Walkerton Equine Clinic, 13 Maple Hill Road, Walkerton, ON (2025)

06/05/2025

Foaling Season 🌷
The days are long and nights short, but it is so worth it each and every time one of these little guys gets to go home with their momma 💕

05/30/2025

The sun is shining and spring tune ups are well underway ☀️🌷
After a lameness examination, diagnostic tools such as radiographs and ultrasound can be used to identify causes of lameness or poor performance. This information if helpful in guiding what treatment plan may be best as well as prognosis for a patient.

03/19/2025

Foaling Season 2025 is in full swing! The New Born Foal and Mare Exam is a vital step in ensuring both mom and baby are doing well and meeting important benchmarks in the first day at birth. 🐴
🕦 A mare and foal exam should be conducted 12-24 hours following birth (earlier if concerns or issues are noted)
FOAL EXAM:
- General Assessment: Standing, nursing, passing urine and meconium
- Physical Exam
- Blood Draw for a a stall side IgG SNAP test
- Administration of Foal Shots
- Assessment of limbs
The main goal of a new born foal exam is to identify any potential concerns or issues early on so treatment can be started promptly.
MARE EXAM
- General Assessment: Placenta passed, milk production and udder conformation adequate, comfortable and connected with foal
- Physical Exam
- Assessment of the Perineum for Trauma Related to Foaling
- Placenta Examination

03/06/2025

📢NEW FOR THE 2025 BREEDING SEASON
We are excited to announce we are offering limited in house repro services. We will continue to offer the same haul in and ambulatory services but can now include - short term boarding/mare care for Frozen AI services and troubleshooting shooting problem mares.
We have access to a small facility near the clinic to house and facilitate this new service.
Limited spaces and bookings available - please contact us today to discuss your breeding plans.

02/28/2025

Congratulations to Betty Wilke and ML first Legal Step on having a super nice run in the Non Pro Boxing! This is her first time showing at the World Show and it has been a goal for several years now and they did a great job!

02/28/2025

An interesting study conducted over 20 years by Lo Feudo et al., 2023; reviews medical causes of poor performance in 259 standardbred race horses.
The study excluded all horses that presented to the University for poor performance that exhibited lameness or a cardiac arrhythmia at rest.
The study identified 6 major medical causes of poor performance to be [in brackets - the percentage of horses with it in the study]
✅ Exertional Myopathy (Tying Up)
➡️[16.5% - higher percentage being female horses]
✅ Mild - Moderate Equine Asthma
➡️[97% - with the majority being mixed inflammation]
✅ Dynamic Upper Airway Obstruction (flipped palate etc)
➡️[45% - with the majority being severe or with multiple causes for obstruction]
✅ Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (divided into glandular and squamous gastric disease)
➡️ [98.8% - with large majority being squamous gastric disease]
✅ Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage
➡️ [17.4% - more frequently observed in male horses]
✅ Exercise Induced Premature Ventricular Arrhythmias
➡️ [18.5% - no difference in age or gender]
💡Interestingly this study identified that over 37% of the horses suffered from not 1 but 3 of these causes of poor performance. 26% suffered from 2 of the causes and 6% suffered from 4! Meaning - we typically are working to identify and manage multiple medical conditionals as the same time!
🐴Based on this study we can conclude that a large population of our race horses suffer from gastric ulcer syndrome and equine asthma - both conditions can be managed/treated.
**If anyone would like a copy of the study to read in full for themselves contact the office and we can provide it!**

02/27/2025

What are the benefits to having a gastroscope performed before starting treatment for gastric ulcers?
✅ Identifying if gastric ulcers are present/a concern for your horse
✅ Identifying the type & severity of gastric ulcers
- Did you know there are two types of gastric ulcers: squamous ulcers and glandular ulcers
⚕️Squamous ulcers: traditionally identified, located in upper part of the stomach usually around the transition between the non-glandular and glandular region. Typically treated with omeprazole +\- sucralfate depending on severity
⚕️Glandular ulcers: located in the bottom of the stomach - most frequently near the pylorus (exit to the intestines). More difficult to treat usually require a combination of medications and prolonged treatment, along with dietary management changes.
✅ Gastrogaurd Guarantee - if your horse has squamous ulcers and after 28 days of a full tube of GG has not resolved to a satisfactory level - you can receive a second month of treatment FREE
✅ Identify any other abnormality or lesions in the stomach:
1️⃣ Masses or tumours
2️⃣ Parasites - such as gasterophilus (bot larva)
3️⃣ Delayed gastric emptying - the stomach does not empty as quickly as it should (usually due to something partially blocking the exit - inflammation from ulcers, a mass, or narrowed passage from scarring)
Over 60% of performance horses will have gastric ulcers and up to 90% of race horses 🏇
What causes gastric ulcers?
✅ Intensity and Frequency of exercise
✅ Stress/Anxiety - around training, hauling, competing
✅ Current management practises - stabling, less turn out
✅ High Starch/grain diets
✅ Lack of grazing/continual forage - meal feeding
✅ Medications - Bute, Banamine etc
If you believe your horse may be suffering from gastric ulcers speak with your veterinarian about a gastroscope or treatment options.

02/14/2025

We are almost half way through Dental Month so it is time to Bust some Equine Dental Myths!
❌ Only older horses need their teeth checked and floated
❌ Horses that are not being ridden or worked do not need a dental exam
✅ Sedation and a speculum is necessary to do a thorough oral exam
❌ Horses teeth are continually growing and therefore never run out
❌ If you horse is not skinny or exhibiting any issues they do not need their teeth checked annually
✅ Horses have between 36-44 adult teeth
❌ Oral Health does not impact your horses general wellness
Oral health is an important part of your horses routine care - speak with your veterinarian today about a sedated oral exam!

02/10/2025

Veterinary Spinal Manipulation Therapy - also known as Chiropractic Therapy🩻
❌ We are NOT ‘putting bones back in place’ 🦴
❌ We are NOT ‘cracking a joint’ - although the sound of cavitation is satisfying it is NOT the goal!
✅ Practitioners assess a joints ‘normal’ motion/movement and can identify an area that is restricted or not moving as well as it should
✅ Adjustments - high velocity low amplitude motion utilized to help bring a joint through its normal range of motion
✅ Joint Mobilization - utilizes slow controlled repetitive movements to improve a joints mobility and increase relaxation and motion
✅ Adjustments and Mobilization techniques are often combined with massage, stretching and electro-acupuncture during the session
✅ Spinal Manipulation Therapy is a whole body approach that helps to modulate pain, improve overall function and mobility and enhance performance!
Spinal Manipulation Therapy is an integrative medicine technique that can be used in combination with traditional medicine to improve your horses overall comfort and performance.
Spinal Manipulation Therapy can also be combined with other integrative therapies such as: Laser Therapy, Shockwave Therapy, Bodywork, massage therapy, cranial Sacral Therapy, Graston Techniques and much more.

02/10/2025

Equine Metabolic Syndrome is becoming an increasingly common condition for our horses - this could be due to a number of reasons:
1. Improvements in hay production and pasture management resulting in calorie dense forages
2. Intensive management strategies- less competition when not managed in groups/herds
3. Increase in grains being included in diets
4. Horses are being kept more as leisure or companion animals rather then just working animals
5. Previously under diagnosed?
One of the major concerns with EMS is insulin dysregulation which put your horse at an increased risk for developing laminitis. Which is the second highest cause of death in younger horses.
Equine Metabolic Syndrome - a preventable and manageable condition. Speak with your veterinarian about diagnosing this condition and management strategies to help your horse become their healthiest version 🐴

02/05/2025

Happy Wednesday! ☀️
We love seeing our clients enjoying their equine partners and athletes. Whether it’s to help you achieve a goal or just keep your equine friend healthy and happy we are here to help!

02/04/2025

February is Dental Month - take advantage of our dental month specials.
10% off dental Exam/power float done mobile
20% off dental exam/power float done in clinic
LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE!

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