Equine Reproductive Veterinary Services
6986 176 St V3S 4P4 Surrey, BC, Canada

WINTER IS COMMING !!!! It's time to get your mares under lights, see this article form SBS for some good information, and as always get in touch and we can help guide you through the options best for your mare.

Love this time of year - stallion freezing season! we have been doing quite a few stallions in the last month it’s a great time of year to get frozen semen form your stallion and start thinking about breeding / foaling in 2021 !

We are making progress on the overflow mare motel these girls are going to feel like they are back at the show grounds !! Making room for making babies !! #reprocenternunderway Meadow Lane Equine Clinic Thunderbird Show Park

Crazy hair just don’t care !

We are now accepting applications for our Equine Theriogenology Residency. The Department of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University offers a 3-year cl...inical residency in Equine Theriogenology that will start on July 15, 2021 and end on June 30, 2024. The goals of the program are to provide the candidate with an opportunity to develop significant clinical expertise in all areas of equine reproduction and to prepare residents for a future career in academic or specialty private practice. Residents are expected to be active participants in ongoing programs in clinical equine reproduction, teaching, continuing education, and research. Applications for the residency program should include the following: a) Letter of intent b) Resume or curriculum vitae c) Transcripts from veterinary school d) Three (3) letters of recommendation Please send all materials by email to Dr. Patrick McCue [email protected] Completed applications are due Friday December 4, 2020. http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu//Equine-Theriogenology-Resi

Love my Canadian home - little bit of work in the morning followed by a nice paddle this afternoon #beaverboards #canada #endofbreedingseason

Every four years, the world leaders in equine reproduction meet for a conference where we can share ideas, data, thoughts, and future goals. The venue rotated a...round the world, but the discourse remains the same. It is the International Symposium on Equine Reproduction (ISER) and the best conference out there. This time around (in 2022), it will be held in Brazil, and the conference organizers are already beginning their fundraising and preparation. They are offering this series of Pro-ISER lectures, available via Zoom, to breeders and practitioners alike, and the first of the series sounds phenomenal. So increase your education as you support equine scientists to continue to improve the field, and register today!

Having fun with late fetal sexing ! Can you guess what this one is ?

My nice has been riding along this week she yesterday she got a bit distracted #ridinglessons #empireequestrian #asmarequestrian #dreamscape #vetworking

Found a little sweet in one of the heart beat checks today #babyhorse #embryo

Some morning stallion work collection and freezing semen ! A little glimpse into part of our day; breeding season is coming to a close but this is a great time of year to get that frozen semen done #stallionsaresofun

Dahlia does it again ! This mare is worth her weight in gold - 6 foals of her own, adopted and raised an orphan foal 3 years ago and has now taken on this little orphan to care for

Meadow Lane would like to thank Thunderbird Show Park for putting on a very fun and safe 2 weeks of Rendezvous . We are proud to be a part of it as veterinari...ans, sponsors, and riders. Dr. Plough was there doing embro work and Dr Hodge and Dr Kopala were performing pre-purchase and lameness exams. Thanks to our vet tech Lauren for the lovely photos. We are looking forward to doing it all again next month as well as having the Smart RLT Laser on site for all of your pre-performance needs. See more

The Mother’s Day ET babies doing are well - this is one can you guess right ? Is it a boy or a Girl?

The Pathogenesis of a Veterinarian It is the first of June and that means that all over America, brand new veterinarians are starting their career. We tak...e two interns per year at our clinic and we love their fresh outlook and zest to learn. This year, in particular, is special for me because my daughter Abbi and her husband Zach just graduated and have entered the realm of veterinary medicine as residents at Texas A&M. We have two new interns, Dr. Hunter Greer and Dr. Sarah Randall. They are really smart and excited to get started on their career path, but I know what will happen to them all four of themAbbi, Zach, Sarah, and Hunter, they are about to encounter the second phase of being a new graduate..and here is what it is. In order to understand this second phase, you must understand the first phase completely. There is just something that happens to your brain when you walk across a stage, shake someone’s hand, receive a diploma.and now your prefix changes to Dr. for the rest of your life. There was a lot of work and sacrifice that led up to that stage walk. It was the accumulation of about 8 years of nose to the grindstone study and work. It was over 1000 quizzes and tests..22 hours a semester about 10,000 hours of study and class time. If you really consider the accomplishment, you will find that every year about 2900 people graduate from veterinary schools in America. This is about 1 veterinarian for every 2,412,000 people that live in this country. Compare this to the 17,500 medical students that graduate each year and the 40,000 lawyers that graduate each year, and you will see that it is an exclusive club. There is no time that a person is more aware of how much they have sacrificed and how special their accomplishment is than when they are walking across that stage to receive the diploma that have longed for all of their lives. This feeling carries them to their first job. Most of them take a few weeks off before they head into the rigors of their first job as a vet, and these few weeks are wonderful, because they get to feel their accomplishment and relish the sound of Dr. when someone addresses them but then, everything changes.. The euphoria that comes from hearing the word Dr. before your last name is soon replaced by the reality that you actually have to be a Dr. now. When this new graduate starts work, it is not long till they realize they have entered the second phase of being a dr I am a dumb doctor.. Oh yes. It won’t take long at all for each and everyone of them to come to the conclusion that any shred of confidence they had upon leaving school is shredded with the reality that they are expected to know and practice all the things that the professors at their school had been trying to instill in them since day one. And what makes it even worse. Those professors won’t be there to ask on every case and in every situation. I remember the feeling so well. It came to the forefront of my awareness on the third day that I was in practice. An old rancher came into the clinic I was working at with a snake bit horse. The critter’s nose was swollen and he could barely move any air through his nasal passages. I immediately went and got my notes from vet school and read them to see how to treat a rattlesnake bit horse. I stored the knowledge in my brain and headed out to tell the cowboy what I was gonna do. When I arrived back on the scene, the vet tec, Billy, who had worked at the clinic for years, was standing by the counter holding two large syringes and a ping pong paddle. This was no ordinary ping pong paddle, it had multiple large hypodermic needles poked through it and looked like some sort of mid-evil torture device. I had no idea what I was walking into, but I was smart enough to just be quite. The rancher saw me look curiously at the ping pong paddle and began quizzing me. How old are you boy? the old man asked me in a deep and intimidating tone. Well sir, I am 26 I replied in an almost pubescent tone. What? I have a wart on my fanny that is older than you he said with great conviction. So here I am. Looking at a fella holding a needle riddled ping pong paddle and listening to an old rancher explain to me in redneck code words that I am incompetent..and I entered the second phase of being a veterinarian.. I AM A DUMB DOCTOR The notes from school were entirely different that the actual treatment that a man that had practiced for 40 years in Clarendon, Texas actually did. He sedated the horse and put lidocaine all around the bite and then began slapping the site with the needle laden paddle in order to let the pressure off the tissue and bring down the suffocating edema which came with the venom. Not much different than human doctors doing a fasciotomy on people that are bit. I stood back and watched Billy slap that horses nose with the paddle over and over until serum and fluid was running down the nose and on to the ground. I watched the horse go from the panic of not being able to get enough air, to relaxed and almost happy . Needless to say.......my notes from vet school said nothing about a ping pong paddle. If you know any new graduates, encourage them a little for the next few months. They are gonna be hit with the ping pong paddles of life no matter what direction they have chosen to go, and when they do..they will be just like I was that day.wondering how they are ever gonna wind up being a good doctor.

Just another Sunday Embryo ! It’s amazing how quickly they change - see the little video below of one we transferred about a month ago.

The Embryos are doing well - This is a short clip of one of them, we do a heart beat exam on all pregnancies. With the surrogate mares we want to make sure all is well with the embryos, after this exam they go to their lease homes for the duration of the pregnancy.