Hope Veterinary Clinic
American Animal Hospital Association
Equine Services

Wellness exams – included routine and annual vaccinations for Encephalitis, Tetanus, Rabies, Potomac Horse Fever, Strangles, Influenza and Rhinopneumonitis. Offered are Coggins testing, weight and dental exams, tooth floating, worming program design.

Sickness exams – we offer a complete array of laboratory analysis to help determine your animals illness. We also are equipped to provide on site intravenous fluid therapy to dehydrated animals. We are well versed with colic. We treat medical colic's on site and have the capability to give intravenous fluid therapy. We have treated Lyme disease, Ehlichia equi, Cushing’s disease. We are well versed with Equine Motor Neuron Disease and Equine Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy.

Lameness exams – evaluations include flexion tests, nerve and joint blocks, radiography, thermography and ultrasonography. 

Reproductive procedures - breeding soundness exams supported by ultrasonography, rectal examination. We offer artificial insemination using shipped cooled semen. We offer uterine flushing as a routine procedure, uterine biopsy, culture and cytology evaluation.

Surgery – standing surgery of the horse is performed for castration, biopsy, laceration repair. We also offer use of a human quality laser to perform some specialized surgeries.

Specialized Procedures:

Ultrasonography – uses sound waves to evaluate soft tissues like tendons and ligaments, reproductive organs, lumps, tumors. It is painless and non-invasive.

Radiography – uses x-rays to visualize bone for abnormalities including arthritic changes and fractures. We have portable machines capable of imaging heads, stifles, limbs and necks.



Dr. Baer is performing a reproductive examination on this horse.


"The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man." - Winston Churchill


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