Atherton Equine Services, LLC

06/23/2024

Bacon is my favorite and I don’t work on pigs.
I’m actually allergic to live pigs and cats.
No pigs. No Cats.
Pictures for dramatic effect.

06/06/2024

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05/06/2024

04/24/2024

04/23/2024

Some of you may remember or recognize my sweet girl Julep Pearl pictured here, ever ready to help, always happy and always by my side. She was one of the best dogs ever put on this planet and she left us over seven years ago. But I still remember her and for some reason this quote that I saw today made me think about her, and I thought I’d share it with you…

“To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and
the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure
the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of one's self;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and
sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived -
This is to have succeeded.”
- by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is what she did, this is what I hope we all will do.

03/19/2024

Last minute warning!!!
It’s going to freeze early tomorrow morning.
Put out heat lamps on your chicks, puppies and calves. Cover your favorite plants and bring grandma in off the porch.

03/15/2024

Breaking News!
Scientists discover a technology that turns plants into delicious meat without any factories, genetically modified organisms, or synthetic chemicals. Protein that is ethically produced with superior nutritional content. Ethically produced on land that is otherwise not useful and not able to be cultivated. Turning non productive land into a beneficial natural resource that in the long run will decrease allergies and cancers while providing superior nutrition as compared to Genetically Engineered Foods.

Beef! It’s what’s for dinner.

03/07/2024

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02/22/2024

02/16/2024

He’s a 3 day old heifer that I delivered a few mornings ago. The Brahma cow’s name is Shadow, the calf is Juliet.

02/14/2024

Two mornings ago I met this cow in the rain. She couldn’t get up, was full term pregnant, had milk fever and ketosis. We treated her the best we knew how and this morning I get this picture.
Thanks Woody!

02/07/2024

The South Carolina State Veterinarian’s office received laboratory confirmation Friday, February 2, 2024 of the 1st case of West Nile Virus in SC in 2024. It was a 19 yr. old QH Gelding located in Charleston County. Unfortunately, the horse had to be euthanized.

Is your horse protected against neurologic diseases?
What else can your horse be protected against ?

10/19/2023

09/08/2023

08/23/2023

*updated- price drop- fire sale.
Bearded Easter Egger trio.
2 big healthy pullets and a gentle yet beautiful cockerel. These girls will likely lay salmon colored eggs. All are vaccinated against Marek’s disease, fat and healthy. Hatched March of 2023, six months old.
Start your own flock or just enjoy their company and their eggs. Fifty doll hairs. Text 803-522-2981

07/25/2023

Today I adopted a human.

It broke my heart to see him so alone and confused. I suddenly saw his watery eyes as he looked into mine. So I barked with all my might and went after him, following from house to house. Finally, I got close enough to touch his hand with my nose. The man smiled and I felt his heart begin to warm. I moved closer to his face and felt his tears start to flow. I looked at him and he replied with a beautiful smile. I jumped into his lap excitedly, promising that he would be fine, that I would love him forever, and that I would never leave him. How fortunate that he passed by where I was and that we could meet like that. I felt lucky too. So many people have been there, but only he—only he—stopped and looked at me. I'm glad he made a choice and that I was able to save his life. Today I adopted a human. ~Author unknown

06/30/2023

Have you been to Eudora lately?!?

06/01/2023

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05/29/2023

If you are being chased by a pack of taxidermists…

Do not play dead.

05/19/2023

No plans for tomorrow?

Go see my buddy Sugar Ray at Eudora Wildlife Safari Park

03/06/2023

I went in and I stood tall and I petted this giant adult male giraffe. Then all of a sudden you hear this low deep “Grrrrr” growl sound.

So the trainer says “get up very slowly and back away.”
And so the giraffe did, he slowly got up and backed away from me.

02/22/2023

Today I had to put Cowboy’s need to leave his failing body above my need to keep him with me.

I know that he touched many of the lives reading these words. I watched him time after time console some of you when you were loosing your friend. He always knew who needed him and would go stand next to you and make you pet him. Cowboy made the world a better place.

I found him in a dog pound in Ohio back in January of 2008. He traveled across the country with me many times. He went to work with me almost every single day for 15 years.
My right hand man. 15 years of farm calls, he was with me at work every day through thick and thin. Rest in peace Cowboy.

02/03/2023

Colic emergency!

01/27/2023

Eat more beef!

01/24/2023

I had the opportunity today to visit with one of my oldest patients. His name is Junior. In a few short months this white tail deer will be thirteen years old.
About a dozen years ago I amputated Junior’s leg and castrated him. Because of that he never sheds his antlers, and they always stay short and stubby in velvet year round. Junior likes certain dogs and loves bananas.

12/21/2022

Merry Christmas from Cowboy and Dr. Harvey

12/21/2022

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For years, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has offered stockmanship and stewardship events across the country that provide hands-on training to imp...

11/05/2022

Living the dream on a Friday afternoon

10/26/2022

Improving the quality of life in Aiken’s back 40 for a dozen years and counting.