Wood Pond Veterinary Service, PLLC

02/15/2024

Welcome to Three Rivers Equine Vet, owned and operated by Doctor Tyler McGill. To learn more about Dr. Tyler and our practice, please visit www.TREVSvt.com.

09/01/2023

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

Thank you all for your patience as you have waited for the announcement of Dr. Tyler's equine practice.

Equine Clients: Dr. Tyler has now launched Three Rivers Equine Veterinary Service which will serve equine patients in certain portions of northern Vermont. The number to call is (802) 424-1036, including for after-hours emergencies. Three Rivers Equine Vet can also be reached at [email protected].

Wood Pond would like to extend a large thank you to all our clients for their years of support and faith in us to provide care for their patients. We wish you and your patients all the best.

06/26/2023

***CLOSED Monday July 3rd and Tuesday July 4th***

Our office will be closed Monday and Tuesday next week for the holiday. A veterinarian will be on-call for emergency needs. Please call our pager or answering service system should you need urgent veterinary care during this time.

Please remember that you can find details on how to reach us after hours at our website:

Providing large animal veterinarian services in New Hampshire and Vermont

05/24/2023

***CLOSED MEMORIAL DAY, MONDAY 05/29***

Our office will be closed on Memorial Day. A veterinarian will be on-call for emergencies only during this time. Thank you!

Image: Getty Images; Painted cows during the WWII blitz

05/22/2023

Over the next week or so, we'll be introducing some new members of our team to you.

First is Jacy, our new veterinary assistant!

Jacy grew up around various species but has always been incredibly fond of equine and bovine critters. Jacy's family beef farm inspired her to pursue a career with livestock. After high school she attended a veterinary assistant program at White Mountains Community College, which she recently graduated from. During her second semester of college she interned with WPVS, which allowed her to meet some pretty awesome vets and gain hands on experience. In her spare time she is usually found at the barn with her two horses or checking pastures to make sure all of her cattle are happy & healthy.

05/21/2023

http://www.woodpondvet.com/

Please check out our website for some important spring updates! We have also updated our Team and Services sections.

Thanks! WPVS Team

Providing large animal veterinarian services in New Hampshire and Vermont

05/05/2023

**Closing early**
Our office is closing early tomorrow, Friday, May 5th, at 3pm for our monthly team meeting. Please call the emergency pager if you need a veterinarian urgently after this time. Thank you.

05/01/2023

What is a VCPR?

A VCPR is a veterinary-client-patient-relationship. This means that we have visited your farm within the last 12 months, and as a result we are familiar with your animals, your facilities, and you!

This relationship helps us help you with preventative care and management needs. This also allows us to be able to legally dispense routine medications as well as interventional medications needed after discussion and consultation.

We highly encourage you to schedule an annual visit with WPVS in order to maintain an active relationship with your veterinarian so we can best serve you. Please let WPVS know if you have any questions. Thank you!

(photo from KAP Design - CVO)

04/17/2023

**Important Update for Clients**

As many of you are aware, WPVS is currently short staffed, both in our office and on our veterinary team. We appreciate our clients understanding and continued support during this time.

We would like to remind clients that we may not be able to accommodate non-urgent appointments on short notice at this time. We are currently booking preventative care appointments several weeks ahead, so please schedule in advance. Please continue to be patient with us as we strive to provide the best care for your critters in a timely manner.

Thank you from the WPVS team

04/04/2023

**Closing early Friday 04/07/2023**

Our office will be closing early on Friday this week at 3:00pm. Our WPVS team will be having our monthly team meeting.

As always, a veterinarian will be on-call for your emergency needs. Please call our pager or our back-up answering service if you have any emergency during this time. Thank you!

03/09/2023

Many farmers have been asking about the new guidance from the FDA which is set to be implemented June of this year. The guidance updates a small proportion of antibiotics that are available over the counter to prescription only. This means that these particular medications won't be available without a veterinary client patient relationship. These antibiotics are important to human health, and as antimicrobial drug resistance becomes more of a threat to both human and animal health, the guidance aims to help us help you use antibiotics as appropriately and safely as possible.

Here is an infographic from the FDA reviewing the guidance, GFI #263. Please let us know your questions and thoughts.

01/20/2023

On average horses drink 7-10 gallons of water a day and this remains as important in cold weather as it is in the summer because reduced water intake can lead to gastrointestinal problems such as the dreaded impaction colic.

Studies demonstrate that horses will drink more if provided access to heated water and that most water consumption happens within three hours of feeding. How can you use this information to your advantage? Refill buckets at feed time with warm water to maximize your horse’s water intake—especially in the winter when water is more likely to be freezing or close to freezing.

As always, if you have any questions or would like to learn more about preventing colic in your horse, your equine veterinarian remains your best source of information!
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Brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee.

01/18/2023

Lambing and kidding season will soon be upon us. The time is now to focus on your ewes and does to ensure happy, healthy deliveries.

Some things to keep in mind are: nutrition and vaccination of expectant mothers prior to their due date, parasite management, birthing environment, and lambing/kidding kits.

Reach out to us soon to schedule a lambing or kidding consultation!

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful clients!
We hope your holidays are as merry and bright as this Christmastime heifer calf that we delivered recently!

12/16/2022

It has been a while since we have posted - but we wanted to share a story from the trucks!

Makayla (pictured below) is our veterinary assistant - you have likely seen her helping Dr. Tyler with equine patients or helping Dr. Jackie with goat and sheep patients. Today she was with Dr. Jackie to help vaccinate a group of cattle and we had trouble with the chute, which allows us to be able to safely handle our patients. Makayla was able to identify and then fix some fundamental flaws in the original chute assembly!

We are so grateful to Makayla and all veterinary support personnel that so often save the day for us vets!

09/29/2022

"Equine rabies is a real risk for all horses, and a public health concern as well. Be sure to set up a regular vaccination schedule with your veterinarian if you haven’t already done so, and remember that strange behavior on behalf of your equine friend is always a valid reason to check in with your horse doctor!"

September 28 is . While the number of confirmed equine cases every year is low, talking about this disease remains important because of the potential for human exposure—which does NOT have to involve a bite from an infected horses, as contact of skin or mucosa with the horse’s saliva could be enough to transmit the disease.

Rabies has many faces but they are all deadly—once a horse shows clinical signs, the animal invariably dies within a few days as there is no treatment.
The good news is that modern vaccines are highly effective and current AAEP recommendations list rabies as one of the “core vaccines” that should be given to all horses annually to maintain immunity (read the full AAEP vaccination guidelines here: https://aaep.org/guidelines/vaccination-guidelines)

Equine rabies is a real risk for all horses, and a public health concern as well. Be sure to set up a regular vaccination schedule with your veterinarian if you haven’t already done so, and remember that strange behavior on behalf of your equine friend is always a valid reason to check in with your horse doctor!

Read more about rabies on our website at https://aaep.org/horsehealth/rabies-has-many-faces

09/06/2022

Don't forget to schedule your equine dentistry this fall!

We strongly recommend annual maintenance dentistry for all horses. We especially recommend dentistry prior to winter for our geriatric patients and patients with known dental concerns.

At WPVS, veterinarians perform a thorough sedated oral exam with dental charting (a specialized record of your horse's mouth) and correct any abnormalities with highly specialized dental tools. We receive specific training in order to diagnose these dental issues and correct them, which is why having a licensed veterinarian perform your horse's dental work is so important.

Please keep in mind, performing an unsedated "check" of the teeth is not considered a thorough oral exam. We are only able to see some of the teeth in some horses when we perform this check.
So, even if your horse is maintaining weight and eating normally, it doesn't mean that there aren't pesky hooks and points (or worse) lurking. As we like to say, the best medicine is preventative medicine!

Call WPVS today at (603) 989-5320 to schedule a dental appointment!

09/02/2022

As the rush for pumpkin spice everything begins and you're making plans for the colder weather ahead, you may be considering purchasing round bales for your horses due to their lower cost and greater convenience for feeding pastured animals.

While well-harvested and properly stored round bales can still be an option for your horses, there are a few things you should be aware of—in particular, the increased risk of colic and of botulism, a rapidly progressive neurologic disease with high mortality caused by the toxins produced by the bacterium "Clostridium botulinum.” Prevention of this disease through vaccination is critical, especially in areas where the condition is prevalent (such as Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, California, and Tennessee).

As in all horse health issues, your local veterinarian remains your best source of information. Consult your horse doctor on best practices when feeding hay this winter to best meet your needs and your horse’s nutritional requirements; ask your veterinarian about botulism prevention and treatment, too!

More information on botulism is available on our website at https://tinyurl.com/vx8uxdh9

08/13/2022

Have you heard of the barber pole worm?

This is an internal parasite predominantly of sheep and goats. It does not cause diarrhea like many worms, but causes internal blood loss, or anemia, by attaching to the lining of the stomach and ingesting the blood of the host animal.

This worm loves heat and humidity, making our recent weather the perfect storm for disease. With this, we've seen a large surge of anemia cases in sheep and goats due to barber pole worm. Unfortunately, severe anemia often leads to death.

The best way to stay on top of this worm is by frequently checking the color of the lower eyelids of your sheep and goats, called FAMACHA scoring. If their color becomes lighter than normal, this indicates a need for deworming.

Selective deworming, or only deworming those who need it, is the best method of parasite management. Routine deworming makes these worms, and other worms, resistant to common deworming drugs.

These are very basic recommendations, and parasite management looks different for every herd or flock. Call us to schedule a specific, tailored-to-you parasite consultation!

08/08/2022

Did you know?

Wood Pond Veterinary Service always has a veterinarian on-call for emergencies, all hours of the day, every day of the year.

We want to make sure that our clients are always able to contact us when you need us. There are now TWO ways to reach your on-call veterinarian.

When you call the office with an emergency after-hours or when office staff is unavailable, the message will prompt you to call our Emergency Pager at (603) 615-8548. Once calling the Emergency Pager, you may leave a voicemail for the on-call veterinarian after the tone.

Please remember that many of our veterinarians return phone calls from a private number.

The Emergency Pager service has been our service for several years, but it is not always reliable. If after 20 minutes you do not receive a call-back from the on-call veterinarian, you may then call the new Answering Service at (866) 540-8557. This service connects you with a live operator that then sends a text or phone call to the on-call doctor.

We maintain both services to ensure that we are always reachable. The pager often has service when cell phones do not have service, which is why we feel it is important to have both as a rural practice.

Please let us know if you have any questions! We look forward to continuing to serve your emergency needs.

07/27/2022

It's been a busy (and fun!) summer with the vet students! We love sharing this side of the profession with upcoming veterinarians and we're grateful to our clients for allowing them to learn with us.

07/04/2022

This is Kate, one of many veterinary students that will be interning with WPVS this summer. In this picture she is helping this little guy recover from anesthesia after his castration.

Please welcome our students this summer if you happen to see them!

07/04/2022

A Fourth of July weekend calving before the fireworks!
We offer emergency services 24-7, 365 days a year. Thankfully this emergency had a happy outcome!

06/01/2022

The time has come to announce the results of the WPVS Cutest Kid Contest! We received photos from far and wide, but these were our favorites!

- Kara Kobernick for overall best photo

- Carol Young for overall sweetest photo
- Sally Craft for best candid photo
- Shelby Lackie for most fashionable kids

Thank you everyone for your submissions and congratulations to our winner and honorable mentions!

05/16/2022

Reminder to share your cutest kid and lamb pictures on the original post before June 1!

We at WPVS do a lot of kidding around this time of year, but our Cutest Kid (and Lamb) Contest of 2022 is no joke!

CONTEST RULES:
Comment below with your cutest kid or lamb picture of 2022 and share some adorableness with us! The contest ends June 1, 2022. The cutest kid or lamb photo will then be voted on by the WPVS team and the top three winners will be selected. A surprise prize will be given to the first place winner. Please no more than one entry per person. Only photos in the comments section below will be judged.

Thanks to Dr. Jackie for sharing this picture of some little ones that she delivered over the weekend!

05/05/2022

Friendly reminder to schedule your appointment in advance for Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (otherwise known as a CVI or a heath chart). CVIs for individual show or the show season may be written 30 days in advance. We're looking forward to working with this year's show animals!

Don't forget to have all of your show and animal information prepared for your veterinarian prior to your health chart appointment! Please visit our website for CVI informational requirements.

http://www.woodpondvet.com/

04/26/2022

Safe and sufficient facilities for handling farm animals helps us help you! We recently enjoyed an afternoon working with these beef cows for their annual vaccinations.

04/20/2022

Fostering the next generation of veterinarians! Can anyone guess what Dr. Andy and these kiddos were up to?!