Veterinary & Health
Veterinary & health care for your horse
Equine Herpes Virus
Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) is a highly contagious airborne disease. There are five main strains of EHV, but strains EHV-1 and EHV-4 are the most common and occur in horses world wide. What are the different strains? EHV-1: This strain is most commonly associated with disease in horses and can c...
Colic – what to do after you’ve called the vet
So your horse has colic and the vet is on their way - what do you do? Remove all feed If possi...
Colic – How to recognise it and what to do
Colic is a term used to describe abdominal pain and can vary from being mild and short lived to se...
Kissing spines in horses
Back pain in horses is fairly common. It can either be primary, associated with the bones in the spine, or secondary i.e muscular pain secondary to a poor fitting saddle, low grade lameness causing mu...
Applying a foot poultice
The most common reason for very severe lameness in horses is a solar abscess or "pus in the foot". This is most common after wet weather when the bottom of the foot becomes softer and more likely to b...
Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is increasing throughout human and veterinary medicine, and at the same time there are no new classes of antibiotics being produced. This means that there is an increasing popula...