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<blockquote data-quote="novaman" data-source="post: 688459" data-attributes="member: 2744"><p>I think you missed the boat. Vets make their money by the services they do, not farm call charges. Maybe there are fewer large animal vets because people don't want to pay but ranchers/dairymen have to make a living ourselves. All the expenses you listed above do add up but its a part of doing business. If people can't get rich quick nobody wants the job. I guess if that's how it is so be it. I use vets as little as possible because they are too expensive for what they do. In fact I recently hauled a cow to the vet. He looked her over a bit gave her a shot and pumped some stuff into her gut and charged me $200. Eight days later she died anyway. If the cow hadn't been sick I would have been better off butchering her and giving the vet a quarter of the beef as essentially that's what he took value-wise. Ridiculous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novaman, post: 688459, member: 2744"] I think you missed the boat. Vets make their money by the services they do, not farm call charges. Maybe there are fewer large animal vets because people don't want to pay but ranchers/dairymen have to make a living ourselves. All the expenses you listed above do add up but its a part of doing business. If people can't get rich quick nobody wants the job. I guess if that's how it is so be it. I use vets as little as possible because they are too expensive for what they do. In fact I recently hauled a cow to the vet. He looked her over a bit gave her a shot and pumped some stuff into her gut and charged me $200. Eight days later she died anyway. If the cow hadn't been sick I would have been better off butchering her and giving the vet a quarter of the beef as essentially that's what he took value-wise. Ridiculous. [/QUOTE]
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