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Equine Diseases for Which Vaccinations Exist – Core Vaccines
The risks for certain infectious diseases are common to horses all over North America – and the consequences of these diseases are...
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Apr 18, 20222 min read


What Side Effects Could Vaccines Cause in Your Horse?
It is fairly common for horses and ponies to experience mild and temporary side effects after receiving a vaccination. These signs are...
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Apr 11, 20221 min read


Potomac Horse Fever
This is now becoming a common, and potentially fatal, type of equine adult diarrhea in Ontario. It is transmitted by insects. Each...
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Apr 4, 20221 min read


Recommended Equine Vaccination Schedule
The following table provides a schedule for the vaccination of a previously vaccinated adult horse (initial booster series required in...
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Mar 28, 20221 min read


Breakdown of Vaccines, Dewormers, and Health Preventatives
The following tables provide a detailed breakdown of the various available vaccines, dewormers and health preventatives: Vaccines...
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Mar 21, 20221 min read


It's Herd Health Season – Prevention is Always a Better Approach
If you have not yet booked your horse’s spring vaccinations, we would like to encourage all of you to start thinking about your equine...
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Mar 14, 20222 min read


Equine Asthma
Thank you to Boehringer-Ingelheim for organizing another great client webinar! Dr. Jason Brownridge has summarized some of the key points...
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May 7, 20212 min read


COVID Update
As you are all aware, COVID continues to dominate the news and discussion around the world, and of course locally. As we head into...
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Apr 21, 20211 min read


It's Herd Health Season
If you have not yet booked your horse’s spring vaccinations, we would like to encourage all of you to start thinking about your equine...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read


Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy
Many of our equine clients are already aware of the outbreaks of Equine Herpesvirus-1 that have been occurring in many counties across...
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Apr 19, 20213 min read


Managing Fly Populations In Barns
As the weather is starting to warm up, we are starting to see flies in the barns and now is the time to think about fly control...
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Apr 19, 20214 min read


What If It's Equine Asthma?
Every Cough Means Something Learn the Signs and Triggers of Equine Asthma Please join Milverton-Wellesley Veterinary Services for a...
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Apr 5, 20211 min read


The Benefits of Vitamin B12
We are experiencing extensive backorders on products, including Vitamaster and Newcells – two commonly used products for ketotic or off-feed cows. We have stocked vitamin B12 for a few years now, but thought it would be a good idea to go over the benefits of using B12, especially when other similar products are not available. Vitamin B12 plays a role in gluconeogenesis – or the production of glucose by the liver. This can be important to help correct negative energy balance
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Mar 31, 20211 min read


Dextrose for Ketosis Treatment – New Study
A December 2020 study in the Journal of Dairy Science set out to determine how much effect the addition of dextrose IV has in treating...
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Mar 29, 20213 min read


Herd Health Season
Herd health season will be upon us before we know it, provided Mother Nature feels inclined to put an end to winter sometime soon. Even...
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Mar 25, 20212 min read


Free Fecal Water Syndrome (FFW)
Free Fecal Water syndrome (FFW) is a condition in which horses produce normal feces, but before, during, or after defecation, free water...
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Mar 4, 20213 min read


Treatment of Calf Scours
Many of you have at some point struggled with scouring calves. There are many different causes of calf scours such as E coli, Rotavirus,...
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Feb 26, 20215 min read


Passive Transfer of Immunity Testing
A Good Addition to Herd Health Visits We know how important it is that calves get good quality colostrum as quickly as possible. Often we...
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Feb 11, 20211 min read


Ontario Bovine Practitioners Update Meeting: Relevant News
This month the OABP held their annual update meetings virtually to provide Ontario Bovine Veterinarians with relevant research and...
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Feb 9, 20214 min read


Product Backorders to Note
Updated Feb. 27, 2021 We are continuing to experience extensive backorders in many of our products, particularly intramammary antibiotics...
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Feb 5, 20212 min read
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