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Vaccinations – prevention is better than the cost of treatment.
Routine vaccinations allow us to take our horses out and about safely and ensure we don't come back with any nasty surprises. There are two main diseases we vaccinate our horses with to give them the protection they need. Equine Influenza: This is a viral respiratory...
Time to shed the excess weight.
Weight loss. This is a really important issue at this time of year. We are half way through winter and those horses who are still carrying excess weight from the summer and unseasonably warm autumn/winter really need to lose the weight before the spring grass comes...
When to worry about worming?
This week's blog is all about worms and worming. It's a hard one to get right especially with the loss of clear seasons and the timings of when to worm. As most of you who know me will probably realise, I tend to bang on about pasture management and worm egg counts....
The importance of vaccination:
In the UK routine vaccines are commonly carried out for both Equine Influenza and Tetanus. These are the main part of your horses vaccination programme. These safeguard them against two of the diseases which can impact both them and (in the case of Equine flu) others...
Cordless X-ray
Our X-ray machine is unusual in that it has no cables and is completely battery powered. This means that we can use it in any yard and it makes up part of our arsenal when it comes to lameness workups. We strive hard to use cutting edge technology alongside good...
Why sheath cleaning is important.
Here is a short video on the importance of sheath cleaning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEalf0N9J3A
Foot abscesses and poulticing
To follow on from the video on Facebook, I thought I would delve further into how abscesses occur and the main things you should be thinking about when your horse has this issue. Abscesses occur when the foot is softened (wet weather and mud) and a sharp object is...
What constitutes an emergency???
Every vet you ask, will have differing opinions on what their top emergencies are and they vary depending on the circumstances. However there are some hard and fast rules in the equine vet world when it comes to emergencies that get us to drop everything and run.........
“We live in interesting times”, Covid lockdown and the way we will be working.
As I'm sure you are all aware, the government has decided to take England back into lockdown for the next four weeks from tonight at midnight. This does not mean that animal welfare will be impacted again. We all just need to use our common sense and work with each...
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