Livestock Veterinary Services

10/23/2024

Please join me in welcoming the newest member of our team at LVS, Jennifer! She will become a familiar face on farm and in the lab!

🎉As we continue to celebrate our incredible RVTs who are the backbone of veterinary medicine, we want to thank them for the dedication in ensuring the well being of our patients, from assisting in surgeries and performing crucial lab work to offering comfort during tough moments. This includes our RVT team from LVS as well, who make miracles happen everyday!

✨This celebration has become such a good way to know our amazing Vet Techs up close, its time to celebrate the last member of this squad. We're pleased to introduce LVS's newest addition, Jennifer! Jennifer recently graduated from the Vet Tech program at Lakeland College and has been in the field since a month. With new energy and passion, Jennifer loves working with furry friends (big and small) and getting to learn new stuff everyday! Jennifer like any other RVT in large animal practice faces many challenges, but we love to see her rise to the occasion - offering expertise, patience and whole lot of heart!

🦸‍♀️A little about Jennifer; she was very interested in working with cows and small animals so working at both clinics was the perfect fit for her! Growing up on an acreage outside of Coalhurst, she always had a bunch of household pets including cats, dogs, guinea pigs, gerbils, bunnies, hamsters, and fish! Since she lived next to a farm, she always had a bunch of feral cats and kittens on her yard and she'd spend her time taming them to rehome. Quite a few became her household pets! Having many pets from a young age grew her love for animals and she knew that she wanted a job where she could work with animals! Last summer she worked at a feedlot and fell in love with cows! Some of her hobbies include spending time outside with her pets, doing artsy things, baking, playing games and watching her favourite show, Grey's Anatomy. She has recently been learning to do some photography and haircuts for fun!

Her hard work behind the scenes, rain or shine deserves endless recognition! Let's take a moment to applaud and encourage her into her new journey in vet medicine!❤

🎲Here are Jennifer's two truths and a lie, let's see if we can catch the lie here as this is our last chance! 😅
1. I have an one eyed dog named Oakley
2. I have two Manx cats named Nub and Bear
3. I have two goldfish named Bubble and Squid

10/22/2024

Although we share Amanda with our sister clinic, the Coaldale Pet Clinic, we know how much our clients and their cattle appreciate her on the days that she is working with us.

📣This week and the next, we're shining a spotlight on the heart and soul of our clinic - our amazing Vet Techs. These heroes go above and beyond every day, providing top-notch care, endless love and a comforting hand (and paw) to our furry friends.

🎉Meet Amanda, who has been a technician for six years. You may not see her at the clinic every day, since she also works at our large animal clinic in Picture Butte. As much as Amanda loves seeing and snuggling our feline patients, she has a true passion for working with dairy cows and really enjoys that her time can be split with both small and large animals. In her spare time, she likes to go hiking or spend time cuddling her dog or her two cats.

👏 Let's thank her in the comment section and give her a big shout out for all the amazing things she does for our clients and their pets! ❤

🎲We are having a game of two truths and a lie with our stars!
Here is Amanda's list, can you guess the lie? 🧐
- I grew up on a cow calf farm
- I have a bad habit of foster failing pets
- All my pets are named after food

10/22/2024

October is Registered Veterinary Technologist Month. We love having the opportunity to celebrate our amazing RVTs. They are such an integral part of what we do every day and the care and compassion that they have for each of the animals they work with is inspiring. Today, you can get to know Jessica a little bit better!

05/21/2024

03/24/2024

Kudos to the Green Acres 4H Club for your service in our community!

02/21/2024

Super Huge Congratulations to Dr. Betty-Jo Bradley Duvenage on achieving her board certification in dairy medicine. You have worked hard to achieve this milestone and it is so well deserved!

Welcome Betty-Jo Bradley, DVM, DABVP-Dairy!

Dr. Betty-Jo Bradley is a Dairy Practitioner with Livestock Veterinary Services in Alberta, Canada, and an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Bovine Medicine) at the University of Calgary. She sits on the Milk Quality and Udder Health Committee with AABP and the Biosecurity Technical Committee with Dairy Farmers of Canada. Betty-Jo enjoys time on her cow-calf operation, and spending time riding at her family ranch in the beautiful Porcupine Hills of Southern Alberta alongside her husband and son.

01/22/2024

01/02/2024

New Year and New Beginnings! 🎊

Dr. Kira Crooks delivered our first New Year’s c-section calf this morning!

12/21/2023

If you see her today, don't forget to wish Dr. Betty-Jo a very happy birthday!

Hope you have an udderly wonderful day!

12/14/2023

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 🎄

10/12/2023

🇨🇦NEW CANADIAN CITIZEN ALERT🇨🇦
All of us at Livestock Veterinary Services and Coaldale Pet Clinic would like to congratulate Canada's newest citizen - Dr. Amy Martell. Not even this grey, rainy and muddy day can dull the smile on Dr. Amy's face since she took her citizenship oath this morning! Well done, Dr. Amy. You have worked hard to get your citizenship and we are so proud of you. Poutine and Nanaimo Bars for your celebratory lunch!!!

10/02/2023

Animal Health Week is upon us and the slogan for this year is so perfect.... It Takes A Team! We are so fortunate to have so many people, with so many different skills who have come together to create the Team at LVS. Truus, Shyan (TA), Jessica (RVT), Amanda (RVT), Melissa (DVM), Kelli (DVM), Betty-Jo (DVM), Amy (VMD) and Kira (DVM) are all so passionate about Farm Animal Medicine and are committed to our producers and their livestock as our producers work towards their goals. I hope that you can feel that care and attention to detail, no matter which member of the team you are working with!

08/11/2023

“Bring Your Dog to Work Day” in Picture Butte. Also, if you’re looking for mastitis treatment, we’ve got you covered!

08/10/2023

For anyone calling or stopping by the office, we are closed this afternoon for staff training. We will be back tomorrow. As always, if you have an emergency, please call.

08/04/2023

We take pride in supporting our clients in herd health management and milk quality, and we are extremely proud that we get to work with seven of the top ten low somatic cell count herds in Alberta!
Also, congratulations to the Leusink family on an amazing year. They work incredibly hard to produce quality milk and care for their cows! If you haven’t read the article in the Lactanet magazine, check it out! Three generations farming together 🐄👍

07/25/2023

Whew!🥵 Its HOT🌡 out there and so many of our clients are busy sweating it up in the fields, haying and silaging. 🌾🚜🌾 We feel you! Our vets struggle with the heat too! Imagine wrapping yourself in plastic and then palpating cows on a hot day! 🐮 Dr. Betty-Jo's "hot tip" for keeping up hydration.... Chocolate Milk!!! Delicious, high protein and a great source of nutrition. What are your hot tips for staying hydrated (or cooling off) on these sunny summer days? ☀️☀️☀️

07/04/2023

Some days our clients are just too cute!

Thanks to Jessica, one of our RVTs, who helped get these new calves set up for success.

📸: Jessica Valdes

06/29/2023

Our offices will be closed on July 3, to celebrate Canada Day. For Large Animal Emergencies, please call: 403-732-5322 to be connected to the On Call Veterinarian.