At Farm Veterinary Services is an equine practice in Plymouth, California. Centrally located for El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, and Sacramento County locations. We are a caring, up-to-date practice that can attend to your horse at our facility, or at your farm. AFVS also has digital radiographic capability (X-ray) that is mobile, digital ultrasound, and dental services available. As for equine reproduction, if you are a mare owner, we will board and breed your mare with fresh, chilled, or frozen semen.
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We are committed to providing your horse top quality care with complete respect, while understanding your individual needs. Dr. Jim Garfinkel: owner, and current sole veterinarian of At Farm Veterinary Services, has been riding horses since he was two. Dr. Garfinkel has ridden and trained horses in many disciplines including: Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, Hunter/Jumpers, Dressage, Eventing, Cutting, and Thoroughbred Race Horses.
PEMF (Pulsating Electronic Magnetic Field) is utilized to speed up recovery from injuries and to relax and warm up tensed muscles! Just like for humans PEMF therapy helps horses in healing injuries; it promotes and speeds up regeneration and rehabilitation. In short, a PEMF device creates a pulsing electromagnetic field within hose-looking tubular loops, which helps horses recover at a cellular level by stimulating cell metabolism. The magnetic field brings more oxygen into the red blood cells and pushes them towards the areas that are injured or inflamed.
Preventive maintenance is always the best medicine. In the Spring: West Nile Virus, Eastern & Western Encephalomyelitis, Tetanus, Influenza and Rhinopnuemonitis. In the Fall: West Nile Virus, Influenza and Rhinopneumonitis again, and Rabies. An immunization for Streptococcus Equi (Strangles) may be given in early summer.
When it comes to Pigeon Fever, I wish I had a recorded message on a "900" pay per minute phone number when they were all the rage! Why? Because when we are experiencing an "outbreak, " I find myself on the phone, answering the same questions, trying to find new ways to answer them to avoid sounding robotic.
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Rosemarie Caddel
Dec 22, 2017
