Is being an equine vet good money/pay?

My boss makes a pretty penny as an equine vet but we also live in the heart of Amish country so equine veterinarians are in high demand. Like everyone else has said, you might get good pay, but the cost of starting the business is huge. Vet school and college are not cheap. Most equine vets work in groups now, so they don't all have to start up their own practice. It helps with the initial cost of starting a business. There are three veterinarians where I work and the vet who actually owns the business inherited the farm from his father so most of everything was already built. He's pretty well off but it's a hit or miss.

If you can find a group to hire you, and you're a great veterinarian so clients request you, then yes, you may be able to pay off your loans from school and make hefty sum, but it's not as easy as it sounds to do this. I don't want to discourage you, but it's harder to get into vet school than it is to get into med school. I know people who graduated from college with a 4.0 GPA and still didn't make it in. You have to have a lot of experience in the field already, a perfect GPA and it helps to know somebody who's affiliated with the school (such as alumni or employee). The schooling itself is difficult, high-level learning, and many people who start, do not finish.

I can give you a few tips though. If you get a bachelor's degree in biology or animal science or something related and then get a vet tech certification and work for a few years in the field, you have a much better chance of getting into vet school, even if your GPA was less than perfect. And instead of starting your own practice right away, try to get your foot in the door at someone else's practice.

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Money versus hours - maybe not. Straight money - sure. Also depending on if you are at a clinic or by yourself. Large animal vets do rather well but it is hard work and often odd hours.

Being just an equine vet would be very difficult. Unless you were a race track vet but if the track closes you are out of a job.

Yes better then most jobs and you get to work with animals but be ready for the reality of a hurt animal and euthanasia. Go into it with eyes wide open.

horsecrazy,

Yes it does make good money, but you have to also put other perspectives into place when looking into a career of a equine vet.

Schooling, is not cheap so you will be working to pay it off for a good amount of time. Also there is a lot of people i know going for a focus in "equine veterinarian" I am not in that career or near it so i don't know the demand on it or how many are needed so do you're research , but i think if you want to for it then follow it, they do make good pay.

I hope i helped, and good luck in you're future career

Christa (: <3

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Is being an equine vet good money/pay?

Im thinking about becoming an equine vet when im older. Does anyone know if the mony is good?

Equine vets average the least amount of income among the different types of vets. According to the Bureau of Labor Statisics, the average starting salary of an equine vet is $41,636. To put that into perspective, the 2nd lowest average starting salary is $57,745 for vets who deal with predominately large animals.

There's usually no big bucks to be made when working with horses. But if you're following your heart and doing what you love, then I really don't see where money ties in.

Please consider becoming a large-animal vet. To do this you must first get into vet school. There are only 28 vet schools in the US, and you absolutely must have top grades in everything, like from third grade on. Mathematics and science are of course crucial, but do not neglect everything else. Learn how to get straight A grades without sweating. Become very knowledgeable. Work with your local vet to figure out how to get into vet school. Every summer you should work (for free or for pay) for a veterinarian. You'll clean things, fix broken stuff, help with moving dead animals, maybe even console people over their dead puppies. You already know that it's not all hugging cute puppies, kittens and foals. Your initial work at any vet school will involve both large and small animals. Your local vet and the deans of the various vet schools can help you find the right school for you. To find work, once you are out of school, you should try to work for an established practise where the principle vet can show you how it's done, but who needs a bright understudy to take over at his retirement. Of course it's hard work. If you've ever read James Herriot's books, though, you know that already. Once you are a vet, we will all love you, no matter where you are. Our horses might love you, too, but you'll smell like a vet, and horses generally seem to have mixed emotions about that smell.

Absolutely! Vets make a very decent living and there is a shortage of equine vets, so its good for all us horse owners too!

I am considering the same thing and I was told that they make more than doctors. It also depends on where you are though, try to locate around a lot of show barns because those horses have expensive vet bills. Don't go somewhere where they keep the horses out and do not keep them in the best possible condition.