Wellness exams included routine and annual vaccinations for Encephalitis, Tetanus, Rabies, Potomac Horse Fever, Strangles, Influenza and Rhinopneumonitis. Offered are Coggins testing, weight and dental exams, tooth floating, worming program design.
Sickness exams we offer a complete array of laboratory analysis to help determine your animals illness. We also are equipped to provide on site intravenous fluid therapy to dehydrated animals. We are well versed with colic. We treat medical colic's on site and have the capability to give intravenous fluid therapy. We have treated Lyme disease, Ehlichia equi, Cushing's disease. We are well versed with Equine Motor Neuron Disease and Equine Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy.
Pre-purchase examinations extensive physical exam and lameness evaluation performed prior to purchase of the horse to provide you with the protection of buying into a pre-existing problem. Often includes laboratory analysis, radiographs, endoscopy, thermography and ultrasonography.
Lameness exams evaluations include flexion tests, nerve and joint blocks, radiography, thermography and ultrasonography.
Reproductive procedures - breeding soundness exams supported by ultrasonography, rectal examination. We offer artificial insemination using shipped cooled semen. We offer uterine flushing as a routine procedure, uterine biopsy, culture and cytology evaluation.
Surgery standing surgery of the horse is performed for castration, biopsy, laceration repair. We also offer on site cryosurgery (deep freezing of tissues using liquid Nitrogen). It is ideal for sarcoid tumor removal.
Specialized Procedures:
Ultrasonography uses sound waves to evaluate soft tissues like tendons and ligaments, reproductive organs, lumps, tumors. It is painless and non-invasive.
Radiography uses x-rays to visualize bone for abnormalities including arthritic changes and fractures. We have portable machines capable of imaging heads, stifles, limbs and necks.
Thermography infrared camera that visualizes heat patterns. Increased heat in an area indicates increased circulation. The body often increases circulation in order to heal an injury. Thermography is useful to highlight those areas in a non-invasive way, evaluate sore backs, saddle fit, hoof balance, aides in abscess detection.
Endoscopy a fiber optic device for evaluating the airway of the horse, including the larynx, sinus passages, guttural pouches and upper esophagus. Useful in pre-purchase exams, pneumonias or reactive airway diseases.
Cryosurgery device used to freeze tissues using liquid Nitrogen. Offers a way to remove tumors that would be otherwise difficult to excise or where it is contraindicated to excise them like sarcoids
Equine Gastroscope - Allows the Dr. to see into the horses stomach and accurately diagnose a gastric ulcers. Signs of ulcers include frequent colic, poor weight gain, variable appetite, diarrhea.