Monadnock Equine Veterinary Services

04/24/2026

Our practice would not function without Shiloh! Please remember this is a crazy time of year for us and she and Amber are doing their best to get your receipts, invoices, Coggins tests, health certificates, and lab results to you while juggling the schedule to fit in emergencies, answering calls, ordering medications ….. Please be patient!

04/09/2026

73 Coggins in the last week! Please be patient with our office!!

03/06/2026

SAVE THE DATE(S). Monadnock Equine will be holding a vaccination clinic at the Cheshire Fairgrounds in Swanzey on Saturday April 11 from 10-4. If there is sufficient interest we will hold a second clinic on Saturday 6/6.

The clinics are open to everyone, including horse owners who do t want to do their own vaccinations but are having trouble getting a vet out to their farm.

Please call our office at (603)876-4820 to sign up for a time.

01/29/2026

First off, a huge thanks to Stephanie Schierioth and Ricky Sheehan for going out on this frigid day to transport a patient of ours to a barn that would keep him warmer than the one he was living in. They are not in the horse transportation business; they are just friends and clients willing to step up for a horse in need.

Which brings me to my second point- while a 3-sided shelter or open barn (like mine!) provides plenty of shelter for a healthy horse with adequate body fat and a good coat, some horses need more protection in this weather. Horses that are very young, old, thin, or who have poor coats, Cushing’s , or poor health need extra help. Keeping these animals in an enclosed space, preferably shared with other animals, will help them stay warmer.

Horses generate body heat by digesting fiber. All horses benefit from extra hay in the cold. Increase hay/roughage by 10% for every 10 degrees below freezing. If your horse is on a mash diet, feed it warm and frequently so he eats as frequently as possible. Provide warm water. While there is some controversy over blanketing thick-coated horses, if your horse is cold, add blankets! Make sure there is plenty of dry bedding for the horse to lie in so they don’t lose body heat to the cold floor.

Signs of hypothermia include shivering, lethargy, loss of appetite, rapid shallow breathing, colic, and lying down/refusing to get up. Check on at risk horses frequently, and if they shows signs of hypothermia, get a temp and warm them up. Their life may depend on it.

01/14/2026

We are hearing reports of fake Ulcergard being sold on Amazon. There have been several cases on facebook, and a client of ours just found out from she had bought counterfeit product when she had us check the lot number with Boehringer. If you have recently purchased ulcergard online, call the manufacturer and check the lot number. Your vet can call their rep if you need assistance. The reports I’ve seen have all been from Amazon, but I would assume there’s counterfeit product being sold elsewhere as well.

01/09/2026

I will be getting a complete knee replacement on January 21, and will be out of work for several weeks afterwards. I was hoping to put this off till after retirement but my knee had other plans Dr Graham will be doing calls on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We will not schedule regular appointments on Saturdays while I am out. Because Dr. Graham will have to cover emergencies for an extended period of time, she may ask clients to ship in to a barn in Keene or refer some cases to another clinic. Please make arrangements now if you don’t have a trailer. In addition, we will not be taking any new clients until March, at which point we will assess our case load and decide if we can take on more.

I will be back to work as soon as I’m allowed to be. In the meantime, please be patient and work with us. I will see you in the spring.

11/22/2025

A lot of you have questions about the EHV1outbreak. We received an email from our Boehringer Ingelheim rep (one of the vaccine manufacturers we use) regarding an upcoming webinar about it for horse owners. Here is the information:

📅 Date: Monday, 11/24/25

⏰ Time: 7PM EST

💻 Format: Zoom *Please note we maxed out Zoom last night at 500 attendees - so have people register early and log on early as I am assuming we will do the same for this one*

🔗 Registration: https://boehringer.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ob0krmkLSX6Yb4Kry7cguw #/registration

🙋🏻‍♀️Questions: Horse Owners Can Pre-Submit Questions They Would Like Addressed HERE - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZZFCLZS

Hope anyone with concerns can attend.

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11/06/2025

Looking at my last post, I realized there was more I needed to say. The shortage of equine vets is happening throughout the country; veterinarians are leaving equine practice, and there are not enough new grads to replace them. According to AAEP (American Assoc of Equine Practitioners) data, only about 1.5 percent of vet school grads enter equine practice directly, and another 4.5 percent pursue further training in equine medicine or surgery. Of all of those new grads, 50 percent leave equine practice within 5 years. As equine practices like ours are stretched thinner, our practice model has to adapt. In many parts of the country, horse owners have to ship in to a clinic for both routine and emergency care. The same thing is starting to happen here. Next year, there will be horse owners in VT and NH without a veterinarian who can visit their farm. We simply cannot cover every area and every client left behind by practice closures. The take home message for horse owners is this: IF YOU HAVE HORSES, YOU NEED TO HAVE ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION! If you don’t have a trailer, be proactive. Look into arrangements with professional shippers, friends, trainers, or neighbors, and have a plan for transporting your horse should the need arise.

We are working to arrange a haul-in location for emergencies, at least for the winter, and will likely be scheduling vaccination clinics for the spring. In addition, Dr Rifkin of Hopkington, NH, and Dr. Wozniac of South Deerfield (MA) Veterinary Clinic are willing to see routine and emergency calls on a haul-in basis.

I am posting a list of some haulers in the area. I also invite you to use the comment section as a message board to let other horse owners know that you are available to ship horses or that you are looking for transportation. Don’t wait until you have a bad colic, or you need a last minute health certificate, to make arrangements!

Christy Blackman - Ride the Line Equine Transport
Long distance hauling. DM on FB or call/text:
330-806-9867

Trum-Searah Equestrian Enterprises LLC New Braintree, MA
307-343-5483 www/tsequestrianenterprises.com

Hannah Garland H&N Transport Southern ME FB or
207-608-5594

Last Minute Haulin Richmond, NH
774-813-4148

10/10/2025

We are in tumultuous times! I’m sure all of you have heard that Vermont New Hampshire Veterinary Clinic will no longer be seeing horses. We will be taking on some of their clients, but we are starting to be spread very very thin.

We have also been inundated with emergencies. Given our current case load, we cannot provide emergency service to owners who are not established, regular clients; that is, owners who see us on a regular basis, and for whom we do routine preventative care.

In addition, we are in the middle of a software change. Shiloh is still inputting prices, and we’re all trying to learn to use a system that’s very different from what we’re used to. Please be patient if we don’t get you your invoices and lab results right away, or if it takes us a few days to return phone calls and emails. We appreciate your patience!

05/19/2025

We are now charging a nominal fee of $15 for calling in/submitting/approving prescriptions with outside pharmacies. Our office is extremely busy, and the time it takes to deal with prescriptions adds up! Thanks for your understanding.

05/07/2025

We have a new email address. Our old one ([email protected]) is overrun with junk mail, so we are asking clients to use [email protected] to contact us. Also please keep in mind that we are really busy this time of year and Shiloh has a ton on her plate! She will get back to everyone with lab results, invoices, etc, but please be patient! Thanks