baily
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we had our pony vetted for selling yesterday...it was 3 and a half hours just for a 5 stage...vetting takeing the ***s or what...would have helped if she hadn't keep answering her phone!!!!
longest pony vetting ever
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AmyMay
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Which is extremely thorough.
My last horse was vetted over a period of about 2 hours odd. So whilst 3.5 is long, I suppose if it was peppered with phone calls etc. to be expected.
At least you can't complain that the pony wasn't given a full veterinary inspection
vicijp
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Thats nothing - had a 2 stage take 2 and a half hours once.
benson21
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think yourself lucky! 5 stage vetting on horse I bought was 35 minutes! You can guess it all went wrong!
millimoo
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My mums newest horse was 3-4 hours for a full 5 stage vetting.
He was also boxed by the seller to our vet, who had all his high tech x-ray equipment / scanners on site.
He was very thorough as he'd diagnosed soft tissue damage via MRI on another horse my mum had bought (presented low grade lameness after 12 weeks of ownership) and wanted to make sure the new horse was ok.
I know it must be frustrating for you as a seller, but should be re-assuring for the purchaser.
My mums horse (touch wood, and fingers crossed) has not had any sickness / lameness in the two years she's had him - long may it continue.
Mind you he came from Holland with little history and thats always a gamble.
He was also boxed by the seller to our vet, who had all his high tech x-ray equipment / scanners on site.
He was very thorough as he'd diagnosed soft tissue damage via MRI on another horse my mum had bought (presented low grade lameness after 12 weeks of ownership) and wanted to make sure the new horse was ok.
I know it must be frustrating for you as a seller, but should be re-assuring for the purchaser.
My mums horse (touch wood, and fingers crossed) has not had any sickness / lameness in the two years she's had him - long may it continue.
Mind you he came from Holland with little history and thats always a gamble.
wispagold
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Me too, to top it off the vet failed him due to scab on his face where the pony in the stable next door had bitten him at feed time 3 days earlier, which he told the people who wanted to buy him was ringworm!!!!! needless to say we complained the practice!
Alexart
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We had a 2 stage done on one of our 2 and a half year olds - the vet wanted to look at his back teeth saying that because he was a pure TB they always have retained baby teeth - never heard that one before?!
But firstly he wasn't pure TB but TB X Friesian - she never asked anything about him before she started poking him - not even how old he was, and secondly she didn't have a torch - we were in a fairly poorly lit stable so couldn't see anything anyway. So what did she do - pull his tongue out and hang off it - literally - the poor baby didn't know what to do and as he was very tall he put his head right up and danced all over the place with 2 of us trying to steady him - 10 mins of this and I asked her to stop as she was totally out of order and stressing the baby and if she was that paranoid about the teeth she could sedate him and get a torch so she could actually see!! She replied the horse was incredibly bad mannered verging on dangerous and would obviously need alot of work on him - a 2.5 yr old!! When she did ask how old he was she kept asking when was he broken to ride!!!
- the thing was the potential new owner was watching all this and getting rather worried.
We've had probably 40 odd vettings over the years and never have we had a vet do that on a 2-stage or on a baby for that matter!!! It took us a week to get near the poor youngsters head again - the lady did buy him though and is thrilled to bits with him! Needless to say we complained too and she's now working at the vet practice we use so we refuse to have her on the farm even in an emergency I wouldn't want her back!!!!
But firstly he wasn't pure TB but TB X Friesian - she never asked anything about him before she started poking him - not even how old he was, and secondly she didn't have a torch - we were in a fairly poorly lit stable so couldn't see anything anyway. So what did she do - pull his tongue out and hang off it - literally - the poor baby didn't know what to do and as he was very tall he put his head right up and danced all over the place with 2 of us trying to steady him - 10 mins of this and I asked her to stop as she was totally out of order and stressing the baby and if she was that paranoid about the teeth she could sedate him and get a torch so she could actually see!! She replied the horse was incredibly bad mannered verging on dangerous and would obviously need alot of work on him - a 2.5 yr old!! When she did ask how old he was she kept asking when was he broken to ride!!!
- the thing was the potential new owner was watching all this and getting rather worried. We've had probably 40 odd vettings over the years and never have we had a vet do that on a 2-stage or on a baby for that matter!!! It took us a week to get near the poor youngsters head again - the lady did buy him though and is thrilled to bits with him! Needless to say we complained too and she's now working at the vet practice we use so we refuse to have her on the farm even in an emergency I wouldn't want her back!!!!
Headpiece
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Yes, it took 3 hours for my horse to be vetted for the buyers, and the vet rode him too in very deep going, still failed after all that on a flexion test, and took 2 hours for our 3 year old to have a stage 1 & 2.
I hate vettings.
I hate vettings.
baily
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i understand vets are now trying to cover themselves against come back....this vetting was extreme pony was getting really fed up and poor daughter upset..and me...we were even asked to jump him...new one on me!
but at least its a good home he has gone to who want to keep n touch..etc
but at least its a good home he has gone to who want to keep n touch..etc
Booboos
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Sorry but it doesn't seem that long to me. Last 5 stage I had done on a horse I bought was 3 hours long and didn't include anything special like x-rays. I have also bought two other horses the vet asked to see jump during the ridden part of the vetting, good for getting the heart rate going!
dafthoss
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it only took an hour when my boy was 5 stage vetted 
and that was with a student vet checking every thing after the vet
and that was with a student vet checking every thing after the vet