Yellowhorse Mobile Veterinary Service

10/04/2025

Bids are LOW on the saddle and the Red Trailer Ready Emergency Kit.
You have until 2:30 pm to get your bids on and support God Jen Go!

https://givebutter.com/c/HLD2025/auction?fbclid=IwVERDUANOGbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHtkFGLEmbVYTLgBQpLwBy0Kg6XyDrqI7xTHzZGCaq4_-5Pdzw9OowCi7fEae_aem_CRGK9HjTIVhgoFZbuYYcug

Saturday, October 4, 2025 10:00-4:00pm at Leatherman Lane

09/29/2025

TWO Trailer Ready Emergency Kits coming available...
Saturday October 4, 2025!!!

You will have the opportunity to win the lovely PINK bag at the on location Raffle during the Horse Lover's Day Festival to support the Go Jen Go Foundation. The raffle will take place during the event and one lucky ticket is all it takes to win! Tickets can be purchased online here:
https://givebutter.com/c/HLD2025
OR
in CASH at the gate on the day of the event.

The other bag, the AZTEC Horses with RED accents will be available for purchase outright during the online auction. This is one of my most popular patterns that is no longer available.
Give the web mistress a few days to get the details loaded but it will be up and running sometime this week.
The online auction will end on October 4, 2025, as well.
Pick up of the online bag will be at Leatherman Lane or if you are one of my clients, I can arrange delivery separately.

Online auction details are here:
https://givebutter.com/c/HLD2025/auction

I will be teasing you all this week so please consider supporting this wonderful event/cause!

09/28/2025

It's that time of year again...Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 10a to 4p
The 5th annual Horse Lover's Day Festival benefiting the Go Jen Go Breast Cancer Foundation is fast upon us!
Come out to the lovely Leatherman Lane Farm in Concord, NC, off Odell School Road, for a great day supporting an amazing cause!

Yellowhorse Mobile Veterinary Service is proud to support such a wonderful farm and organization!

If you have never been, you are in for a treat and there is something for everyone - shopping, kids activities, horse rides, lots of yummy food trucks, and so much more!
You can get more information here:
https://www.facebook.com/HorseLoversDay/

AND be sure to purchase your tickets online here:
https://givebutter.com/c/HLD2025
$5 for adults, $1 for children under 12, and 100% of the money raised stays in our community to help those battling breast cancer through the Go Jen Go! Foundation.

(you can purchase tickets at the gate but it will be CASH only)

Please come out and join me and support this wonderful event!
(there will be TWO Trailer Ready Emergency kits available there...details to follow)

Horse Lovers Day is an annual event held at Leatherman Lane farm in Concord, NC.

08/02/2025

Continuing to post helpful "Dealing with the heat" things.
I am happy for the break but the heat will return.

08/02/2025

Looks to be a fun and educational webinar AND it's FREE!

Mark your calendars! 📅 The American Association of Equine Practitioners is hosting a Mythbusters webinar examining some of the most common equine vet med myths and misconceptions. If you're a horse owner, you won't want to miss out!
This no-cost webinar requires pre-registration; you can also watch the recording if you are unable to attend virtually.

Link to register is below ⬇️

07/26/2025

I am sure all of you are "feeling the burn" outside and we are braced for record heat over the next several days.
I am seeing heat related/dehydration related issues and felt it important to put out some pointers to help you help your critters get through this mess.

1. KEEP THEM DRINKING/HYDRATED
How, you ask...
Clean your water buckets/troughs/tanks/pasture tubs more often in hot weather. Water buckets can sour quickly in the heat with just a few pieces of hay or grain remnants and horses won't drink "sour water". As my favorite barn owner says, "If you won't drink out of it, neither will they".

Always provide access to clean, cool water. Horses prefer the temperature of water to be between 45 and 65 degrees F. It's not necessary to add ice to their buckets or things such as that but if you can manage to keep a bucket in the shade, it will help.
A horse will normally consume between 6 and 10 gallons in cool weather and that can easily double in the heat, due to sweat loss alone.

Provide free access to salt to promote drinking. Loose salt is preferred over a salt block but a block is better than nothing. Just watch those horses who like to over-indulge on the blocks as salt toxicity is a real thing.

Supplemental electrolytes can help offset sweat loss but I realize some horses don't like the taste. You can soak your grain and add them to that or even use a paste form for direct administration. (See your friends at McDonald Feed, McCoy's, Tractor Supply, Monroe Hardware, or Mane Street for paste electrolytes)

There are wonderful things like RepleniMash from Purina, Horse Quencher from SmartPak, Chug from Equine Elixirs, Accubites Replenish from Manna Pro, and about 3000 other forms to get electrolyte replacement into horses in more palatable ways.

I'll even share a recipe for "Tea":

Use a small bucket - 8 qt or 2 gallon size.
Add1/4 cup Sweet Feed (or something similiar like Senior)
Add 1/4 cup Forage Pellets (Alfalfa preferred but anything will work)
Add 1 scoop of electrolytes
Then fill the bucket with water.

The horse has to drink the water to get to the soaked sweet goodness at the bottom. Hence, hopefully, getting some replenishment into their bodies.

For the love of all of us having to brave this experiment of living on the surface of the sun, I am with you! My antiperspirant stopped working last week despite twice daily applications and my sweat glands feel like they are on steroids. The inside of my truck reeks of things I don't want to identify. My washer must have been moonlighting with Rosetta Stone because I could swear I hear foreign language curse words every night when I start yet another load of laundry.

All of this to say, we'll get through it together. Just be on alert and monitor all your animal's behaviors during this time. (yep, the littles can suffer the effects of the heat just like the bigs)
A little bit of common sense goes a long way.

DRINK YOUR WATER!!!

https://extension.umn.edu/horse-care-and-management/caring-horses-during-hot-weather -tips-1301064

07/16/2025

I have had a few cases of Heat Stress over the past week and a lot of my Seniors and COPD/asthmatic horses are having difficulty with this weather. I love this graphic from the UMN Extension program as well as the link in their original post (shared here) with great tips on managing horses in hot weather.

Please pay close attention to your horses behaviors in this weather and make sure to keep yourself hydrated too!🥛🫗💧💦

🌡️🔥 Hot weather can significantly increase the risk of heat stress in horses. Knowing what's normal for your horse — like their typical temperature, heart rate, and behavior — can help you spot early warning signs and take action before things get serious.

Help your horse beat the heat by:
💧 Providing free access to fresh, cool (45 to 65 degrees F) water.
🌳 Making sure horses have access to shade throughout the day.
🧂 Providing free access to salt to promote drinking.
💦 Rapidly cooling hot horses by applying continuous cool water over them.
❌ Limiting trailering or exercising horses if possible.

ℹ https://z.umn.edu/heatandhorses

02/07/2025

These are some photos of previously completed kits.

They are usually available as a donation item at various charity functions and events - like Leatherman Lane's Horse Lovers Day Go Jen Go benefit or Wings of Eagles Dinner, Dancin In the Dirt - and other local fundraisers.

They can be special ordered, as well.
All kits are original, one of a kind, and can be somewhat customized to your liking.

See my website, for more details and how best to contact me: https://www.yellowhorsevet.com/trailer-ready-first-aid-kit.pml

01/26/2025

TRAILER-READY FIRST AID KIT ALERT:
For those of you who are attending the Union County Saddle Club fan page /Union County Saddle Club Awards Banquet on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025...THIS KIT will be available as a Silent Auction Item!

Come and bid on it or set up a friend as a proxy bidder!
ALL PROCEEDS go to the Union County Saddle Club!

NOTE: The accent color is Teal. My camera made it look a little more blue. The scissors, wraps, and stethoscope case are more representative of the true color.