Bluestone Equine Vets

13/01/2025

Hello everyone,

Pam and Alicia are having a well deserved break next week to go skiiing ⛷️.

We have a Vet on call who will be covering all emergency visits. Please get in contact ASAP for any routine visits or prescriptions that are due next week.

Many Thanks
Bluestone Equine Vets Team

03/10/2024

We have some very well trained clients !! Thankyou Louise Warry x

03/09/2024

Me on my own 5yr old (Krack On) at our first BE Event this weekend finishing 6th in strong company so very pleased with him 🤩

23/05/2024

** We are pleased to announce we are now able to offer in-house Worm Egg Counts**
These are available for £10 each, reduced to £8 if 3 or more samples are brought in together. For more information please get in touch!

05/04/2024

How lucky are we to have such a kind and thoughtful client! We both love our jobs and take much pride in providing our patients and their owners with the highest level of care and compassion that they deserve. Special moments like this make the rainy days, unsocialable hours and life on call that little bit more worthwhile.
Thank you 🤩

22/12/2023

12/11/2023

Lest We Forget……………

08/10/2023

Tomorrow is the start of this year’s Equine Flu Awareness Week. For more information visit Keeping Britain's Horses Healthy. To book booster vaccinations or to start / restart a primary course call or text us on 07726668971.

01/10/2023

“All too often, pain in ridden horses is labelled as “bad” behaviour. The apparently ‘sound’ horse is ‘naughty’, ‘lazy’, ‘difficult’, ‘explosive’, ‘spooky’, ‘nappy’ and more. These labels are wrong. Pain affects all aspects of a horse’s performance, including it’s partnership with the rider and it’s potential to progress. It does not always create lameness. Relieving pain can lead to improved performance, a deeper partnership and greater potential.

In ‘Harmonious Horsemanship: Use of the Ridden Horse Ethogram to Optimise Potentail, Partnership and Performance’, Sue Dyson and Sue Palmer share their professional knowledge and experience.

You will learn how to use a list of 24 behaviours to check for musculoskeletal pain in the ridden horse. The book includes a gripping mix of research studies, contributions from industry experts and real-life case studies. Only by first recognising pain can we then address it through accurate assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

This book is full of practical tools and backed by robust science, teaches you how to use ridden behaviour to recognise subtle signs of pain, even in horses that appear to be sound. It is for anyone who cares about the horse, wether you are an interested amateur owner or an experienced equestrian professional. Together, we can make the world a better place for your horses.”

23/09/2023

Good luck to our clients competing at BE Chard Equestrian this weekend. Steph is fence judging both days so feel free to say hi when walking the course.

23/08/2023

We are proud to be the equine duty vet at tomorrow’s Melplash Show. Find us in the blue and white tent in front of the cattle lines and celebrate our 1st Birthday with a glass of Pimms!

01/08/2023

Bluestone Equine Vets is 1 year old today!
We would like to say a huge thank you to all our clients for their support in our first year.
Please join us in celebrating this milestone at Melplash Show with a glass of Pimms on us. We look forward to seeing you there!

29/06/2023

A new INDEPENDENT small animal veterinary practice opening soon in Crewkerne! We have had great times working with Emily and Ellie over the years and highly recommend Hamstone Vets, we wish them all the very best in their new adventure!!

Myself (Ellie) and Emily would like to welcome you to our brand new page!
For more information and to sign up to our waiting list please visit our website at: www.hamstonevets.co.uk

16/06/2023

A blast from the past! We found this photo from 2007 when Pam was a student vet assisting our now locum vet Sarah Coombs. Sarah is one of several vets who very kindly work for us in Pam’s absence. Sarah has an interest in endurance and is an FEI Endurance and Eventing Vet which she manages to fit in alongside her regular routine equine vet work and gig rowing.
Photo courtesy of the Dorset Echo.

28/04/2023

Vets are currently seeing an increased number of horses and ponies suffering from Atypical Myopathy (AM) otherwise known as Sycamore Myopathy. This severe and often fatal muscle disorder is caused by ingesting Sycamore seeds, leaves or seedlings.
For further information and advice, please read the Royal Veterinary College Owners’ Guide below and do not hesitate to contact us should you have any concerns for your horse or pony.

29/03/2023

**CASE STUDY**
Everyone meet Dinky!
Dinky is a 12 year old, Welsh Section A gelding. He has struggled with laminitis for several years and had chronic changes in his feet. We were tasked with a tough decision of trying to save him or saying goodbye, as he also had an aggressive tumour on the end of his p***s. Fortunately his owners are very dedicated and allowed us to do all that we could to save him. Firstly we had to see if we could get him more comfortable on his feet as he wasn’t able to walk around very well. Andrew Poynton, a specialist farrier was called in to do an aggressive remedial trim and put a pair of imprint shoes on his front feet. You can compare the changes on the X-rays before and after trimming, in the photos below. Dinky was also given pain relief and a blood test was taken for equine metabolic syndrome (EMS). Dinky’s blood test came back positive so he was started on a new drug to help lower the insulin in his blood stream, which in turn would help with glucose regulation and reduce the symptoms of laminitis. A few weeks later Dinky was able to walk and trot around at his own leisure and was a lot happier in himself. We then had to tackle the tumour. Dinky was started on antibiotics in order to clear up the secondary infection prior to coming in for surgery to amputate the end of his p***s. The surgery was carried out at our premises by Bryan O’Meara and was very successful. A new urethral opening was created higher up Dinky’s p***s to allow him to urinate. Dinky passed urine straight after the surgery and was bright and comfortable. The next day he enjoyed being made a fuss of by Pam’s daughter and was given antibiotics and pain relief for the following 10 days. Dinky is now back at home where he is sound, happy and with no signs of the tumour or laminitis recurring at this stage. His owners are thrilled that he has pulled through and we consider him to be a very special and lucky little pony.
If you are concerned about any of the above conditions in your pony then please don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss.

08/03/2023

Happy International Women’s Day!!