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What is the cost of a vet visit in your neck o the woods?

Well heck just spend 7 years in college get a $100,000 student loan and vet yourself rich. We pay a plumber or electrician mileage why not a veternarian-large animal vet are almost as underpaid and overworked as A'I' technicians lol.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Well heck just spend 7 years in college get a $100,000 student loan and vet yourself rich. We pay a plumber or electrician mileage why not a veternarian-large animal vet are almost as underpaid and overworked as A'I' technicians lol.
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Actually, I've never once questioned the mileage charges with my vet. He's an excellent vet, and it costs money to run up and down the roads. He puts in long hours and his actual work is very reasonably priced. He has a refrigerated box in his truck, and carries any supplies that he thinks people may need, which he also sells well below the costs of other places in town. I buy my mineral from him, so whenever he's in the area, he drops a few bags off to save me from having to drive into his clinic.

Rod
 
Good ones are a rare commodity we need to support them-that's why I refuse to go pregtesting in the fall-that's harvest time for a cow vet. Well the fact that I'm very lazy has alot to do with it too.
 
When we had a young vet this summer, we helped calve out a heifer with her at the neighbours place. She said the actual price was $36 per 15 minutes (ie $144 per hour plus travel time), but because it took about 3.5 hours to get a dead calf out, she offered to charge a couple hundred dollars instead.

And now currently, our old vet it too crippled to do large animals, so people have to rely on a locum 5 days of the month until April when the new vet classes graduate.
 
The vet I like to use charges by the hour. I'd have to look to know exactly, but it's reasonable. Like Northern said, good ones are hard to come by and around here they are very hard to come by.

We don't use them very much except for extreme emergencies and bangs vaccinating. The best money you will ever spend is at an AI school, a palpating class and a c-section class(not really a class, but at college we did a few and it's not that bad of an idea to pay attention and help when the vet students wouldn't get their cow manure together). Thats about all you need since the internet came along!!
 
To dang much............my folks and i have this discussion about everytime the vet comes out. He not only charges for his services but also milage. Yet we feed him and if it's a weekend and the nieghbors have a beer afterward he does too. One time when he was out I just said i expected to see the meal and drinks off the bill.............my father was so unimpressed with me. But I don't see feeding him and such when you have to pay milage now too.
 

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