COLIC IN A MARE

Here is the video clipping of a mare with colic

Racing vet or Breeding vet

If you ask me whether i like to be in the equine breeding or racing. I would prefer to be on the breeding. Because on many occasions you decide what you do, but in racing we are made to follow the others whether it is to our liking or not. During my stint as a vet at chettinad stud we frequently visit the race courses with our boss's horses. On two occasions i was asked to take care of his race horses for a couple of months in the absence of the racing vet. After a couple of months when the racing vet returned, he asked me how it was to work with race horses, i told him that it was like nothing more than a technician, there was no need for a vet to work as most of the treatments are decided by the trainer himself. And when a horse is presented to us with lameness, the animal is so freightened and when i palpate it shows pain every where because it was checked by everyone in the stable groom, foreman, riding boy, assistant trainer and the trainer. If you want to use some special skills, the response of the owner or trainer will be mostly no.