Early Winter Equine

Dr. Martin and Morgan had a great visit yesterday at Healing H'Arts Equestrian Center with Apollo for his six month dental examination and float. Apollo has some abnormalities with his dentition which required that he have three teeth extracted. Now, he requires very regular dental care to make sure he can properly grind his feed, maintain a healthy weight, and comfortably keep performing his important job as a therapy horse!

As some of you may have heard, Bernie has accepted a new position at Cornell University, and her last day working in the office at Early Winter Equine will be February 26. Bernie will continue to help out as an assistant on the road one day a week. Bernie has been with Early Winter Equine for eleven years, and her daily presence will be greatly missed. Please join us in wishing her luck at her new job.

Happy Friday everyone! We now have an online payment option available through our website at earlywinterequine.com. If you want to pay your invoice, you no longer have to call the office, but simply go to our website and click on the Online Bill Pay option. As a reminder, we accept Discover card, Visa and Mastercard. Thank You!

My Vet Store Online Holiday Shipping USPS and UPS will not be picking up or delivering packages on the following dates: Friday, December 25th, and Friday, January 1st. ... MyVetStoreOnline will be closed or have reduced hours for the following dates: Thursday, December 24th - Close at Noon CST Friday, December 25th - Closed Thursday, December 31st - Close at Noon CST Friday, January 1st - Closed Please be sure to plan orders accordingly!

Early Winter Equine is offering Parasight testing (fecal egg counts) at $5 off for the next 10 days (through December 10th). Get your horses tested before the end of the year to set up an evidence based de-worming schedule for the new year.

Do you have an interest in learning more about Equine Asthma? Boehringer Ingelheim is hosting an event where you can get answers to these questions. Registration is required so please do not delay!!

Happy 4th of July! Our practice will be recognizing the federal holiday tomorrow Friday, July 3rd, and thus will be closed for routine appointments but of course available for emergencies. Have a wonderful and safe holiday!

Our new web page is up and running! This process has taken months of work and we are thrilled with the result! :) Clients can now request appointments via the web page and mobile users will be able to call the emergency line directly from the home page. There is also a link to download commonly used client forms. Check it out and let us know what you think! http://earlywinterequine.com/

HAPPY WORLD VETERINARY DAY TO ALL THE EQUINE VETERINARIANS OUT THERE! Looking for a fun and relaxing way to show your favorite #horsedoctor some #love today? Do...wnload this coloring page and share the finished masterpiece with us. Don't forget to use the hashtag #WorldVeterinaryDay! Thank you to all equine practitioners for their dedication to make not only animal lives better, but human too!

In some lighter news, we are happy to announce that Dr. Martin recently received her diploma from the University of Tennessee officially certifying her as an Equine Rehabilitation Practitioner. She is excited to incorporate the specific training and skills acquired in this course to continue to broaden the complete care offered by Early Winter Equine. If you have specific questions about the course or her training, please feel free to post them in the comments section!

As we all continue to do our part to stay healthy and safe, here are some helpful guidelines specific to equine facilities from the American Association of Equine Practitioners. https://aaep.org//PreventCOVIDinEquestrianFacilitiesAAEP_0

With continued safety and health concerns related to COVID-19, we are continuing to make changes to how we schedule and perform appointments. Please look for an email from our office with more specific details in regards to these changes. Here are some of the takeaways Scheduling through April 30th: ... * We are scheduling most appointments on a case-by-case basis.* We are NOT scheduling services that require us to be in close contact with another individual (either with another member of our staff or a horse handler/owner) for long periods of time (more than 15 minutes). This includes routine dentistry appointments. We are also NOT scheduling services that require more than one staff member to be present. This would include most involved lameness examinations, pre-purchase examinations, elective surgeries, and joint injections. Please call or email the office with any appointment you would like to schedule. If we cannot perform the appointment safely at this time, we will schedule it as soon as possible, once we get back to work on a normal basis. We will continue to provide emergency coverage and care 24/7. Ideal Environment for Appointments: EWE staff members will be wearing masks during all appointments. We ask that any horse handler/owner present at the appointment also be wearing some sort of face covering. We ask that only ONE person be present at each appointment. If we are seeing multiple horses at one boarding facility, this still means only ONE person be present to handle all the horses for that appointment. This limits our exposure to multiple people (both for your health and for our own health). If there are other personnel or boarders at your facility at the time of your appointment, we ask that we examine your horse in a space where we will not be in contact with these other people or at a specific time where there will be limited people at the barn (not at feeding or turnout time). If you are sick, or have any cold or flu symptoms (runny nose, coughing, fever) or have any possible exposure to someone with COVID-19, through your household or work, we ask that you are not present at the appointment and either reschedule or have another horse handler with no known exposure. We are also happy to consult as well as perform Telemedicine type appointments as much as possible if appropriate. We look forward to returning to normal scheduling as soon as possible. Stay safe and well!

We have had lots of questions today and wanted to make sure we are keeping all of our clients up to date on how Early Winter Equine is continuing to provide care for all of our patients during this challenging and stressful time. As of now, and for as long as we can, we are continuing routine appointments as well as full emergency care. Our ability to do this will be contingent both upon the health of our veterinarians and staff as well as government mandates. In order to ke...ep everyone healthy and be able to continue to provide uninterrupted services, we are asking that there only be limited people present at appointments. People present should be limited to the owner or horse handler and owner. Other people should not be in the examination area. As much as possible, we will try to institute social distancing during the examination. If you are sick, please do not come to the barn. We ask that you find an alternate handler or cancel your appointment. Thank you for understanding. Our goal is for all of us (veterinarians, staff, clients, and patients)to remain healthy and safe! See more

From all of us at Early Winter Equine we want to thank everyone who attended our client education event this past Saturday. We really love being able to put on these events and couldn’t do it without the generosity of our gracious sponsors Hannah from Boehringer Ingelheim and Alix from Midwest Veterinary Supply. The food once again was delicious and supplied by Crossroads Bar and Grill. Also, thank you Mike Troxler for capturing these great images! We really enjoy being able to share our love of equine veterinary medicine with our clients. We hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did. Please feel free to provide any feedback as well as topic ideas for future events.

Here is a reminder that the Client Education event is fast approaching and RSVPs are due soon! If you have a youth group that you would like to attend please call the office to add the number to the list. This event provides a free catered (delicious) lunch (with vegetarian options) so an RSVP via e-vite is required to attend. If you are a client and did not receive an email invitation please let us know and we can send you another one. We can't wait to see you all there!

It's that time of year again! Stay inside out of the cold and have lunch with your horse friends while learning great new things (and maybe winning some swag ) ! Our Seminar last year was a hit and this one is sure to be even better! A delicious BBQ lunch will be provided, so an RSVP is required. Check your email for your invitation! Call the office if you would like to attend and did not receive an invite. Youth groups are allowed but seating is limited so please let us know in advance!

Mark your Calendar! Early Winter Equine's annual client education event will take place on February 29th 2020 in Lansing, NY (leap day!) More information to follow!

If you were watching Spectrum News this morning you may have seen a special report on one of our patients, Tuffy! Tuffy is a therapy horse at Healing H'Arts Equestrian Center, Inc. and several weeks ago he broke his mandible in several places and required extensive surgery. To learn more about Tuffy's story and all the good work that is done by Healing H'Arts Equestrian Center, Inc. check out their Facebook page and website www.healingharts.com!