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River Valley Veterinary Services Mobile Large Animal Veterinary Services for the Mohawk River Valley and beyond.

18/01/2025

Our most common equine winter emergencies? Laceration repairs!!! Followed closely by colics.

How to be prepared for emergencies?
-be up to date on routine wellness (Tetanus vaccines! Veterinary physical exams and dental care!)
-have a contact list handy in your barn in case of emergencies 🐴 ✅
-driveways plowed? Access to trailer and truck?
-have your vet do a walk through to target key areas to prevent emergencies in your barn environment and nutrition provided: salt? Heated water source? Latches and hardware on doors and walls? Fencing safety? Blanket safety? 🩸🪡⛑️🔌💡🔨⛓️🩹 🔮

05/01/2025

Baby season 🥰 keep warm, organized, and reach out to your vet if you need advice or help preparing! Stocked first aid kits and recognizing potential problems before they are real problems is key 🔑

22/12/2024

KIDDING and LAMBING PREP!

1) have you checked inner eyelid color and body condition scores of your does and ewes? Run f***l egg counts as needed, check for diarrhea, and deworm (with a safe product) only as needed? Proper dose and administration?
2) make groups based on body condition scores and nutritional needs, avoiding unnecessary competition and stress?
3) emergency birthing kit prepared? Missing any supplies? Thermometers, lamb / kid coats, gloves, l**e at least
4) do you know when to call for help? The 30 minute rule for progress / helping a kid or lamb be born! Timely intervention is 💯 🔑

PRELAMBING / PREKIDDING vaccines is a must ! 30-45 days before birth! Timing is everything ‼️

Monitor for KETOSIS- subclinical and clinical. Know how to best prevent pregnancy toxemia! Do you have ideal protocols in place?

Make this year the best one yet! 🐑 🐐

18/12/2024

Yearly reminder! 🦕 🦖 💉 🚨
We know animals sometimes require emergency care ‼️ You never know when, it’s a fact of life and unpredictable 🎱

Make sure you have a veterinarian you use for routine care. A NON-EMERGENCY once or twice a year visit for your animals is important and necessary. Wellness exams, herd check, pregnancy checks, protocol discussion, nutrition consult, dental checks, f***l checks, vaccinations, drug cabinet management, first aid prevention check lists, facility upgrades / design strategy, help with problem solving 🔍……. If you don’t do a once or twice a year routine visit, your animals are not current on their routine care, and you may not be able to get a veterinarian out to your farm in case of emergency….. unless you’re extremely lucky! 🍀 Establish and maintain a VCPR (vet client patient relationship- necessary to approve prescriptions too!). If you’re not current (one year is a good guideline), this is a reminder to get on schedule!

15/12/2024

Check out our online store: go to our website www.RVVS.co (not .com) and click on our online store tab for winter shopping!!! 🛍️
🪱 Dewormers (deworm now after a hard frost with a product that gets tapes / bots!), easy to give probiotics 🦙, an awesome equine 🐎 skin ointment for quicker healing, avoid cold weather mange and lice flare ups in your ruminants 🐄, ammonium chloride for your male goats 🐐, barn cat dewormers and topicals….. refresh and prepare your kidding and lambing kits first aid kits! 🐑 ⛑️ 🩹 Need advice—- just reach out! We can consult in person or over the phone / text / email for current clients and patients. 🔑 Prepare to avoid emergencies 🔑

11/12/2024

Creative way to give chocolates to your vet! 💩 😂 ***l ***leggcount

28/11/2024

Enjoy the snow day ❄️ ⛄️ Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

19/11/2024

Bull Dental! No huge problems, 🦷 just teething - we helped him lose some baby teeth (also called retained caps) 🐃

08/11/2024

We love our barn cats 😻 they’re always so helpful…
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Make sure your barn cats are spayed, neutered, and up to date on vaccines (FVRCP feline distemper and RABIES VACCINE!) 💉 ✂️ 🥜 also dewormed / flea and tick treated / ear mites ‼️

We have room / potential cancellation availability in an upcoming barn cat spay / neuter day if you have barn cats, let us know! Call us 📞 518-774-5571 for more info and details / to have questions answered. Leave a voicemail if we don’t answer right away 🐱 or shoot us an email 📧 at [email protected]

Feel free to share with farm friends!

04/11/2024

Sometimes we’re late to appointments and can’t give a set start time. Emergencies come first! This calf was waaaay too big. Pic of Docs suturing the uterus closed

01/11/2024

Farmers can move mountains 💪 What an amazing community to be a part of 🤯🐄😻

Our clients step up to help us out when we’re brave enough to ask- time after time….! Huge thank you to our clients and the extended RVVS team that keep us moving.

25/10/2024

Huge thank you to the Fort Plain good samaritan that turned in our lost NBT bank money pouch 🙏 Thank you RVVS gift is heading his way 🐄😍🙏

Cute cards available here FYI!
www.fantassticbeasts.com
https://www.etsy.com/shop/fantassticbeasts

16/10/2024

Oct. 30 webinar on navigating breeding season for mare owners!!!! Share with friends and register below to reserve your free spot.
If you are new to breeding horses or want a refresher free course from experts, here’s a chance to get up to speed. On Oct. 30, AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee member and board-certified theriogenologist Dr. Dale Kelley will deliver an informative webinar covering the basics of reproductive biology of the horse, the logistics of breeding season, and what to expect when breeding a mare. The webinar is free but registration is required; a recording will be available for those who can’t attend the live event.

https://aaep-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CHkvKjmpTlGOiPMbwhEtBA?utm_source=All+DVMs+including+international_Oct+2024&utm_campaign=6b71f1799e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_15_06_56_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c16c66b73-6b71f1799e-641793937 #/registration

02/10/2024

Twisted Uterus in a dairy cow! A pretty common occurrence / reason a cow may have trouble calving. The uterus twists on top of itself (for an unknown unlucky reason in late gestation) and prevents the calf from simply exiting through the dilated cervix when it’s time. In this case, the cow had to be rolled with a plank on her flank to hold the uterus in place and twist the cow around the calf to align / flip the calf in the birth canal - super simple! 🍀 and lucky when the procedure only involves one roll of the cow. 🤞 🐄

Pics in order:
-casting rope around cow to help her lay down on the proper side (clockwise twist, right side down)
-cow lays flat and plank placed on flank just in front of udder
-large calf delivered right after untwisting the uterus (first sign after properly untwisting = the water breaks!)
-calf already standing up within minutes of birth

More info here! Share with your farming friends / prevet students!

https://www.bovinevetonline.com/news/education/when-uterus-flips

20/09/2024

FYI Changes to official cattle identification are being implemented November 2024. RFID official button tags are required - no USDA metal tags should be applied anymore. Ask your vet if you need order forms for official ID tags!

Learn more here:
https://agriculture.ny.gov/animals/cattle-bison-other-bovidae

Some examples of cattle that require official identification: cattle going to a livestock
dealer or through a market, cattle moving out of state on a health certificate, cattle coming to a New York farm, all animals traveling to a New York sponsored fair. Please note that this includes all young calves that arrive at markets for sale as feeders (which currently are receiving little metal tags at markets). All cattle (including dairy, beef, heifers, and steers) that already have a NUES tag or another grandfathered form of official ID in their ear by November 5, 2024, will be considered officially tagged for life. These cattle will not require an RFID-capable 840 tag applied. You can choose to add an 840 RFID tag to them, but it is not required.

18/09/2024

Warm, wet fall?
Equine checklist:
-booster Potomac Horse Fever Vaccine
-booster West Nile and EEE 🦟 💉

Check out current mosquito borne illness reports here:

https://equinediseasecc.org/alerts

Questions about your horse’s vaccine status or needs? Just reach out 👍

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Our most common equine winter emergencies? Laceration repairs!!! Followed closely by colics. #vetmed #rvvs #vet #veterinarymedicine #horsesofinstagram #equine #largeanimalmedicine #largeanimalvet #rivervalleyvet How to be prepared for emergencies? -be up to date on routine wellness (Tetanus vaccines! Veterinary physical exams and dental care!) -have a contact list handy in your barn in case of emergencies 🐴 ✅ -driveways plowed? Access to trailer and truck? -have your vet do a walk through to target key areas to prevent emergencies in your barn environment and nutrition provided: salt? Heated water source? Latches and hardware on doors and walls? Fencing safety? Blanket safety? 🩸🪡⛑️🔌💡🔨⛓️🩹 🔮 #prep #todolist

🌾🐄 **Bloat in Ruminants: Heads-Up!** 🐑🌾 Bloat can be a serious issue for our ruminant friends! Whether it’s from lush pasture or certain feeds, keep an eye out for signs like a swollen left side, difficulty breathing, or mouth/nose froth / an off feed animal. Early detection is key! If you suspect bloat, don’t wait—contact your vet ASAP. Do not stick a needle in your animal without veterinary direction…… ⚠️ . With timely treatment, your animals can bounce back quickly and stay healthy. Stay vigilant, and we’re here to help at River Valley Veterinary Services! 🚑 🐄 🐐 Here in these bovine cases we placed a surgical bloat whistle for one free gas bloat in a thin heifer (predisposing factor = respiratory disease / pneumonia), and one frothy bloat in a lactating cow that got into a batch of moldy / yeasty / improperly fermented feed 🌱 🦠 The whistle stays in place until the bloat is resolved and the good GI bacteria and function is restored. #HealthyHerds #VetCare #BloatAwareness #ruminant #pasture #vetmed #rvvs #rivervalleyvet #cowsofinstagram #homestead #farmer

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River Valley Veterinary Services is a large animal mobile veterinary service owned and managed by Dr. Jill S. Greisman and Dr. Jessie Bolster. RVVS offers many services for dairy, equine, beef, sheep, goat, llama, alpaca, swine, and poultry clients. We’re looking forward to serving the Mohawk River Valley and appreciate your continued support as our business grows.