Pearlsasinger
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No, it certainly hasn't in the past.
Seller not vaccinating horse-would it put you off?
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Gloi
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This made me think of a story I was told by an old farmer. They bred heavy horses a long time ago before horses were vaccinated for tetanus. They had a lot of horses die of tetanus when they were 2/3 year olds. There was one field in particular that they never turned horses that age out in as so many had died. It took a long time before they realised why it was. A large quantity of the bacteria was in the soil in that area and was getting into the horse's body when it was losing it's baby teeth and the soil was getting into the wounds in the mouth.
Spring Feather
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Is that really what it costs to vaccinate? That's insane. I pay $15 for rabies, tet, WEE and EEE. I have to have the vet come for the first callout as he has to administer the rabies shot but the follow up second vaccinations (excl rabies) for tet, Wee and EEE I do myself a couple of weeks later. If I'm not doing rabies at that time then I just go and collect the vaccines myself and I pay cost, which works out to being around $25 for the course.Wouldn't put me off but I'd do my utmost best to get the price of starting&completing a whole course knocked off the purchase price. If you weren't able to share the vet visits with someone else (for whatever they needed vet for) you're certainly looking at a minimum of £150/200 for the course
OP no it wouldn't bother me at all, I'd just vaccinate them as soon as I got them home.
Capriole
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It's very little for the vaccines themselves, it's the call out fees etc x 3 that add it up, really. I've not tallied up how much it costs, it's just something that needs doing so it gets done.
eta But my vet offers free callout for groups of 6 or more and I've always got that many, so that's good. (That's why I try to tie in the new horses with other callouts).
eta But my vet offers free callout for groups of 6 or more and I've always got that many, so that's good. (That's why I try to tie in the new horses with other callouts).
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Spring Feather
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Gee that's a lot of money then! Why don't you get the vaccines from the vet and do it yourself?
Capriole
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Can't. Need a vet stamp/siggy in the passport. I show affiliated so they need to be done, and be able to prove that they're done.
Spring Feather
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Ahh, well that's a bummer then.
cundlegreen
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Totally agree with all of this. I have homebreds here, and wouldn't dream of doing them for flu, tetanus is another thing entirely. I have had several issues with reactions to flu jabs, including atrial fibrillation in my stallion, and he wasn't a youngster. I'm very wary of anything that interferes with a horse's immune system. My event homebred had to be vaccinated to compete BE, yet not once have I been asked for a check of her passport. During her first two flu vaccs, she came up in big odemas which took ages to go a way. Not happy!!
Spring Feather
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Cundlegreen, I no longer vaccinate any of the ancient old horses here either. Same thing, I find it does them in a bit.
tinap
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Didn't put me off when I bought the pony. I just told the vet who id found to do the vetting to give him his 1st jab if he passed his vetting (which he did) x