Equine
Referral not required
When you arrive for your appointment
WSU’s Large Animal Services are located inside the Large Animal Barn at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
For appointments, please proceed up Ott Road to the large animal intercom. Before unloading your animal, proceed to the reception desk to have your animal admitted.
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.
Primary care we offer
- Wellness evaluation
- Dental services
- Strategic deworming
- Vaccinations
- Nutrition recommendations
- Geriatric medicine
- Infectious disease prevention and biosecurity
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 a 60-mile radius of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Hospital Stories
WSU offers expanded equine reproductive care and advanced techniques
Dancing horse undergoes life-saving procedures at WSU
Horse’s freak accident not fatal thanks to WSU veterinarians
Health Topics
- Movement sensors show promise in identifying horses at injury risk A small 3-ounce sensor capable of recording 2,400 data points of movement in a second could be key in reducing injuries to racehorses.
- Blue-green Algae (Cyanobacteria) Blooms occur in bodies of fresh water and exposure can be deadly to animals.
- WSU to study effect of controversial drug on racehorses Veterinary medicine researchers received a grant to study the impact of a controversial drug administered to thoroughbred racehorses before most races in the United States.
Clinical Studies
Any current clinical studies for this service will be listed below.
Grateful Client Giving
Honor your pet’s caregiver
“This is a place of miracles.”
-Anne Hensley, veterinary hospital client