busy weekend ahead!

hope you find a good home for her.

Me too. I hope she finds the home of your dreams.

Ok, well I got home on time which was amazing, lol.
Took the girls to dr moore, who is awesome. Got coggins on both even tho jazz's were good till june, and then mist stood around while jazz got floated. She was sooo out of it, lol! But he let me feel her teeth before and after, and it was a world of difference.
Made it home before the tornados, which is always a plus. I decided I'd take advantace of the sedetives and pull jazz's mane! Sara will be so proud, lol! It's not quite as short as it should have been, but oh well. I don't do it often, and I don't know that I've ever done it to jazz. About halfway thru I gave her a break and groomed mist. Those girls love attention! Mist was thrilled to get the mud off of her, and didn't give me any trouble. I decided to shave her beard for the trip, and had trouble, but only because she fell asleep in the cross ties so I couldn't get under her halter, lol!! Anyway, she got her muzzle and her eyelash's trimmed without batting an eyelash. I decided to try her ears for the first time, and she actually enjoyed it! She looks like a million bucks though, it made a huuuge difference. I'm proud of my girls!

I had mine done last week along with Vaccs and Lacy had the weirdest reaction to the sedative. She got .6 Dormosedan and her backend kept going to the right and her front end to the left. She could not stand up and kept going down on her knees before we finally propped her with people. My arab mare got a full cc of it and still was "with" it.

I'm not even going to tell you what my bill was. I think I need to learn to give my own vaccinations.

.6 is a good amount, I use to keep D in the fridge, .4 was most often enough, more then enough. Some girls are cheap dates LOL Now I jsut use the ace, more then enough to get the point across, but when we did the teeth I gave all my guys the demosdan I had for the dentist when she came.

[quote="Jenks"]I'm not even going to tell you what my bill was. I think I need to learn to give my own vaccinations.[/quote]

You must (tell us) :o That way we can decide if we are going to feed our horses raw bones to wear the teeth, or if we can afford to take the more traditional approach. :rofl (my mare loves dogfood, BTW. She might go for the raw bones) :twisted:

In school, we are actually taught that you will most likely need to double sedatives for Arabs and Appaloosas. They apparently spend to much time at the whiskey bar, as my boss likes to put it.

My warmbloods need double sedatives (except maybe Isabelle?? I can't remember) but Jasi, the Arab, is a lightweight. I've even sometimes had my ponies need double sedatives so I think it's pretty random.

I usually pay about $200-$300 for a float so I have no idea how vets in some areas can do it so cheaply.

I needed a double sedative for my Warmblood colt at 1 year and 8 months. Our floats around here were I think $90 each, and we live in an expensive area!

One of my fjords needed about 4 times the dose and then regular additional drugs as the procedure went along. He once needed a growth removed and the process went like this: dose sedative - dose more sedative - dose more sedative - clip surgery site - dose more sedative - infuse local anesthetic - dose more sedative- remove growth - dose more sedative - suture wound halfway - dose more sedative - just finish suturing the wound in time to get dragged out of the barn by an irate fjord. He didn't appreciate needles much :D

[quote="TwinCreeksFarm"]I needed a double sedative for my Warmblood colt at 1 year and 8 months. Our floats around here were I think $90 each, and we live in an expensive area![/quote]

Inigo needed a double sedative when he was gelded at just over a year.

When you say $90 is that just the float or the whole visit? My $200+ includes the trip fee ($90 right there) and the sedatives.

CC- I don't know about others, but for me it is $70-80 total for a floating (including farm call and sedatives - the cause of the fluxuation btw)

I don't see why it's so expensive for some of yall! I mean it,s just a bunch of filing. This guy had the coolest block though, it was a like a spool that went in the mouth and had a rod coming out of it that was attached to a string that went over her poll and tied to her halter. WAY cooler than the thing that looks like some medieval torture device! Jazz loves to look around, so she was much happier in that than I think she would have been with the other.

Yeah, my vet uses that thing that goes through the mouth as well as the halter thing that ratchets open, depending on what part of the mouth she is working on. It's not just a bunch of filing, though, or everyone would do it! I'd never float teeth and I'd never put nails in my horses' feet -- those are the things I'll leave to people with an education in it. Well, and also the chiropractic and acupuncture. And suturing. Okay there are lots of things I'll never do to my horses. :lol:

There are even vets that won't do teeth because it can be complicated. You have to know where the sharp teeth tend to be, what angles the teeth need to be at (you screw that up and you may be stuck feeding mush until the teeth can grow out enough to fix it), where the hooks are, what to do about steps and waves (and which teeth are causing them), when to remove teeth, what to do if there are fractures or abscesses, what about gaps in between teeth...the list goes on from there. At my hospital, they are using endoscopes (those little cameras on long wires) with all the procedures now because you can really visualize much more the problems that occur. I watched my roommate's horse get floated a few months ago and they found out that he have a small gap between his teeth that hadn't been seen previously and had caused cavities to form in the adjacent teeth.

Ya, my vet was explaining to me that after you do the back, if the incisors keep the back from touching, you have to do the incisors too and make sure that you get the hooks - showed me those - Lacy had one. what if you messed up in the front and they didn't all touch? I'll leave it to the pros as well.

That spool thing? Lacy would not allow it in her mouth, but the mid-evil device was OK for her.

It was 85 for the standard and 15 for the incisors, somehow I got a 20% discount there. They did my dane while they were out too, so for all vaccs, 2 floats with incisors, and the dog, and the trip fee it was $879.91 - including heartworm and flea med for dane 6 mos supply.

I'm surprised that Jazzy needed a float yet....

[quote="Jenks"]It was 85 for the standard and 15 for the incisors, somehow I got a 20% discount there. They did my dane while they were out too, so for all vaccs, 2 floats with incisors, and the dog, and the trip fee it was $879.91 - including heartworm and flea med for dane 6 mos supply.[/quote]

Ouch Jenks! :shock: :sad I would have to add my own emergency room -"I think I am having a heart attack"- bill to that one. [size=75]($ 22,000.00....my husband just tried that) [/size]

Well, my cost posted above was for one horse - each addition horse is only $20-30 depending on the sedatives used - the farm call is up to $50 now.

That wednesday and thursday they had a horse come in with colic, and they spent $600 on fluids alone! They had to ship him down to LSU, where you know they probably spent thousands....I was glad I only left there $130 poorer.

Your DH thought he was having a heart attack? Oh lord! I take it he's OK?

[quote="Jenks"]Your DH thought he was having a heart attack? Oh lord! I take it he's OK?[/quote]

Thank you. Yes. He felt something that he swears was just like the describe a heart attack, but everything checked out fine. Thank goodness. [size=75]though in a roundabout way he is frustrated to look like a 'fool'. [/size] :?

Better safe than sorry though. I'm glad he's OK.

I just had my vet out to take care the spring stuff. Coggins, Rabies and EWT on 6 horses, and 4 floats came out about $650. Oh forgot the wolf tooth extraction on V and partial on Dusty (broke off when he was first done apparently)
he will know to give V and Sissy more sedative next time though. they were good enough but clearly quite awake. Sissy was only holding still because he uses a blindfold. :lol: Then Dusty had too much, he just zonked out and had to stand around splay legged for a while longer than the others. He uses the big ratchety thing but i've seen the other one before. It's what my vet in TN used to stick her hand in Dustys throat when he got sharp part of a molar cap imbedded back there. :shock:
He is also a very portable vet, he doent have an office, he just has a portable stocks he parks behind his house or he'll haul it to your place. this time he was more high tech too, he had a printer hooked up to his laptop in the truck!