BrownSheep
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Happy you have a "game plan"!
In Cal. UCDavis Vet School Teaching hospital has ambulatory where a graduate or staff Vet. as an instructor takes 4-5 senior Vet students to ranches ( limited to distance and time involved) to diagnose and treat all manner of farm animals. They also have a Vet. Pathology Dept.to perform complete necropsies and / or biopsies sent in by your Vet. . The Vet. school also has both a large and small animal hospitals for your Vet. or individual owner to bring in for treatment by the Staff Veterinarian together with 4-5 senior Vet students that are on that rotation.FPS is usually a bacterial or viral infection passed from the mother.
I really wish he would have at least looked under a scope.
Better to do a quick blood draw and find out, for future health of mom and pups. Most vets can do some serology.
Here in NC, Rollins lab would have done a necropsy for $10-$30 and it would have been utterly thorough.
We never use any of our vets for necropsy, mostly because they do not have the equipment and range of ability to do testing, tissue samples etc. Rollins is our State Lab and they are GREAT!
If I end up moving out of NC that will be my biggest concern. We Carolinians are very blessed to have our lab.
Something I encourage all herdies to know about... find the locations of your state labs. Usually they save you lots of $ because they are funded by your TAX dollars! Many people just don't know about them. We lost our Chemist because no one used the chemist... now I have to send my "chem" stuff to PA. UGH
I agree with you all, BYH has so many people that may have never met, yet have the care, love and compassion for others by their common bond of livestock.
In Cal. UCDavis Vet School Teaching hospital has ambulatory where a graduate or staff Vet. as an instructor takes 4-5 senior Vet students to ranches ( limited to distance and time involved) to diagnose and treat all manner of farm animals. They also have a Vet. Pathology Dept.to perform complete necropsies and / or biopsies sent in by your Vet. . The Vet. school also has both a large and small animal hospitals for your Vet. or individual owner to bring in for treatment by the Staff Veterinarian together with 4-5 senior Vet students that are on that rotation.