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Co-Founder, FullBucket Health | Board-Certified Equine Internal Medicine Specialist

Dr. Rob Franklin is a board-certified specialist in large animal internal medicine, co-founder of FullBucket Health, and was installed as president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners at the AAEP's 68th Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

Credentials

• DVM, Texas A&M University. He received his veterinary degree from Texas A&M in 1999 and became board certified in large animal internal medicine in 2003 while completing his residency at the University of Florida. aaep
• Past President, American Association of Equine Practitioners (2023)
• Co-founder and past president of the Texas Equine Veterinary Association, past president of the Marion County, Florida Veterinary Medical Association, and a former director of the Florida Association of Equine Practitioners aaep
• Founding Director, Equitarian Initiative

Areas of Expertise

Equine internal medicine, gastrointestinal health, critical care, clinical nutrition, broodmare and foal management, and working equid welfare.

About Rob

Rob grew up in the Texas Hill Country west of Austin and developed a love for horses as a kid. His family spent a year living overseas when he was 11. Attending school abroad and traveling extensively gave him a broader sense of the world, its societies, cultures, needs, and faiths.

After returning to Texas, Rob spent a summer in Wyoming working with horses. An influential local ranch veterinarian inspired him to become a horse doctor.

After his residency, he established and led intensive care units at equine referral hospitals in Australia, Florida, and Texas before opening a veterinary consulting and practice ownership firm in 2012. He has been affiliated with Fredericksburg Equine since 2018. He has published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles and has presented at national and international veterinary conferences.

His Work With FullBucket
Rob co-founded FullBucket out of what he saw as an internal medicine specialist. After years of building and running equine intensive care units, he kept seeing the same thing. Stress, travel, hospitalization, and foaling all hit the gut first, and there wasn't a product on the market built to support it through those moments. So Dr. Rob Franklin and Dr. Keith Latson built one. Rob leads FullBucket's annual veterinary mission in Guatemala, the work behind the One-4-One model.

Dr. Keith Latson is a board-certified equine surgeon, co-founder of FullBucket Health, and has served as the AAEP's On Call veterinarian for NBC Sports' Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks broadcasts, succeeding Larry Bramlage, who served as the AAEP's On Call spokesperson for Triple Crown events since 1993.

Credentials

• DVM, Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine (2001); board certified in surgery by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (2006)
• Recipient of the Equine Student Clinical Proficiency Award from Texas A&M and the James M. Wilson Award for Outstanding Research by a graduate student or resident from the Center for Equine Health at UC Davis
• Past recipient of the AAEP's Good Works for Horses Award; member of the AAEP Racing Committee
• AAEP On Call Veterinarian, Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks

Areas of Expertise

Equine surgery, performance horse and racehorse care, sports medicine, post-surgical recovery, and equine nutrition research.

About Keith

Keith was born at Fort Hood, Texas, the son of a career military officer and a healthcare educator. He spent his childhood moving every two to three years from one corner of the United States to another, with a few years of European and Hawaiian living scattered in.

Keith works as a private surgical and performance equine consultant, focusing on yearling to racing-age Thoroughbreds. He has also provided professional and surgical services for nonprofit Thoroughbred retirement and retraining organizations. He has published and presented several peer-reviewed scientific papers on equine surgery and is actively involved in equine nutrition research with Texas A&M and Montana State universities.

His Work With
Keith co-founded FullBucket after volunteering veterinary care for working horses in rural Central America. Back home in surgical practice, he kept seeing the same problem. The surgery would go well, but recovery brought digestive upset, and there wasn't a product on the market built to support the gut through it. So Dr. Keith Latson and Dr. Rob Franklin built one. Together they formulate and review every FullBucket product, and that clinical experience is still the foundation of the line today.