Pipestone Veterinary Services News

Beau may be a small dog, but that hasn’t stopped him from overcoming big health challenges even before his first birthday. Beau is a two and a half pound Yorkie owned by Debbie Lindemulder from Ottumwa. He will be a year old in August, 2014. “Beau has such a great...

Question: I have been reading your blog and newsletters lately and would be interested in hearing from you about your recommended production method for producing market lambs. From what I have been able to gather from reading, you seem to suggest indoor lambing in winter, followed by the lambs and ewes...

Back from Sedalia, I waited to do this article until Sedalia was over. I left before the whether week ended, which now has become the major part of the sale much like the Suffolk and Hampshire breeds were in the past. Things change, but the sale like life goes on...

Club Lamb Fungus continues to plague the show lamb industry. Lambs succumb to club lamb fungus when they are exposed to the fungus and we have eliminated the lambs natural defenses. What are the lamb’s natural defenses to fungal infections? First of all is the wool itself. Wool and the...

Q: Thanks for all your posts. New to sheep, buying in organically raised and heavily culled Katahdin's. Please recommend what might be the largest flock size for a beginner, and if there is/are books you recommend having on hand. Most anticipated health concerns to watch for...? Thanks for what you...

The Meningeal worm of whitetail deer (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) has an interesting life cycle.  The the intermediate host is a snail.  Deer consume the snail when grazing and the larva migrate through the tissues to the spinal cord and ultimately the brain.  Deer are a well-adapted host and develop little or...

by: Curt Vlietstra, DVM Even though we had a brutal winter, and the normal spring warm-up seemed like it would never come, the heat of summer is inevitable in this area.  The combination of heat and humidity can be extremely hard on livestock, particularly cattle.  Both dairy and beef cattle...

The drive to improve their dairy farm and provide better opportunities for their family has led John and Berlinda VanderWal to farms in three countries – Netherlands, Canada, and the U.S. – with multiple expansions over the past 25 years.  With each move or new project, they look for ways...

I am looking forward to upcoming shows and sales this summer, I have had enough of winter, we are almost done lambing probably six left, three ewes that lambed last fall and several ewe lambs. We are always anxious to start, and likewise to finish. At the shows and sales...

It seems like an odd time to talk about abortion again but when looking at next season it will soon be time to vaccinate depending on the program you choose. There are three major infectious causes of abortion in sheep. 1. Enzootic abortion caused by Chlamydia psittici 2. Vibrio abortion caused...