Town & Country Vet Care in DAguilar, Queensland, Australia | Medical and health

Town & Country Vet Care

Locality: DAguilar, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 418 194 842

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24.01.2022 For the past 40 years, Ced has helped create some of the best cattle bloodlines in Australia and New Zealand. His job has its quirks - but he's never without a smile. Watch the full story this Sunday at 12.30 on ABC TV + iview.

22.01.2022 Happy Birthday to all the Ponies

19.01.2022 Please keep your horses up to date

18.01.2022 Anyone looking for Rhodes round bales? Contact Stacey directly https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/376861463301153/

12.01.2022 Short video of the weekend tetanus case

09.01.2022 Working on a 20 year old horse the other day , horse is regularly cuddled by a horse mad 5 year old girl, and that horse lives in a paddock where bats fly ove...r and feed in the trees. Horse is not vaccinated. The moment the owner asks our nurse, can people get Hendra too?, it convinced me that we sure have a long way to go in getting the information out there! As Winter 2020 shapes up to be similar in Hendra Case risk factors to 2011 and 2017, where there were surges in case numbers, we urge clients to keep Hendra virus in their minds, and have a game plan for if their horse looks unwell, whether the horse is vaccinated against Hendra virus or not! We’ve all been delivered on a platter how viruses work and how to generally stay safe from them , through this Covid 19 pandemic. So regarding Hendra virus : 1) wash your hands well after handling your horse 2) should your horse become unwell, use good personal protective equipment (mask, glasses, gloves) 3) socially distance from sick horses (don’t hug and kiss them!) 4) don’t let your horses eat or drink under trees where fruit bats(flying foxes) are feeding or roosting. 5) consider Hendra virus as a potential cause of any horse that’s not well, as the clinical signs are wide and varied - with everything from : dull, listless, not eating, fever, snotty nose, cough, wobbliness, colic (pawing the ground, rolling excessively, kicking at belly, looking around at its belly etc) head pressing, circling when walking, chewing strangely, to rapid death! 6) strongly consider vaccinating your horse against Hendra virus, no matter how old or how well travelled the horse is. 7) don’t believe the rumours about how dangerous the vaccine is. Just go and ask those who refuse to vaccinate what they are blaming any possible illness their horse gets now that they can’t blame the vaccine? 8 ) if you choose not to vaccinate , ensure you have a game plan of how to deal with the situation should your horse become ill. i.e keep kids away from the sick horse, don’t let horses go nose to nose with other horses, wash hands well , use PPE, don’t blame the vet clinic if they have rules like they need to charge you more $ for extra PPE, stress, paperwork, risk of prosecution by WHS and time in dealing with sick unvaccinated horses, that they can’t give your horse the proper treatment it needs for 1-3 days until lab tests rule out the possibility of Hendra, or even that they choose NOT to help you with veterinary science tools because you chose to ignore the advice of veterinary science experts on the best way to protect your horse. 9) stay safe people, look after your beloved horses. PS Most of our clients vaccinate their horses against Hendra virus now, simply getting them done at their annual dental visit. Cost for Hendra vaccine averages out at $2.25/ wk per horse throughout your horse’s life. https://www.vpb.nsw.gov.au/hendra-virus-spillover-warning

09.01.2022 Looking for a Warmblood?

06.01.2022 Sometimes a photograph just doesn’t show the full story. This handsome young TB was referred by the lovely Dr Deb Rogers from Town & Country Vet Care after a di...agnosis of a fractured tooth this week. What you can’t easily see from photographs is just how swollen his cheek is, and have thick the mandible is that contains the dead and infected tooth. In dental practice there really aren’t all that many cases that have to be seen urgently, however this fellow had a rapidly enlarging cheek (masseter muscle) that was very painful to the touch, and he was dropping weight quickly. These radiographs show a large abscess on the apical or ‘root’ end of the tooth, and the black speckly area is the pus and the gas that is produced by the bacteria. Pus is extremely destructive, and when it forms in one area it does a great job of finding the path of least resistance, and if left untreated would have eventually burst out the bottom of the jaw. A cheek tooth in a young horse (4yo) is extremely long, and often these can be difficult to extract due to the limited amount of room in the mouth. Thankfully we were able to move the bottom jaw over a little using a special mouth gag, and use an archaic instrument called a ‘tooth turner’ to gently turn the tooth towards the centre of the mouth where there was a little more room for it to come out of the alveolus (socket). This guy is on some pretty heavy duty antibiotics to help clear up that abscess and bone infection and with any luck he will be feeling better in no time at all!

06.01.2022 Checking your horse’s manure??

04.01.2022 About worming.....