Egleston Equine & Farm Animal Clinic

07/08/2025

🎡Headed to the Fair? Let’s Talk Biosecurity!🎠

Fairs are full of fun, food, and fierce competition but they can also be full of germs. 😷🦠 Whether you’re showing pigs, poultry, cows, goats, or sheep, don’t forget: biosecurity isn’t just for barns it’s for the trailer, show ring, and tack box too!

Here’s how to keep your animals safe:

✅ Clean & Disinfect gear, boots, and trailers before AND after the fair
🚫 No Nose-to-Nose Contact with unfamiliar animals (friendly sniffing can spread diseases!)
🏠 Quarantine Animals when they get home, 14 days away keeps the vet bills at bay!
👀 Monitor for Illness like coughing, fever, or anything “off” early action = faster recovery

Remember: 🏅The only thing you want to bring home is a ribbon!

Have fun, show safe, and if you any questions or concerns please reach out the the EEFAC team.

📞: 570-534-4612

Take a look at the article below from Cornell University for more tips on safe practices while at fairs and other events this show season.

The recent undetected introduction and rapid spread of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom highlights the importance of the integration of effective biosecurity practices in every livestock operation within the US. Showing and exhibiting animals presents a risk for the spread of foreign or....

28/07/2025

🦷🐴 DENTAL MONTH IS HERE – TIME TO FLOAT THOSE CHOMPERS! 🐴🦷

Is your horse:
✔️ Dropping more grain than they eat?
✔️ Chewing like they forgot how jaws work?
✔️ Acting like the bit was handcrafted by a medieval blacksmith?

For the months of August and September, we’re offering a 10% discount on equine dental floats. Call fee, sedation and any additonal services are not included in the discount.

Your horse may not thank you with words, but they might stop flinging half-chewed hay all over the barn aisle. (We said might.)

🗓️ Call the office now at 570-534-4612 to schedule your appointment.

21/07/2025

📢 Important Update on Emergency Services

To our Valued Clients,
We want to inform you of an important change regarding our emergency care services. Due to ongoing staffing limitations and the increasing distance to certain areas, we are no longer able to provide emergency services to McAlisterville, Mifflintown and surrounding areas. This decision was not made lightly. Our priority is to provide timely, and high-quality care to all our patients. Unfortunately, the logistical challenges of serving distant locations during emergencies make it difficult for us to uphold that standard.
We deeply understand how concerning this may be for animal owners in these affected areas. If you are able to trailer to our treatment facility we will be able to service you.

🐴It is important to plan ahead and have access to a truck and trailer, if you do not own one yourself.

If you have any questions please call the office at 570-534-4612.

Thank You!
The EEFAC team

Edited to add:
Our facility is located in Kratzerville. It is not meant to replace referral level care. However, it does provide an option for out of the emergency coverage area patients to be seen on an urgent basis. Examples of cases would be laceration, colic work ups, or chokes. Patients that may need multiple days of IV antibiotics, bandage changes, or multiple time a day oral fluids or for clients who are not available or able to provide those types of more involved care at their home. If you have, further questions please call our office.

03/07/2025

🎆 Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸

Our office will be closed on Friday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

📞 For urgent matters or emergencies, please contact us at 570-534-4612.

Wishing everyone a safe and joyful holiday as we celebrate the spirit of freedom!

11/06/2025

Moo-ve over ordinary gear… we’re celebrating National Dairy Month in style! 🥛🐄
From barn to pasture, our vets (and their mini-me helpers) count on Udder Tech Inc. to stay clean, cool, and focused on top-notch cow care. 💙🩺🐄

03/06/2025

🥛🐄 Have you Herd? 🐄🥛

June is National Dairy Month, and we’re tipping our hats (and our milk bottles!) to the hardworking dairy farmers and the incredible animals that keep the dairy industry going strong.

As a veterinary clinic, we’re proud to stand alongside our area’s dairy farmers. Providing care for the herds that feed our families, support our economy, and carry on a proud tradition.

Got a favorite dairy cow or farm story? Share it with us in the comments below! 👇

26/05/2025

Egleston Equine and Farm Animal Clinic will be running on a EMERGENCY ONLY BASIS TODAY! (5/26/2025)

Please call the office at 570-534-4612 if you have an emergency!

03/04/2025

Just a friendly reminder that we are in our BUSY season. If you are looking to schedule an appointment you need to CALL THE OFFICE. 570-534-4612
We are unable to keep up with text messages, emails, etc.

If you do not call the office and leave a message we cannot guarantee you will be responded to and scheduled in a timely fashion.

22/02/2025

❗Continuing Education (CE) is a key component to a veterinarian's career.

WE ARE LIFELONG LEARNERS! 📚

🐄 Dr. Jake journeyed to Norman, Oklahoma February 13-16th for the 8th Annual AABP (American Association of Bovine Practitioners) Recent Graduate Conference. Veterinary medicine is a progressive profession and is continually evolving, so it is required for veterinarians to stay up to date with how we practice medicine by attending continuing education (CE) events. This conference was tailored to early-career large animal and mixed-animal veterinarians interested in bovine medicine.

🐮 At the conference, Dr. Jake was able to participate in a pre-conference seminar with a hands-on lab about bovine dystocia (difficult calvings) and how to approach them depending on the situation. The lab involved practicing placing calf cadavers in a bag (the uterus) in various presentations/postures/positions and then learning tips and tricks for correcting these malpositions. At the end of the lab, participants also practiced performing fetotomy on the calf cadaver, which is essentially using a special tool to guide sharp obstetrical wire around the calf and removing the calf by sawing the calf into smaller pieces. This procedure is only performed on dead calves that cannot be delivered naturally with the goal of removing the calf to save the dam for future life and production.

👨‍⚕️ During the main conference, Dr. Jake attended several informative and inspiring
lectures about a variety of topics in bovine medicine that are important for the early-
career veterinarian, including practitioner health and sustainability, respecting cultures, transition cow disease management, milking parlor and ventilation assessments, extra-label drug usage (ELDU), calf weaning protocols, and much more!

🐖 There were even some interesting talks discussing important things a cow vet should know about backyard poultry, small ruminants, and backyard swine!

Conferences are also a great time to catch up with vet school friends and discuss cases, life, etc! 😄

11/02/2025

🚨 SAFETY FIRST! 🚨

Sometimes as veterinarians we utilize restraining techniques on horses to ensure our safety, our client’s safety and the safety of our patients.

🐎 Our most common restraining techniques include client handling, sedation and/or a twitch; however, they can include more advanced techniques depending on the situation and the individual horse.

Pictured is a rope twitch. A twitch can come in a variety of different shapes and sizes. Sometimes a twitch has a negative connotation; however, applying a twitch to a horse’s nose releases endorphins (AKA “feel good chemicals”) which are naturally released by the body and produce sedative and pain-relieving effects on the body. 🐴

⌚ Application of a twitch should be done prior to a procedure as it can take 3-5 minutes to take effect and give the necessary effects. Horse owners can use certain restraining techniques to aid them in clipping, working with the farrier, etc.

NOT ALL RESTRAINING TECHNIQUES WORK FOR EVERY HORSE – THEY ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS AND RESPOND TO DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES DIFFERENTLY. ❗

❣Please note: We utilize restraining techniques first and foremost for SAFETY purposes. Depending on the situation, restraint techniques will vary depending on the individual horse and situation.

07/02/2025

❣️ For those of you that will be starting to foal soon this webinar should be very helpful!

It’s free to register! 👏🏼

Are you foal-ready?

Join AAEP member veterinarians Drs. Chelsea Folmar & Taylor Huffman on Feb. 12 for a webinar discussion that will help you prepare for the foaling season. Learn how to create a foaling kit, the timeline of parturition (foaling), and how to recognize when veterinary intervention is needed.

Registration is FREE but required. A recording of the webinar will be available if you miss the live event.

Register here: https://events.zoom.us/ev/Ats8dN0E2JxrJYoBUPKU7BW_HtYcwxW988ZYvpWRruqNFu98_uws~AnoL_ZTlIx2iZDbk457AKzpEPWgwMyM1m36OoJWUUyiXJPOgKi4PHJJYdQ

This informative session is brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee.

03/02/2025

👏 You all did great again with your critical thinking when it came to our second “Case Study!”

Joe was seen by a veterinarian and was assumed to have tetanus based on his clinical history (or lack of) and the pr*****ed third eyelid (see picture/diagram). Did you guess correctly? 🤔

❗️Here is a link to a full document that gives a good run down of tetanus: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/horse-owners/infectious-diseases-of-horses/tetanus-in-horses

This case is a good comparison for our last case that was “diagnosed” as botulism, because tetanus and botulism are opposites of each other. Botulism causes muscles to relax and lose tone while tetanus causes muscles to spasm/tighten. 🤯

Can you solve this case? 🩺

🐴 Patient: A15-20 year old Grade QH named Joe that was purchased from an auction approximately 2 months ago with an unknown medical history.

❗Owner noticed that Joe had a small wound that they noticed after a long trail ride on his right hind leg that they had cleaned, put SSD on and wrapped. Since then there have been slight changes to Joe including a little stiffer than normal, a weird facial expression and an odd thing going on with his eyes.

What would be on your list of differentials for the diagnosis of this case? 🤔

** This is a hypothetical case for learning purposes only. **