Galisteo Basin Veterinary Services

07/17/2024

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A big shoutout to our amazing veterinarian with for always keeping our horses happy and healthy!! We appreciate your services and our horses do too!!

07/11/2024

Best mustache award goes to……. This guy! Gypsy vanners grow these incredible mustaches on their muzzles!!!!
They are even more impressive in the winter when dripping with icicles.

This cutie will be feeling much better after having a dental exam and treatment before heading off to the trainer!

Unfortunately my availability for any farm call appointments is extremely
limited and booked way out right now, but I can still work in haul-in appointments for dental work, lameness exams and treatment of a variety of other procedures.

Due to spotty cell service, text is usually the best and fastest way to get a response for booking appointments and other questions. 505-570-5701.

🙏🙏🙏🐴🐴🐴🐴

07/10/2024

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/two-foals-killed-by-mountain-lion-at-los-cerrillos-animal-sanctuary/article_0371ea90-3e04-11ef-a67f-e3635128c7ab.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2Qy2D9LWCysK62K6PlyDTjYtDu1Iyr3FKnbwSuHGuS3uHwjmUwiWBO43Y_aem_sec49WEgbxZYCj--ZwI0ow

Two foals died from a mountain lion attack in the first week of July, leadership from the nonprofit sanctuary said.

07/10/2024

NOTICE: The City of Las Vegas is requesting all City residents who have sustained damage from the flood events on Friday, June 21 and Monday, July 8 to contact the City of Las Vegas as soon as possible to ensure a flood assessment is completed. State and federal agencies need to determine what forms of assistance residents may qualify for at the state and federal level. The current flooding are cascading events, a result of the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and should be reimbursable through the HPCC Claims Office.

The following information must be provided:
*Resident’s Name, Physical Address and Contact Phone Numbers
*Property Account Number (can be acquired on property tax bill)
*Brief Description of Damage (can include structures, property and damage to land, driveways and private roads)

After the information has been provided, the proper state and federal agencies will further reach out to schedule an appointment to do an assessment.

Please call 505-454-1401, Extension 1403 to provide the requested information and for any additional questions.

07/10/2024

Who wants to play “I spy”? We had a cute little friend keeping us company today while working on some lovely horses. Can you spot it? And identify it?………Answer is there is a tiny bat on the door. Pic in comments. There were actually a lot of bats up in the rafters 😍🦇. Great mosquito eaters! Just don’t touch as they can carry rabies.

06/25/2024

Great news for pet owners in the area!

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The three vets are one step closer to making their dream of a spot with a focus on 24/7 emergency veterinary services a reality.

06/05/2024

Foxtail alert!!

Dog owners!!!! Check for foxtails! So many dogs are having issues with foxtails currently - in the paws, in the ears, between the toes and even in the tonsils!!!! 😳. These grass awns from foxtails are nasty and they embed in the hair and then work their way under the skin. Dogs with a lot of hair on the paws (poodles, doodles, Cockers, schnauzers, or any other breed that typically needs regular grooming) are especially prone as the matted and curly hair attracts the foxtail awns. However, all breeds are affected! And some dogs even sniff the foxtails into their noses. These awns are nasty and work their way slowly through even intact healthy tissue and cause havoc and infection once embedded under the skin.

What can you do:

- Ideally pull foxtail plants out by the roots as soon as you see them
- Alternatively : Mow/weed whack foxtails (ideally before they form the typical foxtail heads)
- check your dogs paws daily - gently pet them and feel between the toes and under the paws daily
- groom or have your dogs groomed to remove as much hair from the paws and between the toes as possible right now!

05/30/2024

True story!!! 😆🐴🐎🎠🏇 some kids had Barbies and the Barbie playhouse, I had Breyer horses and stable. We are not the same!!! 😂😂😂

Raise your hand 🙋🏼‍♀️ if you were a horse obsessed kid with Breyer horses and stables…..

Raise is twice if you also now have horses as an adult! 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

05/07/2024

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05/01/2024

Unpacking great things to replace some inventory! Legend and Adequan are great products and we fully enforce them, but there are other options that offer many of the same benefits at a lower price. We carry a variety of “generic” Legend, Adequan and our FAVORITE and most popular by far is Centre, which is a combination of HA (Legend) and PSGAG (Adequan) in ONE product that works great for IV injections and also when used directly into the joint for joint injections. This is my “go to” for my own personal performance horses and my performance horse clients. This also works AMAZING for old horses who are generally stiff and sore from arthritis. The Ichon is similar to Adequan and is great for owners to give themselves as an intramuscular injection. Most injectables are more effective and cost effective than oral supplements which tend to have variable efficacy, variable absorption and widely variable data as to what is in the product matching what’s on the label….. and let’s be honest, horses LOVE to spill their expensive supplements on the ground and not even eat them! Instead of daily feeding and hoping they eat it, hoping it absorbs, hoping it works, you can spend the same or less on monthly injections and get a known product into their system! For more information on joint supplements and overall joint care, reach out and ask! That is what we do!!!

04/26/2024

What are we doing here?

Oral endoscopy in a horse! A specialized camera can provide a much better view of the occlusal (chewing) surface of horse teeth and get a better view of the back of the mouth. In this case, an abnormality was detected that was not clearly visible just looking in the mouth (see comments for picture).

I welcome referrals for routine dental floating to complicated dental and sinus conditions including dental extractions and sinus infections. Most appointments will require hauling to my facility near Trujillo, NM (30 miles east of Las Vegas on Hwy 104). Oral endoscopy is just one tool that I have to help in diagnosing and treating cases.

04/13/2024

Better late than never….. late posting and this baby was VERY late making his arrival, but so happy with this new Bet Hesa Boon - Homozygous Roan Stallion baby!!! We’ve been very patiently (ok NOT patiently) waiting for a Boon baby!!!! He’s already practicing his moves and is super flashy!!!! His BIG blaze was a BIG surprise but throws back to his dam sire Shady Lil Starlight.

03/27/2024

Would you be interested in any of the following:

- Equine first aid training for the most commonly encountered emergencies such as colic, lameness and lacerations?
- Having a kit with emergency supplies and medications to help manage and triage the most common injuries and illnesses?
- Acccess to telemedicine consults with an equine veterinarian for general health and emergency situations?

Veterinary access in New Mexico is extremely limited, particularly for horses and other large animals and especially in cases of emergencies. If you would have interest in any of the above, please comment or send a message! If you want to set up an Equine First Aid presentation for your local 4H, FFA, pony club, or any local riding club or organization, please let me know!

If there is enough interest, I am working on creating some online resources and home emergency medication kits that clients could purchase and have on hand for use in emergencies, as well as developing an option for routine and urgent care telemedicine consults. (Prior exam and establishment of a veterinary relationship is required for prescription medications and telehealth consults). This would NOT replace a relationship with a regular vet and would not be able to address severe emergencies, but could be useful to help decide what emergencies need to be hauled to the nearest referral center ASAP and what could potentially be managed at home.

Drop a comment!!! And share with your New Mexico horse friends!

03/26/2024

Quiz time: Emergency or not?

A. Emergency- see a vet asap!
B. Urgent - see a vet soon within the next 24 hours
C. Non-urgent but needs to be seen this week
D. Appropriate for home care with cleaning and topical antibiotic ointment.

With horses, it is often important to determine what is a true “emergency” and what isn’t. Some conditions require immediate emergency care and may require hauling to the nearest hospital facility, some conditions are “urgent” in that they need to be seen in the next 24-36 hours but aren’t critical to be seen absolutely immediately and likely will require hauling to a local facility, some can wait several days if needed for a non- urgent appointment, and some can be managed at home with good wound care or other home treatment.

This picture shows a laceration to an eyelid that goes all the way to the eyelid margin and the flap peels back. What do you think?

The answer is B. Urgent!

Any injury to a horse’s eye is urgent and needs to be seen ideally within 24 hours if not sooner. Horses are prone to infections and scratches on the surface of the eye that can lead to severe side effects including blindness if not treated promptly and aggressively. With a traumatic injury like this to the eyelid, it is important to examine the surface of the eye and check for any injury or scratches to the cornea (surface of the eye). Lacerations like this to the eyelid margin also really need to be sutured or the eyelid will develop a permanent defect that can affect vision and cause the eye to dry out and develop corneal ulcers if the lids don’t meet up. To reduce the risk of infection and have the best chance of healing, lacerations should be sutured within 24-48 hours of the initial injury. The longer a wound like this is left un-sutured, the more the tissue will start to dry up and lose blood supply and this will reduce the chances of a successful repair. In a worst case scenario, if immediate exam and repair is not an option, the best home treatment would be to flush the eye and wound with sterile saline eye flush (can be found at most pharmacies and and grocery stores) and to apply a triple antibiotic ointment like neosporin several times a day until it can be examined. Do not put any soap on or near the eye! And plain water can actually be irritating to the tissue and the eye. So if no saline is available you can use a CLEAN wet wash cloth to clean the skin of the wound. And then apply antibiotic cream. But don’t sq**rt water in the eye.

Good news: this horse was seen within several hours and the eyelid was sutured (see comments for pic). The eyelid will heal quickly. The eye itself was not injured so there should be no long term side effects. 😊

03/26/2024

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Higher-ranking international dressage riders were more likely to ride horses behind the vertical in warmup and competition, and mounts showed more conflict behaviors.