Equine Services

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Our knowledgeable team provide a range of high quality equine services. Scroll down to find out more.

Vaccinations

Vaccinations

Routine vaccinations for horses, donkeys, ponies and competition horses.

Dental care

Dental care

Rasping, tooth fracture repair, caries, fillings and other advanced procedures with our visiting RCVS specialist in equine dental care.

Lameness work-ups

Lameness work-ups

Thorough examinations of the affected limb/limbs, specific lunging and trot-up areas, diagnostic analgesia, digital radiography systems (x-rays), and stabling if required.

In-house diagnostics

In-house diagnostics

We can carry out gastroscopy, endoscopy and bronchoscopy examinations in-house.

Worming

Worming

Advice on the right worming plans for your horses, parasite sampling and seasonal faecal worm egg counts to assess your horses’ worming needs and target specific worms.

Worm egg counts

Worm egg counts

Either as part of our worming programmes or for your own worming control, we offer worm egg counts in house to assess the worm burden of your horse.

Travel

Travel

Advice and support on obtaining the correct documentation to travel abroad with your horse.

Hospital services

Hospital services

If your horse requires treatment that can’t be undertaken at your premises, such as gelding or sarcoid surgery, we offer comfortable stabling facilities at our veterinary hospital.

Gastroscopy

Gastroscopy

Video gastroscopy can aid the diagnosis of equine gastric ulcers. A flexible tube containing a digital video camera is inserted through the nose and into the stomach via the oesophagus.

Endoscopy and bronchoscopy

Endoscopy and bronchoscopy

Video endoscopy and bronchoscopy can aid the diagnosis and treatment of many conditions, such as airway diseases.

Surgeries

Surgeries

We offer minor surgeries such as castration, and have a safe and secure knock down and recovery box, where your horse will receive the very best attention from our dedicated team.

Laser sarcoid removal

Laser sarcoid removal

Our visiting European specialists provide laser sarcoid removal and photodynamic therapy to effectively treat and remove sarcoids.

Pre-purchase examinations

Pre-purchase examinations

We offer two and five stage examinations to help identify any conditions that may make a horse or pony unsuitable for purchase for the purpose they are intended for.

In-house referrals

In-house referrals

Our visiting European specialists and advanced practitioners offer more advanced procedures, such as more complex equine dentistry and the removal of skin lesions.

Neil Townsend

MSc BVSc Cert ES (Soft Tissue) DipECVS DipEVDC (Equine) MRCVS RCVS Specialist in Equine Surgery European Specialist in Equine Dentistry.

Jeremy Kemp-Symonds

BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), MSc, BVMS, MRCVS.