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What your vet wants you to know

Join Jennifer Jackson from Kamloops Large Animal Vet Clinic for an informative Wellness Day at the Horse Council Traveling Road Show. Learn about TPR, weight tape, body condition scoring, fecal and dental exams, vaccine discussion, and health risks. Take selfies of your horse's normals and learn about heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, capillary refill time, mucous membrane color, skin pliability, and body condition score. Dr. Heather Pedersen will discuss the importance of dental exams, vaccination, and being prepared for emergencies like colic. A first aid kit and a pre-purchase exam with your vet are essential. Learn about glucocorticoids, stress, and the importance of friends, freedom, and forage for your horse's well-being. Discover 22 things that represent 23 years of experience in the field, including the unpredictability of colics, putting the horse first, the joy of working with horses, and the challenges and rewards of the job.

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What your vet wants you to know

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  1. What your vet wants you to know • Horse Council Traveling Road Show • Kamloops • May 7, 2017 Jennifer Jackson Kamloops Large Animal Vet Clinic

  2. Google, lol

  3. A Wellness Day • they are fun • TPR • weight tape • body condition score • fecal exam • dental exam • discuss vaccines and health risks

  4. TAKE a SELFIE

  5. Your Horses Normals • Heart Rate 30-42 bpm • Respiratory Rate 12-20 bpm • Temperature 99.5-101.5 • Capillary Refill Time 2sec or less • mucous membrane colour • Skin pliability • BCS 4-6 • Horses don’t skip meals

  6. Dr. Heather Pedersen • If your horse is FAT, • Its a big Deal

  7. Dental Exam • All ages of horses need dental exams. • check for % of functional teeth • Horses need to eat on the ground • better dentition, better respiratory, better blood pressure

  8. Vaccination is important • Strangles out breaks and mortality were common when I started. • The Pinnacle (strangles IN) vaccine changed that • I have seen one case of Tetanus • Yay vaccines!

  9. Rabies

  10. when its an emergency • Eyes • colic • laminitis • respiratory disease choke • not eating

  11. Colic is HARD

  12. Please be prepared • have a first aid kit • have access or connections to a horse trailer • keep your phone numbers easily available • have a list of friends and neighbours who can help

  13. First Aid Kit • cotton roll • telfa or non stick pad • kling wrap • gauze pads • adhesive tape • leg wraps • sharp scissors • hemostats • thermometer • surgical scrub and disinfectant • latex gloves • flashlight • eye medication • wound ointment (Dermagel) • Dormosedan Gel • Bute or Banamine must have a VPCR

  14. Get a prepurchase exam with your vet • Its even better if you get it done at home with your vet!!! • get a baseline • please have met the horse first • create risk assessment

  15. Purchasing a New Partner

  16. stress is bad and its every where

  17. Glucocorticoids • Play an important roll in your • immune system, • metabolism, • development • brain -arousal & cognition • Glucocorticoids are important for Survival

  18. Glucocorticoids • Too much is BAD • skin disease & hair coat • stomach ulcers • laminitis • immune suppression • infertility • Conflict Behaviour the stress has to come out somewhere

  19. Stress has many causes Dietary restrictions or excess Isolation Horses are herd animals Exercise Restriction Pain from Lameness, Tack, Dental, Back, or movement Sleep Deprivation Inconsistent Training Techniques

  20. Chronic Stress • Chronic (long term) stress results in • elevation of the body's production of • Glucocorticoids • Insulin Resistance microvascular dysfunction vascular damage to the laminae

  21. Stress and Cortisol reduction • Check Tack, • Resolve Housing issues, Herd situations if or when possible • Annual dental exams, • Mindful training and consistent techniques • Teach your horse to Park

  22. Friends, Freedom and Forage

  23. 22 Things to represent 23 years • 1. Colics are terrifying • too many unknowns • often it takes many exams to determine the reality • they are unpredictable

  24. 2. Always PUT THE HORSE FIRST and the decisions will be easier • 3. Coffee, Warm clothing, Dry boots and a full tank of gas can be happiness • 4. I LOVE horses • 5. I love people who love horses • 6. I could talk about horses all day long.

  25. 8. I am never tired of horses • 9. Lameness is tricky, unless its easy and then often its bad • 10. Horses are amazing, kind, generous and a reflection of how well or how poorly they have been treated. • 11. Euthanasias are hard • 12. Acupuncture is truly cool

  26. 13. Advancements in Veterinary Medicine Research, drugs and awareness are amazing. Take time to read advancements in THE HORSE. • 14. Farm Calls are fun, interesting and beautiful. • 15. I can be easily bribed by tiny appreciative gestures- a coffee, a hug, eggs, flowers, chocolate & wine :)

  27. 16. If you are breeding mares you need to have a life plan for your horse. • 17. Boarding Horses = Hard Work • 18. Communication is the answer • 19. Somethings are really more challenging than they need to be. • 20. Choosing your job, choosing happiness

  28. 21. Somedays are just bad/sad, keep moving • 22. This job never really ends

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