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

22/12/2025

This Christmas, healthy livestock is the best gift 🎁🐄
There is still time to get 10% off medication and supplies when you use code HOLIDAY10 🎄💉
Shop online, delivered straight to the farm 🚜

Shop our online store today! https://www.rvvs.co/general-6

21/12/2025

Meet Dr. Sam Benham!

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Dr. Sam Benham is originally from New Hartford, Connecticut. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Animal Science (with minors in Chemistry and Molecular/Cell biology) from the University of Connecticut and went on to earn her Veterinary degree from the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Following graduation, Dr. Sam completed a one year rotating Internship in Large Animal Medicine, Surgery and Theriogenology, also at the Atlantic Veterinary College before moving back to the US to join River Valley Vets. Dr. Sam has a passion for caring for a wide variety of species and promoting preventative care.
Outside of Veterinary medicine, Dr. Sam enjoys many sports including jiu-jitsu/MMA, rock climbing, running and hiking as well as drawing and painting and spending time with her partner and her two cats, Razzle and Dazzle.

Pictured!
Dr. Sam and a sheep
Dr. Sam and a tiny patient: miniature horse dental
Dr. Sam ultrasounding a sheep (with the HFM Vet Sciences class!)
Dr. Sam preventing a snapping turtle from being roadkill (ambulatory vet necessity!)
(Graphic? Viewer Warning) ⚠️ 💉 Dr. Sam after a tail tumor removal
Dr. Sam just before antler removal (don’t worry, the red stag is darted / anesthetized and fine! He stood up 15 mins later 😊🦌 )

17/12/2025

Any interest in a F***L EGG COUNT event? We can run Fecals 💩 and discuss deworming strategies and best practices in different species. What species would you want to focus on or have questions about?

16/12/2025

An annotated ultrasound for your viewing pleasure 😍 Share with anyone that loves vet med and any current students! 📚 🐄 🧑‍🎓

07/12/2025

Meet Dr. Mary!

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Dr. Mary Kauffman is originally from Marblehead, Massachusetts. She earned her bachelor's degree in biology and technical theater from Sarah Lawrence College, where she also ran cross country. After some pit stops working at a wolf sanctuary in New Mexico, a dairy farm in western Massachusetts, and a small animal hospital in Burlington, Vermont, she completed her veterinary degree at the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada.
Dr. Mary has many vet-med interests including grazing dairy, small ruminant husbandry, and a love of draft horses.
When she's not working, Dr. Mary enjoys sports of all kinds, including BJJ, kickboxing, MMA, snowboarding, and running or hiking with her partner and dog, Toaster!

04/12/2025

Cutest calf patient 🥰

28/11/2025

✨Kick off the holiday season with savings!✨

Use code HOLIDAY10 to snag 10% off all pet meds and essentials from our online store. 🎁

https://www.rvvs.co/general-6

And if you’re wondering—yes, that is an AI-generated cow in a festive holiday coat. 🐮🧥✨ She’s serving more holiday fashion than the rest of us combined.

Happy holidays, from our barnyard to yours! 🎄💚

25/11/2025

We are thankful for great patients, clients, and our whole RVVS Team!

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Intros for our growing audience!

Meet Dr. Jake Bunker 👋
Dr. Jacob Bunker is originally from the Town of Florida, NY. He earned his bachelor's degree in Animal Science from SUNY Cobleskill, where he was captain of the Men's Soccer Team. He went to veterinary school at Colorado State University. While there he managed beagles for research projects and worked in the Livestock Animal Hospital on cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and camelids.

His favorite veterinary interests are dairy production medicine and horse reproduction. When he's not working, he enjoys playing soccer, playing with his corgi, Moose (because of his big ears, check the out in pic 👂 ), and gardening.

19/11/2025

Some timely reminders! 👋
A thermometer 🌡️ should be in your first aid kit. ⛑️ 🩹 If you’re nervous about viral / respiratory / neurologic outbreaks spreading, the first sign is always a fever / elevated re**al temperature! Familiarize yourself with your animals’ normals, so you can detect the first sign of anything going on!
Normal vital signs here:

https://www.rvvs.co/vitals

Another reminder- if you haven’t already, make sure your animals are up to date on fall deworming 💩 Questions about which product to use and what dose / who needs it, ask your vet! We tailor deworming plans to your herd / flock.

15/11/2025

What can we find on reproductive ultrasounds besides pregnancies? 🤔 Problems! 🚩
-pyometras (pus in uterus)
-cysts!
-abnormal ovarian structures / cyclicity

Check out this ultrasound of an ovarian cyst in a cow….. you’ll know it when you see it! 🎈 Identifying issues allows us to treat them efficiently and get everything back on track ✅

11/11/2025

Some fall patients and fall dentals (Dr. Mary’s proud extraction)! Just missing an alpaca / llama in our collage, oh and a deer ❤️ 🦙 🦌

Reminder to get your health checks / fall physicals scheduled if you haven’t already! It’s a great time of year to check out patients before winter. ❄️

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!

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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.