Preventative Care
In addition to dentistry, vaccinations, parasite management and nutrition are all important for your horse’s well-being. We can customize a vaccination and parasite management program for your horse or your herd’s needs. We also offer nutritional consultations, along with bloodwork that allows us to guide dietary recommendations, such as trace mineral and Vitamin E blood testing.
In order to remain a current, active client of Epona Equine Veterinary Services, routine preventative care appointments, also known as annual exams, are required once yearly. This is to ensure we can maintain a valid veterinarian-client-patient-relationship (VCPR) and allow us to provide you with veterinarian care, both preventative and urgent, prescription medications and recommendations for treatment (as outlined by the College of Veterinarians of British Columbia, CVBC).
Sleip App: Motion Analysis powered by AI
Epona Equine is excited to offer a new lameness diagnostic tool that can assist our veterinarians in detecting issues at an early stage or for identifying subtle lamenesses that would otherwise be hard to block. The Sleip app uses AI to track over 100 anatomical key points on the moving horse, quantifying gait asymmetry and detecting even small irregularities.
Please contact us if you would like to add on a Sleip lameness evaluation to your horse's annual exam appointment to establish a baseline.
