3 M L & C
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I've noticed that quite a few registered breeders use vets that are a long ways away from them. A lot of times going past more than qualified vets in their area. Why is this?
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Larrry
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Beats me, Maybe the same reason guys go away from their area to buy bulls 
Larrry
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Reminds me of the kid whose dad was a banker. The kid went to school and told the teachers how much money they had in their account
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3 M L & C said:
I've seen some that will travel several hundred miles past the local sale barn to sell their culls too... :???:
Aaron
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George said:
I might do that if I did not want the locals to know I had some bad culls!!!![/quote]
I know a purebred guy that will ask his past customers to ship their bull to a mart a couple hundred miles away, if the bull is having 'personality issues'.
He doesn't want to labeled locally as having 'those kind' of bulls.
Hay Feeder
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We have three real good local
Vets however these are the reasons I am starting to go for the first time to another town. Our local vets are to busy trying to do large and small animal vets out of the same office they really do not work together
Three vets work out of two competitive offices one is a sale barn vet and sells registered bulls and is my competitor along with competition for land as well
The other two are real good the best vet is so busy you have to book him min of two weeks in advance. Usually 3 weeks when we all need one we need one now
I starting going to a vet office where four vets are working out of one us a full time small animal and one is strictly larger animal and on call
The other two I do not know
The vet I am starting to use and her helper husband have both raised on cattle operations in the area and both were on a national champion livestock team in FFA and understand the purebred business
Where others if they do not want to work they just tell one take em to the sale barn there just a animal anyway
Vets however these are the reasons I am starting to go for the first time to another town. Our local vets are to busy trying to do large and small animal vets out of the same office they really do not work together
Three vets work out of two competitive offices one is a sale barn vet and sells registered bulls and is my competitor along with competition for land as well
The other two are real good the best vet is so busy you have to book him min of two weeks in advance. Usually 3 weeks when we all need one we need one now
I starting going to a vet office where four vets are working out of one us a full time small animal and one is strictly larger animal and on call
The other two I do not know
The vet I am starting to use and her helper husband have both raised on cattle operations in the area and both were on a national champion livestock team in FFA and understand the purebred business
Where others if they do not want to work they just tell one take em to the sale barn there just a animal anyway
Soapweed
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Oldtimer said:
Quite a few years ago, a local rancher took two big stock trailers with weigh-up cows to an auction 150 miles away. This sale barn had a reputation of getting much better prices than did the more local barns. Alas, as luck would have it, that sale barn went broke on that very day and declared bankruptcy. The local rancher never got one thin dime out of his 25 or 30 cows.
gcreekrch
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We deal with a veterinarian from Edmonton Alberta for two reasons. He is good and he is about 40% cheaper on an annual basis than the local vets are. We only use a vet for preg testing, semen testing and consultation. We can both do C-sections if needed and I have removed a few eyes. Absesses and other minor problems are looked after by ourselves also.
At least a portion of the reason ranchers choose the veterinarian they do is personality. Most vets have the know how, they need the interest and bed side manner to fit your particular operation and facility. I think ranchers search for this type of relationship. And, no client wants a veterinarian with " I am the doctor and know it all " type of attitude.
At least a portion of the reason ranchers choose the veterinarian they do is personality. Most vets have the know how, they need the interest and bed side manner to fit your particular operation and facility. I think ranchers search for this type of relationship. And, no client wants a veterinarian with " I am the doctor and know it all " type of attitude.
leanin' H
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A vet needs to have the facilities, knowledge and personality that matches what each client requires. While we have 2 vet clinics about 50 miles away, we choose to use a vet about 90 miles away because they have great facilities, are amazingly talented vets with lots of expertise and they put up with me. What more could a guy ask? 
All of us have different ideas as to what makes a "Qualified" vet. :wink:
All of us have different ideas as to what makes a "Qualified" vet. :wink:
loomixguy
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A good vet will tell you up front when he/she feels he's out of his league, and knows where to send you. They will also dispense meds for their good two legged customers should the occasion present itself.
All we get here are the K Staters....we did have an OSU Cowboy here for a few years. And, to the K Staters credit, they had enough brains to get the hell out of Kansas.
The WORST vet we ever had here was a die hard Mildcat fan. He made Jigs look like a true nonbeliever. He was decent on cattle and extremely pi$$ poor with anything else. He was too good to live here and chose to commute 80 miles round trip every day. I think his wife spent him to near bankruptcy and he was forced to sell his clinic. The idjit is now in Manhattan doing something for the vet college. God pity any students coming into contact with this no mind.
All we get here are the K Staters....we did have an OSU Cowboy here for a few years. And, to the K Staters credit, they had enough brains to get the hell out of Kansas.
The WORST vet we ever had here was a die hard Mildcat fan. He made Jigs look like a true nonbeliever. He was decent on cattle and extremely pi$$ poor with anything else. He was too good to live here and chose to commute 80 miles round trip every day. I think his wife spent him to near bankruptcy and he was forced to sell his clinic. The idjit is now in Manhattan doing something for the vet college. God pity any students coming into contact with this no mind.
The way I look at it is you use a vet that you are comfortable with. Around here we have two types of vets horse and small animal neither of which know which end of a cow to preg check. As far as traveling hunderds of miles to sell culls or buy bulls I am one of those guys and it is all about getting the most out of your product. For example the cull cow rate is controlled by one outfitt around here so I was able to put together a semi load of cows and send them six hundred miles away and after freight still made 30 cents over what I would have gotten going 50 miles away. I travel to Montana every year to buy bulls just for the simple reason that I use that name when I market my calves and I usually get around ten cents or more than any of my neighbors do. Im not trying to brag on here but I feel we do things like traveling half way around the county to see a vet or sell cows because we are always looking for that egde to get the most bang for our HARD earned money. I also look at as if my neighbors are jealous of what I am doing than it must be working for me. Just my opinion.