Your Vet's visits cost?

Sounds about right... My last visit was about 375..
The fecal exam seems high unless you had cultures done? My fecal before cultures was 60, with culture was the san as yours..

Yep, sounds right. Though I would strongly contest the assertion that you need to remove/pull out The broken feather. As a parront ti a barberer (bird who chews his feathers up, leaving lots of broken feathers), you can certainly leave the base in tact and let it molt out naturally later on. Absolutely no need to pay a vet to do this.

chris-md said:

Yep, sounds right. Though I would strongly contest the assertion that you need to remove/pull out The broken feather. As a parront ti a barberer (bird who chews his feathers up, leaving lots of broken feathers), you can certainly leave the base in tact and let it molt out naturally later on. Absolutely no need to pay a vet to do this.

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The only things I would question are the $18 for "blood collection", that's ridiculous, the vet is charging you for actually drawing blood, which takes 30 seconds, the charge for the Isoflurene Gas, and yes, that Fecal is REALLY High...The microscopy/gram-stain or any other staining they do right on the spot in the office and takes about 10 minutes tops, with drying-time, so as Laura said it's only a culture they send out to a lab that should cost much, but not that much...

Just for comparison, I don't pay any extra charge for the "Blood Collection", for the Isoflurene Gas (My CAV only uses it to take x-rays, the bird is awake for blood draw, exam, everything else, but even for the x-ray I only pay for the x-ray, not for the gas), and I think my complete Fecals, including sending cultures out, run about $100 total...The blood-work and the office visit are the same. I can't comment on the nail/beak/wing trimming, I do all of that myself so I have no idea what they normally charge for those...

I just started with a new vet and got quotes on their tests for the future. I told them how many animals I had too so that they understood I’d be bringing 70+ animals under their care.

The cost for multiple pets in one exam is 98. I can bring 2-3pets and get that rate. Individual exam is 65 if I only have one to bring in. I asked for the multiple rate because I plan on disease testing all my boas and pythons and don’t want to go broke haha. Bloodwork wellness panel for the birds is 150. They will also draw blood and give it to me to send out to whoever I want. They charged me like 2 bucks for drawing and staliblizing it so I can ship it out (or whatever it’s called). I forgot to get a fecal quote but I’d imagine it’s fairly inexpensive. I have no idea what beak trimming or nail would cost since I do that myself.

I’d get quotes from other vets and see if anyone is cheaper/more reasonable. I combed through about 20 different vet offices before settling on the new one. Working with me since I have so many animals is important. I plan on taking 2 more snakes and an Amazon in for bloodwork & blood collection next time. Animals are expensive haha

The only feathers I pull are broken blood feathers if it isn’t clotting up or there’s just too many broken. My cockatoo broke about 10+ blood feathers while regrowing his flights from a clip the rescue gave him before I brought him home. We pulled the feathers when they broke because he was breaking so many that the blood loss was too risky.

Based on the appearance, your Vet uses the same Invoicing software as my Vet's Clinic. No surprise in that regard.

Pricing varies widely depending on location, the tests (activities) involved, lab work completed onsite or offsite, classification (certificate) of those involved and clearly, the number of individuals involved. From the standpoint of whether they breakout individual costs or incorporate it into a single line item is that clinic's practice. Over the years, I have seen it done numerous ways.

With time and experience that you gather over the years will help you greatly in specifying what tests and procedures you need /want and when. Thus you can control your costs a bit better.

I do not believe in removing broken feathers as 'In My Mind' this places the Parrot's system into shock. Parrots are designed to be light and as a result do not carry vast stores of usable energy (the basics elements to replace Feathers). They replace 'Flight Feathers' in a very specific pattern to assure that the Parrot can fly and display a healthy self during Mating Season. Body and downy Feathers require less energy and the Parrot will loose and add them during the year to adjust to local weather conditions. Major molts occur at least twice a year and they depend on your location and weather conditions.

SailBoat said:

Based on the appearance, your Vet uses the same Invoicing software as my Vet's Clinic. No surprise in that regard.

Pricing varies widely depending on location, the tests (activities) involved, lab work completed onsite or offsite, classification (certificate) of those involved and clearly, the number of individuals involved. From the standpoint of whether they breakout individual costs or incorporate it into a single line item is that clinic's practice. Over the years, I have seen it done numerous ways.

With time and experience that you gather over the years will help you greatly in specifying what tests and procedures you need /want and when. Thus you can control your costs a bit better.

I do not believe in removing broken feathers as 'In My Mind' this places the Parrot's system into shock. Parrots are designed to be light and as a result do not carry vast stores of usable energy (the basics elements to replace Feathers). They replace 'Flight Feathers' in a very specific pattern to assure that the Parrot can fly and display a healthy self during Mating Season. Body and downy Feathers require less energy and the Parrot will loose and add them during the year to adjust to local weather conditions. Major molts occur at least twice a year and they depend on your location and weather conditions.

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I didn't comment on the pulling of the feathers, but I'm glad that you did Sailboat...The only time it is sometimes necessary to "pull feathers" is if they are a broken blood-feather that keeps bleeding every time it's bumped, or in situations where for whatever reason the bird is not shedding the broken feathers itself...I know that some Avian Vets pull perfectly healthy feathers in order to "stoke their systems" into producing more flight feathers, or if they are planning on doing "Imping" sometimes they will pull healthy feathers to replace them with the donor-feathers, but a lot of the time it is too much for the birds to handle, just as Sailboat has mentioned...It needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis and with as conservative an attitude as possible while still achieving the desired effects...but that should apply to any and all procedures that birds are put through do to how they are effected by stress...

EllenD said:

SailBoat said:

Based on the appearance, your Vet uses the same Invoicing software as my Vet's Clinic. No surprise in that regard.

Pricing varies widely depending on location, the tests (activities) involved, lab work completed onsite or offsite, classification (certificate) of those involved and clearly, the number of individuals involved. From the standpoint of whether they breakout individual costs or incorporate it into a single line item is that clinic's practice. Over the years, I have seen it done numerous ways.

With time and experience that you gather over the years will help you greatly in specifying what tests and procedures you need /want and when. Thus you can control your costs a bit better.

I do not believe in removing broken feathers as 'In My Mind' this places the Parrot's system into shock. Parrots are designed to be light and as a result do not carry vast stores of usable energy (the basics elements to replace Feathers). They replace 'Flight Feathers' in a very specific pattern to assure that the Parrot can fly and display a healthy self during Mating Season. Body and downy Feathers require less energy and the Parrot will loose and add them during the year to adjust to local weather conditions. Major molts occur at least twice a year and they depend on your location and weather conditions.

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I didn't comment on the pulling of the feathers, but I'm glad that you did Sailboat...

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It’s been mentioned a couple times on this thread.

Hard data is always welcome to assist in making informed comparisons and analyses. Thank you.