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| How many of you haul to a vet every time you need work done or does your vet come to you? Personally, I've only hauled to the vet a few times. Mostly only for specialized work. Just contemplating in the wake of the EHV-1 scare and transmission possibilities through your vet. You may add options. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 915
Location: SE KS | We live in a rural community, the better vet is a little farther away, but I have some "issues" with him, so I prefer the one closer. I worked part time with the closer vet, so I know he is just as good. The vet facility, isn't horse friendly, so I pay for farm calls for him to come out!! |
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 Best of the Badlands
Location: You never know where I will show up...... | We are 45 miles one way from the closest equine vet.
Usually we schedule an entire day for our vet to come out, we have so many horses on our ranch that it usually takes him all day to get through everything. He will bring his xray machine, computer, ect and do lameness work ups, injections, teeth, ect. Anything like that that may need to be done and any incidentals.
Our vet will also come out for emergency calls. Last year both of my yearlings ran through a fence and got cut up pretty bad, he came out to sew them up for us because they were both cut bad enough we couldn't get them on the trailer. And last spring I had a mare with a bad choke, he came out after hours, for her as well.
I will haul in if I only have one or two horses that need to go or if it's an emergency and I can get the horse on the trailer to go.
We do all of our own repro work but in the event that we have a problem that only the vet can deal with, he comes to us. Our broodmare herd is closed so we do not ever haul them off the place for anything. |
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 Undercover Amish Mafia Member
Posts: 9992
Location: Kansas | I've always hauled, unless the horse is colicing...then vet comes to me |
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 Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | My vet is 5 miles from me, so she comes to me. It's easier for me to do that than to hook my trailer. It's a $35 trip charge, but I pay it because it saves me from a bunch of headaches. Plus my mares are just happier here. |
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 Cute Little Imp
Posts: 2747
Location: N Texas | When everybody is getting coggins, shots, etc at the beginning of the year, it's way easier to have the vet come out. For other issues, I haul to them.
The only time other than yearly shots that I would have the vet come to me is if I couldn't get the horse in the trailer, or it would be a really bad idea to haul (major injury). |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 612
| When we do our vaccinations, sheath cleaning and teeth, we have the Vet come to us. It is a lot easier for him to come to us then to load up 4 horses and 2 dogs and go to him. For lameness exams and other problems, we usually go to him so that it is easier to use the ultra-sound or x-ray machines. |
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  Damn Yankee
Posts: 12390
Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I always have to haul. Always. When I lived in GA we had a great vet that would come to do routine stuff which was awesome, and he was great with lameness as well, but I prefered a vet in SC |
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 Northern Chocolate Queen
Posts: 16576
Location: ND | Most of the time my vet comes to me as he travels a lot & I just have him stop in when he's in the area. He is in the process of building a clinic though so I imagine before to long I'll have to haul to him.
IMO either way you're risking disease as your vet could carry something on him from a previous stop if he comes to you, or if you go to the clinic & the horse that was there before you could have had something. |
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 Hummer's Hero
Posts: 3071
Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | My vet is a mobile vet, so there's not a clinic to haul to. I've found it way cheaper to pay the call fee than it was to take a half day off work and spend $60+ in fuel to haul to the equine vet 45 miles away. Mine is also a fellow barrel racer so I can get the basics done at races--chiro work, blood pulls, health papers, meds, etc. Saves me the call fee. It's also been nice to be able to schedule her and my farrier at the same time when it was needed in order to x-ray when addressing a specific shoeing need.
If there is anything that she can't handle, she refers to OSU, which is only 2.5 hours from me. I can still go to the above mentioned equine clinic if I were ever in a real pickle. |
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The Advice Guru
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| I wish my vet would do house calls, he lives 4 hours 1 way for me. I do a lot of phone calls, videos, etc before I haul.
For vaccinations I do myself, if I do regular blood work, I will pull it myself, and drive it into town and have the local clinic run it ad fax it back to me. |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
Posts: 5271
| The nearest Equine vet for us is 1.5 hr away. We've used our local vet for shots and such. There is a new vet about 10 minutes away with a big nice building and such, but I beleive she specializes in cows. I don't know if she'd work in a pinch for anything more serious with a horse. |
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Posts: 563
Location: Small Town Iowa | I use her when I'm in a pinch, Tara is pretty good, but ultimately she specializes in cows. I've always hauled for routine stuff just so I could avoid the trip charge. Plus when I needed stuff done it's usually easier to do it in their facility where they have what they need on hand just in case something else pops up. I used to use the New London vet, but now I've been shopping around. I'm thinking of using the one in Birmingham since she's also a chiro as well. If it's an emergency then the vet always comes to me. But most of my past emergencies I could handle on my own. Hang fluids, stitch them up if it's needed. I'm lucky enough to have some medical supplies at the house.
Edited by jcrouse 2014-03-28 3:20 PM
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Expert
Posts: 1477
Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | For any vet work I have to haul. But I used a equine dentist and he comes to me but I host him everyone else has to come to him. The Chiro also comes to me. |
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| We are 25-30 miles from our vet, and it is cheaper for us to haul in and pay the office visit than it is for them to come out and do the farm call. . . even with fuel figured in there. I think its just under $18 for an office visit.
The only exception would be if we are pulling coggins on 10-15 head, then the vet comes to us.
Edited by WrapN3MN 2014-03-28 4:43 PM
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 Balance Beam and more...
Posts: 11511
Location: 31 lengths farms | The vet I use for Coggins, Health Papers, etc. lives just down the road so he will usually set it up where he comes out to our house on his way home, besides the fact he is watering at the mouth over my mare trying to convince me to make her a head horse so he comes out to make sure I'm taking care of her, LOL!!!
The vet I use for any lameness issues I haul to, he is about 45 minutes away. |
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