Custom Livestock Solutions LLC

10/28/2025

Well, y’all, the BRR part of the ‘ber months made it to Georgia, which means the risk of colic goes up as the temps go down. Dr. Quinn and Dr. Anders have an important reminder for all of our horse owners that 💧 hydration 💧 is the name of the game! That’s because horses are less inclined to drink when it’s cold out, but they eat more hay, which can lead to impaction colics.

Some ways to help your equine companions hydrate:
💧 Soak their feed
🐴 Make sure water buckets and troughs are full
💧 Avoid abrupt changes to their hay — if needed, gradually adjust amounts or frequencies
🐴 Don’t allow your horse to gorge itself on hay or feed

Colics are equine emergencies. If you suspect your animal is colicing, please don’t hesitate to give our veterinary team a call. We offer emergency coverage for local equine clients within a select radius of the Comer CLS headquarters.

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.

10/27/2025

🐑🐏🐐 The CLS vets are excited to officially announce we’ve expanded our small ruminant capabilities offered through the headquarters team in Comer!

In partnership with our sister clinic, Comer Veterinary Hospital, we are now able to provide vasectomies for teaser bucks and rams. Male small ruminants can also be seen for breeding soundness exams, which apply to both intact males for natural service as well as to ensure vasectomies were effective.

And let’s not forget the ladies! We are now equipped to offer small ruminant ultrasounds for pregnancy as well as fetal sexing, which will confirm pregnancies, check for multiple expected offspring, and determine if the fetuses are developing males or females. ❗️ Please note some ultrasound and fetal sexing results may be dependent upon how old an embryo or fetus is, as well as where the developing animal is located physically within the uterus, at the time of the procedure.

Small ruminant BSEs, ultrasounding, and fetal sexing can be handled on-farm or on-premise at the CLS headquarters if you’re able to haul your animals in. Chutes are not necessary, but animals must be able to be safely restrained in order to be examined by a CLS vet.

We’re pumped to be able to offer these services to our small ruminant folks! Please give us a call if you’d like to inquire about setting up appointments or receive service estimates.

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.

10/23/2025

Dr. Josey recently spent the day at Jackson Farms in Cave Spring, Georgia, teaching students about working cattle from a 🩺 veterinary perspective! Most of these kids have little to zero exposure to agriculture, so getting to participate in this Ag Day event was their first introduction.

“They were very eager and had lots of questions,” Dr. Josey says. “I enjoyed explaining to them the ways that CLS offers services that help producers like Cleve [Jackson] maintain a productive herd.”

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑 Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.

10/23/2025

👀 We’re not gonna tell y’all to submit testimonials for Dr. Quinn and Dr. Anders … but we’re also not NOT gonna tell y’all that …

DO YOU LOVE YOUR EQUINE VETERINARIAN?! Here's your chance to share your appreciation for them! 📢

The AAEP is launching a special video project inviting horse owners to celebrate the dedication and partnership of their equine veterinarians. The initiative seeks to shine a spotlight on the veterinary professionals who provide exceptional care to the horse and compassionate support for owners.

This special tribute project created from submitted videos will be shown at the upcoming AAEP Annual Convention in Denver, Colo., Dec. 6 – 10 and will also be shared across our digital platforms.

Every horse owner who submits a video will receive a digital $10 Starbucks gift card.

Submission Details:

The AAEP is asking horse owners to submit short videos, 30 seconds or less, detailing why their equine veterinarian is an invaluable partner in their horse’s care. Submissions should focus on the aspects of care that demonstrate partnership, dedication and service beyond the expected.

How to Submit (Please note videos must adhere to the following instructions to be considered):

- Create a video no more than 30 seconds long explaining why your equine vet is an invaluable partner.
- Record your video in landscape mode (horizontal orientation).
- Send the video file via Facebook or Instagram direct message (DM). Facebook: American Association of Equine Practitioners & Instagram:
- Include along with your video submission your full name as well as your veterinarian's.

The submission window is open starting today, Oct. 22, with submissions accepted through Friday, Nov. 14. If you need assistance with submitting your video, email Grace Barrier at gbarrier@aaep.org.

We're excited to hear about all of your incredible horse doctors!

10/21/2025

Local friends — y’all come see us on Saturday!! We’re giving away a $100 CLS gift certificate for veterinary services, and Big Sandy Creek Dairy is loaning us a calf for a farm animal meet & greet!

10/20/2025

‼️ Important announcement from Dr. Goggans and our youngest vet assistant, Baby Lee!

For all of our beef cattle producers headed to North American International Livestock Exposition, y’all are going to need not only health papers, but a negative BVD-PI test (bovine viral diarrhea persistent infection).

BVD-PI tests take several days for results to come back, so please ❗️do not ❗️ wait until the week of the show to request an appointment with your CLS vet! If your animals need NAILE paperwork or tests, give the office a call NOW to get on our calendars so you have ample time and aren’t stressing right before the show!

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.

10/17/2025

Cattle can go down for a number of reasons: age, lameness, leg or foot injury, eating something they aren’t supposed to, dehydration, illness or disease … the 📋 list goes on. When presented with a downed cow situation recently, the cow was laying with its weight on what the owner thought could be an injured leg. Dr. Goggans haltered the cow and restrained her to the tree she was next to, and first attempted to assess the animal. She palpated areas she could reach and attempted to encourage the cow to shift its weight off the leg in question.

Eventually she got the idea and moved over, allowing Dr. Goggans to check responses to stimuli along the back, hips, knee, legs, and rear. The cow did appear to have a leg injury, which was exacerbated by the time the vet truck arrived because she’d been laying on it. Just like when humans’ legs “go to sleep”, so can those in downed cows!

After discussing options with the owner, Dr. Goggans administered medication and fluids, and gave instructions for checking up on her. Within a day, the cow was back up and walking on her own! Though she has a bit of a limp that could be further investigated, the immediate cause for concern had passed. Dr. Goggans was pleased to see the improvement, and the cow’s willingness to put weight back on that leg!

🎥 Head to our Instagram () to watch the before + after!

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑 Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.

10/16/2025

Head’s up, y’all! The CLS website may be down briefly over the next couple of days as we launch our new one!

10/15/2025

In case you missed it on Monday … we’re celebrating Staff Appreciation Week! 🥳

Today the spotlight is on our office manager, Melissa Hegwood, without whom the CLS headquarters … probably wouldn’t exist! If you’ve ever called the office, stopped by to pay a bill, needed a prescription refill, or wanted to check out our retail storefront, there’s a good chance you’ve gotten to know her a little bit. Melissa liaises between farmers and our vet team, taking brief patient history or herd health needs and getting y’all in touch to schedule an appointment. She handles all of our billing, shipping, and receiving, works with our manufacturer partners on product orders and programs, does paperwork submission as needed with our vets, maintains the store and medication shelves, and keeps things running day-to-day while the rest of the team is in the field.

Our local friends may also recognize Melissa from working at our sister clinic, Comer Veterinary Hospital. She moved over to be primarily at CLS when we got this office in 2023, but you can still find her moonlighting over there a few days a month!

When she’s not at the clinics, Melissa can be found taking care of her chickens, bragging on her daughters — who we get the pleasure of seeing, too, when they’re in town! — and indulging her creative side in her craft room. She brings a lot of laughter to our days, and we’re so glad she’s stuck with us and helped foster such an amazing work environment as the team continues to grow.

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑 Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.

10/13/2025

🙌 Oct. 13 through 19 is Vet Tech Appreciation Week, which we expand to Staff Appreciation Week here at CLS! That means we’re shining a spotlight on our support staff, beginning with our vet assistants.

Cheyenne, Lexi, Aggie, and Dan: Where would we be without y’all?! Vet “assistant” barely encompasses all that you do every day with the CLS vet team.

Y’all are the ones here at the crack of dawn and past sunset to stock the vet trucks. You’re extra hands at every turn. You are recordkeeper extraordinaries. You’re behind the wheel driving from farm to farm, giving our vets time between appointments to compile notes, case histories, research conditions, and call clients. You run in the gas station and grab the ✨ Exact Right Energy Drinks (very important!) and snacks on days that started before daylight and feel never-ending. You’re constantly learning, and you dive right in to every case alongside the vets. You remember patient names and herd health stats. You’re shoulders of comfort after dystocia cases where calves and sometimes cows didn’t make it. You are sources of laughter to lighten the mood, and more knowledgeable than y’all give yourselves credit for. You’ve got our vets’ backs, and they’ve got yours.

CLS has done a lot of growing since this time last year. We are so privileged to have done it with these four being part of the growth spurt. 🖤

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑 Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.

10/13/2025

Quick little intern intro! 🤩 Some of y’all met our most recent interns, Issac and Callie, last week. Issac will be with us through Oct. 24, and Callie is riding through the 17th. They’ve been great hands to help the CLS vets and vet assistants so far!

10/12/2025

Introducing the veterinarians behind Custom Livestock Solutions! 🩺 CLS is lucky to be led by such skilled, dedicated professionals whose backgrounds in and fondness for livestock is evident in every ounce of their work. We’d love to be considered as your large animal veterinary team across the state of Georgia — give us a call to see how we can add value to YOUR operation!

Custom Livestock Solutions is Georgia’s proven source for premiere herd health and management services. Our vets serve large animal herds, show barns and stables in the 🍑 Peach State and nearby neighbors in South Carolina. Visit us in Comer Monday through Thursday from 9 to 5, or Fridays 9 to 1, or call 706-783-8128 to learn more.