CavEquine Veterinary Services Benalla

28/08/2024

29/05/2024

Welcome Mouse Catcher Beans. MC Beans was adopted as a stray and has settled in beautifully as chief office and shed cat. 🐈‍⬛
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18/04/2023

01/11/2022

This is a good resource on how to reduce mosquito numbers and limit horse exposure. We are expecting a spike in numbers of Ross River virus/Kunjin/MVE and possibly Japanese encephalitis

The floods have created stagnet breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Effective mosquito management targets all stages of the mosquito life cycle using a combination method called ‘integrated mosquito management’. This is the best way to reduce mosquitoes to protect people & horses.

It involves a combination of:
1. Environmental mgmt to reduce breeding & resting sites inside & out.
2. Larviciding
3. Adultciding
4. Ongoing monitoring & surveillance
5. Record keeping
MOSQUITO MANAGEMENT FOR HORSES⤵️
http://ow.ly/lwOT50Lpe80

03/11/2021

Jackson has been watching closely this stud season, but I do have to sacrifice some AI pipettes for use as ‘swords’ 😂😂

04/07/2021

AS OF TODAY FEI HORSE WHISKERS STAY:
As of 1st July 2021 a penalty of disqualification will be issued if horses are found to have their sensory hairs clipped, shaven or in any other way removed at an FEI competition. This applies to all FEI Events, including the Tokyo Games.

(unless individual sensory hairs have been removed by a veterinarian to prevent pain or discomfort for the Horse).

For more info & 📷 ➡️ http://ow.ly/eppv50Fmq5m

16/06/2021

Corneal ulceration - over the next few days we will share some corneal ulceration images. The green fluorescein stain in the images below shows areas of ulceration in the corneal epithelium (surface of the eyeball). Horses are predisposed to corneal damage because of the position of large eyes on the side of their head, and their sometimes flighty nature. Corneal injuries can be very painful, cause a uveitis and can require urgent treatment to save the eye if they get infected. Prompt assessment is important, and commonly an offending grass seed awn is still lodged in the conjunctiva and rubbing on the cornea. Often these are not visible until the horse sedated and the socket explored. The horse in the first image had a hidden tail of a barley grass awn causing the ulceration.
Next topic: ‘melting’ corneas