used to do.

 

[v8willy]

there is no tick box "Because I'm married to her and so I have to talk to her"

Same here.....

 

[Jameshenry]

I'll do it d'rectly

Cornish spell it "Dreckly"

 

[Jameshenry]

Done

 

[Danllan]

there is no tick box "Because I'm married to her and so I have to talk to her"

Bet you still pay too, if not in 'real' money then in other ways...

 

[Hesstondriver]

Bet you still pay too, if not in 'real' money then in other ways...

sometimes it makes an emergency call out and a wheelbarrow ful of drugs look cheap

 

[Longlowdog]

My vets come out maybe once during lambing most years, do our MV blood tests and that's about it. However they always take the time to discuss with me what I am requesting for my wee flock. They answer questions and offer suggestions. They also regularly speak to me when we meet outside of their practise.
I in turn buy as many of the supplies I need from them as possible. Yep it costs a wee bit more but they don't rip me off. The 'free' consult's are worth the extra on supplies.
I would be loathe to change my vets, they are knowledgeable, competent, courteous, and friendly.
I went in the other day and they asked about lambing, I said it was over and the vet said he was pleased I didn't need them. We then spent 10 minutes discussing the merits of selecting terminal sires on maternal traits. They made £4 in that time providing me with a few syringes and needles.
I like my vets.

 

[primmiemoo]

Cornish spell it "Dreckly"

Zo du I gen'rally, but when among the English ...

I would've done it yesterday, but at the Vet's the receptionist had to look up when I last talked to a Vet (recently as it happens, to have the herd and flock health plans signed off) before writing everything I needed down on a special pad to show the Vet who then came out and quizzed me about my abilities, before dispensing my stock's prescription - which took more time than I could spare at the time. The time before was worse - the duty Vet was downright patronising.

There's seldom a long-serving Vet who knows me there nowadays. Other staff chop and change all the time and don't know t'other client from which, let alone study where anyone is. My family has been with that practice for 3 generations. We're thinking of changing because it's too arm's length from their side now, although they're "naice", it's too much like the supermarket. A retail operator's welcome that's heartsinkingly superficial, but dressed up as professional.

They've got to pull their socks up and as individuals be prepared to put down roots.