Fieldstone Equine Clinic

06/23/2025

Some good tips from our friends at Millbrook Equine! 🥵☀️🧊🐴💦

Heat wave's here! 🔥🌊☀️

Check out our team's recs to keep your horse cool & hydrated:

💧Provide access to plenty of clean water. Check water levels regularly as it's a good way to monitor water intake & refresh the water supply.

⛱Make sure horses in turnout have access to shade so they can escape the direct heat of the sun. Fly sheets with UV protection can provide some relief as well without adding any heat for the wearer

🧊Offer electrolytes or free-choice salt to encourage drinking. You can also soak your horse's normal feed ration to "force" some additional water intake.

💨Airflow is key for stabled horses. Open doors/ windows and utilize fans whenever possible, but be sure that wires are not causing additional hazards and that they cannot be reached by mouthy horses!

🐎Try to ride during the coolest hours of the day, early in the morning or late in the evening. If it's unavoidable, keep your mid-day rides short (about 20 minutes or so).

🧽Post-ride, help your horse cool down quickly by hosing his neck & chest first with cool water. Then hose the whole body, sweat scrape, and hose again. 👀 A recently published study found the quickest way to cool down a hot horse was continued application of cold water to the body for 2 continuous minutes 👀

⚠️Keep an eye out for symptoms of heat stress and contact your veterinarian immediately if you notice:
-Labored breathing or rapid respiratory rate
-Above normal temperature at rest
-Unusual sweating (too much or too little)
-Decreased appetite

06/10/2025

🪲 The season of the TICKS 🤢

Equine Granulocytic Anaplasmosis is a common, seasonal, non-contagious tick transmitted disease which we have seen countless cases of this spring. No fun!

🦠 Anaplasmosis is a bacterial infection caused by the anaplasma bacteria transmitted by the Ixodes ticks (commonly known as the deer tick). These nasty ticks are also the ones who transmit Lyme disease.

What are the signs that your horse might have Anaplasmosis?

🌡️ FEVER! (>101.5F)
🦵Stocked up legs, reluctant to move
🤕 Lethargic, poor appetite, decreased manure/water intake and just not themself

What should you do?

1️⃣Take your horse’s temperature
2️⃣Call your vet❗️
3️⃣Put your horses wherever they will be happiest and you can monitor them

How do we diagnose and treat?

🩸In order to definitively diagnose Anaplasmosis either a PCR blood test or a fever of unknown origin panel is necessary.
💉There are many things that cause acute fever in horses ⬆️ but depending on the situation we may choose to treat empirically with tetracycline antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications. Rapid improvement is usually observed within 24-48hrs of starting treatment. Horses are expected to make a full recovery and have no long term complications.

How can you help prevent your horse from getting sick?

🤷‍♀️ The million dollar question!
Daily tick checks (remember in order for a tick to transmit the disease they must be engorged for over 24 hours), keeping pasture grass mowed and use of topical sprays is really the best we can do.

Dang ticks!

05/06/2025

💥 Important prescription medication update!

We have received numerous requests this spring for Rx meds via third party online pharmacies (Chewy, Valley Vet, etc).
Our policy since opening has been that we do not work directly with outside pharmacies. We do not have the time nor the office staff to download/print/complete/upload forms, answer phone calls, etc.
By law the veterinarian-of-record must complete all these outside pharmacy requests (meaning our assistants cannot fill out the forms)…this gets very time consuming in a single-doctor practice!

So what are your options to purchase Rx medications?

🚛 Off the truck! We stock the vet truck as best we can and you may be able to get what you need directly from our office or truck

🛜 Directly from the online pharmacy associated with FEC.
Create an account, order your prescription, Dr.Sam approves it (no added paperwork on our end 😉) and it’s quickly shipped directly to you.
🔗 https://fsecpllc.myvetstoreonline.pharmacy/

📝 Receive a handwritten prescription to use at the pharmacy of your choosing. These prescriptions must be requested at the time of your appointment or you must pick them up at our office (no, we will not mail these).

🐴 If none of the above options work and purchasing from an online outside pharmacy is the best option for you, we will assess a 💲30 administration fee to handle this request. Keep in mind it will often be challenging for us to process these prescription requests quickly and efficiently.

We hope these four options are helpful. We do our best to keep our online pharmacy prices competitive, we are consumers too, we understand! Please keep in mind: ✨📣 large corporate pharmacies can often SELL medication cheaper than we can BUY them from our suppliers 📣 ✨

Thank you for supporting our small business in all the ways you do! We are truly grateful 🌷

Pro tip: a great way to make your busy veterinarian’s life easier, shop from the FEC online pharmacy whenever you can! 🤓

04/22/2025

✨Happy retirement to our favorite UPS guy! ✨

Thanks for always keeping us fully stocked and on the road 🚛 But more importantly, thanks for keeping Finn fed! 📦🐶

04/14/2025

🌷Spring has finally sprung!🌷

This is a busy time of year for FEC and we encourage everyone to be planning ahead with your appointments!

🗓️ We are currently booking out 3-4 weeks for on farm non-urgent appointments

🛻 We can often schedule haul in appointments within a week

We hope everyone got to enjoy some ☀️ today and if we havent seen you already this spring, see you soon! 🐎

03/29/2025

🐎 What an amazing 2 days learning from Dr. Sue Dyson this past week at the Myhre Equine Clinic Spring Conference!

Dr. Dyson is one of the worlds leading lameness experts. If you aren’t familiar with her work we encourage all our clients to check some of it out here 🔗👉 www.24horsebehaviors.org

Big Thanks to Myhre Equine Clinic for this opportunity!

03/10/2025

It finally feels like spring is around the corner and Finn (farm manager) is certainly not complaining! ☀️🌷🐶

This means spring vaccine appointments and wellness exams 🩺 Both critical preventative care components and required as clients of FEC.

Our recommended vaccines are:

💉 Rabies, Tetanus, EEE, WEE, West Nile
💉 Flu/Rhino
💉 Lyme
💉 Potomac Horse Fever ✨New for 2025

Vaccines can be situation based and our recommendations can vary horse to horse.

🌟 It is important to remember that Flu/Rhino and Lyme MUST be given 2x a year to be effective and that booster doses are needed for ALL vaccines in previously unvaccinated horses

☎️ Give us a shout to schedule all those spring time needs!

02/12/2025

🌟 Exciting Client Education Event! 🌟

Fieldstone Equine Clinic, Citadel Equine and Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc. are joining forces to bring you an awesome evening❗️Enjoy a delicious dinner from The Tunbridge General Store 🤤 and even learn a thing or two❗️

🩺 Dr. Julie Settlage of Boehringer Ingelheim will discuss Potomac Horse Fever, an emerging infectious disease that is now in our region.

🗓️ Wednesday March 5th

⏰ 5-7pm

📍Tunbridge General Store
(304 Rt 110 Tunbridge, VT)

Dr. Settlage is a wonderful speaker and this event will be fun and interesting! Open to current clients of FEC and Citadel Equine only.

🔗RSVP required to attend
(Sign ups close on Feb 26th)⬇️
https://form.jotform.com/250396931352156

02/03/2025

🌟📣 Job opportunity! 📣🌟

Fieldstone Equine Clinic has an exciting opportunity to join our equine veterinary practice as a part-time seasonal veterinary assistant‼️

We are a small, dynamic team providing outstanding patient care and customer service in both ambulatory and clinic settings. This position will be a mix of direct patient care and administrative tasks. Our ideal candidate will meet the following criteria:

🐴 Personable, genuine, go-getter attitude

🐴 Flexible, efficient, multitasker, eager to learn new skills

🐴 Follows written and oral directions, and takes pride in their work

🐴 ⭐️Confident horse handler⭐️ able to lunge and walk/trot horses in-hand of varying ages/breeds/training levels

🐴 Able to lift 50 lbs repeatedly

🐴 Clean driving record and ability to safely drive a pickup truck in all weather conditions

✨Candidates with extensive equine experience but limited veterinary work will be considered - we can train you!✨

💰Compensation depends on experience, starting at $20/hour. Expect 10-20 hours per week.

🗓️ The work period will be roughly March - October 2025.

✏️ Must be over the age of 18 to apply. Two references, a working interview, and a background check are required. Please email or call Dr. Sam Scheu to learn more or apply.

☎️802-649-1110
[email protected]

01/27/2025

February Dental Month Promotions‼️

February is national pet oral health month and we are happy to participate with some great deals and promos 💲⬇️

🦷 Haul to FEC:
🌟 Recieve 20% off your horse’s comprehensive oral exam and dental float
🌟No office fee
🌟No travel fee (you’re hauling in!)
🌟Free, fun promo gifts

Pro-tip: our clinic is HEATED and a very nice place to hang out in the winter! Plus The Tunbridge General Store just down the street makes delicious food 🤤

🦷 More than 5 horses at one farm:
🌟Recieve 10% off each individual oral exam and dental float

🗓️ Promotions are only available during the month of February so schedule your appointment today!

Oral health is vital to your horse’s overall wellbeing. Let’s start the year off on the right tooth! 🦷

01/08/2025

New year, new smile! 😃🐴 🦷

This 3yo had a pretty unique dental situation going on. A few of his adult incisors were erupting in the wrong place (they should be directly below the baby incisors-pushing them out).

Dr. Sam along with his colleagues at Upper Valley Equine, who provide advanced dental surgery, extracted the deciduous (baby) teeth so the adult incisors can drift down into place.

✨ A great example of why a sedated oral exam is so important! ✨

At first glance nothing appears wrong with this horses dentition. Without a sedated oral exam this wouldn’t have been discovered and without veterinary intervention this horse would have had lifelong oral discomfort.

Hey tooth fairy! He’s still waiting for you! 🧚 🦷

12/22/2024

🎄Happy Holidays! 🎄

A reminder we will be closed Dec 24-25 and Dec 31-Jan 1. Emergency coverage is available for FEC clients at 802-889-8901.

Happy New Year and much love from your Fieldstone Equine team! 🎉🐴 ❄️