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March 10, 2017

Is Your Horse Ready for the Upcoming Show Season?

Your horse will need a current (within the past 12 month) Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) / Coggins Test.

Performance Equine Vet Services is going digital! Our Coggins will be e-filed, so we can email your Coggins directly to you. This enables you to easily save and share your Coggins. To help us get started, take 3 photos of your horse (not to exceed 1MG/photo): left view, right view, and front view. Clearly label each view and add your horse’s name as you want it to appear on your Coggins. For example: Left View.Apache, Right View.Apache, Front View.Apache. Then email your photos to us: Read More

March 10, 2017

Corneal Ulcer Case

Mercedes is a 27-year-old thoroughbred mare that presented with a painful left eye. After the initial examination, her eye was treated daily at home with ophthalmic ointment, but over the next several days it became significantly more painful and cloudy. Upon recheck, it was clear that she had developed a melting corneal ulcer.

This condition requires immediate attention and sometimes surgical intervention to save the eye. Treatment began with a subpalpebral catheter, making it easier to treat the eye every 2 hours with close monitoring. During this period the right eye also developed a small corneal ulcer so she ended up having a subpalpebral catheter in both eyes at the... View Case

March 10, 2017

Lameness Case

Sundance is a 17-year-old Quarter horse gelding who became acutely lame on his right front leg the end of March 2015. Due to the sudden onset of the lameness and his reluctance to put his heel down he was treated for a foot abscess. For over a week his foot was soaked in warm water and Epsom salts and his foot poultice was applied.

As time progressed he did not show any improvement, so we performed a nerve block and isolated the pain to the heel region of his foot. Even with his heel blocked he remained reluctant to put his heel down, but he seemed comfortable standing on his toe. Due to the persistent heel pain, we decided to take radiographs of his navicular bone. The... View Case

December 16, 2016

Gastric ulcer

The owner of a 10 year old performance horse noticed behavioral changes in her mare including a cranky attitude when tacking up as well as pinning her ears when tightening up her girth and when trying to get on at the mounting block.  The mare was also increasingly irritated with palpating of her back.  Upon recommendation by Dr. Gomes, the owner agreed to have the mare scoped. The night before scoping we withhold food after the horses evening meal (approximately 12 hours). The reason for this is so the scope can get a clear view of both parts of the stomach ( glandular and non-glandular) without feed material blocking the walls where the ulcers can be found.  We sedated the mare and... View Case