Frome Equine Vets

08/10/2025

This was a thoroughbred who was brought into the clinic a couple of weeks ago, who wasn’t working as well as he usually did and also had a ‘sore back’ on palpation. It was decided to radiograph his spine to check for Impinging Dorsal Spinous Processes (DSP’s) otherwise known as ‘Kissing Spines’ and there was evidence of these on X-ray (where we see the DSP’s are close/touching and there is bony remodelling).
Sometimes these findings are incidental , so to determine whether clinically significant we can ‘block’ their back where we inject local anaesthetic to numb the area and assess for improvement.

Treatment options include medication with steroids as show in the video here or a more permanent solution can be surgery to remove sections of bone from the DSP’s.

This horse was medicated and is reported to be much more comfortable after only a couple of weeks so hopefully he will be able to continue with his work after his rehab.

15/09/2025

🐴 We’re Hiring! 🐴
Our busy equine veterinary practice is looking for a part time or full-time Office Administrator / Insurance Claims & Veterinary Technician (Equine Focus) to join our team!

This is a varied role where no two days are the same — from keeping the office running smoothly to supporting our vets out in the field and helping care for horses.

✨ What you’ll do:
📌 Manage scheduling, records & client communication
📌 Handle insurance claims with care
📌 Assist vets during equine visits & treatments
📌 Confidently handle horses when needed

✨ What we’re looking for:
✅ Experience in office admin & insurance claims
✅ Background in equine veterinary care (a big plus!)
✅ Confident with horses & team-oriented
✅ Organised, detail-focused & enthusiastic

✨ What we offer:
🐎 Part time / full time
🐎 A supportive, passionate equine team
🐎 A mix of admin & hands-on horse care
🐎 Opportunities to grow your skills

📩 Sound like you? Follow the link to apply....https://careers.cvsvets.com/jobs/equine-administrator-vet-technician-frome-england-united-kingdom

Come and be part of a team where your work makes a real difference to horses and their owners! 💙

Office Administrator / Insurance Claims. Veterinary Technician (Equine Focused). We are a busy and friendly equine veterinary practice looking for a dedicated and versatile team member to join us. This role combines administrative responsibilities with hands-on veterinary technician support, offerin...

07/08/2025

One thing you notice in the hedgerows and fields at the moment is Ragwort as it is flowering NOW and it’s characteristic yellow flowers are very distinctive!

Most horse owners know that it should be pulled up and removed but the horses don’t seem to eat it, so why bother??

Although horses will avoid it if possible in the green they are more likely to eat it if it dried and made into hay accidentally. It contains toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids which cause irreparable damage to the liver, so repeated exposure has a cumulative effect and can result in liver failure in the horse.

Ragwort is also listed as an injurious w**d under the Weeds Act (Scotland) 1959, whereby authorities can insist on its control.

Removal is recommended to prevent spread (into hay meadows!) as it seeds easily, so it needs to be pulled up with it’s roots and removed from the pasture (as it can still set seed once pulled) and disposed of appropriately.

Recommended disposal is sealing in plastic bags for incineration or landfill. Or it can be disposed of in an environmentally appropriate way - but open composting is not recommended and temperatures must be high enough to kill the seeds.

31/07/2025

It’s been a good week at Frome Equine Vets as we welcome back our vet tech Harriet’s sidekick ‘Ruby’ from her maternity leave!

You all know we love our dogs here at the practice so it’s great to have her back as part of the team again 🥰

07/07/2025

Exciting news at Frome Equine Vets!

We are so pleased to welcome equine vet Kate Rapley to the team here. She is a very experienced vet having worked in the area for the last 21 years, and has a particular interest in dentistry and managing older horses and their comorbidities.

She has two gorgeous border collies called ‘Rafiki’ and ‘Darwen’. In her spare time she enjoys gardening (especially when the dogs ‘help’!), walking and taking part in any dog sport that might tire out a border collie!

A warm welcome to the team from all of us Kate!

04/04/2025

This is a really important message we want everyone to know about! Please read through to find out more, but we want to preserve all the anthelmintic drug groups as much as possible, to treat those animals who really need it.
As with a lot of horse management - worms and worming - needs a multi factorial approach and we will be covering more on this topic in the following week. Stay tuned 👀
Now is the time to start monitoring your horse’s worm burden so samples can be dropped into the practice for testing.
And if this all seems a bit complicated, rest assured that our Horse Health Programme includes 4 x worm egg counts, a saliva tapeworm test and winter wormer if required - plus the advice of our SQP and vets at the end of a phone!

06/03/2025

If you've had to restart your vaccinations and unsure of the vaccine timelines 🤔, we've put together this summary to help make it clear.
Don't forget to save this to make sure you don't go over for your next jab 💉!

More information on vaccinations can be found on our website: https://fromeequinevets.co.uk/vaccinations/

17/02/2025

⚠ We have had a report of a missing pony from the Trudoxhill area, he is a Dartmoor x Shetland with very distinctive markings. ⚠
Any sightings please let us know!
Please share so that we can get this little chap home.

14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day ❤️

To celebrate Valentines Day, we would love to hear what it is you love most about your equine friends. Is it a little whicker in the morning to greet you, the feeling you get when spending quality time with them or is it the sense of freedom they allow you? Whatever it is let us know in the comments 🥰