West Texas Equine Clinic

Congrats to James and Julia Washington on a healthy Metallic Malice horse colt. This mare, just by the sheer coincidence, is the dam of Dr Lewis’ good heel horse Gus. She’s 20 years old and still loves herself a new baby❤️❤️

Don’t forget to get a pre-purchase exam done when you buy a new horse. Sometimes they’re not all that they are marketed to be. These poor people thought they were buying a multiple time world champion 1D barrel horse. 🤣

A life changed today. Our very own Bailey Proctor got the phone call with her acceptance to Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine. We couldn’t be more proud of her ❤️❤️❤️

When you’re that cute and spoiled by a bunch of girls, even Mondays are good days ❤️❤️

On this cold day, we are thankful for being able to work inside. Y’all stay warm and for God sake, give your horses a bucket of HOT water morning and night during this cold snap🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

Just a little quick tour around the stomach of a horse with a few non-glandular ulcers. The top section of the stomach, the non-glandular section, is lighter colored and basically like an extension of the esophagus. Where this section meets the brighter pink section, which is the glandular portion of the stomach, is called the margo plicatus. This is where most of the classic stomach ulcers will be found in our horses. The round things that look like aliens, are stomach bots. While they appear very disconcerting, it takes a lot of them to cause any serious disease. If you think that your horse may be experiencing stomach ulcers, call the clinic. A very short, minimally invasive gastroscopic exam will either confirm or refute your worries in very short order.

This mare was kicked in the stifle about a week ago. A horses stifle is very similar to our knee, however instead of having one big joint, it’s actually 3 separate joints pouches. Two of them communicate fluid between the two and the third, the outside joint is completely all to itself. The vast majority of injuries or arthritis/pathology takes place in the medial(inside) joint capsule. It’s very uncommon to have pathology or significant fluid accumulation in the outside joint, but this one definitely did. Radiographs were clean and other than a bunch of soft tissue swelling around the joint and a huge amount of fluid, the ultrasound was pretty unremarkable. We injected Platelet Rich Plasma in both distended joints and will give her a couple weeks of rest, with a recheck at the end of the two weeks.