Our services
The majority of our work is for routine work performed at your stables, or at our clinics if it is more convenient for you. If we see cases at the clinic there is no visit charge.
Although not all of our work requires the extensive facilities of the clinic, however we view it as a back-up that enables us to ensure that your horse will receive top quality treatment without delay.
Routine preventative health care:
We will ensure that you are fully informed about the benefits of routine vaccination. You will receive reminders of vaccination dates once we have your details on record, and we can tell you when you need extra care or when your individual circumstances alter our usual advice. This pack includes details of the intervals required for vaccinations to fall within Jockey Club and BHS rules.
You are always welcome to phone for advice about preventative health care, including details on worming, diet, and management of your horse, pony or yard. We have a program for annual health checks that includes tooth rasping, a thorough examination, blood sample and faecal worm egg count.
We are keen to ensure that your horse receives professional dental care. We are fully trained to perform work from rasping to extractions, and make sure that this work is performed with safe tranquillisation and appropriate painkilling treatment for the more difficult cases. We have a selection of gags, standard rasps and motorised dental equipment, in addition to the back-up of facilities for X-rays and general anaesthesia where required.
The extensive experience of our staff ensures that you get the best advice on critical mattersOur experienced staff will ensure that you get the best advice on critical matters such as vetting and insurance examinations. Here our experience of what is required from a horse for the task that you have in mind, and your own special needs, is essential in order to get a satisfactory outcome. If you need your horse examined outside our area, we can give a fixed price for one of our vets to visit, or with our wide range of contacts suggest someone with appropriate experience in the area who may be able to help.
Most medical investigations will be performed at your stables, but we have the facilities of our own in-house laboratory to help us get detailed results, on the same day if necessary. More difficult cases are often admitted for hospitalisation and further investigation.
Lameness examinations are usually performed at your premises initially, but if a more detailed examination is required the trot-up track and lunge area are helpful to ensure that we can see minor variations in gait. We suggest that you bring your horse to the clinic for an investigation that may take some hours or in some cases days. This saves you waiting during the detailed procedures, and allows us to do the best job possible. For example, the X-rays that we take using our clinic based machine are usually superior to those that are taken with a portable machine, and if we want a slightly different angle or exposure then these can be performed straight away. We may need to put local anaesthetic into a joint and the sterile conditions of the clinic are ideally suited to this.
Surgical procedures can be performed in our purpose built operating theatre at our Breadstone clinic. We have a powered operating table and winch to move horses into the theatre, where anaesthesia can be closely monitored, and sterility ensured. Much of the surgery is performed by our own team, but for difficult cases we call on the services of experts from around the UK.
Stud work is a major part of our work Our Stud work includes pre-breeding and fertility checks, Artificial Insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, foaling facilities, foal medicine and stud management advice. We have two ultrasound scanners that can be used at your stables or in the clinic to ensure that we follow your mare’s reproductive activity prior to breeding, during ovulation, to diagnose pregnancy and identify twins. Mares for Artificial Insemination are often hospitalised at the clinic to ensure that they can be scanned frequently day and night to ensure that they are inseminated at the vital time. Mares can be kept at the clinic for foaling under the supervision of our resident vet and nurse, with a special large foaling box and video surveillance.
We have extensive experience of bone scanning as we were one of the first practices in the UK to have its own gamma camera and bone scanning room for identification of fractures, arthritis, bone cysts, and other bony problems that might be missed using conventional diagnostic methods. There are perhaps ten or so centres in the UK including the Vet Schools with similar facilities, so we receive many referrals from other practices for bone scanning.
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