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Author Topic: Oessant sheep  (Read 5185 times)

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Oessant sheep
« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2017, 08:52:39 am »
Could the vet not use a Burdizzo with a local anesthetic? That surely must be cheaper.

If I remember correctly, Burdizzo is only legal up to one month on sheep, three on calves. 
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

nimbusllama

  • Joined Nov 2010
  • Near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Re: Oessant sheep
« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2017, 11:21:31 am »
Hi Sally
I think that is the case without an anaesthetic, but I was suggesting the vet could perhaps do it with an anaesthetic? 

Suebrew

  • Joined Oct 2014
Re: Oessant sheep
« Reply #17 on: November 10, 2017, 10:21:08 pm »
£100 of the fee is the call out and then £45.00 for time with us rest is the 'job' in hand.  I am going to try and negotiate but they know they are the only large animal vets in our area now  :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:

twizzel

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: Oessant sheep
« Reply #18 on: November 10, 2017, 11:31:36 pm »
Ouch... £100 call out fee! For a large animal vet on an elective call out (I.e not an emergency) that is extortionate. That's along the lines of horse vet prices  :yuck:

bj_cardiff

  • Joined Feb 2017
  • Carmarthenshire
Re: Oessant sheep
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2017, 05:53:14 am »
How far from the surgery is your farm? £100 seems very expensive!

Can't you take the ram to them and let them operate in the trailer? You'd have no call out then?

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Oessant sheep
« Reply #20 on: November 11, 2017, 09:23:33 am »
You're in a very expensive part of the country and I've never before heard of a visiting-only vet.  Even so the word "extortionate" springs to mind.

 

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