Cleary Lake Veterinary Hospital Equine

04/01/2026

03/27/2026

🚨APRIL PATIENT OF THE MONTH🚨
Want to see your horse as our next patient of the month?

RULES:
-Must be a current patient of ours
-Must have been seen by an equine vet since JUNE 1st, 2025 (and we will check 😉)
-Can be an animal other than a horse, as long as it is seen by an equine vet
-Only one horse per person
-Entries close at 11:59PM on March 31st

The winner will be selected randomly from all entries received. The winner will also receive a FREE F***l Egg Count, redeemable until April 1st, 2027.

To enter, drop a picture of your horse & their name in the comments with one fun fact about them! The winner will be contacted April 1st (no April fools here! 😉)

03/24/2026

Another great educational seminar from AAEP. Cushing's Disease and Insulin Dysregulation.

HORSE OWNER WEBINAR ALERT! 📢

Join us for our upcoming Horse Owner Education Committee webinar! Our topic will be "Oh Sugar! My Horse is Foundering!"

Join AAEP-member veterinarians Drs. Allie Catalino and Chelsea Folmar for an in-depth discussion about the two most common metabolic disturbances in horses: Cushing's Disease and Insulin Dysregulation. They will take you on a deep dive into diagnosis, treatment and management of these diseases, followed by discussion about laminitis, a common sequela.

Registration is FREE but required. A recording of the webinar will be available if you miss the live event. Register at https://events.zoom.us/ev/Aqk4QqZ8CSEZVzoTjoed1OchP7YIDfrDxmN7sn3bmdtN0eMBkO1X~AhLXYhuX8F4hYAwaFVb5RYYV903KHqLrJKTrAP-zT2spI-fUNInOwEr12A

This informative session is brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee.

03/21/2026

Welcome to Minnesota, where we have a foot of snow and 70° weather in the same week!

In all seriousness, the snow quickly melting has brought along a lot of mud. A daily exam of your horse will go a long way in identifying any problems early 🔎

🖐️ Raise your hand if you've ever walked out to the pasture to find your equine companion looking like this ⬇️

Here's some great advice from our friends at Irongate Equine Clinic on surviving mud season:

"🐴 Hello, Mud Season… 🌧️

If your boots are sinking and your horse looks like they rolled in chocolate pudding, you know what time it is in Wisconsin 😅

Exhibit A: this sweet soul who clearly embraced the full mud spa treatment… and even gave us a little tongue-out approval at the end. We’ll call it a “natural spring skincare routine.” 💁‍♀️😂

While we can’t stop the mud, we can help protect our horses from the problems it causes. This time of year, we start seeing more:

• Thrush
• Scratches (pastern dermatitis)
• Hoof abscesses

A quick daily hoof pick, checking legs for scabs or redness, and giving them a dry place to stand (even for part of the day) can make a big difference.

If something doesn’t look quite right, trust your gut and reach out. We’d much rather catch things early than treat a bigger issue later.

Stay dry out there — and maybe keep a hose (and a sense of humor) handy. 😉🐎💛"

03/13/2026

The answer to yesterday’s question is……
This handsome boy is 1638 pounds!

03/12/2026

❄️ Cold, snowy day incoming… perfect time for a little barnyard brain teaser! 🐴

Guess the weight of this gorgeous patient!

Drop your guesses below ⬇️

Fun fact: This handsome guy was bred by our very own Dr. Ott!

03/11/2026

✨ Show season is calling! ✨

From braids to body clips, shining hooves to sparkling tack… and don’t forget the vet check. 🩺🐴

Vaccines, Coggins, soundness checks, and wellness exams help make sure your horse is just as ready on the inside as they look on the outside.

A little veterinary prep now means a confident, healthy partner when it’s time to step in the arena. 🏆

03/08/2026

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! We are so lucky to have many outstanding women at our clinic 💪🧑‍⚕️

03/05/2026

❓Did you know veterinary medicine and animal health come up in legislation at the State Capitol?❓

Dr. Jen Selvig joined other Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association members to meet with their state representatives and senators today at the Capitol. Dr. Selvig helped to educate lawmakers on important veterinary bills and animal health issues, including thoughts on how to vote on those issues in the best interests of the animals. It was a great experience to be directly involved with state leadership and shape laws to help vets help your pets! 🐴🐶🐱🧑‍⚖️

03/03/2026

Congratulations to our March 2026 Patient of the Month, “Roxie”, owned by Tessa Matzke!

5 fun facts about Roxie:
-‘All Night Roxanne’ aka Roxie is a 9yr old Quarter Horse and Appaloosa cross 🐴
-She competes in mounted shooting and loves trail rides 🌳
-Fresh snow gives her the zoomies and she loves playing in it ❄️
-Roxie splashes in any creek or lake we go to and she loves to roll in the water 💦
-She is terrified of boulders on trail rides and thinks they are gonna get her 🪨

Thank you all who commented to nominate your horse! Looking forward to next month! ⭐️

03/02/2026

Tiny hitchhikers. Big problems. 🐴🦠

Parasites don’t take vacations, so neither does prevention. Stay ahead of the crawl with strategic deworming and f***l testing. 💩🔬

Healthy gut. Happy horse. 🐎

Spring only a few weeks away! 🙌 It’s not too early to start thinking about a deworming plan for your horses.

If deworming is something you’ve been doing the same way for as long as you can remember, this year we encourage you to break tradition and work with your veterinarian instead. Thanks to tools like the f***l egg count, your horse doctor can help you devise a treatment tailored to the needs of your equine friend plus monitor the efficacy of the dewormer used last.

Before you dismiss this notion because you’ve been “doing it for years,” you should know that the old-school approach to deworming is quickly becoming outdated. Not only is it a waste of money, but it also builds drug resistance in the parasitic fauna of equines, which means we are running out of drugs that can effectively help us control parasite infections.

For more information, the AAEP Parasite Control Guidelines can be found on our website: https://aaep.org/resource/internal-parasite-control-guidelines/

Key take-home messages from these Internal Parasite Disease Control Guidelines include:

• Perform f***l egg count reduction tests (FECRT) annually to ensure that you are using effective dewormers in every herd or barn.

• Recognize that no anthelmintic will eliminate all parasitic stages from a horse.

• Continue using f***l egg counts (FEC) once or twice a year to stratify horses into low, medium, and high shedders to reduce pasture contamination.

• Deworm all horses at a baseline rate (once or twice a year) and target selected horses more often based on FEC (strongyle high shedders).

• Do not use FEC to diagnose disease in horses; there is no correlation between FEC and disease-causing parasite life stages.

• Discontinue deworming all horses with fixed intervals year-round (e.g., every 2 months), and stop blindly rotating anthelmintic classes.

As always, consult your equine veterinarian to learn more and for questions specific to your horses!

03/01/2026