We provide comprehensive reproductive services for both the stallion and mare:
Once your mare is ready to foal, we offer:
A Pre-Purchase Exam (PPE) is a thorough veterinary assessment conducted prior to the purchase of a horse. The purpose of the PPE is to provide prospective buyers with detailed information regarding the health, soundness, and overall suitability of the horse for its intended use. This examination helps to identify any existing or potential medical conditions, injuries, or abnormalities that could affect the horse's performance or longevity at the time of the exam.
Our experienced veterinarians will conduct a comprehensive evaluation that typically includes:
Veterinary Sales Preparation is a specialized service that ensures horses are fully ready for sale by providing all necessary health documentation and veterinary checks. Our team ensures that your horse meets all requirements for sale, giving buyers confidence in the health and well-being of the animal.
This service typically includes:
Our team of veterinarians uses advanced diagnostic techniques, including lameness exams, flexion tests, diagnostic imaging (e.g., radiographs or ultrasounds), and gait analysis, to accurately identify the cause of the lameness or injury. After diagnosis, we work with you to develop a tailored treatment plan, which may include rest, physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medications, joint injections, or other therapies to promote healing and return to soundness.
Our portable x-ray machine is available for on-farm and in hospital use. The ability to take and immediately review x-rays allows our veterinarians the ability to diagnose and create a treatment plan for your horse – often in a single visit! Our digital x-ray machine is equipped with a mobile internet source, which allows us to send x-rays to referral hospitals for surgical planning or consultations, if needed.
Each veterinarian has a portable ultrasound machine in their truck at all times. Ultrasound is used as a diagnostic tool: Ultrasound examination is used widely for reproduction (breeding soundness evaluations for the mare and stallion, reproductive management, pregnancy evaluations) and trans-abdominal ultrasonography. Additionally, ultrasonography can be used to examine soft tissue structures in the distal limb or other soft tissue structures, such as the abdomen. For example, ultrasound allows our doctors to pinpoint a problem area and assess the degree of damage within a tendon or ligament during a Soundness Evaluation, to monitor healing or guide needle placement during treatment.
Video endoscopy is available in our hospital. Endoscopes are long, flexible cameras that allow direct visualization of inaccessible areas of the body, such as the airway, guttural pouches, ethmoids or stomach. These images are projected onto a screen and recorded. Endoscopy is an essential part of evaluating poor performers, upper airway obstructions, abnormal respiratory noises (“roarers”), lung disease and chokes.
In addition to our ambulatory services, our practice offers hospitalization for emergencies, breeding management, foaling, post-operative rehabilitation, colics, and field surgeries. Some of the services our hospital offers can be found below:
This is not an inclusive list; if there are other services you are interested in, please call our office at 574-633-2146.
Our on-farm services include (but are not limited to) wellness, preventive care, reproductive services for both the mare and stallion, neonatal medicine, sports medicine, comprehensive lameness evaluations and treatment, pre-purchase examinations, auction and sale testing, internal medicine (colic, choke, ophthalmic disease, metabolic testing etc) and minor surgical procedures (wounds, field-castrations etc). Digital radiography and ultrasound are also available on farm. Our veterinarians each have fully stocked ambulatory vehicles and provide 24-hour emergency services.
