Do you think my vets bill is excessive?

Reashi

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After the posts below, I thought I'd chuck my bill in. To me its a lot considering the vet was there for about 5/10 mins max. Frankie got his leg stuck in the gate as I was leading him through (don't ask me how!), and did this to his hind leg:

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They were just scrapes up his leg, and a cut on his fetlock.

I called the vet to be on the safe side, as the last thing I wanted was for the leg to get infected. The vet came, looked (and I mean looked, no proper examining of the wounds, just glanced and agreed with me that they were just superficial wounds), injected him with antibiotics, gave me 3 x antibiotic syringes,a bute syringe, and some dermagel. The vet was gone within 10mins. So imagine my horror when I received a bill for £178.05 (inc vat)!!!!!
 
Was it a normal hours call out??? I would assume so otherwise it would have been even higher...

Just to have the vet out to look at merlin to confirm he was still sound (daft eh) cost me £50..... so I suppose half was call out and half exam fee..... obviously no drugs.... and yes he was sound
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Yup normal hours. Here is the break down (excluding VAT):

1 x Visit equine: £36.89
1 x Injection I/V fee: £7.13
10 x Equipalazon per ml: £0.49 (£4.90)
3 x Duphatrim paste: £12.88 (£38.64)
1 x Equipalazon paste: £15.93
1 x Dermagel cream: £10.87
0.3 x Borgal 100mls: £29.00 (8.70)
1 x Examine Horse Frankie: £28.47
 
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Did u choose pastes instead of powder?????? They are about three times the price!!

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Yeh, Frankie won't eat hidden medicines in his food, so it would have been a waste of money if he wasn't going to eat them, so I had the pastes so I could syringe it straight into his mouth.
 
Personally its cheaper if you mix them up in yoghurt and syringe them yourself. Three lots of powder would be under £10!
Same as bute thats normally about 45p a sachet!
 
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Personally its cheaper if you mix them up in yoghurt and syringe them yourself. Three lots of powder would be under £10!
Same as bute thats normally about 45p a sachet!

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Sounds good, I'll do that next time!
 
it does sound like a lot but when you break it down it does look normal. i guess you have to look at it like just for them to come out and examine your horse its at least £70 +VAT..
i had the vet out for Andy the other week, call out, examine, take off shoe and x16 bute.. i am expecting the bill to be at least £100..
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I think your vet bill is about right, sorry.
But look on the bright side - I had to pay £3700 last year (not from insurance) for a colic surgery....no point getting depressed, pay and smile!
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Sounds like the sort of sum I'd expect. Having seen the breakdown that confirms my view that it is not an excessive bill (even though I am sure it feels that way).
 
Seems pretty good to me, there are some pretty expensive medicines there.

Iwlays say itS £100 for any vet to turn up on a yard , then start adding on top of that.
 
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