Post by honeybeemama on Mar 14, 2015 16:03:25 GMT -5
we want our little Nubian buck dis budded. I made apointment at the vets for Monday by phone he will be 17 days old. This is a vet in the group I never seen or spoken to before. She wants to charge about $150 for the disbudding, antibiotics, a local anithestic OR a gas one depending on how upset the kid is. Plus she wants to vaccinate. She suggest we drop him off over night and pay a hospital fee on top of it?!?!?!? The acual disbudding cost $20 the rest is all the extras she wants to do. I don't think she knows we been in the practice repeatedly latly for all the other goats. It likes she thinks he some sort of pet?!?!?
How late can you disbud a kid before its ineffective/unsafe? I am a little concerned he may to old to even disbudd this way but the vet was not concerned.
Ok I have a couple issues with this. The Vaccination RX I got for "Covexin 8" last week says that the kids are to be done at 10/12 weeks old. I got the RX to vaccinate the kids I am expecting in 2/3 weeks so I will be buying it as it is and planned to vaccinate him and the 10 day older wether I bought on Tuesday PLUS the 4 kids we are expecting. Is there a reason it says 10/12 weeks? Could it harm him being 17 days old?
Am I crazy or is that over kill on getting a kid disbudded? Do all the disbudded kids get antibotics and anithestic on farms?!? As a kids we just used the iron and sprayed blu kote on and never seen a issue. We wanted to do our own on the kids we are expecting PLUS $150 per kid is a little costly and highly impractical to be hauling the kids to vets an hour away.
I wanted to have the buckling done at the vets just so I could see how it done....the way the vet wants to do it NOT going to help us much at all I am thinking in terms of learning with gassed up dopey gaot who will respond/react completly differnt then one on a farm.
How late can you disbud a kid before its ineffective/unsafe? I am a little concerned he may to old to even disbudd this way but the vet was not concerned.
Ok I have a couple issues with this. The Vaccination RX I got for "Covexin 8" last week says that the kids are to be done at 10/12 weeks old. I got the RX to vaccinate the kids I am expecting in 2/3 weeks so I will be buying it as it is and planned to vaccinate him and the 10 day older wether I bought on Tuesday PLUS the 4 kids we are expecting. Is there a reason it says 10/12 weeks? Could it harm him being 17 days old?
Am I crazy or is that over kill on getting a kid disbudded? Do all the disbudded kids get antibotics and anithestic on farms?!? As a kids we just used the iron and sprayed blu kote on and never seen a issue. We wanted to do our own on the kids we are expecting PLUS $150 per kid is a little costly and highly impractical to be hauling the kids to vets an hour away.
I wanted to have the buckling done at the vets just so I could see how it done....the way the vet wants to do it NOT going to help us much at all I am thinking in terms of learning with gassed up dopey gaot who will respond/react completly differnt then one on a farm.