Large animal veterinary medicine model is the way to go... small animal veterinarian prices are crazy!!! I can get my goat surgically castrated at my own farm, for less than $200... includes all meds, even a follow up pain shot (which the Dr just hands me a syringe full of the meds to give the next day). I have heard of people paying $1000 to get a dog fixed. I needed a vet here last year to pull my triplet kids... she was here an hour, gave the momma goat 3 meds, and bill was $172.50. Not sure how Large animal vets make it, but they seem to do ok... they don't have near the overhead, nor the malpractice insurance to pay. That's another thing to be addressed in medicine today... malpractice insurance. I believe that is out of control!