| large animal veterinary practice |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Monday, 21 January 2008 | |
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One of the characteristics that distinguishes a large animal veterinary practice or a mixed animal practice from a small animal veterinary practice is the fact that most large animal care is provided at the client’s premises rather than at the site of the veterinary practice. However, not all large animal care is delivered in the field. Many large animal practices have some type of in-house surgery or facility for treating animals on the veterinarian’s premises when necessary.
These in-house facilities will vary from the very simple (for example, a couple of stalls) to the state of the art specially constructed surgeries, which have been designed and equipped to accommodate the physiology of the animal being treated. Large animal veterinary care provided at the client’s premises might alter the nature of the practice and its records in several ways. It is common for the veterinarian to treat from one to several hundred animals during one visit. To expedite service in the field, large animal veterinarians have vehicles that are equipped to transport medications, drugs, supplies, and equipment. They may conduct something as simple as pregnancy tests or vaccinations on several hundred dairy cattle during one visit or as complex as treating a particular disease outbreak on several hundred beef cattle or hogs. The nature of animal agriculture is such that the close quarters in which cattle are maintained in feedlots, or dairy or hog facilities require controlling disease immediately as a matter of preventing financial disaster to the farmer. source: irs.gov |
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