Maple Hill Veterinary Service, PLLC

10/14/2022

It has been 10 years since I had to let you go, and 21 years since I met your unconditional love. So grateful for your love, loyalty, and the joy you brought to all. So thankful to the AVC staff and all who helped and cared for us that weekend. You are Always with us in our hearts, Bailey ♥️🌈

03/22/2022

Drive Thru Rabies Vaccine Clinic for dogs and cats $17 each
**CATS IN CARRIERS PLEASE**
Saturday March 26, 2022
9-11AM
Morrison’s Feed Bag
1238 Memorial Dr.
St. Johnsbury, VT 05828
**STAY IN CAR AND FOLLOW SIGNS**
3 year vaccine available **IF YOU CAN SHOW PREVIOUS VACCINE CERTIFICATE THAT IS WITHIN EXPIRATION DATE**

10/25/2021

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04/15/2021

🌟🌟🌟PLEASE BE VIGILANT WITH CARING FOR YOUR HORSES🌟🌟🌟

There are currently multiple serious infectious diseases occurring in horses right now in VT. The bacterial infection streptococcus equi subsp equi (Strangles), Equine Coronavirus (not to be confused with COVID, and as of today, Equine Herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM), which is caused by a strain of EHV-1. Currently there is no vaccine to prevent this form of EHV-1.

Precautions for all of these infections include:

⭐️Quarantining NEW horses away from other horses on premise = no nose to nose contact, no sharing water buckets or feed tubs, separate equipment for mucking pastures and stalls, no other shared equipment including tack (disinfect if so), separate footwear or make a foot bath of bleach and water with a 1:10 dilution, for 28 DAYS

⭐️If traveling with horses for shows, events or trail riding = no nose to nose contact, no sharing water buckets or feed tubs, separate equipment for mucking trailers, pastures, and stalls, no other shared equipment including tack (disinfect if so).

⭐️If your horse has any respiratory signs, not interested in feed, not acting themselves, has a fever, has loose manure or diarrhea, or giving you any other sign to tell you something is wrong, contact your veterinarian

⭐️Equine Coronavirus is contracted via fecal-oral route, so it is very important to have non-contaminated footwear. Be sure ANYONE (your veterinarian, your farrier, your friends) who has been around other horses that steps onto your premises has clean and disinfected footwear prior to doing so. You can easily make a foot bath of bleach and water with a 1:10 dilution which will kill this virus. After cleaning debris from footwear, Lysol will also kill this virus.

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06/23/2020

My assistant today, great attitude!

02/22/2020

We welcomed Matteo Yves on 2/11/2020, weighing 9 lb. 1 oz. Mom and babe are doing very well. Thank you for your kind messages and well wishes💙
This means I am officially on maternity leave spending time and bonding with my new little man. If you have a large animal emergency or urgent after hours question, please call 802-253-4385. For Rx and booking routine appts please email [email protected] or leave a voicemail on the office line and I’ll get back to you.

12/02/2019

Thank you Vermont Drone! A fantastic way to help find lost loved ones ❤️

A twenty-two year old horse named Milo, busted through the fencing of its pasture and was missing since Wednesday afternoon. Just hours after being called in to help search for the horse, Vermont Drone literally located it in the last few minutes of daylight on Saturday. This was the sixth horse loc...

12/02/2019

Milo is home safe and doing well. Thanks to all who shared our post and sent positive thoughts and prayers for his safe return. Thanks to Vermont Drone and the Woodbury Fire Dept as well as all the friends and neighbors who helped locate him and get him home safely. A very Thankful weekend indeed ❤️❤️❤️

11/30/2019

***Milo has been found and rescued by the Woodbury Fire Dept. and many other kind people!!! He is home, safe, and recovering now***❤️❤️❤️

Thank you all for sharing the post about Milo missing. His owner is so thankful for the outpouring of help. As of this morning (11/30) at 10AM, Milo still had not been found. The owner was having a drone company come today to help search. Please continue to hold Chris and Milo in your thoughts and keep eyes and ears open 🙏🙏🙏

11/28/2019

****UPDATE: HORSE HAS BEEN FOUND***
***Milo has been found and rescued by the Woodbury Fire Dept. and many other kind people!!! He is home, safe, and recovering now***❤️❤️❤️

Please be on the lookout. Electric fence broken but no tracks found.
22 yr old Bay Arab gelding named “Milo”, about 15.2 hands high. He has white back feet.
Horse missing from his Pasture as of 11/27/19 Wednesday afternoon. Pasture is located at intersection of County Rd and Dog Pond Rd in Woodbury, VT (around Woodbury Mountain area). He knows and usually rides the roads with his owner in this area.
He is wearing an orange medium filled blanket with black trim. If you have seen him or have any information, please call Chris at 802-456-1526 and leave a message.

11/08/2019

It’s that time of year again folks...READY or NOT! Please make sure all outside furry friends 🐄🐖🐏🐐🐎 have access to open water at all times. This is a common time of year for impaction colics to happen in horses🐴 so make sure your horse friends are drinking their water 💦 . Some helpful tips:
1. Plug in those heated water troughs and water buckets
2. Break top layer of ice off of regular troughs or buckets multiple times throughout the day
3. Place a salt block or lick in your horses stall and run in shed or sprinkle some salt🧂 on top of their hay

Also with the weather changes, pastures may now be covered or grass probably dead, so make sure you up your horse’s daily energy requirements to stay warm. Here is a good guideline to follow:
1. Each horse should be eating 1-2% of their weight in dry matter (dry grain and hay) a day depending on their specific needs
2. For every degree Fahrenheit below 45F, add 1% more to that total daily dry matter
3. If there is wind in the forecast that day, add another 10% more to that total daily dry matter
4. And if any precipitation (rain/sleet/snow), add another 10% to that total daily dry matter

For example, for a 1000 lb. horse with a BCS 7/9, who is an “easy keeper” they may be getting 1% of their body weight in dry matter a day = 10 lb. total of dry grain and hay together daily.

On a day like today, 25F with wind 🌬 AND snow ❄️ occurring, we would give them another 40% (20% for 20 degrees below 45F, 10% for wind, and another 10% for snow) of their daily dry matter.
That would be 10 x 0.40 = 4 lb.
So their total daily dry matter consumption today (dry hay + dry grain) in order to stay warm should be 14 lb.

Using kitchen scales to weigh dry grain and hanging fishing scales to weigh dry hay (in a haynet) is often easiest.

If you have any questions about your horse’s specific needs for this winter, feel free to call the office at 802-793-7430 to schedule a wellness exam and be prepared for their health and safety in the coming months.