Equine Veterinarian

From racehorses to range stock, equine veterinarians provide medical assistance to horses. As a practicing veterinarian, you may set broken bones, diagnose diseases, and even quarantine sick animals. Sometimes you may address your patients living conditions by instructing the owner on better cleaning or grooming practices. You might also give owners specific directions for feeding and exercising their horses.

You could choose to focus specifically on using sports medicine in treating racehorses, or you may wish to work with farm or range animals. Caring for performing horses often requires giving them wellness check-ups to diagnose minor ailments before these problems become serious. In less stressed animals, such as range stock, minor joint injuries or other types of inflammation might never need medical treatmen