Vet bill

My bank holiday vet bill was less than that, that included sedation, thorough exam, antibiotics & bute plus some extra bute. That was last year though.

Do check your bill though, in the past I've been charged for 20 jabs when I had one! And was once charged for 2 boxes of Danilon when I'd had one.
 
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That does seem a lot. I had a call out 12 months ago when the Appy sliced her nostril on blackthorn - sedation, clean, antibiotics etc. I paid the premium call out fee plus an examination fee but I'm pretty sure it was around £400.

check the invoice though - I had someone else's horse accidentally put on mine once.
 
colourville 17 said:
Call out fee was 60 x
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Blimey Charlie. If the call out was only £60 (fair enough) what was the price of the drugs?!

There was an interesting article somewhere I read yesterday about vets complaining they’re being forced to charge for every little thing and add as much to a bill as possible by the equity firms that now own vets.

Glad that my vets is so far independent.

Plus are Drumpfs tariffs making a difference I wonder? I’ll happily but him out if his misery asap!!
 
Its probably the cost of the drugs especially if he had double dose, I recently had my vet out and was charged over a 200% mark up on an item, I queried it and they came out with the old chestnut they cannot source it in the quantities the online pharmacy can which I fully except but 200 % markup is taking the piss imo. This isn't a corporate vets practice.
 
I do seem to have been charged for correct amount of products but everything jst adds up, 60 call out ,60 examination, over 300 for 2 tubs of antibiotics etc etc.
 
I had one in Dec last year which came to just under £400. Horse was sedated to flush out wound and then a bandage was put on the entire hind leg from hoof to stifle. He had an ab injection and 100g doxycycline powder which was £77.

I thought it wasn't too bad at first but subsequently turned out to have bruised the bone causing a sequestrum which produced an abscess and final bill came to over £2k with ultrasound scan and about 10 weeks ab in total 😭 😭 😭 .

Hope this doesn't happen to yours. The £300 for antibiotics sounds a lot if it's the same product as mine had - twice what I paid.
 
nutjob said:
I had one in Dec last year which came to just under £400. Horse was sedated to flush out wound and then a bandage was put on the entire hind leg from hoof to stifle. He had an ab injection and 100g doxycycline powder which was £77.

I thought it wasn't too bad at first but subsequently turned out to have bruised the bone causing a sequestrum which produced an abscess and final bill came to over £2k with ultrasound scan and about 10 weeks ab in total 😭 😭 😭 .

Hope this doesn't happen to yours. The £300 for antibiotics sounds a lot if it's the same product as mine had - twice what I paid.
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I was actually expecting £400 ish given what a friend had recently paid for similar treatment. Albeit at a different practice. I also only have 2 wks to pay it
 
I’ve had a Sunday emergency call out including exam, antibiotics and bute and it was around 200! 700 seems absolutely mental.
 
Hi, I had a similar incident in October 2024

Horse took the spike of an electric fence post up into her leg. So only 3cm x 10cm wound just very deep.

Sedation, stitches, flushed and injected antibiotics and painkillers then 2 further vet’s visits with antibiotics + pain killers . Plus 2 weeks of antibiotics and Bute for me to give.

That was about £750. In office hours. And an upmarket vet practice for the area.
 
I very recently had vet out on a Saturday, open wound clipped and cleaned up. Antibiotics and pain relief injected IV then 10 days of trimediazine ( i had my own bute so didnt need to buy any more). Manuka honey also supplied.
Came to £400 inc vat.. i think yours is quite expensive
 
It seems a lot to me, proportional to what I paid many years for that sort of thing. I would certainly query it.

I wonder if there will come a point where people just don't have animals as they can't afford the vet bills and it will just be the very rich who keep them.
 
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