Livestock Veterinary Services

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.

06/23/2023

What an exciting opportunity for Dr. Betty-Jo Bradley and the 4-H Clubs that participated! I hope that we see these young men and women in the in the veterinary field in few years! 🔬💊🩺🩻💉🦠🌡️

06/20/2023

This sweet girl followed a jogger home from his run in Picture Butte and now she needs to be reunited with her people. We scanned her for a microchip but there isn’t one. Please call the clinic at 403-732-5322 and we will connect you with the lovely family who is caring for her.

She is very sweet, very gentle and thinks treats are lip licking good.

06/19/2023

June 18 is Veterinary Appreciation Day and do we ever love having the chance to appreciate our Vets!

Drs. Melissa, Kelli, Betty-Jo, Amy and Kira, thank you for everything you do each day to make the world a better and healthier place for livestock and the producers who care for them.

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06/02/2023

On World Milk Day, it only makes sense to highlight, that while the Dairy Producers we are privileged to work with each day do a fabulous job making delicious healthy milk, they are also an integral part of their communities. Cheers to these hard working men and women! 🥛

05/31/2023

Livestock Veterinary Services is proud to be a sponsor of the Alberta Dairy Congress. Good luck to all the participants!

05/29/2023

Congratulations to the 9 Mile 4H Club for their successful achievement day on Saturday! There was some impressive showmanship on display, particularly when the lambs had alternative plans. Well done to you all! 🐑🐑🐑

04/26/2023

Happy Administrative Professional Day! Our clinic is so blessed to have Truus and Shyan. These ladies work tirelessly behind the scenes. They are the friendly voices when clients call in and they make sure that each of our vets has clean splashers to wear each day. If something is lost, chances are, they will find it. If there is a question, they have an answer. We couldn’t do it without them and we are grateful each and everyday! 💐🐮💐🐮💐🐮💐

03/09/2023

It would be tough to let International Women’s Day go by without making mention to celebrate all the amazing women in the agricultural sectors we deal with. We thank the brave and fearless women that came before us who helped to shape the industry to what it is today and hope that we can continue to lead and mentor the future generations of women to come. Did you know that Alberta has one of the highest rates of female farm operators? Cheers to you all!

03/07/2023

Beef calving season is upon us, with producers and vets alike crossing their fingers that none of the cattle will require any assistance. The Western Canadian Cow-Calf Surveillance Network reports that close to 5% of beef cattle will require assistance and that 90% of herds report assisting in at least 1 calving in the previous season. Five percent doesn’t seem like a lot, but making sure that we know what to do in those situations is imperative for calf survival, but can mean life or death for mom too. The Beef Cattle Research Council together with the Manitoba Beef & Forage Initiatives have created a flow chart to help with knowing when to intervene, and when to call the vet. Have a look at this great tool, or download it to keep on hand for future reference.

https://www.beefresearch.ca/content/uploads/2023/02/calving-decision-tree-and-presentations.pdf

02/28/2023

If only it was that simple!

02/15/2023

Today we celebrate Canadian Agriculture Day! Who are we kidding, everyday around here we celebrate Agriculture! Do you do anything special on your farm to mark this day?
🚜 🐄 🐓 🐖 🐂 🐇 🐐 🐑 🦃 🐥 🐟 🌾

02/10/2023

It was a lovely day, although a touch windy, to enter the world! The vets are all ready for calving season…are you? Not every calf gets the perfect weather, the perfect mom, or the perfect start to life so making sure you have supplies ready to help them is critical to calf survival. Calving aids, colostral replacements and help getting warm and dry can make the difference between life and death. Need help? Give us a call!