Heide Veterinary Services offers a variety of services to our clients.
Reproduction
At Heide Veterinary Services we offer various up to date and innovative technologies and techniques to achieve successful pregnancies in your mares.
Reproduction
Heide Veterinary Services has a special interest in Equine Reproduction and infertility and we offer various services and edge therapy and technologies to get your mares bred.
Artificial Insemination
During breeding season we are performing artificial inseminations on mares. We can artificially inseminate scheduled mares with either fresh, cooled or frozen semen.
Embryo Transfer and Embryo Freezing
Here at HVS we perform both Embryo Transfer from the donor mare into the selected recipient mare as well as Embryo Freezing where we are able to harvest live embryo's and freeze them for safe storage until the desired time to place them into a recipient mare.
Foaling and High Risk Pregnancies
We offer foaling services for routine pregnancies as well as high risk pregnancies. Our clinic is set up with technology to monitor the mares during their foaling stay with us.
Infertility
Heide Veterinary Services provides clients with procedures and edge therapy and technologies to get lower fertility mares into foal as well as diagnostic tools to determine the cause as well as degree of infertility.
Stallion Services
We offer stallion services at the clinic including live cover hand breeding, collection training, semen collection, and shipped semen from in house stallions.
Lameness
Lameness exams are performed at the clinic and on farm to diagnose the cause of lameness and determine the best possible treatment for the horse.
Sports Medicine
Treatments we offer to increase your horse's performance and get them into winning form.
Lameness & Sports Medicine
Sports medicine and lameness are almost interchangeable as it is diagnosis, treatment and most importantly prevention of conditions directly affecting the locomotor apparatus of the horse as well as conditions that indirectly contribute to performance in the show pen such as ulcers and back pain just to name a couple.
The clinic operates a digital x-ray machine with a Canon plate that provides exceptional images as well as an Exago ultrasound with tendon probe for soft tissue evaluation. We know how important it is for you to have a sound mount so we work with, and consult with equine surgeons when necessary to get your horse back into the show pen.
Acupuncture
Dr. Brian Heide perfoms acupuncture on horses of various disciplines.
Acupuncture addresses blockages or disruptions in the flow of Qi through the meridians in the horse. In western terms it is stimulation of alternate neural pathways that affect pain and neurochemical pathways resulting in changes in pain, sensation, blood flow, and immune function in the horse.
Dentistry
We routinely perform dentistry performance floats and corrective work to ensure that every horse has a comfortable mouth that is functioning properly.
Dentistry is an integral part of the performance of the show horse. It is important for keeping good gastro-intestinal health and keeping the horse in good physical condition. As well it affects how the horse interacts with bit contact, frames itself in collection, comfort during riding as well as development of oral vices. Dentistry is as important in the young show horse as it is in the geriatric horse in your pasture.
Good dental health has greatly prolonged the lifespan and comfort of our horses as compared to the wild horse populations.
Ambulatory
HVS offers ambulatory services and we provide on farm veterinary care for Equine and Bovine patients.
HVS is equipped with a Portavet Mobile Clinic unit. This allows us to provide high quality veterinary services and after hours Emergency Service to many areas of central Alberta. Many of our patients cannot travel or have severe injuries or medical conditions that require on farm assessment and treatment.
Pre-Purchase Exam
An important step before purchasing a new horse is to have the horse examined by the veterinarian to determine soundness and health status of the horse.
Pre-Purchase Exam
Every year many horses are bought and sold from all corners of the globe and end up with new owners here in Alberta. The only real protection that a new owner can have for their piece of mind is a thorough veterinary pre-purchase exam. The purpose of this exam is to determine if the horse being purchased is healthy, sound and appropriate for its intended use or discipline.
Pre-Purchase exams are a combination of health, neurological, lameness, structure and conformation, and potentially radiographic exams. Every effort is made to ensure that your purchase will be a long lasting partnership between owner and horse.
Our Services
Bovine
Our practice provides services to cattle producers on farm with ambulatory calls.
Bovine
Dr. Brian originally practiced in a mixed animal practice after graduation and has had an extensive background in cow-calf and feedlot medicine and production. Heide Veterinary Services has always offered our clients bovine medicine. All procedures are done on farm except for scouring calves which we put on IV therapy at the clinic.
Our Bovine services include:
