Palmetto Equine Veterinary Services

09/05/2025

TGIF y’all! Do you know what it looks like if your horse is choking? And what to do?
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09/04/2025

Did you know we have many of the same bones in our feet as a horse does in their hind leg? 🌟🐴🌟

09/03/2025

Be kind, you never know what your veterinary staff is dealing with behind the scenes. Human-Kind: we are all in this together. 🐴💕🎠💖

08/28/2025

Do you know what your horse’s body condition score is? 🐴🌟
Body condition is a way for us to track your horse’s condition by taking into consideration their size, shape, and fitness… not just their weight!
Read the article below, from our friends at Platinum Performance, to learn how to calculate your horse’s body condition!
Then post a side picture of your horse and tell us what body condition you calculated for them!

https://www.platinumperformance.com/body-condition-score.html?fbclid=IwZnRzaAMdiFJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHryyA5bYrIuETkQXLkm9wKU7VCrFqj7UTY_L50kdxasX0oQhmNOa0RD4qFwE_aem_m7eulnn5WSe0vU14tSFcnQ

A Horse Body Condition Score can be useful for developing appropriate diets for maintaining horse health and weight. Click to learn how to score your horse.

08/24/2025

Eastern Equine Encephalitis:
The SC State Vet just released the news that the 7th and 8th cases of EEE this year have been diagnosed and both have been euthanized or died. South Carolina has a very long mosquito season and the State Vet strongly recommends twice yearly vaccination for EEE.
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08/23/2025

Have you heard about the carrot test? Finally a test our horses can get behind!
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As silly as it sounds, the "carrot test" can be used to help diagnose tooth aches in our equine companions.

Equine odontoclastic tooth resorption and hypercementosis (EORTH) is a dental condition that affects the incisors of middle-aged horses and older. As the name suggests, it acts by both resorbing the teeth and then producing large amounts of cementum (a hard substance that anchors the teeth into place).

Clinical signs such as difficulty chewing, teeth discoloration and painful gums are highly suspicious for this disease, but you can also offer your horse a carrot to assess how comfortable they are biting down. If it seems painful for them while biting the carrot, they could have EORTH!

Your veterinarian can do an oral examination and take dental radiographs to confirm the diagnosis. This is a progressive disease so there is no cure, but there are management strategies that can improve their comfort.

If you are concerned that your horse may have EORTH or is experiencing oral pain, contact your veterinarian so that they may further evaluate and suggest treatment options.

Thank you to the Horse Owner Education Committee for providing this information.

08/22/2025

The importance of a sedated dental examination: 🐴🦷
This senior horse had recently been checked by a lay dentist and not floated because he didn’t need it. Our exam shows multiple very sharp points and edges, missing teeth, and loose fragments. The horse had been losing weight and suffering from chronic diarrhea. While we cannot add teeth back in, we certainly can manage the comfort of the mouth by addressing the sharp points and removing the loose fragments. This horse will likely struggle to chew hay well but making his mouth comfortable and adding in some senior feed (mash) should help him gain his weight back!

08/19/2025

TRIVIA TUESDAY! 🤓🥳🐎
This is a picture from inside a horse's stomach. There are multiple bleeding ulcers here but our trivia question is: What is clustered in the lower right hand part of the picture?
✨All you smart horse owners out there, I know you know what this is!

08/11/2025

Tomorrow night! Join us for our Free Client education talk about Laminitis! 8/12 6-8pm

08/07/2025

Did you know we offer Phovia to help with wound healing?
In addition to medical treatment, Phovia helps with:
🐴Open or traumatic wounds
🐴Cracked heels
🐴Scratches
🐴Surgical Incisions
🐴Summer sores

Read more at:

Heal with the speed of light Induce skin healing in horses. Apply Phovia Fluorescent Light Therapy to most skin lesion as part of your skin/wound healing protocol. Healing with the Speed of Light Accelerate natural skin regeneration for most lesions with Phovia, a clinically proven fluorescent light...

08/05/2025

Trivia Tuesday! 🤩
Pictured is the AAEP lameness scale. What are the three things that will cause a true grade 5/5 lameness, a non-weight bearing lameness (unable or completely unwilling to bear weight on the leg)?

03/17/2024

Vets and farriers join forces to create the “Palmetto Podiatry Project”! 🐎

With laminitis seemingly around every corner in the Upstate, our team is creating this study in the hopes of building a roadmap for podiatry decision making in the acute and chronic phases of laminitis. Using information gathered via radiograph, venogram, and bloodwork, we will compare the effects of three different podiatry applications. Before and after diagnostics will be done on each horse for each type of application, the one that provides the best result and comfort level for the horse will be applied. Horses participating in the study will be rechecked every four weeks in order to monitor progress.

This page was created so that the public could follow along this journey. Throughout the study, we will be sharing information pertaining to all aspects of laminitis. Being such a far reaching topic, we will share information regarding the causes of laminitis, the anatomy, nutrition, metabolic influence, and more. We understand that owners facing laminitis with their horse can feel overwhelmed by the amount of information online. Finding somewhere to start can feel impossible! So, this page is meant to give you a starting point. All information we are sharing is evidence based and the sources will be noted should you choose to further research a topic.

We hope you will follow the page and learn with us! 📝📖📚

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*photo is a radiograph depicting a horse with chronic laminitis and significant rotation of the coffin bone.