LARGE ANIMAL VETERINARY CARE
Equine
Primary, emergency, reproductive, and specialized care for horses and other equine
Equine
Referral not required
Common conditions we evaluate and treat
- Lameness
- Joint and fracture repair
- Gastric ulcers
- Colic
- Diarrhea
- Heart problems
- Pneumonia and asthma
- Neurological conditions
- Fertility disorders and assisted reproductive techniques
- Mare and stallion management
- Poor performance
- Infectious diseases
- Sick foals
- Renal disease
- Cancer
- Unexplained weight loss
Medicine, Emergency & Critical Care
From routine wellness evaluations to diagnosis of complicated medical conditions and treatment of sick foals, we have the largest number of equine specialists in the area to care for your animal. We also offer 24-hour, 7-day-a-week emergency and critical care with intensive care and neonatal intensive care units.
Care we offer
- Wellness evaluation
- Dental services
- Strategic deworming
- Vaccinations
- Nutrition recommendations
- Geriatric medicine
- Infectious disease prevention and biosecurity
- 24-hour, 7-day-a-week emergency and critical care
Surgery
Advanced surgical and diagnostic procedures to get your horse back to peak performance.
Some procedures we offer
- Minimally invasive joint and abdominal surgeries: arthroscopy and laparoscopic
- CT-assisted fracture repair
- Respiratory surgery and static and dynamic evaluation for respiratory disease
- Colic surgery and treatment
- Advance diagnostic imaging tools for use in analyzing lameness
- Surgical oncology: electrochemotherapy, laser surgery, and radiation
Theriogenology
Reproductive care for your mare and stallion.
We specialize in
Mare services
- Breeding soundness examination
- Diagnosis and treatment of infertility and reproductive disorders
- Breeding management and artificial insemination with cooled and frozen-thawed semen
- Management of high-risk pregnancies
- Foaling and foaling complications management
- Embryo transfer of fresh and vitrified/frozen embryo’s
- Embryo transfer of ICSI embryo’s
- Embryo vitrification/freezing
- Ovum Pick Up (OPU) and shipment of oocytes to Intra-cytoplasmatic Sperm Injection (ICSI) laboratory
- Postmortem (after sudden death or euthanasia) oocyte collection
Stallion services
- Breeding soundness examination
- Diagnosis and treatment of infertility and reproductive disorders
- Semen collection for chilled shipment
- Semen collection for cryopreservation (freezing)
- Long term stallion management for collection and shipment
- Epididymal semen collection and cryopreservation (semen collection after castration or sudden death/euthanasia)
Mobile Veterinary Service
WSU’s Agricultural Animal and Equine Mobile Veterinary Service provides large animal care to patients within 60 miles of Pullman, WA.
Hospital Stories
Custom prosthetic gives donkey a big leg up on life
Home for the holidays and back on her feet — thanks to a custom prosthetic from WSU veterinarians, a miniature donkey named Elsa is getting a second chance at life.
Horse makes immediate recovery following removal of large nasal mass
Horse left untreated for months with no answers, has quick and successful surgery at WSU.
WSU veterinarians remove nearly 100 pounds of sand and gravel from horse’s belly
Unusual cases are part of the job for WSU veterinarians, but a horse with nearly 100 pounds of sand and gravel in its gut was still quite a surprise.
Health Topics
- Equine Herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) and Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) is a highly contagious virus that can cause respiratory disease, abortion in pregnant mares, neonatal death, and neurologic disease.
- WSU alerts equine community to multi-state EHV-1/EHM outbreak linked to national rodeo events Washington State University is urging horse owners to remain vigilant following a multi-state outbreak of Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy (EHM), the neurologic form of Equine Herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1).
- Blue-green Algae (Cyanobacteria) Blooms occur in bodies of fresh water and exposure can be deadly to animals.
Clinical Studies
Any current clinical studies for this service will be listed below.
Questions about giving?
Contact Kay Glaser or 509-335-4835.