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Minneapolis this week for the American Association of Bovine Practitioners annual meeting — one of our favorite weeks of...
08/28/2026

Minneapolis this week for the American Association of Bovine Practitioners annual meeting — one of our favorite weeks of the year. 🐄
The AABP brings together the best bovine veterinarians in the country for a week of cutting edge continuing education, research, and conversation about where cattle medicine is going. This year we had the honor of presenting two talks to our national colleagues — something we are very proud of.
The rest of the week was spent listening, learning, and reconnecting with some of the best minds in the profession.
The cattle producers we work with deserve a veterinary team that stays at the front edge of bovine medicine. Weeks like this one are how we make sure that happens.
Good week. Great people. Ready to get back to work. 🤠

08/24/2026

The math on preg checking your herd is pretty simple. 🐄

Hay at $200 a ton. Feed costs of roughly $400 per cow from December through April. A 400-cow herd with 5–8% open cows costs you $8,000–$12,800 in unnecessary winter feed. A preg check on that same herd runs about $1,900.

You do the math.

Every open cow you find is money saved. Every one you miss is money spent feeding an animal that will not produce a calf next year. And with the dry summer we have had, body condition scoring at preg check time is more important than ever — catching cows that are behind now gives you time to fix it before winter.

Fall schedules are filling up. Call us soon.

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Do you know the financial value of preg checking your cow herd? 🐄Here is a real example. Take a 400-cow herd. Hay this y...
08/24/2026

Do you know the financial value of preg checking your cow herd? 🐄

Here is a real example. Take a 400-cow herd. Hay this year is looking like it will average around $200 a ton, and if you are feeding from December 15th through April 15th, you are looking at roughly $400 in feed costs per cow this winter.

Now preg check that herd. If 5–8% of those cows come up open — which is not unusual — that is 20–32 cows you no longer need to feed through winter. At $400 per head, that is $8,000–$12,800 in feed costs you just identified. Sell those open cows, and that money stays in your pocket instead of going into the feed bunk.

The preg check on a 400-cow herd costs roughly $1,900. The math is not complicated.

Every open cow you find is money saved. Every one you miss is money spent feeding an animal that will not produce a calf for you next year.

Beyond the economics, preg check day is one of the most efficient days of the year for your herd. Every cow comes to the chute — which means vaccines, deworming, and individual body condition scoring all happen at the same time. That last one matters more than usual this year. With the dry summer we have had, monitoring body condition closely and supplementing protein where necessary is going to be critical heading into winter.

Preg check season is here. If you have not scheduled yours yet, give us a call soon — fall calendars fill up fast.

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08/21/2026

🚜 Feature Equipment of the Week — Stur-D Portable Loading Chute — $8,800

A portable loading chute takes a beating. Gravel roads, rough terrain, season after season of hard use — the equipment you count on needs to be built to handle it.

The Stur-D is. American-made, heavy duty construction, and designed for working cattle operations that need something dependable year in and year out. Buy it once and use it for a long time.

Features worth noting:

🚪 Dual walk-through doors — safety and efficiency when working cattle
👣 Heavy duty diamond plate steps — solid, reliable footing every time
🔧 Side catwalk — the access and visibility you need when it matters

In stock now in Livingston. $8,800.

📞 406-578-1214 · 📍 45 Swingley Rd, Livingston, MT

Cattle have been getting a lot of attention on our page lately — but trust us, the horses have kept us just as busy. 🐴We...
08/19/2026

Cattle have been getting a lot of attention on our page lately — but trust us, the horses have kept us just as busy. 🐴

We have seen a run of lacerations this season — cattle guards, barbed wire, and one very ambitious horse who apparently decided a juniper tree was the perfect place to scratch his belly. He ran it all the way under his skin from his abdomen up into his flank.

He is doing well. We are fairly certain he has reconsidered his scratching habits, but who knows🤷.

Jokes aside, leg lacerations in horses are something we take seriously — and one of the treatments you will see in these photos is called a regional limb perfusion.

The concept is straightforward: we put a tourniquet on the upper leg, then inject antibiotics directly into a vein below it. With blood flow temporarily restricted, that high concentration of antibiotic stays right where we need it — at the wound site — instead of being diluted throughout the whole body. We repeat the process daily for several days.

It sounds intensive but it is highly effective — especially for wounds where infection has taken hold or where the risk of it is high. Dr. Kate Bennett & Dr. Tianna Cronk have been doing a lot of these recently and the results have been great.

Lower leg wounds in horses can escalate quickly. If you are ever unsure whether a laceration needs attention — call us. That is what we are here for. 📞 406-578-1214

08/18/2026

How do you know if your mineral program is actually working? 🐄
Body condition tells you part of the story. A hay test tells you what is in the feed. But the most accurate way to assess your herd's micro-mineral status is to look at where those minerals are actually stored — the liver.
Copper, selenium, zinc, and many other mineral levels in the liver directly affect two things that matter most in a cow herd: immune function and reproductive performance. A cow running low on any of them may be cycling poorly or fighting disease less effectively — and you would never know it from looking at her.
That is exactly what a liver biopsy panel tells us. Minimally invasive, about 90 minutes for 20 animals, and one of the most valuable data points we can collect on a herd.
If you have been wondering whether your mineral program is doing what you are paying for — this is how you find out.
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08/11/2026

🚜 Feature Equipment of the Week — Apache 20' Bale Feeder Wagon — $9,199

True 20 feet of feeding space. Three round bales. Vertical slats that flex instead of breaking welds. Extendable tongue that hooks up to any equipment. Optional silage/TMR insert.

American-made. In stock now in Livingston.

Come see it or give us a call. 📞 406-578-1214

08/11/2026

Why does the same bug hit some calves and not others? 🐄

It is a question worth understanding — and the answer is not as simple as "they were exposed." Watch this short video and we will walk you through the Disease Triad — the three-factor framework that veterinarians use to understand why animals get sick and how to stop it from happening again.

Host. Pathogen. Environment. All three corners matter. Stop at one and you are only solving part of the problem.

This is how we think about animal health at MVVS — and it is the kind of thinking that goes into every herd health protocol we build.

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08/06/2026

When did a veterinarian last look at your cattle vaccine protocol? 🐄

If you are not sure of the answer — or if the vet who built it has since retired — this is for you.

Through the end of September, MVVS is offering a free one-hour vaccine protocol consultation for cattle producers. Sit down with one of our doctors in our new conference room, walk us through what you are currently doing, and let us take a fresh look.

Maybe your protocol is exactly right. Maybe there are a few adjustments that could better protect your herd or save you money. Maybe it has not been looked at in years and it is time. Either way, an hour of our time costs you nothing — and the peace of mind that comes with knowing your program has been reviewed by a veterinarian is worth a lot more than that.

This is not a sales pitch. It is a conversation. We will tell you what we see and you can decide what to do with it.

Call us to book your appointment before September 30th.

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08/03/2026

See those little fluttering hearts in the middle of the chest of these baby foals!? These babies are on their way to a healthy delivery!

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Wilsall, MT

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Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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