Going rate for castrating

20silkcut wrote: »

I got 3 bullocks done last week by a neighbour he charged me 30 quid. Have eleven more to do. Am thinking another 30 is enough to give him. Would a vet charge 60 quid to do 14 bullocks?

Neighbour has a right good handling facility very safe.

Why don't you get someone to show you how it is done and invest in a burdizzo? A neighbour charging €10 an animal, I guess the days of neighbours helping out one another are well and truly gone.

Bodacious wrote: »

I know of a case where a vet charged 100 for 1, callout, travel, vat etc

I squeeze cattle and I wouldn't take the squeezers out of the jeep if I didn't get a 10 a beast,

That neighbour is thinking the same when he asked for 30 for 3, I'd say the fair price in this case would be to give him 70 this time ie 100 euro for 14, but safest option is to ask him what you owe him, remember you might want them done next year

Your squeezers must be spending a lot of time in the jeep.

Most vets charge a call out fee and this oftens covers the first 2-3 animals and after that they charge 5-6 euro's/animal. So a vet would charge about 100 euro's for 10 animals and he would give you a reciept.

20silkcut wrote: »

I got 3 bullocks done last week by a neighbour he charged me 30 quid. Have eleven more to do. Am thinking another 30 is enough to give him. Would a vet charge 60 quid to do 14 bullocks?

Neighbour has a right good handling facility very safe.

I think if your neighbour is supplying handling facilities aswell as doing the work then he is certainly not over charging you.
Just tell him you have 11 more to do and ask what it will cost,if it sounds too much then use some one else.

The Mrs attempts it for free if I arrive home in a state after a night out. I'll ask her what price she'd charge u

degetme wrote: »

vet charging 7e plus vat per animal for castration. 20 in bunch. dairy males. spring born
55e call out charge. scanning 3.20 plus vat. are these prices excessive?

Sounds a bit like a man pricing a job not to get it. And if he does get it he's going to get paid for it. That said compared to scanning it's not that high.

The man in red and black wrote: »

Consider how many you can get through in an hour in your system...then think about what your hourly rate for labour is for a mechanic at your garage...often times charging per animal works out a poor hourly rate...depends on the set up in a place. Like someone said there, running around after animals for an hour and then charging per animal doesn't make much of a days work.

Excellent facilities. Took half an hour to do the twenty of them. Had them in pen waiting for vet. Held tail myself while vet castrating.

simx wrote: »

awhile since got scanning done till this year got done today 2e/head thought was very resonable, even knocked off 6e at paying, 48 cows-90e very happy with that

Was he/she fairly good with how long Incalf ect? That's very good price.

lenihankevin wrote: »

I have lost a few teeth and broken a jaw castrating weanlings before..kinda annoys me when I see lads on here complaining of price. While I understand dairy calves arent as risky we tend to only get the wild weanlings to castrate.

Six/seven month old dairy weanlings . These weren't dangerous. 140e plus vat for half an hour work.

degetme wrote: »

Excellent facilities. Took half an hour to do the twenty of them. Had them in pen waiting for vet. Held tail myself while vet castrating.

Didn't intend that to sound like I was commenting on your own facilities. I was speaking more in general terms. If can get through them that fast consider asking your vet for an hourly rate. Most people don't like hourly rates in Ireland as the tradition is to charge per animal for everything, dehorning, castrating, testing, scanning, hoof-paring etc. Outside of Ireland charging per 10 minute block is more common. If you're set up very well you might be better off on hourly rate. But most vets have traditionally done what the client wanted and that mostly is per animal. On some farms you could be waiting around a long time to get animals separated from cows to castrate them. Hourly rate there and lads go bananas. You can't please everyone unfortunately but you might see if you could get an hourly rate seeing as you are set up well.

degetme wrote: »

Six/seven month old dairy weanlings . These weren't dangerous. 159e for half an hour work.

Why didn't you do them yourself or get neighbour to do them?

degetme wrote: »

Not long farming myself but ya I'm gonna have to start doing them myself. Will have to get a burdizzo and some one on the tail. Never shown how to do it but I've an idea from seeing vet. Might not be keeping bull calves at all in a year or two so could be a wasted expense.

You want to get somebody to show you properly. If done wrong the rod can be crushed.

degetme wrote: »

Is 7e plus vat per head for castration dairy weanlings with good handling facilities and help and no time wasting the going rate? 55e call out charge added to bill. Half an hour's work

I don't think it's a rob but I'd like the call out closer to 40 . I suppose it's up to yourself to haggle with the vet because the job will be different on most farms , bulls gone very strong , wild cattle , no proper facilities or help ,2 bulls to squeeze or 42 etc , etc .It could be the complete opposite on another farm so it's hard for a vet to give a competitive quote .
I'd sooner let him do the job and ask what he wants after, if the vets decent they won't rob you either way and the job will be done right

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I don't understand this. Can you explain it to me?

You can catch the pee pipe instead of the pipes going into the nuts I believe