Strangles in Horses: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
Strangles is a disease that many horse owners have heard of, and often fear. The good news is that while strangles is endemic in the UK and extremely infectious, it is unlikely to kill your horse and most horses make a full recovery. Strangles is an upper respiratory...
Sarcoids and Melanomas in Horses – What you Need to Know
Sarcoids and melanomas are the two most common skin tumours we see in horses. They can occur from a young age and, frustratingly, if a horse develops one lesion, there are often others present or waiting to appear. While many of these tumours are classed as benign,...
Laminitis Is Back – What’s Driving the Recent Rise in Cases
We’ve been very lucky as horse owners this summer, with relatively few cases of laminitis compared to what we often expect. However, as many of you will now have discovered, it’s starting to come back to bite us. The grass is green, it is (unusually) very sugary, and...
Grain Overload – When Mischief Becomes an Emergency
Sometimes, the older they are, the less sensible they become. This week we were called out to an emergency involving four very naughty horses who had managed to break out of their barn overnight. Instead of heading straight back to the field, they decided to help...