Large Animal Services

Whether you have a large production facility, a small family farm, pleasure horses, or just a few animals for 4-H projects our large animal departments are well suited to provide for your individual needs. Don't see the service you are looking for? Call our office to see if we offer that service!

We provide a variety of services including:

Health

Disease diagnostic programs
Disease prevention strategies
Biosecurity plans and procedures
Pathogen elimination procedures
Reproductive evaluation and optimization

Production

Biologic production analysis
Environmental problem solving
Employee training

Financial

Expansion planning
Cash flow projections
Pig flow and facility utilization
Abilene VetMeds, a membership program for medicines and supplies

Data Management

Production data management
Production data analysis
Research trial design, management and analysis

The AAH veterinarians provide many services for bovine producers including:

Primary diagnosis and care for ill individuals
Vaccinations, implants, and castrations
Internal and external parasite control planning
Obstetrical services and fertility diagnostics
Reproductive examinations and ultrasonography
Artificial insemination
Bull semen evaluation
Preventative health planning
Lameness examination
Hoof trimming
Diagnostic and surgical services
Production records analysis

We also offer Abilene Vet Meds (a membership program for medicine, vaccines, and supplies) for our cattle clients.

We provide a full range of services including:

Reproductive management including breeding soundness examinations for mares and stallions, reproductive ultrasound imaging for ovulation prediction and pregnancy detection, uterine culture and biopsy
Artificial insemination of fresh, chilled, or frozen semen
Stallion collection
Shipping fresh and chilled semen
Diagnostic laboratory services including foal IgG SNAP, complete blood panels, Coggins, stall side serum amyloid a (SAA)
Lameness evaluation and radiology services
Pre-purchase examination
Sheath cleaning
Routine surgical procedures e.g. cryptorchid, hernia repair, laceration repair
Pneumatic dentistry
Preventative health services including wellness week which offers owners significant discounts on all equine vaccine, dewormer, and preventative health care services

Are you considering breeding your mare?

There is a lot to consider before breeding your mare. Please call our office and ask to speak with a large animal veterinarian or technician for pricing and advice. Before breeding, you would need to decide on a stallion to use and find out how the semen will be sent (either fresh chilled or frozen). We will then decide on a time for you to start bringing in your mare for reproductive ultrasounds (most mares in Kansas generally start cycling in April). A trained veterinarian will use a transrectal ultrasound to view the mares cervix, uterus, and ovaries, and determine where she is in her cycle. We have injectable hormones available that we can use to manipulate her cycle, so that she is ready for breeding. Often, it can take 3-5 ultrasounds before the mare is ready to breed.

When the timing is right, we insert the semen directly into the uterus through the cervix. We do recommend an ovulation check or ultrasound the day after insemination to make sure the mare has ovulated. We also recommend a 14 day and 35 day post-breeding ultrasound to confirm there are no twins at 14 days and to confirm a heartbeat at 35 days.

We also have the capability of collecting stallions and shipping off semen. Stallions must be trained to collect or taken somewhere for training BEFORE we will collect them.

Are you considering breeding your mare?

There is a lot to consider before breeding your mare. Please call our office and ask to speak with a large animal veterinarian or technician for pricing and advice. Before breeding, you would need to decide on a stallion to use and find out how the semen will be sent (either fresh chilled or frozen). We will then decide on a time for you to start bringing in your mare for reproductive ultrasounds (most mares in Kansas generally start cycling in April). A trained veterinarian will use a transrectal ultrasound to view the mare's cervix, uterus, and ovaries, and determine where she is in her cycle. We have injectable hormones available that we can use to manipulate her cycle, so that she is ready for breeding. Often, it can take 3-5 ultrasounds before the mare is ready to breed.

When the timing is right, we insert the semen directly into the uterus through the cervix. We do recommend an ovulation check or ultrasound the day after insemination to make sure the mare has ovulated. We also recommend a 14 day and 35 day post-breeding ultrasound to confirm there are no twins at 14 days and to confirm a heartbeat at 35 days.

We also have the capability of collecting stallions and shipping off semen. Stallions must be trained to collect or taken somewhere for training BEFORE we will collect them.