What do you think of my vet bill?

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Just had my first vet bill in poss 10 years (due to being out of horses for quite a while) and got a bit of a shock.


My horse had the following done...

Sedation

Clip and clean wound (kick on hind leg)

Clip and remove feathers (criminal I know) to treat mites, mud fever and sticky burrs stuck in them.

Trim frog and treat with spray (for thrush)

dental (first ever one)

meds:
sedative,
injectable antibiotics/painkillers
blue spray (antibotic/antifungal)
tub mud fever cream
Antibiotic powders and painkillers (5 day course of both for feed)

Bill was £253.51 and the call out was £37.50 (included in the bill there)

Was this a lot? Or am I just behind with the times.

Admittedly he had a full MOT! And I am relieved despite the fact I nearly cried over the feathers.
 
If thats with VAT about right. Shock isnt it.:eek::eek:
We use udder cream for mud fever big tub £10.00 but you have to make sure the area is dry. Worked a treat on a TB that had mud fever.
Got tips from the farrier,they are great for info,specially the older ones.


Have a stiff drink lol
 
I think thats really good. My mare fell over in the trailer the other month the treatment she had all together was;
1 emergancy out of hours call out,
2 normal call outs,
3 examination costs,
sedation x 2,
3 stiches,
1 litre saline,
adrenaline jab (she went into shock!!),
power flex bandage x 3,
menolin x 3,
200 antibiotic capsules,
1 can silver spray,
15 satchets powder antibiotics,
scanned to make sure she was still in foal,

And my vet bill is £437.99p

I think this is also very reasonable or am I being blind lol????
 
Thats a very reasonable bill. I have just had a horse nerve blocked in the fetlock, hock x 2, stifle. X-Rays in hock x 3, stifle x 2. Steriod injections in stifle for arthritis which is the cause of lameness. Cost £991.89 and the horse is still bloody lame and unlikely to come sound now.
 
Glad you all think it was good value. I was clearly living in cloud cuckoo land when it came as a shock. (must be the break from horses I have had)

Anyhow I am pleased these issues have been solved and my precious boy is on the mend.
 
For mud fever I tend to treat it myself. I luckily only have 1 mare (TB) who is prone to it. If I notice the odd scab on her white foot I will get some hibiscrubb and pick off the scabs and make sure the area is clean. I then towel it dry and then leave to air dry for a bit then whack plenty of sudocream on her heels. Sudocream is great and clears the area up within days and there is an obvious improvement overnight. Obviously I keep her out the mud while treating. I'm lucky that she rarely gets it and as she is TB it is very easy to see if she has the odd scab.

The vet bill does seem about right though. I know that antibiotics (Norodin-powder in the feed) for a 5day course is approx £50 each time. Same mare got a kick last year where the infection then tracked all down her leg. Someone stupid decided to put a stallion in the field next door without me knowing! Put her out in her usual field with the others and left for work. Few hours later they put the stallion out. Should have sent them the vet bill!
 
tangosmum said:
Just had my first vet bill in poss 10 years (due to being out of horses for quite a while) and got a bit of a shock.


My horse had the following done...

Sedation

Clip and clean wound (kick on hind leg)

Clip and remove feathers (criminal I know) to treat mites, mud fever and sticky burrs stuck in them.

Trim frog and treat with spray (for thrush)

dental (first ever one)

meds:
sedative,
injectable antibiotics/painkillers
blue spray (antibotic/antifungal)
tub mud fever cream
Antibiotic powders and painkillers (5 day course of both for feed)

Bill was £253.51 and the call out was £37.50 (included in the bill there)

Was this a lot? Or am I just behind with the times.

Admittedly he had a full MOT! And I am relieved despite the fact I nearly cried over the feathers.
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Oh yes I am sure that's about right. Try this then- removing a nail through the foot, and dressing said foot with a poultice and a box of Triamedazine = £168!!!
 
My horse went down with colic.
No surgery was required (very luckilly)

emergency call out
2 nights at the vet at £50 per night
round the clock care,
6 internals
10 lots of sedative
Excercise through the night.
PAinkiller

£1470!!!!!!!!!!

Thought that was a bit ridiculous but the horse came out alive so thts what matters
 
Most of those things couldve been done by yourself / your farrier though?

You can trim your own horses feathers and treat for mites/mud fever, unless the kick needed stitches its not really necessary to have a vet see to it and your farrier could have treated the thrush at half the price!

However i would say the bill was very cheap for what you had done!
 
You can have the bills for one of my horses for the last 12 mths- Think it's totalling about the £10000 mark now - 3 lots of surgery & 1 x hospitilisation due to some kind of nasty gastric infection. Fortunately most covered by insurance but I'm hoping this particular horse is losing the desire to spend the rest of her life as an inpatient!!
 
Vets bills are just horrendous! I got one for July for £1012 for one horse!!

£238 for something they did in May and invoiced for the day after my insurance ran out!!
£163 for dental, sedation, plus vaccinations
The remainder was for meds and a second scoping for respiratory problem!!

I am with an expensive vet practice which sadly has a monopoly on equine in our area.
 
That is reasonable for all the things you received. Sorry. vets bills are indeed shocking now a days, although I would have been charged even more than that from my vet if I had had the same done.
 
Yup thats a reasonable charge for what you got done. My horse recently had x-rays and scan of hock, followed by nerve blocking and then cortisone injection in the hock -one call out visit for initial investigation and one call out for injection - total came to £790.
 
Ditto AmyMay.

I would have expected to pay that amount.
You could have done that all yourself, also whoever said udder cream, i highly reccomend that. Its fab stuff!
 
Tempi said:
Most of those things couldve been done by yourself / your farrier though?

You can trim your own horses feathers and treat for mites/mud fever, unless the kick needed stitches its not really necessary to have a vet see to it and your farrier could have treated the thrush at half the price!

However i would say the bill was very cheap for what you had done!
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Hi all, just to clarify the vet was only called for the wound caused by being kicked which was very deep and needed cleaning under sedation, painkillers and antibiotics. As for feather clipping, frontline, mud fever, thrushy feet needing frog trim etc etc and teeth too....all this only occurred as horse was under sedation and Vet and I stood there thinking of all the things we could do whilst he was sedated ...so as to cause elast amount of stress to 3 year old horse who had been un-touched up until 8 weeks (roughly) before vet came out.

I was really pleased to have everything done without causing him further stress and on reflection bill was perfectly reasonable...just hadnt banked on all the extras when I called vet for a wound clean up!

I fully admit to being able to do much of what was done myself, but it was convenient to have it done by vet under sedation.
 
I would say that was reasonable price.

You could have my horse and his vets bills if you would like. Last year he had a eye ulcer and the final bill came to £2543.

I have since then changed my vet and this one is a new vet that has set up on his own and is a speciallised equine vet. and for once my bills are actually reasonably cheap :D Had a eye flare up this year and including call out was £79.98
 
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