5 stage vettings

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What is the average cost and how can you get these done with limited facilities?? Obviously I would be ringing around vets but just wondering on averages.
Also if anyone knows of a good equine vet in Blackpool??
 
About £300 in Cheshire.

How limited facilities?

You absolutely must have somewhere hard and flat to trot up. And a flat field to walk trot and canter around.

Vet will struggle with sight checks unless you can get the horse in a dark corner.

It is preferable to have a hard 15m flat to circle on.

They may ask for the horse to be stabled for a few hours before they get there, but many sellers will either deliberately avoid or not bother doing this anyway.

The rest can be done with no facilities but it will be damned uncomfortable for everyone during the resting phases if you are all stood in the rain.


If the seller has transport, one option is to choose the nearest vet with a hospital and use them.

You've found a horse then 😁 ?
 
If the facilities are limited and you are paying for the vetting, I would go to the vet hospital and do it there. We would do this with the Police horses, vet on the way home so to speak. If they passed they went to our place, if they did not they went back to where they came from.
 
I know of Oakhill, Simon Constables, Gillivervet, Andrew Melling who all cover the Preston area - Peter Fenton who I think is a bit more Manchester/Blackburn way. I couldn't say for sure if they all or any cover Blackpool but they are all decent.
 
I paid around £300 for 5 stage + bloods a year ago, I was recommended Seamus from Ruffords and he covers that area as my mare was located not too far from Blackpool.
 
I paid £330 in Leicestershire which included call out & bloods taken. As others said needs to have hard area to do flexions and lunge plus dark stable to do eye checks. Needs to be worked quite hard on lunge or ridden. I found horse but seller didn’t have right facilities and refused to let me take to vets so walked away.
 
I had my horse on LWVTB because the owner needed to home him urgently. I was meant to meant to get him vetted and complete the sale. I have very limited facilities and he was trotted up on a quiet road outside. He failed the vetting and I ended up buying him for £1 so the cost of it was well worth it for me. (The problem was fixed for a few hundred once he was mine).
 
Absolutely make sure that there are the right facilities for a vetting and if you can be there, do so. Also, I would be asking for a vets report from their own vet via email.

And, if you don’t know the seller, have you vet take bloods.

Buying a new horse is hard enough, never mind buying one with previous vet history that you don’t know about.

Good Luck OP, I’ve followed your search and hoped that you would find your forever horse.
 
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