Central Georgia Equine Services, Inc.

07/10/2025

It's Best Friends Forever Day! Actually that describes every day on the Kersey farm! Meet Lulu and her BFF Liza Jane. They are both brown and white. They are both girls. They are the same height and they do everything together. If I am going to examine one well you're going to have to do both!

07/02/2025

We had the cutest horse owner in the clinic today! His name is Rhett Kelley. Rhett is age 4. He brought his horse Magic in today with a little supervision from Mom and Grandma, after all he isn't quite old enough to drive and truck and trailer, yet!

06/30/2025

Here is our patient after her nebulization treatment. While not normal, she was breathing with much less effort and she was able to start grazing.
In addition to nebulization we will be starting this horse on a variety of medications to reduce the inflammation in her lungs while the owner makes changes to her environment.

06/30/2025

So for our case of Summer Asthma today we nebulized our patient with a bronchodilator to open up the constricted airways. Then we nebulized with a corticosteroid that is safe for senior horses and horses at risk for laminitis.

06/30/2025

Case of the day! This horse was purchased a couple of months ago. It has been coughing for a couple of weeks. Today that horse had trouble standing up. (Sound up)

06/26/2025

In our last post I posted a video of a black mare in respiratory distress. This mare has Summer Pasture Associated Recurrent Airway Obstruction (SPARO) or "Summer Asthma".
Our readers posted many amazing thoughts and ideas that every veterinarian should include in a differential list of possible causes. Here is what we do first in these cases.
1. We get a complete physical examination with special care to listen to the lungs and trachea, check the mucous membranes for color and capillary refill and check the horses' temperature.
2. We pull blood samples for a complete blood count and Serum Amyloid A test.
3. We start nebulization with a bronchodilator.

Stay tuned for more information about horses with Summer Asthma.

06/24/2025

Case of the week:
What's wrong with this mare? What should we do next?
(No DVM's or technicians please!)

06/17/2025

This photo was taken 9 months after the original injury. The eye is visual and non painful. The scar has become transparent. In total Donna wore a subpalpebral eye lavage catheter for 9 weeks. during this time she had 1268 treatments including antibiotics, antifungals, serum and platelet rich plasma. Donna delivered a healthy filly 5 months after her injury.

06/15/2025

06/11/2025

In this video we are performing a corneal debridement to remove devitalized tissue that is inhibiting the healing process. We do this procedure standing under local anesthesia and sedation.

06/10/2025

In the final video we show a fun and easy way to protect the subpalpebral eye lavage (SPL) catheter while making patient care and assessment easier.