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Vets near Birmingham
Eleven practices, all of them checked against their own website. Two say on their own site that somebody is there around the clock — both for dogs and cats. No equine practice in this ring publishes a 24-hour hospital, so the two horse numbers under them are after-hours lines, and they are labelled that way. Everything else on this page is daylight work and waits under it.
If it's an emergency, call before you drive.
“We Are Now Open 24/7 - 365 Days A Year”, and “We Provide Emergency & Critical Care Services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including all holidays”
24/7/365 · THEIR WORDS SOURCE · steelcityemergencyvets.comTheir hours table reads “Open 24 hrs” on every one of the seven days, and the emergency page says “In an emergency, no appointment or referral is necessary.”
OPEN 24 HRS · SEVEN DAYSWHAT THE APPOINTMENT NOTE COVERSThe same page adds “Note: Referrals available by appointment.” That is the specialty side of the house. The emergency door is the one quoted above, and it does not want an appointment.
SOURCE · vsbham.comHorses only, and the round-the-clock claim is on their services page in as many words: “24 Hour Emergency Consultation is available from our on-call doctors and staff. This is available by first accessing our usual telephone numbers and proceeding as directed.”
24 HR EMERGENCY CONSULTATION · EQUINEREAD THE WORD CONSULTATIONTheir posted hours are Monday–Thursday 8AM–4PM, Friday until 2PM, closed weekends, with “Urgent/Emergency After Hours Available”. The round-the-clock line is an on-call consultation reached through the number above — not a lit building you can haul to unannounced. Call it first.
SOURCE · coosavalleyequine.com · and their services pageThe number above is the one their own site prints as “EMERGENCY PAGER: ( EQUINE EMERGENCY ONLY)”. Beside it: “After Hours & Saturday/Sunday: Emergencies Only”.
EQUINE EMERGENCY PAGER · THEIR WORDSTHE PAGER IS FOR HORSES ONLYTheir site says so in the label itself, so do not send a dog to it. Daytime is a different number — the main office is (205) 669-9118, “Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM”.
SOURCE · southernequineservices.netLarge animal
& mixed practice
In here because the practice's own website says it treats cattle, horses, sheep or goats. A clinic that only mentions dogs and cats is not in this lane no matter how good it is. Two of the eight are equine only, and their own sites say so — the mark beside the name means read the line before you load a cow.
“We also have a fully-equipped large animal facility to accommodate horses, cattle, sheep, and goats.” A facility, note — they never say on their site that they drive out, so they are not in the farm-call lane. Their own after-hours advice is to call Steel City, which is in the band at the top of this page.
Monday 8:00am-5:00pm; Tuesday 8:00am-5:00pm; Wednesday 8:00am-12:00pm; Thursday 8:00am-5:00pm; Friday 8:00am-12:00pm 1:30pm-5:00pm; Saturday Closed; Sunday Closed
SOURCE · animalgeneralclinic.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
“Large Animal Services: Veterinary services for horses, cattle, goats, sheep and other large animals.” Plainly stated and stops there — no farm-call claim anywhere on the site, so they sit in this lane and the goat lane and no other.
Monday - Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm; Saturday: 8:00am - 12:00pm
SOURCE · oneontaanimalhospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
The widest species list in the ring, in their words: “In addition to seeing cats and dogs, we provide care for various farm animals including horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and ducks.” The one practice here that names both birds and goats on its own page.
Monday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Tuesday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Wednesday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Thursday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Friday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Saturday: Closed; Sunday: Closed
SOURCE · branchvilleanimalhospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
Horses and nothing else, and they lead with it: “100% Equine – medical and surgical care including performance evaluation”. A full referral hospital for a horse, no use at all for a cow — which is why the mark is on the name in a lane called large animal.
Monday - Thursday: 8AM - 4PM CST; Friday: 8AM – 2PM CST; Saturday - Sunday: Closed; Urgent/Emergency After Hours Available
SOURCE · coosavalleyequine.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
“Lee's Veterinary Hospital offers medical care to clients with large animals, such as horses, cows and pigs.” They put the reason plainly too: “Today, more veterinary clinics are focusing only on small domestic animals.” This is a mixed practice that stayed one.
Monday 8:00am-5:00pm; Tuesday 8:00am-5:00pm; Wednesday 8:00am-5:00pm; Thursday 8:00am-5:00pm; Friday 8:00am-5:00pm; Saturday 8:00am-12:00pm; Sunday Closed
SOURCE · leesvethospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
“For farm calls, we have a fully equipped ambulatory truck for cattle, sheep, and goats.” They also say exactly where the truck goes, and it is four counties: “Our service area includes St. Clair County including Pell City, Ashville, Odenville, Branchville, Moody, and Leeds, Talladega County including Lincoln, Talladega, and Alpine, Vincent, and Harpersville in Shelby County and the Ohatchee area in Calhoun County.”
Monday–Friday: 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM; Saturday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM; Sunday: Closed
SOURCE · pellcityvets.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
An equine practice, and the emergency pager on their own site is labelled “( EQUINE EMERGENCY ONLY)”. Horses only, same as Coosa Valley — the mark says read that before you call about anything with horns.
Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; After Hours & Saturday/Sunday: Emergencies Only
SOURCE · southernequineservices.net · checked 9 Aug 2026
Herd work, written like somebody who does it: “care and consultation for individual livestock and larger production herds”, and “We diagnose pregnancy by rectal palpation in cows and trans abdominal ultrasound in small ruminants.” Their own after-hours advice points at Steel City, up in the band at the top of this page.
Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm*; Saturday: Closed; Sunday: Closed; Closed daily from 11:30-1:30 for surgeries
SOURCE · veterinaryhospitalofcentreville.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
The other half of the same errand
The vet is one number. The farm you're driving to is in the Almanac.
Tramel Farms keeps the sister book — the working farms, stands and homesteads on this same ring. Same rule about not making things up, different page. The farms near Birmingham keep this book honest: they are the ones who call these numbers on a Sunday and find out whether somebody answers.
SAME RING · SAME COUNTIES · DIFFERENT BOOK
The Birmingham ring on the Almanac ↗Poultry
& goats
The hardest lane to fill honestly. A practice is in here only if its own site names chickens, goats or both. “Exotics” alone does not count, and neither does a photo of a hen.
The longest bird list in the ring, and it runs right through the barnyard at the end: “…chickens, turkeys, pheasants, peacocks, ducks, and geese.” They also take “pot-bellied pigs”. No goat and no other livestock anywhere on the site — birds is the claim, and birds is what we print.
Monday 7 am – 6 pm; Tuesday 7 am – 6 pm; Wednesday 7 am – 6 pm; Thursday 7 am – 6 pm; Friday 7 am – 6 pm; Saturday 8 am – 12 pm; Sunday Closed
SOURCE · alfordavenueveterinaryhospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
Goats named in the facility line — “horses, cattle, sheep, and goats” — and no bird mentioned anywhere on the site. Goats only, in this lane.
Monday 8:00am-5:00pm; Tuesday 8:00am-5:00pm; Wednesday 8:00am-12:00pm; Thursday 8:00am-5:00pm; Friday 8:00am-12:00pm 1:30pm-5:00pm; Saturday Closed; Sunday Closed
SOURCE · animalgeneralclinic.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
“Veterinary services for horses, cattle, goats, sheep and other large animals.” Goats in writing, birds not mentioned.
Monday - Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm; Saturday: 8:00am - 12:00pm
SOURCE · oneontaanimalhospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
The only practice in this ring whose own site names the birds and the goats in one breath: “In addition to seeing cats and dogs, we provide care for various farm animals including horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and ducks.” If you keep a mixed yard, this is the page that already describes it.
Monday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Tuesday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Wednesday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Thursday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Friday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Saturday: Closed; Sunday: Closed
SOURCE · branchvilleanimalhospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
Goats twice over — the ambulatory truck is “for cattle, sheep, and goats”, and they add: “Oftentimes, we can provide more economical and better treatment for sheep and goats at the animal hospital.” No bird on the site.
Monday–Friday: 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM; Saturday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM; Sunday: Closed
SOURCE · pellcityvets.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
BIRDS AND GOATS ON THE SAME PAGE — ONE
Four of the five above name goats. Two name poultry. Only Branchville names both, which means a mixed yard near Birmingham is usually two phone calls and not one. That is the whole finding for this ring, and we are not going to fold “exotics” or a clinic that treats parrots into a goat lane to make the number look better.
Farm call
They come to you, and their own site says so. Where the site puts a limit on it — a county line, a client-only rule, routine visits only — the limit is printed with the listing instead of being smoothed over.
“Our large animal veterinarians can accommodate on-site routine visits for barnyard pets.” Routine is their word and it is the limit — the sentence promises a vaccination round in your lot, not a truck at midnight.
Monday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Tuesday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Wednesday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Thursday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Friday: 7:00am - 5:00pm; Saturday: Closed; Sunday: Closed
SOURCE · branchvilleanimalhospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
“Ambulatory services/appointments available for local clients”. Two limits in six words — local, and clients. If you have never been on their books, the ambulatory truck is not the call to make first.
Monday - Thursday: 8AM - 4PM CST; Friday: 8AM – 2PM CST; Saturday - Sunday: Closed; Urgent/Emergency After Hours Available
SOURCE · coosavalleyequine.com/services · checked 9 Aug 2026
“…make farm call visits in the Cullman County area to save our clients from the difficulty of hauling an animal in for a simple vaccine or check-up.” A county named and the errand named — that is the honest shape of it, and it is a good deal inside Cullman County.
Monday 8:00am-5:00pm; Tuesday 8:00am-5:00pm; Wednesday 8:00am-5:00pm; Thursday 8:00am-5:00pm; Friday 8:00am-5:00pm; Saturday 8:00am-12:00pm; Sunday Closed
SOURCE · leesvethospital.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
“For farm calls, we have a fully equipped ambulatory truck for cattle, sheep, and goats.” No qualifier on the sentence. They do add a practical offer for anybody without a chute: “If you do not have working facilities or if distance is a problem, we can arrange for cattle to be seen at Dr. McMillan's farm.”
Monday–Friday: 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM; Saturday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM; Sunday: Closed
SOURCE · pellcityvets.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
The farm call is stated sideways, in a note about visiting them: “Due to the nature of our business we may be out on the farm during office hours. We wouldn't want to miss you so please call ahead if you plan to visit.” A practice that is out on the farm by default is a farm-call practice — but ring first, because the same sentence says nobody may be there.
Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; After Hours & Saturday/Sunday: Emergencies Only
SOURCE · southernequineservices.net · checked 9 Aug 2026
“We offer in-house hospital visits as well as onsite farm calls for large animal services.” Said flat, with no ring drawn around it — the plainest farm-call line in the ring.
Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm*; Saturday: Closed; Sunday: Closed; Closed daily from 11:30-1:30 for surgeries
SOURCE · veterinaryhospitalofcentreville.com · checked 9 Aug 2026
How this page was made
Checked 9 August 2026 · 11 practicesTheir site or nothing
Every name, number, address, hour and overnight claim on this page was read off the practice's own website on 9 August 2026. No Yelp, no map cards, no directory scrapes. Two clinics in this ring send their own after-hours traffic to Steel City, which is why it sits at the top of the page — their word, not our ranking.
After hours is not 24 hours
Only two practices here say somebody is there around the clock, and both are small-animal. The horse numbers in the dark band are on-call lines, labelled that way, with the word their own site used. Calling four what is honestly two would be the one lie this book cannot afford.
No status lights, no stars
Hours are quoted, never rendered as “open now” — the day a clinic closes early is exactly the day a status light gets you killed on the drive. No ratings, no reviews, no sponsored placements, no affiliate links. Order is by lane and species, then alphabetical.