Cow Scanning

Durrus Boy

Can anyone recommend a good scanner in the North Cork, South Limerick area please. I want to get a few non-cycler's inspected and my usual man is proving a bit unreliable lately.

TIA.....

Pidae.m

Durrus Boy wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a good scanner in the North Cork, South Limerick area please. I want to get a few non-cycler's inspected and my usual man is proving a bit unreliable lately.

TIA.....

Jonathan kneally, Google him he works in moorepark. He is great

The man in red and black

I'm biased as a vet but would you not have your vet out to scan them? Especially for cows not seen bulling. Maybe your vet is swamped but most of the time you can get a vet alot quicker than a scanner or a hooftrimmer in fairness(Around here anyway). Vet will be better placed to diagnose and treat anoestrus cows at the same time. Where I work at the moment we are cheaper than most scanners but still people are set in their habits.

charolais0153

The man in red and black wrote: »

I'm biased as a vet but would you not have your vet out to scan them? Especially for cows not seen bulling. Maybe your vet is swamped but most of the time you can get a vet alot quicker than a scanner or a hooftrimmer in fairness(Around here anyway). Vet will be better placed to diagnose and treat anoestrus cows at the same time. Where I work at the moment we are cheaper than most scanners but still people are set in their habits.

A lot of vets dont have scanning equipment

The man in red and black

charolais0153 wrote: »

A lot of vets dont have scanning equipment

Really? God I would have thought they are few and far between now! Maybe it depends on the area. Harder to justify the expense in suckler areas but still I have never worked in a practice that didn't have at least one scanner.

White Clover

charolais0153 wrote: »

A lot of vets dont have scanning equipment

I have never seen a vet with a hoofcare crate.

Hard Knocks

The man in red and black wrote: »

Really? God I would have thought they are few and far between now! Maybe it depends on the area. Harder to justify the expense in suckler areas but still I have never worked in a practice that didn't have at least one scanner.

Found out Local practice here has a scanner, when I enquirer further it’s the box type, & atctwice price of local lad with goggles

valtra2

A lot of vets not able to scan as I found out one year. A good scanning man can tell a lot about cow where as vet usually only do a few so not as experienced.. Just my experience

White Clover

valtra2 wrote: »

A lot of vets not able to scan as I found out one year. A good scanning man can tell a lot about cow where as vet usually only do a few so not as experienced.. Just my experience

On the other hand, 2 vets in the practise we use do scanning. Both are excellent.

Mooooo

Two vets here are very good as well

yewtree

Use vets here aswell to scan both very good. they are both doing a lot of scanning work. very good to treat cows on the day. Depends on the vet really, my preference would always be to have a vet to it as I think they have a broader knowledge of my herd.