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Originally Posted by Cannon_Farms
 geeze and it takes so much to do a dog  I would have not thought it would be that cheap or easy but on the same hand I do not know cow anatomy like i do other livestock to know how close the ovaries are to the outside. Its defiantly been educational sorry if its one of those touchy topics |
While it seems like the same between a pet and a cow it isn't, in more than just anatomy.
I am don't know where you live but when you get out into "big ranch" country things are priced so much differently than if you live near "big people population"
Here a complicated, horse, crytorchid castration will cost $230. In New England that very same operation will cost in the thousands of dollars, bare minimum starting at $2500. And you could expect to maybe pay $1000 more.
On livestock a vet can do many many more in a day than they can in in a Pet office. So the sheer volume adjusts prices. And the ability of the customer to pay large prices for proceedures. It would probably shock many people to know that "out in the country" tons of people get their Tom cats castrated for the cost of a scalpel, a pair of gloves, and a bit of disinfectant. So for basically just "pennies" And the cat be less traumatized than going to the Vet.
You won't find that price just everywhere. And not for just 1 or 2 heifers in someones 5 acres.
I don't think that this was that touchy and I think it was good you asked. It is a step in understanding how different things can be through out the U.S. and the World.
