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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...
What a Welcone and Fat Horse Slim
We cannot believe the reaction we have had from folk since we launched last week. We have over 215 folk following us on facebook in less that 7 days and we have been overwhelmed by the messages of support, I might have even got something in my eye when reading...
Hello World
Well its been an exciting few days here at Little Rock Equine Vets. We feel like all our Birthdays and Christmases have come at once with the arrival of our new digital wireless X-Ray machine, our ultrasound, and dental power tools. Our new X-Ray is...
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We cover Staffordshire moorlands, North Staffordshire and North Staffs county. If you have any equine veterinary needs we would love to hear from you.