Hi, does anyone know of a vet around the staffordshire, Birmingham area that will draw blood for me for the lab please?  All the local ones I have approached say they don't offer this service and my own vet wants to charge me £21 for his nurse to draw 1ml blood, simply because he doesn't agree with breeding!!!  He is otherwise the dogs wotsits of vets but I think this is well over and above reasonable.

Thanks

My vet charged me £6 for a nurse to take blood when I did the tests 2 years ago. However it is in south Cheshire so may be a little far to make it worth your while.

That's not bad I paid £57 for a blood draw to send blood to optigen for DNA testing.

Disagreeing with breeding, good grief, where are his future patients going to come from if no-one breeds. oh of course the BYB's whose product will give him plenty of work, rather than the offspring of careful breeding that hopefully will need few vet services.

I'd be reporting to BVA a vet who would not provide a service like this.  I had a similar issue with a dg I wanted to use at stud.  he was a lovely champion but unused due to the small gene pool, and compatible bitches not being around until he was a veteran. 

I had tried him once and the bitch missed, (after a mating very late into her season)so I was going to try him on another bitch, as the owner lived in Humberside (long way from Bristol) I suggested that a sample of his semen be evaluated. 

They refused to collect a sample suggesting she get one at home and then bring it in!!!  What use as my then it's viability would not be testable.

Anyway we tried but again eh couldn't get the nerve up to mate the bitch until day 21, so I rather think his failure was behavioural, he was too old to get the hang of things.

It's what my vets charge for a vet nurse to draw blood to be sent to Idexx too, that's their charge whatever their feelings on breeding. Mine aren't against it as the practice owners is a breeder.

Sounds like a common charge for some vets, may need to make a few phone calls yourself to see if any other locally charge different.

My vet charged £25 to take blood for me to send to Idexx.  I guess you need to remember that it's still a consultation.

and a consultation around here is around £32

My vet quoted me over £60 to take bloods....I didn't take up his offer and decided to take a chance. She had 7 pups.....so all ok. I'd have had the test if it was more reasonable.

Ditto here as I generally take the bitch to the stud and then return a few days alter to pick her up, hopefully mated several times, it is cheaper in most cases to pay for fuel than for a serious of tests. 

Only ever had blood drawn for in house premate  testing once from an awkward bitch, and having to have blood drawn three times rather put her of vet visits for a  good while.

My youngest champion bitch had to have blood drawn for DNA testing and at only 4 months they had to take it from two places.  When it came time to take blood for pet passport titre testing she would not stay still to have it done and it cost me an arm and a leg to have her sedated on top of the rest.

So I would prefer not to have to do unnecessary blood letting if at all possible.  Perhaps because I hate it I don't like subjecting the dogs to blood sampling.

£12.50 for my vets to take blood for IDEXX
Diane