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Large Animal Preventive Medicine
Preventive medicine is the most important component of medicine to ensure that your animals remain healthy and is necessary for the early detection of many diseases. Routine vaccination programs, deworming recommendations tailored to your farm, equine infectious anemia (EIA) or Coggins testing for all horses older than 6 months of age, as well as routine dentistry procedures in horses, are included in our wellness programs. The programs are tailored to your animal’s lifestyle and recommendations will be given based upon risk of exposure to disease. In addition to offering tailored wellness programs to the equine clients, we also offer the Preventive Program through Pfizer, a unique wellness program that may qualify your horse for the PreventiCare Colic Assistance Plan TM. There are six minimum requirements when enrolled in the above program:
Annual physical examination
Annual dental examination along with any advised treatment
Appropriate immunizations as recommended by us
Annual nutritional consultation
Strongid® C or Strongid® C 2X TM administered daily, year-round
Twice-yearly treatments of Equell® (ivermectin) or Equimax® (ivermecin/praziquantel)
The three disqualifications to enrollment in PreventiCare Colic Assistance Plan TM
Any horse that has had colic surgery
Any horse that has experienced colic in the last 12 months or has had colic surgery
Any horse under five months, or not fully weaned, or any horse over 20 years (horses officially enrolled before age 20 may re-enroll each year up to the age of 24)
All Strongid C or Strongid C 2X may be purchased from us or from another source, with proof of purchase. Coverage for eligible horses begins 30 days after receipt of the application and you will receive an Official Enrollment Certificate in about 30 days.
Horse owners will also receive the date the horse will be eligible for surgical reimbursement. In the event that an enrolled horse suffers a case of colic serious enough to require surgery, Pfizer will pay for the surgical costs and as many as three days of aftercare up to $5,000, as outlined in the program's Terms and Conditions.
To learn more about the program, please go to http://www.equinepreventicare.com/
In addition to the equine preventive programs mentioned above, we offer herd health programs for ruminants and camelids.
Small ruminant and camelid herd health programs can be optimized for your farm to include the following:
Annual vaccinations
Annual hoof care
Body condition scoring
Deworming
Vitamin E/selenium injection
OPP testing (sheep)
CAE testing (goats)
Johne’s testing
Brucellosis and TB testing (sheep and goats)
Equine Dentistry
Routine and corrective equine dentistry is offered, including routine hand floating as well as power floating with the Swiss Float. These services are included in our wellness programs at a discount and are recommended yearly for all horses. Good dental care will ensure that your horse can maintain an adequate level of nutrition as long as possible. Inadequate dental care may lead to a wave mouth that reduces the ability to effectively chew, as well as sharp points and hooks that are painful. Early detection of dental disease can lead to adequate treatment with the possibility of saving any affected teeth.
Attached are several powerpoint presentations from AAEP on immunizations, parasites and nutrition.
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