The Ohio State University Clinic at Marysville offers a full range of services for horses and complete production medicine programs for dairy and beef cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and other food animals. Routine services provided for large animals include:
- General, prepurchase and insurance physical examinations.
- Preparation of health papers for interstate and international export.
- Treatment and prevention of internal and external parasites
- Vaccinations, including in-house preparation of vaccines for individual herds
- Diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions
- Diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease processes including laboratory testing for liver disease and urinary infection and failure
- Evaluation of nutritional status through ration analysis and blood and tissue analysis; water testing
- Dental care including floating and tooth extraction
- Diagnosis and treatment of eye injuries and disorders
- Foot and leg care including lameness evaluation with x-ray and ultrasound examination of tendons.
- Reproduction management including fertility evaluation, breeding soundness exams of bulls, certification of fertility, fertility synchronization and restorative hormone therapy, culture and sensitivity testing, uterine biopsy and cytology, fiberoptiscope examination of uterus, uterine flush and plasma transfusions, semen collection, artificial insemination, pregnancy detection, ultrasound examination, obstetric assistance, post delivery exams
- Care of newborns including neonatal crisis management, IgG testing of foals, and laboratory analysis for crisis-causing blood factors
- Diagnosis and treatment of digestive disorders including colic, bloat, displaced abomasum and hardware disease
- Cardiovascular and pulmonary evaluation with EKG, ultrasound and radiology
- Diagnosis and treatment of throat abnormalities with fiberoptiscope evaluation
- Euthanasia
The Ohio State University Large Animal Service doctors perform all routine surgical procedures such as castrations, tumor removals, cosmetic dehornings, Caslick's surgery, Cesarean sections, and repairs of lacerations, fractures, hernias and displaced abomasums. They also perform more sophisticated procedures such as fracture repair with bone plating, stifle repair in cattle, and check ligament repair to restore bowed tendons in horses.
Production medicine programs are tailored to each type of food animal, but includes consultation on animal housing, nutrition, reproduction, general health care, disease control and personnel training. The dairy cattle program features regular herd health visits and guidance on mastitis control, milking machine function, DHIA records analysis, and calf and heifer management. The swine program offers computerized cost analysis.
To contact the Urbana Veterinary Clinic for small animal services:
Small animal services: 937-653-7326
To contact the Ohio State University Large Animal Service for large animal services:
Large Animal services (937)-642-2936
