Dr Elaine N. Krieg's Mobile Veterinary Services

04/27/2024

We want to provide the best care we can and we do this by getting to know you, your facilities, and your animals. It’s important to keep a current veterinary client patient relationship (at least a yearly ranch visit along with examinations of the animals). You and your animals are part of our veterinary family.

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

It takes 8+ years of school, endless studying, more money than anyone wants to admit, and thousands of hours of externships with sleepless nights to become a veterinarian. It is an AMAZING experience and a wonderful and rewarding career. I am so proud to be part of the veterinary network and to see new students embark on that journey as well. ❤

A veterinarian's knowledge and experience is not only with the physical skills and abilities learned through classroom and hands-on training, but also with problem solving and diagnostic interpretations, coming together to be at the forefront of the human-animal interaction. This includes your companion animals and production animals, ensuring a healthy human and animal population and a safe and secure food supply.

This veterinary relationship begins with routine veterinary visits, examinations, and understanding and modifying the protocols on the farm based on the needs of the producer and health of the animals. It grows into knowledge and interpretation and problem solving. Veterinarians are a necessary and integral part all of the animal industries, but especially in rural veterinary medicine.
(photo credit Heidi Erika Photography)

Dr. Hake - Calf Vet

04/25/2024

04/11/2024

https://www.sheepandgoat.com/_files/ugd/aded98_8d3cf80af0414511bf99fe867cb54315.pdf

04/07/2024

The County Sale

It’s a great day for a piggy sale! 🐖 🐷 🐽

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If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

04/01/2024

Nevada county Goat Day! See ya there!

https://ucanr.edu/goat_day

03/31/2024

Happy Easter!!

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If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

03/31/2024

Thank you to everyone for voting me as 2023 Best of Nevada County Large Animal Veterinarian. 🥇

I’m proud to be part of this amazing community.

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If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

03/16/2024

This little lamb thought he was a fish and got hooked on a piece of metal. Unfortunately the metal ripped through his cheek and lip resulting in a large laceration.

A bit of catch and release in the barn yard! 🎣 🐑

Once sedated, we were able to repair the damage.

He will go on to live a great life and will not have any permanent damage.

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

03/08/2024

Register for this free webinar. You know what a good rain year means, right? A potential for lots of fire fuel. The time to plan for wildfire season is before it starts.

02/27/2024

This past week, Dr. Galen Heyne took his own life, leaving behind a wife and 2 VERY small children, whom he loved deeply. He battled the demons that we all deal with in veterinary medicine, and unfortunately lost that battle.

This is why - Not One More Vet, Inc, exists. Our profession is 2-3x more likely to die by su***de than the general population, and we are dying left and right. Many who manage to survive their battle end up burning out and leave the profession entirely. These two things are the biggest reasons our profession is facing an unprecedented staffing crisis, why we no longer can offer on-call or after hours services, why we can no longer take on new patients or new clients — because we are dying and leaving in droves.

Please be kind and compassionate to the people who give their all to a profession that most of us have wanted to do since we were the age of Galen’s children, and often for little pay or reward. Please consider financially helping his devastated, struggling family, and keep them in your prayers:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-family-of-galen-heyne?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=facebook_cta_variant_v2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

02/25/2024

Sometimes the doctor and her animals become the client and the patient. This is Tali. She was having a difficult delivery and required a c-section. Unfortunately her baby didn’t survive, but she adopted another kid to call her own.

It is birthing season for many of my clients and patients. Problems can arise during delivery. We hope they don’t, but dystocia do occur. Please watch your pregnant animals closely and contact your vet early for best possible outcome. My doe was not able to deliver her kid correctly and I could have lost birth her and the kid if a c section wasn’t performed.

I appreciate your patience this time of year as there are many emergency calls and I can’t always respond to texts and calls right away.

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

02/20/2024

Owner located because the dog was microchipped!

Get your animal microchipped and keep the info linked to it current.

Anyone recognize this dog?

Found it’s way to the hay barn during the storm.
Streeter road, Grass Valley, South Nevada County

02/17/2024

We carry the canine leptospirosis vaccine. Please reach out if you would like to booster your ranch dog or livestock guardian dog with this vaccines.

This service is available for clients with livestock and ranch or livestock guardian dogs only. Please contact your normal small animal veterinarian if you do not have also have goats, sheep, cattle, swine, llamas, or alpacas.

Thank you

POSITIVE LEPTOSPIROSIS CASE: This week we had a confirmed case of canine leptospirosis in one of our canine patients who lives off Therese trail. Please check with us or your regular veterinary care provider to make sure your dog is currently vaccinated. This is part of every dog's core vaccine protocol here. So far it looks like our patient is responding to care at Loomis Basin but several veterinary care providers and the dog's owners were exposed before a diagnosis was reached. Leptospirosis causes severe kidney and liver failure. Our patient also had damage to his eyes as well. See comments for added information about this common disease

02/16/2024

One for lambs.
Created by Martha Polkey, editor of the Maryland Sheep News (2004).

02/16/2024

This is filling up fast!! PLEASE RSVP TODAY🌵

02/15/2024

02/02/2024

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If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

01/28/2024

Disbudding irons will be plugged in this afternoon (Sunday January 28th). Please text to schedule an appointment. This procedure should be done around 5-10 days of age or as soon as you can feel bumps on the head. Buck kids often need to be done earlier than doe kids.

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

01/27/2024

Fact sheet from Washington State University
Tube feeding neonatal small ruminants: an essential skill for sheep and goat farmers

https://extension.wsu.edu/wam/tube-feeding-neonatal-small-ruminants-an-essential-skill-for-sheep-and-goat-farmers/

When is tube feeding necessary? If an animal is too weak or otherwise unable to nurse, it needs to be tube fed. Other situations include maternal factors (lack of milk production, lack of mothering, mastitis, death) and management decisions to control various diseases (C.A.E., O.P.P., Johne’s disease, etc.). If the lamb or kid will drink from a bottle, this is always preferable to tube feeding.

01/22/2024

01/21/2024

https://www.sheepandgoat.com/_files/ugd/aded98_04d25d36050f447d8168b9624d16958d.pdf

01/21/2024

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

01/20/2024

We’ve goat to tell you that preventing footrot should be a priority. Footrot is a bacterial disease of the hooves and anything with a hoof is fair game. Goats, cows, sheep and horses are all prone to this painful disease. Poor hoof care, poor diet, and wet environmental conditions can predispose animals to footrot. They cause damage to the skin surface of hooves, which allows the bacteria to enter and cause infection.

Signs of footrot may include limping, holding limbs above the ground, toe-touching, grazing on knees, and hesitancy to walk or stand. The foot can also become red, slimy, and have a foul odor. If you notice any of these signs, please seek help from your veterinarian.

A good biosecurity plan for your farm including avoiding wet conditions, isolating new animals and regular hoof trims can help prevent footrot. Infected animals walk across pastures, contaminating the soil. They also contaminate shoes and tires. This spreads footrot microorganisms further, increasing the disease spread around your community. Use biosecurity when handling each animal and always disinfect tools between every trim.

Each species is unique. Their hooves are for climbing, jumping, and supporting their body on the different terrains they were built for. We prefer to see them jumping for joy.

01/11/2024

Don’t forget to Vote for Dr Elaine! 💜

Best of Nevada County 2023 - Large Animal Veterinarian

The Union Best of 2023 - Krieg Elaine DVM

Vote daily!
Ends January 20th.

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

01/09/2024

Please Vote for Dr Elaine! 💜

Best of Nevada County 2023 - Large Animal Veterinarian

The Union Best of 2023 - Krieg Elaine DVM

https://www.theunion.com/bestof2023/ #/gallery/414365069/

Vote daily!
Ends January 20th.

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

01/07/2024

Vote for Dr Elaine!

Best of Nevada County 2023 - Large Animal Veterinarian

https://www.theunion.com/bestof2023/ #/gallery/414365069

Vote daily!

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☎️ 1(530)269-4438. Please text or call.

If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.

01/05/2024

The Nevada County Sheriff's HEART is looking for animal-loving individuals to join their volunteer team. Recruitment is open now through Feb. 29! Details below. Get your volunteer application here: https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3844/Animal-Rescue-HEART

01/04/2024

01/03/2024

It’s goating to be a good year!
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If you have an emergency please start your text with “urgent”.