Don’t Skip Wellness Appointments Idaho Vet Warns

Whether you’re taking animals on the road this summer, or your staying home, it’s important to keep the health and wellbeing of your herd or flocks in mind.  To do that, it’s important to schedule and keep general wellness appointments with your veterinarians.  Idaho state Vet Dr. Scott Leibsle acknowledges that those check ups can sometime seem expensive.

“[However] You don't want to have a problem be a bigger issue than it could have been if it's a pathogen or a disease that affects one or two animals," Leibsle noted.  "You don't want it to all of a sudden affect 15 or 20 animals and then go from there. So, I'm I'm hopeful that people keep their regular appointments with their vets, their invaluable resources, the information, not to mention having access to vaccinations, nutritional consultations. Those are all really important. And so as long as people do that and make every effort to prevent disease from being spread, you know that's all you can do.  And sometimes even our best efforts are met with. Sometimes you can bring something home. But. Every, every preventative tactic that you can make in bringing something home to your herd or flock, you should definitely do, and that's all we can ask of livestock producers here in Idaho.”

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