Iron Horse Equine Medical and Surgical Services

01/24/2025

🚨 If you haven't called to RSVP, please call our office to reserve your spot! We have limited seats for this event. 🚨

🦄 Senior Equine Seminar Alert! 🐴
Please join us for an evening of refreshments and learning on February 7th, 6:00pm-9:00pm.

☎️Call our office to RSVP while spaces last! 303-660-4600.

Location: 3692 Meadows Blvd, Castle Rock, CO 80109

See ya there! 🦄

Senior Equine Seminar Alert! 🐴 Please join us for an evening of refreshments and learning on February 7th, 6:00pm-9:00pm.

☎️Call our office to RSVP while spaces last!
303-660-4600.

Location: 3692 Meadows Blvd, Castle Rock, CO 80109

See ya there! 🦄

01/22/2025

01/18/2025

Senior Equine Seminar Alert! 🐴 Please join us for an evening of refreshments and learning on February 7th, 6:00pm-9:00pm.

☎️Call our office to RSVP while spaces last!
303-660-4600.

Location: 3692 Meadows Blvd, Castle Rock, CO 80109

See ya there! 🦄

01/09/2025

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Stacy Whitton & all of the equine teams of Platinum Farms, LLC; www.platinumfarms.org! 🎉❤️

01/09/2025

📢 Office Closure Announcement Due to Weather 🌨️

Good Morning to all off our clients!

Due to severe weather conditions, our office will be closed today for the safety of our team and clients. If you had an appointment scheduled, please note it may be impacted or rescheduled. We will reach out to confirm any changes.

If you are experiencing an equine emergency, please call 303-660-4600 and dial extension 0.

We’ll provide updates as the situation evolves.

–Iron Horse Equine 🐴🦄🩺

Jett (Owned by Sabine RVT) hopes everyone stays warm and safe today!

12/31/2024

As a friendly reminder our office will be closed on New Year's Eve and New Year's day. Thank you to all of our clients and supporters for a wonderful year, and we'll catch you in 2025. 😎🎉

New Years Hours:

Tuesday, New Years Eve, December 31st, 2024- CLOSED

Wednesday, New Years Day, January 1st, 2025- CLOSED

Our office will resume regular business hours on Thursday, January 2nd.

As always, we will have emergency services available 24/7, including through the holiday.

If you are experiencing an equine emergency, please call 303-660-4600 and dial extension.

12/23/2024

🎁 Happy Holidays from Iron Horse Equine 🐴

We want to see YOUR cute Holiday photos!🎅

Comment your favorite, silliest or cutest Holiday Pet pictures to keep the cheer flowing! 🌟

We'll start first with Dr.Quay's gelding Marly in the big kid horns, and her baby horse in the baby horns, Rockrimmon! Of course we can't forget the sweet mare, Charlie Rose owned by assistant Janasea.

Our team at Iron Horse Equine thanks you for being an important part of our Iron Horse family and we wish you a wonderful holiday season! As a reminder we will be CLOSED on Tuesday, Christmas Eve, December 24th & Wednesday, Christmas Day, December 25th.

Emergency Services:
As always, we will have emergency services available 24/7, including through the holiday.
If you are experiencing an equine emergency, please call 303-660-4600 and dial 0.

12/20/2024

Happy Holidays from all of us at Iron Horse Equine! ⭐️🎄

We recently held our annual staff party, and boy, did we have a lot of fun! Iron Horse Equine threw down at Game Show Battle Rooms. After splitting into teams—the "Smart Asses" and the "North Polar Bears"—our Iron Unicorns got competitive! Ultimately, the "North Polar Bears" claimed the trophy and became champions.
Our team celebrated with a potluck, a white elephant gift exchange, and, of course, the Iron Unicorn trophy ceremony. 🏆

Keeping with tradition, the night ended with some of our most senior crew playing a beloved favorite game of "Smart Ass." You’ll have to ask them who won! 👀 (Dr. Stacy Whitton, Dr. Mindy Smith and her husband Isaac, RVT Evette and her husband CJ, and Jessica Hall and her husband Shea.)

We’d like to thank Game Show Battle Rooms for hosting our rowdy herd and our office manager, Jessica Hall, for hosting the after-party. A big thank you to all of our staff for the memories and delicious food, and an even bigger thank you to all of our clients and patients for bringing our horse-crazy team together!

Spending time together as a team and making memories always inspires us for the future. Keep an eye on our page for some exciting announcements! 🦄💪

12/19/2024

Vitamin E is an essential nutrient for your equine partner. A vitamin E test can be easily added to Spring or Fall Wellness! 🐴❤️

12/16/2024

Support your horse’s health and performance with BEMER. Bio-Electro-Magnetic-Energy-Regulation therapy is a non-invasive medical device that uses pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) to improve circulation and support the equine body's natural healing processes. 💚🧡

Get all the benefits of BEMER with our Treatment Package (Buy 5 Get 1 Free) 🦄

Experience increased physical performance, promote relaxation and regeneration after exercise, and many more benefits with BEMER. Contact our office to schedule!

12/10/2024

As the weather cools down, allowing yourself an ample amount of time to cool out your horse after a cold ride is essential to ensure that you don’t jeopardize your horses' health by allowing them to catch a chill.

Our friends at Equus Magazine have some useful tips to share for cooling out your horses this winter. You can read the full article on their website at https://equusmagazine.com/riding/coolingout-10486/

12/06/2024

Iron Horse Equine offers the SURE FOOT system as a standalone therapy or alongside other treatment plans. They are an excellent addition to other forms of body work. This simple yet powerful program uses Equine Stability Pads to boost your horse's balance, confidence, and performance! 🐴✨ If you can safely pick up a hoof, you can do SURE FOOT! Interested in learning how this system can benefit you and your equine partner? Contact our office to schedule a consultation with one of our veterinarians.

12/04/2024

We are so excited to announce Dr.Gieche has joined the Iron Horse team! 🎉🦄

Outside of her veterinary career, Dr. Gieche is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys hiking with her dogs, horseback riding, and playing soccer. She also channels her creativity into hobbies such as photography, poetry, ceramics, sketching, painting, and glass art, reflecting her well-rounded and adventurous spirit.
Dr.Gieche will be available for scheduled appointments during the week, and will be joining our on call rotation.

11/20/2024

This is a great explanation of why you shouldn’t always believe what you see on 📺 If you have any questions about administration of banamine or any other medication, please contact our office or your vet at IHE

Yellowstone fans that are real horse people got a little confusing information on the Sunday, November 17, 2024 episode. This popular show appears to take pride in its western production on being very authentic - yet some how they had a BIG mistake with treating a horse with intramuscular Banamine.

What is the BIG deal? In this Yellowstone episode a horse was administered Banamine (Flunixin Meglumine) intramuscularly. Yet the nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory is only administered orally (in the mouth) or intravenously (in the vein). Remember Banamine is never recommend to be administered to horses any other way.

Why not? Banamine causes muscle damage when injected intramuscularly! There are spores of bacteria known as clostridium that can rest in healthy muscle; however, the bacteria may awaken if the muscle becomes damaged from an IM injection particularly when Banamine is administered this way. This may cause clostridial myositis - which is a serious and sometimes fatal disease. Post injection signs of a problem would be swelling and a painful injection site with gas underneath the skin. The bacterial toxins may migrate into the bloodstream causing depression, colic, fever and a lose of appetite. Treatment by a licensed DVM is necessary if you make this mistake. Supportive care, antibiotics, and possibly a surgical excision of the infected injected site may be necessary.

This episode of Yellowstone was a good reminder - what is entertaining may not always be real and correct. Check with your equine veterinarian if you are unsure how to administer Banamine.

11/08/2024

We are on ER at this point. Please be aware that travel conditions may limit our responses though even for emergencies.

11/08/2024

PSA:
For our staff safety,
Our CSR staff may work remotely and non-urgent appointments may be rescheduled during storms/ poor road conditions

10/31/2024

In case you missed it, here is our email letter to clients about why we are opposed to Prop 129. Please vote NO on Colorado Proposition 129.