Equine Services
Our knowledgeable team provide a range of services to help keep your horses healthy. Scroll down to find out more.
Reproduction
We offer pre-breeding examinations, pregnancy scans and monitoring, fresh, chilled and frozen AI and more.
Medicine
We offer a range of medical services, from weight loss and head shaker investigations to endoscopy and laboratory tests.
Emergency services
We can give you advice over the phone and arrange for an ambulatory vet to visit you, if required.
Our 24/7 out-of-hours farm services are run by our own ambulatory team members.
Senior equine care
About senior equine care
The demographics of our equine population are changing, with increasing numbers of people keeping more elderly horses, and geriatric equine medicine presents its own challenges.
In many cases, there are underlying disease processes that present subtly and can easily be assumed to be “just old age”.
However, with a careful clinical evaluation, for example at a health check at their annual vaccination, underlying health problems can be detected.
We have many examples of elderly horses being rejuvenated by the successful treatment of underlying health issues. Contact any of the team to chat about your OAP!
Physiotherapy
About physiotherapy
We believe in taking a collaborative approach to horse health and work closely with other complementary therapists.
The purpose of physiotherapy is to restore and maintain mobility, function and performance.
We aim to work closely with physiotherapists as part of a team. This is vital to gaining a long-term positive outcome for your horse.
For example, if we examine a horse with a bad back, we aim to provide a thorough and comprehensive assessment, discuss the case with the horse’s physiotherapist and then provide appropriate treatment to allow a physiotherapist the platform to build the horse’s core strength, greatly improving the long term prognosis for them.
Speak to one of our team for more information.
Farriery advice
Farriery advice
We strongly believe in working closely in professional partnership with your farrier.
Our vets have excellent knowledge of remedial farriery, allowing us, alongside your farrier, to find the best solution for your horse.
Our vets attend farriery CPD aimed at vets and farriers regularly, and Alistair has lectured at farriery courses to over 100 vets, farriers and physiotherapists.
Please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements.
Behaviour
About equine behaviour
There are often underlying clinical problems that can manifest themselves as bad behaviour.
Bucking and rearing may be due to oral, back, gastric or orthopaedic pain. Some hindlimb lamenesses are very subtle, especially if both hind limbs are affected and can result in changes in behaviour (e.g. refusing the occasional jump or resenting ridden work).
Similarly, there are various modern approaches to the “hormonal mare”.
We aim to work systematically to investigate any problem horse to get to the root cause.
Alistair has a strong interest in equine behaviour and combines this with clinical examinations to ensure a holistic approach to each case.
Before giving up on your horse, please contact one of our vets – we may just be able to help!
Second opinions and referrals
About referrals
Our RCVS Advanced Practitioners are happy to accept second opinions.
We aim to work with your current vet, and we will always provide a written report following our examination.
We have a well established and extensive network of specialist contacts, ensuring that the most challenging cases can be handled by specialists in their field.
We have a strong relationship with Rossdale and Partners in Newmarket, and have access to their team of world renowned specialists who travel to our practice to carry out the most advanced procedures on our cases.
We also work closely with Chris Dixon of Veterinary Vision on the most complex ophthalmology cases.
Contact us to learn more.
Equine ophthalmology
About ophthalmology
Lis Watson is an RCVS Recognised Advanced Practitioner in equine medicine, and as part of her extensive studies she took a special interest in ophthalmology and neurology.
All of our knowledgeable, experienced vets and RCVS Recognised Advanced Practitioners are comfortable dealing with a wide range of equine eye conditions.
For the truly exceptional cases, we work closely with Veterinary Vision, who are specialists in equine ophthalmology.
For the majority of cases, assessment and treatment by Veterinary Vision is available at our equine unit at Upleatham.
Contact us to learn more.
Equine fact sheets
Whether you need guidance for current conditions or general support, you’ll find valuable insights to enhance your horses wellbeing.