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MHWF Vet Day 2024 November 2
We have a big post and a small video to share with you, and we sure hope you take the time to read and watch. We want to tell you a bit about our big Vet Days here at Midwest Horse Welfare Foundation, which gives a good glimpse into some behind the scenes and some of the amazing people involved with MHWF.
In 2024, MHWF had two big teaching Vet Days; one back in April and one on November 2, 2024. These Vet Days consist of a wide variety of important vet work, with vets teaching students and everyone collaborating and learning from each other.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲?
When we talk about Vet Day, we are not talking about the regular days when the veterinarian comes out to help and get vet work done, but this event that happens twice a year is an educational day for vet students of UW Madison. This is a wonderful learning environment where UW Madison vet students get hands-on with real live horses in a non-clinical environment and get to see and do a lot of things that they would not be able to in a classroom, while at the same time doing so much to help the horses of MHWF. Real life situations that a day in the life as a veterinarian will bring. On these vet days a wide variety of things get done from dental evals, floating and tooth extraction, thorough lameness evaluations with a variety of radiographs on various horses, chiropractic work, ultrasounds, blood draws, vaccinations, and even a geld surgery. These Vet Days are the highlight of the year for MHWF in so many ways, and a big part of that is being able to spend the day with these amazing veterinarians and future veterinarians in training, which uplifts everyone involved and gives everyone hope for the future of equines and equine medicine. All these people are true heroes to us and to the horses. This all started as an idea from Dr. Suzanne McKichan and has turned into an amazing event that helps so many, and we are forever grateful.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐕𝐞
MHWF Vet Day 2024 November 2
We have a big post and a small video to share with you, and we sure hope you take the time to read and watch. We want to tell you a bit about our big Vet Days here at Midwest Horse Welfare Foundation, which gives a good glimpse into some behind the scenes and some of the amazing people involved with MHWF.
In 2024, MHWF had two big teaching Vet Days; one back in April and one on November 2, 2024. These Vet Days consist of a wide variety of important vet work, with vets teaching students and everyone collaborating and learning from each other.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐲?
When we talk about Vet Day, we are not talking about the regular days when the veterinarian comes out to help and get vet work done, but this event that happens twice a year is an educational day for vet students of UW Madison. This is a wonderful learning environment where UW Madison vet students get hands-on with real live horses in a non-clinical environment and get to see and do a lot of things that they would not be able to in a classroom, while at the same time doing so much to help the horses of MHWF. Real life situations that a day in the life as a veterinarian will bring. On these vet days a wide variety of things get done from dental evals, floating and tooth extraction, thorough lameness evaluations with a variety of radiographs on various horses, chiropractic work, ultrasounds, blood draws, vaccinations, and even a geld surgery. These Vet Days are the highlight of the year for MHWF in so many ways, and a big part of that is being able to spend the day with these amazing veterinarians and future veterinarians in training, which uplifts everyone involved and gives everyone hope for the future of equines and equine medicine. All these people are true heroes to us and to the horses. This all started as an idea from Dr. Suzanne McKichan and has turned into an amazing event that helps so many, and we are forever grateful.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐕𝐞
Check out adoption horses Phoenix and Coach with their people, Dana and Troy, riding at Kickapoo Valley this weekend. They adopted Phoenix back in spring of 2023 and Coach just this past June. This is Coach's third trail ride out. Wow, they have been doing just fantastic! Phoenix is a Morgan and Coach is a Standardbred.
This looks like a simple video of a horse being ridden, but it's so much more than that. This is Quest. I know there are a lot of people who know who Quest is, a lot of people who met Quest in the approximately 5 years that she was a resident at MHWF after being rescued back in 2017. Quest was terrified of people and had never had her feet trimmed at the age of 6 when we took her in. Quite a few people felt the best solution would be euthanasia, which many times that is the correct answer for horses who are physically and mentally too far gone. Quest always showed that she was making progress and could and would come around, and amazingly that one particularly bad hoof was also rehab-able and she became completely sound as well. We stuck this out with Quest and many, many people helped along the way. Here she is now, happy in her adoptive home with Kodie, who adopted Quest in 2022. Quest is actually being ridden, this is just so wonderful. Of course this is a long road that has many twists and turns, with a huge thank-you to everyone who stuck with us on this and especially to Kodie for opening up her heart to this extremely special mare.
Ever wonder how some horse's manes get so messed up sometimes? ;) Have a great and peaceful day everyone!
MHWF Vet Days 2023
We have a big post and a small video to share with you, and we sure hope you take the time to read and watch. We felt it fitting to share this before the start of the New Year, and look forward to all the great things in store for 2024 with you. We want to tell you a bit about our big Vet Days here at Midwest Horse Welfare Foundation, which gives a good glimpse into some behind the scenes and some of the amazing people involved with MHWF.
In 2023, MHWF had two big teaching Vet Days; a 2-day event in May and 1-day event in October. Day one of May Vet Day consisted mostly of working with horses and then day two was mostly vet work, which the handling skills learned on day one were demonstrated. The 1-day event in October consisted of a wide variety of vet work, with vets teaching students and everyone collaborating and learning from each other.
What is Vet Day?
When we talk about Vet Day, we aren’t talking about the regular days when the veterinarian comes out to help and get vet work done, but this event that happens twice a year is an educational day for vet students of UW Madison. This is a wonderful learning environment where UW Madison vet students get hands-on with real live horses in a non-clinical environment and get to see and do a lot of things that they would not be able to in a classroom, while at the same time doing so much to help the horses of MHWF. Real life situations that a day in the life as a veterinarian will bring. On these vet days everything was done from dental evals, floating and tooth extraction, thorough lameness evaluations with a variety of radiographs on various horses, chiropractic work, ultrasounds, blood draws, vaccinations, and even a surgery. These Vet Days are the highlight of the year for MHWF in so many ways, and a big part of that is being able to spend the day with these amazing veterinarians and future veterinarians in training, which uplifts everyone involved and gives everyone hope for the future of equines and
