Uxbridge Equine Veterinary Services
Davis Drive Uxbridge, ON, Canada

We hope all of our clients and patients bundled up and stayed warm during the snowy weather today! Time to start the count down to Christmas and 2021...which will hopefully make up for the craziness that this year has brought!

Almost time to deworm! Having an accurate weight of your horse is essential for effectively deworming. Swipe to see the formula for calculating your horse’s weight at home with a measuring tape! UEVS has plenty of dewormer in stock this year. Contact us to learn more!

A little laugh (but also some truth) for your Thursday evening #horsepeopleproblems

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our lovely clients and patients! Hope everyone got some good riding in with the lovely weather we had this weekend!

Did you know that horses can live a perfectly happy and healthy life with no incisors? Dr. Watt extracted all remaining incisors from an older mare’s mouth who was diagnosed with EOTRH last year! Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis is a painful disease that effects the incisors and sometimes canines of horses that have been diagnosed. As you can see in this photo, a few of these incisors had almost nothing left to them, and were causing this old gal a lot of discomfort! Often times we see a huge difference in the attitude of these horses after the cause of their discomfort is removed completely. They adapt to life with no front teeth quite quickly after the extractions are performed.

Cool comparison! The bottom picture was taken back in July of an ulcer that had turned into an infection. The owners were worried that the eye required removal, but with a little extra TLC and lots of antibiotics and antifungal medications we were able to get the eye to where it is now in the top picture! The cloudiness and vasculature will eventually completely disappear, but the black pigmentation (scar) will likely remain for the rest of this guy’s life. But hey; an e...ye with a slight scar that is still functional and not painful is wayyy better then having no eye there at all! Being able to look back and see what this eye used to look like, versus now, makes things that much more rewarding for us. We are super happy with the amount of progress that this eye has made since beginning treatment! See more

Our technician Katie started running summer fecal egg counts the middle of last month! These egg counts take 10-15 minutes to run per horse, but in those 10-15 minutes we can determine if your horse has a high parasite burden and if they require summer deworming. Most adult horses only need to be dewormed once yearly late fall/early winter, but there are some that may need a little extra assistance in keeping their counts low. Above is a parasite that is most commonly ...seen in the adult horse; Strongyles spp. This guy is a little farther in his lifecycle than the typical egg Katie sees under the microscope...and yes, it is moving ! Hoping everyone has had a fantastic summer! See more

Some cool pictures of an eye that we have been treating lately! The cloudy patch seen on this eye is actually a squamous cell carcinoma...also know as a type of cancer to put it in simpler terms! Fortunately however, this does not mean that the eye must be removed. This owner chose liquid nitrogen, or cryotherapy, as the route of treatment. Hopefully after a few treatments these cancer cells will start to die off! The eye will never be clear again, but if we can get rid of the cancer then we can make her much more comfortable!

Does anyone remember the horse that broke his radius some time ago and was in a sling? This is what his radius looks like now! After 5 months in the Anderson Sling this fracture is looking awesome. There is some callous, and there is a faint line where the fracture had occurred, but with some time and continued rehab these things will gradually go away! He now has the all clear to add under saddle walking to his rehab schedule. Luckily, this guy didn’t seem to mind his long period of stall rest. We are very happy that he is healing up so well and is on his way to getting back to work!