Welcome to Talley Veterinary Services Group

Talley Veterinary Services Group is a mixed animal veterinary practice that serves the needs of small animal pet owners as well as large animal and livestock owners. The clinic was founded in 2007 by Drs. George Gowan and Nan Talley for the purpose of providing quality personal veterinary care at an affordable cost to residents of Winnsboro, Wisner, Crowville, Fort Necessity, Sicily Island, and Mangham, Louisiana. The tradition of individualized, reliable animal health care continues to this day with Dr. Talley and Dr. Kyle Alford at their newer location on Highway 15.

We are committed to providing comprehensive and compassionate veterinary care and surgery for large and small pets in our rural community. We offer complete pet care services that include boarding, dental care, digital radiography, heartworm testing, hospice and euthanasia, in-clinic diagnostics, microchipping, pain management, on-line pharmacy, surgery, ultrasound, and wellness visits.

Talley Veterinary Services Group will be there for you wherever you need us. In addition to full care for small animals, we are equipped with an on-site facility that enables us to perform large animal diagnostic services including x-rays and ultrasounds, as well as some surgical procedures. When necessary, our doctors also make farm visits.

Dr. Talley has been involved with veterinary medicine since her teens. She specializes in endocrinology, internal medicine, and small ruminants. Dr. Alford's specialty is large animal health care, and more specifically, bovine medicine.

Come by and see us! We look forward to meeting you and your pet and welcoming you to our family.

West Nile Virus

As many of you may know, our community has seen several human cases of West Nile Virus. West Nile Virus originated in Uganda and is transmitted via mosquitoes. Obviously, Louisiana has a ton of those! Many species of birds are hosts for West Nile and act as a “carrier” species for mammals. Since we have been seeing this uptick in human cases, we know that a reservoir for the virus is present in our area. Therefore, it is important to protect our equine population. Horses and humans that become symptomatic with the virus exhibit encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. Horses often have difficulty walking, may appear depressed, become recumbent (unable to rise), or even have seizure activity. Death is often a sequela. The good news is that West Nile is totally preventable in the equine species. Several vaccines are available that provide protection against the virus. Most veterinarians recommend an annual vaccination near the start of mosquito season to provide antibodies to the virus at horse’s most vulnerable. For example, I vaccinated my horse in late March. This summer, after hearing the reports on human cases from the Louisiana Department of Health, I repeated the vaccination. Please be sure to vaccinate your equines for this preventable disease.

Talley Veterinary Services Group now offers electronic messaging services for your convenience!

Talley Veterinary Services Group has teamed up with AllyDVM for a new service that will allow our clinic staff and doctors to communicate with clients via text message and email. We will be able to send and receive appointment reminders, medication refills, boarding updates, and in-house patient updates electronically instead of using regular mail. AllyDVM also offers a "patient portal" for all of our clients and their pets, so that you can have access to your pet's information wherever you go! Additionally, we are excited about new links/services that will allow our clients to text or email us for medication refills, boarding reservations, and so much more. We genuinely look forward to better serving our clients and patients with this new addition to our practice! In order to take advantage of this innovative communication capability, please update your current mobile numbers and email address with our office. Look under “Links” to sign up and try our new services.