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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Well, still you got her for a great price.
You got that right. I feel like I stole her.
She's just cute as a button :~D
She'll be fun to watch grow up.
Thanks doc :~D
So how did he tell it didn't fit, by looking? feeling?
Could you see it bridging.
Becky
I would think riding him now would be good for him and the wound. JMO, tho:)
Becky
Oh she is pretty. I really like her:)
Becky
Thanks, Becky. I'm such a sucker for paints.
Hello R0se, I wanted to read thru all the posts before answering so as not to repeat a bunch of stuff.
First, welcome to our thread, hope you hang around.
Second. 20 Acres is plenty for a vet. More then any of the vets we have around here, even the big state of the art clinics. I don't use those type of vets, to expensive.
My regular vet passed away last summer:), he ran a small clinic and took care of large or small at the same location. He was older so everything was paid for so he didn't have much overhead, his help was his wife:). They were wonderful people. And IMO, he was a pretty good vet, altho maybe not as up on modern thinking.
I was there one day when he casterated 5 studs at a time, it was interesting to see all of them laid out on the ground and then staggering around recovering from the sedative:)
I was also there one day when some people brought in a new born foal that was a twin. The other didn't make it 24 hours, and this one didn't make it either. Doc convinced the people to put it down because it had some major problems. Twins don't usually make it in horses. I thought it interesting that the people hauled it to the vet on the backseat of their mini van. He wasn't much bigger then a German Shepherd.
Anyway, I'm not sure exactly what kind of stories you want, maybe once you start getting the kind you want let us know and we can give you more:)
Good luck.
I've signed up for NaNoWriMo too, but not sure I'll do it yet. I'll really be flying by the seat of my pants if I do:)
Becky
I like the really loud flashy ones like this mare. Would she be overo or tobiano?? I'd guess overo. They're my favorite.
Becky
Soooo ... if my vet had to do major equine surgery, he'd use the local university's facilities and "borrow" a couple of vets from the faculty?
A barn with a half-dozen loose stalls (previous owner had horses), a paddock or two, and a dog run, is more reasonable, then? He can just live on the rest of the twenty acres, yes?
Okay ... about a truck ... is a properly modified Suburban or Tahoe too much?
I think she's what they call a "frame Overo", where in profile she looks like she's outlined in dark with white inside.
That's what a moblie vet around here does.
A barn with a half-dozen loose stalls (previous owner had horses), a paddock or two, and a dog run, is more reasonable, then? He can just live on the rest of the twenty acres, yes?
Very possible and probable.
All the vets around here have big trucks that have the beds converted with a cover that is divided into comparts of different sizes and shapes for different equiment and a refridgerated compartment for meds. I don't know if you could be enough stuff in a Suburban or Tahoe. Oh and the trucks are usually 4 wheel drive because sometimes they have to out in pastures to work on downed cows and horses. May be muddy.
Becky
As I also said in my FRMail and my other answer, the nice equipped truck is where he does most of his business, out on farm calls. If he has his own horse surgery, it just isn't likely so big.... and I don't see the need for two separate facilities, most combination clinics that serve both do that out of the same building.
I'm gonna recopy my FRMail here, just so others can see what I said already, and perhaps call BS on it if I am telling you lies ;~D
"Hmmm.... well, they probably wouldn't have two different clinics, and unless the farm was also his personal farm with his own horses, he wouldn't have need for twenty acres and many paddocks. My dog vet clinic in town has one building, they serve dogs and cats through the front, and the large animal facility is in the back. They have a surgery and stocks and an operating room, and a hoist there that can lift the horses under anesthesia, a couple stalls, and one turnout paddock that is also dog-safe. It's always empty. If a horse is healthy enough to be turned out, they usually go home.
Some people may bring horses in to the clinic for regular checkups or minor treatment to avoid the farm call charge. But they treat them, often outside by the trailer if the weather's nice, or in the stocks if it's a difficult horse. Then the horses go home.
Most long term treatment of horses happens at the owner's farm. They aren't treated long periods at the clinic. Most horses live their whole lives, are treated for illnesses and injuries at home, and are seldom admitted to the clinic. Vets do most procedures as farm calls, even fairly serious ones, unless the owner really has no decent facilities for the horse to recover in. Birthing, suturing of wounds, treatment of lameness, treatment for minor colic, even castration is done on site at home.
Only major surgery, like a serious colic or twisted gut, would be done in the clinic. And only the very expensive repairs of bone would be done in clinic. For a small time vet, even with a wealthy clientelle, these operations would be rare.
The horse vet I have now doesn't even have a clinic. He has all the equipment he needs in his converted truck. He does, however, have a working arrangement with the clinic in town (he used to work there before he launched his own practice) to use their large animal surgery when needed.
I'm going to post a pic there in a minute... look for the ping. It's of my vet on one of his calls out here... he might be a good example for the image of a vet's setup when he comes out. Even a vet with a clinic would have an equipped vehicle like his he does most of his work out of."
[these pictures are posted upthread now]
I was just looking at the pictures again, and now I think she is a tobiano. I think Tobianos have the solid faces and the dark colored chests like a shield.
Maybe she is one of those toveros, or whatever:)
Becky
I've always taken my horses to the vets rather then have them here if at all possible. Cheaper that way. All the vets I've used have had stocks to put the horse in. There is usually an open area close to the cliinic building where a horse can be lunged so a vet can see them move if there is a lameness problem.
Becky
There's lots of weird exceptions, but in the basic definition, in "Tobiano" the patches of color cross the spine, "Overo" it does not. "Tovero" the color does not cross the spine, but the base color is white.
Now, here's you a tractor
He set the saddle on, with and without my pad arrangement, and stuck his hand under there and felt it. It was more art than science, definately. But I had a feeling he was going to find it was bridging, since when he fitted the Western saddle to Bay summer before last, he added extra pad to the middle.
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