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Georgia’s Trusted Equine Veterinarian Shares Wellness Tips To Help You Care for Your Horse As the weather changes, temperatures and humidity rise, and insects become more active, you’ll want to take extra precautions when caring for your horse. In an effort to ensure your gentle giant’s overall health, comfort, and well-being, your trusted equine veterinarian…

Horses are high performance athletes. Just think about it – their movement provides the ultimate combination of strength and coordination. But, what really helps a horse achieve smooth, frictionless movement? Healthy and happy joints. For a healthy joint to achieve a range of motion, several structures must work together like a well-oiled machine: Articular Cartilage…

Come On In To Learn & Understand What Is Going On With Your Horse. Countryside Veterinary Services strives to be on the cutting edge of technology while providing customized patient care. We want to form relationships with both our patients and their owners, which is why we treat you and your horse as family members.…

From The Vet, Dr. Dan Carter… Some horses with ulcers are easy to spot – they lose their appetites or experience chronic colic. Sometimes it’s hard to recognize a horse suffering from these painful intestinal sores. In this column, I’m going to talk you through recognizing when a horse might have ulcers and knowing how…

February is National Dental Month, and we as a clinic have strived to use this time for education. Along with performing dental exams, we have also released videos on dental care, documented floats we’ve performed, and ensured that our customers knew how important it was that their horses receive yearly dental checkups. To close out…

Protect your horses – why Vaccinate? At Countryside, we follow the core vaccination guidelines of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). The AAEP considers these vaccines essential to maintaining the health and well being of the average horse and some are even necessary to safeguard human health. Core vaccinations function to decrease the severity…

If you’ve ever had a love for horses, you know it’s something you never outgrow. No matter how busy life may get, the love of riding never completely fades away. It’s not just the privilege of riding that we fall in love with, but the bond that we get to build with the horse. This…

Scoping can be a wonderful diagnostic tool, and it can aid in the treatment of a number of ailments. From airway pathology to gastric ulcers, this procedure can help vets head off emergencies and alleviate equine pain. So, what’s stopping so many owners from scoping? The answer may be that so many of them still…

Horses often join fruit and TVs to travel internationally Most horse people will never have cause to board a treasured equine on a plane, let alone actually fly right along with it. But for a certain group of professionals, the ins and outs of getting thousands of pounds of horseflesh on and off a flying…