Productive Animals, Healthy Herds, & Happy Farmers

Compassionate.

Evidence-based.

Herd Health.

Let us help you maintain a happy & healthy herd right from the start

Our Philosophy

At Caprine & Ewe we have an integrated and proactive approach to herd health intended to optimize your herd’s production and performance potentials. Dr. Holahan provides a multi-level, evidence-based herd management plan that constructed based on a pyramid of herd health.

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View fullsize Caprine & Ewe…dogs and cats too :) We are excited to announce our first discount surgery day. This event will allow Dr. Melissa's students to get much needed experience assisting with surgeries AND allow us to offer our clients discounted
View fullsize The 30-30-30 rule is a great guideline to educate people and to direct their attention to their pregnant animals and know when to start thinking about intervening. Especially for those that are less experienced livestock owners and may not know the n
View fullsize Better late than never : ) We were so busy having fun the past 2 weeks that I never got the chance to introduce our visiting 4th year vet student. This young man is going to go big places in vet med and I can't wait to see what his future holds. It w
View fullsize Did you know that pollinators need veterinarians too? The last few weeks have been filled with some great educational events that I wanted to share for those that may not be aware....but pollinators are responsible for 1 in every 3 bites of food &am
View fullsize https://vetextension.wsu.edu/tag/newsletter-jan2024/
View fullsize I don't normally like to share these recordings but this is definitely a timely topic for sheep producers as many are gearing up for lambing season. This discussion is applicable to goats/kidding season as well. Catch the replay here: https://wsu.z
View fullsize Happy International Veterinary Medicine Day! We wanted to take a few minutes to give a special shout out to our one and only Dr. Melissa on International Veterinary Medicine Day. Big or small, animals in her care are loved and put first. She goes ab
View fullsize When you are a mobile veterinarian and you have to position animals for x-rays in any situation....you have to get creative. We are so lucky to be able to work with such cooperative animals and their amazing owners. Although we were not actively radi
View fullsize As we start to slow down on our own farms I know everyone is starting to gear up for next spring - lambing/kidding/calving you name it season. Here are a few great resources that you an use to increase your knowledge base and some great TIPS on when
View fullsize We wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY & HEALTHY HOLIDAY SEASON! Thank you all for your support in 2023 and we look forward to working with you in the NEW YEAR : ) Check your emails today for some EXCITING NEW updates for Caprine & Ewe Veterina

How It All Began…

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Our Team.

We provide 30+ years of veterinary and livestock management experience to bring you a full service team approach.


Melissa Holahan, DVM, DACVECC, Owner/Chief Veterinarian