Veterinary Field Services

Dr. Gorden examining dairy cow

Improving Animal Health Through Service and Education

The Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine Food Animal and Camelid Field Services provides on-farm services to livestock producers in the general Ames area. Equipped with four fully stocked mobile veterinary trucks and eight full-time clinicians, Veterinary Field Services provides individual animal and herd health veterinary care for beef, dairy, swine, sheep, goats, and camelids (alpacas and llamas).

The Field Services unit serves to educate veterinary students on farm animal medicine while providing high-quality veterinary services to local producers. Our services provide students with additional hands-on training in best practices for management of a wide variety of clinical cases to help prepare them for their future veterinary careers.

Services

Medical and Surgical Services

  • Diagnosis and treatment of individual animal diseases
  • Vaccination and deworming programs
  • Castration, dehorning and routine production procedures
  • Herd-based performance evaluation and consultation
  • Breeding soundness examinations
  • Fetal sexing via ultrasound
  • Milking system analysis
  • Records analysis
  • Nutritional consultation
  • Routine on-farm surgeries (displaced abomasum, c-section, prolapse)

Advanced Mobile Equipment and Technology

  • Breeding soundness exam equipment
  • Ultrasound
  • Cattle chute
Veterinary Field Services exterior photo of building

Appointments

Veterinary Field Services

Food Animal & Camelid Field Services:
515-294-7595
Equine Field Services:
515-294-5224
24/7 Emergency Care (including holidays):
515-294-1500

Veterinary Field Services Team

Clinicians will work together to provide services through the field services unit. Our veterinarians include those with broad experience and expertise as well as clinicians with species-specific expertise.

Food Animal & Camelid Field Services

Equine Field Services

Kara Frerichs, DVM

Clinical Assistant Professor

*Board-Certified Specialist
From https://vetmed.iastate.edu/vmc/large-animal/veterinary-field-services