We practice expert veterinary medicine delivered by our caring doctors and technicians
Blue River Veterinary Services is a full-service animal hospital and wellness center. We provide in-house surgeries, wellness exams, pre-purchase exams, large animal surgeries, large animal mobile services, herd exams for large animals, a full range of diagnostic laboratory services, and a complete livestock and pet
pharmacy.
Wellness Exams
We recommend a complete physical exam for your pet on a yearly basis. Lots of changes can occur from year to year, especially as your pet gets older.
Preventative health care recommendations are made based on examination findings and your pets individual needs and situation, which you help us to determine. We'll advise you concerning yearly vaccinations including rattlesnake vaccination, parasite prevention programs such as heartworm test and fecal exams, puppy and kitten examinations and vaccinations, geriatric care and nutritional needs.
We offer complete diagnostic exams for your sick or injured animals. These exams start with the history of your animals illness or injury, physical exam and further diagnostic tests, such as laboratory tests, radiology, ultrasound and surgery if needed. We offer daily and overnight in-hospital care along with out-patient care depending upon the diagnosis and treatment plan for your animal. Our team will guide you through your pets overall care and treatment plan, while continually providing communication of your animals progress during their hospital visit. Re-check exams are strongly encouraged to follow-up with your pets treatment progress and also to determine if treatment is completed, needs to continue, if an alternative treatment needs to be initiated or if further diagnostics are needed to improve the health of your animal.
We offer large animal exams either at our large animal facility or at your place. Depending upon the treatment your large animal needs, we may request you transport your animal to our facility to enable us to provide a more efficient exam and treatment plan. Our large animal facilities can accommodate equine exams, and bovine exams and herd work. Some of our large animal services include bovine herd work (vaccinations, deworming, pregnancy exams, castrations), equine and bovine reproductive services, lameness exams for equine and bovine animals, equine colic exams, equine castration and cryptorchid surgeries, umbilical hernia surgeries, soft tissue surgeries, diagnostic exams for individual animals, herd-health consultation, in-house and off-site diagnostic laboratory services, equine dental services, and eye exams. These are just some of the many large animal services we offer.
We also offer some services for small ruminants, pigs and poultry. We enjoy working with the 4-H and FFA students to ensure there animals are healthy and legal to travel to shows. Call us to see if we can help you with your large animal needs.
On-Site Laboratory
Our on-site laboratory allows us to perform diagnostic lab testing to help us determine the best treatment plan for your pet's medical condition. Laboratory analysis includes blood samples,
urine samples, microscopic examinations, parasite examinations for immediate results and we maintain a close relationship with several outside diagnostic laboratory services for their assistance to evaluate some of the
samples that we collect which need a more comprehensive evaluation.
Advanced Radiology
We are fortunate to be able to offer our patients (large and small) a new advancement in radiology equipment for in-hospital or mobile exams for our equine and livestock patients. A direct capture radiograph machine allows us to capture a digital image on a computerized panel
and can be seen within seconds on a computer screen. This eliminates the delay in diagnosis, which is especially critical in the case of a fracture. We also have a team of Veterinary Radiologists that can consult cases that need further evaluation or on emergency basis.
Veterinary Ultrasound
Ultrasonography is used to evaluate soft tissue structures. It is excellent for reproductive evaluation and pregnancy diagnosis. This machine can also be used to view large structures, such
as organs, or to evaluate swellings. It allows us to image parts of the body where we need more detail, such as joints, tendons and ligaments. This machine is portable and can be used on out
calls. We also provide less evasive technique using the ultrasound for bovine pregnancy diagnosis, which can performed with efficiency for 1 cow or 500 cows.
Dental Services
Pets with routine dental care typically live longer and healthier lives. Pets with dental disease constantly release bacteria from their mouths into their bloodstream (i.e. bacteremia),
resulting in inflammatory changes in the heart, liver, and kidney tissue in otherwise healthy animal. This problem may be exacerbated in pets that already have other existing disease. Dental cleaning, polishing and extractions (if needed) can be performed with our new state of the art dental machine. We also perform equine dental services in the comfort and safety of our large animal hospital.
Nutritional Counseling
We offer Nutritional Counseling not only to maintain your pet’s proper weight, but also to help with common allergies and certain disease processes (kidney, liver, intestinal, and cardiac conditions), as
well as specially formulated food to help with dental care.
Many owners do not realize that their pet may be overweight. Weight and nutrition are important aspects of pet care and they should not be overlooked. Overweight pets face several dangers
such as: heart disease, joint injuries, painful joints, increased risk of arthritis, increased risk of diabetes, and problems during anesthesia and recovery from surgery. Pets with healthy weights can live
up to two years longer!
