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pottamus

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Does anyone else dread the booster 'jab day' for their horse? Ever since a vet made a right meal of it and totally upset my horse needlessly I dread it each year. I hope and pray that they get it in and done first time before he shoots backwards! It worked quite well this time as I gave him some chaff to eat and by the time he had shot back it was done!
Is it just me???! But at least it is done for a year...heven knows what would happen if he became ill and had to have regular injections of something!
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It's interesting, I see a lot of posts like this (i.e problems injecting etc.), and it makes me even more grateful for having such a great vet.

I have never had a problem with having a horse injected - and have never seen a problem either.

At the end of the day it's about bed side manner and technique. Some vets have it some done - and some should plain just not go anywhere near large animals!
 
Im lucky that none of mine need injecting, Frankie has to have regular injections for his allergies and last time i injected him i did it in the field, gave him a piece of bread and injected him in his chestm he stood perfectly still while i pushed all the solution is slowly. (obviously i would do this with any other horse but i have been injecting him very regularly for about 2 years now so he is VERY used to it and never even flinches!)

My friends usually very placid mare goes mad when she sees the vet and the only way the vet can get close enough to inject her is to put her in the lorry and close the partition then he injects her over the partition!
 
Yes I too think it is down to manner and technique...some vets are confident with large animals and others not! It makes a big difference and I don't understand why they can't just give it to the owner to do under supervision...I know that defeats the object because you are paying a call out fee still...but my boy would be fine with me doing it and I have injected and cared for many livestock in my time! I think it depends where it is done too...the rump seems a good place...never seem it done in the chest before. My vet tends to go for the neck and I think they feel it more here because my boys nect is very muscular and so it must be more obvious because of the increased pressure perhaps???
 
I always ask for my mare's annual jabs to be done in her chest. Mainly because I have seen horrific reactions that have abcessed and if anything were ever to happen to her the wound can drain easily from there as opposed to neck or rump jabs.
 
It's most definately a confidence thing on the part of the vet - which is why I only use a specialist equine vet.

Amy used to possitively swoon when she saw my vet. He just has a wonderful manner with them, and she adored him.
 
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