LT Equine Veterinary Services

19/10/2025

This is a seroma in a horse on the inside upper thigh. They are normally caused by trauma, such as a kick or fall. It begins as a haematoma which is a bleed between tissue layers, but as the blood clot separates, it becomes a seroma filled with clear, amber-colored serum. Seromas often feel like a soft "water balloon" and small ones can resolve on their own, but large ones may need to be drained by a vet to prevent complications like infection. This one is being drained via a puncture wound, 300ml of serum came out.

14/10/2025

This gastroscope image shows peristaltic movement of the stomach and the pyloric splincter exiting the stomach into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. You can see red inflammation and ulceration. This part of the stomach is where the stomach acid sits and these lesions will be painful.

13/10/2025

Clipper sharpening on site tomorrow. Must book in! 10am-12pm. Drop blades off in advance or can wait while they are done, book time in though!!

10/10/2025

Clipper (and other) blade sharpening at our base in Guilsborough October 14th 10am until midday. Book in advance via WhatsApp 07825 432531. Also servicing of clippers. Collect all those yard clipper blades and get booked in! Blades can be dropped off in advance and collected when convenient.

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09/10/2025

Our next gastroscope clinic is on Wednesday 5th November. We are already nearly booked up. Please book in ASAP, we will extend it depending on numbers. Any questions re gastroscoping and gastric ulcers please message or call 07825 432531.

06/10/2025

I'm 'fresh' in from clipping my own horse, with hair in my bra, tonsils, ears and eyes! Full moon and a head torch so we will see what she looks like tomorrow....We offer accessible sedate to clip visits. Those local to our base in Guilsborough have a local visit charge only of £28 and any visit charge is split between clients at the same address at the same appointment. We charge £18 for sedating your horse via intravenous injection (heart check prior to this is done too), and waiting to see if a top-up of the sedatives is required due to the length of clipping time or for those horses that really do hate it! Then the cost of the sedatives required for the individual, often £20-30.

Also we are looking at getting a clipper sharpening service at the practice on a weekday, likely once a month. Drop your clipper blades off in advance or get them sharpened while you wait. It's a great price if we can get sufficient numbers. Anybody interested? Please comment below.

This is a clip DanDan Superman got last year at ours!

30/09/2025

It has come to our attention that although the office phone number on our website was correct, if you clicked on it to call it would switch the numbers around and be the wrong number! That explains why the vet advice line gets so many calls for routine appointments and to pay bills etc!!

To confirm office number is 07392817392. Routine appointments. Repeat meds ordering. Anything accounts. 9am - 3pm Monday to Friday.

Vet number 07825 432531
Vet advice and for critical or emergency appointments.
Emergencies only after 6.30pm to 8.30am and over the weekend. DO NOT CALL ON WHATSAPP signal is often too bad also the line wont be transferred to the on call vet.

24/09/2025

After the success of our last two gastroscope clinics we are holding another one next Tuesday at our base in Guilsborough.
Book in ASAP via 07825 432531.
Last time we scoped 10 horses, identified ulcers in 7 of them and all have responded really well to treatment and checked by a second gastroscope. Much happier horses and owners! Because of the prevalence and associated pain we are offering a heavily discounted rate of £200 plus the cost of required sedation.

The image on the left shows ulcerated squamous mucous and the image on the right shows healthy squamous mucous.

06/09/2025

We had a great day out as a team at Burghley Horse Trials today. Amazing horses and riders. Very inspirational for us with our own horses!

03/09/2025

Today marks the 5th year anniversary of LT Equine Vets!!

Our ethos remains the same:

Accessible, fully mobile, routine and emergency, veterinary medicine, field surgery and preventative healthcare.

A direct service - speak directly to the clinician, Lucinda, Kate or Jacopo for advice. Nothing should be lost in translation aiding clarity and response time.

Case continuity - as a small practice we always try to have the same vet work through a case and we always discuss our cases to ensure everybody is up to date. This creates an optimum relationship with the horses as their individual personality traits and history can be recognised, appreciated and catered for.

Relevant clinical plans - reflecting an in depth understanding of horse husbandry (we all own and ride horses) and the individual horse and owner needs.

A strong working relationship with and rapid access to a comprehensive network of caring specialists.​

A responsibility to help those in need.

Patience and care - setting the horses up for optimum success in an environment they are confident in, with experienced and compassionate handling, regardless of how complex and stressful the situation is.​

​We share a passion for all equines:

From the performance horse to the rescue case.

The best friend to the lawn mower.

The hairy pony to the show horse.

The heavy hunter to the racehorse.

The dressage diva to the donkey.

Those with a story and those starting to work out theirs.

Those long in the tooth, those without teeth, those still growing them!

The trusting and the fearful.

The wonky, the weird and the wonderful.

The little and the large, and those in between, both in size and personality.

The individual, the few and the many!

Thank you to the team Den, Sarah and Jess who, in every way, support the vets and help directly with cases and behind the scenes too and thank you to the vets Kate and Jacopo. It's a pleasure to work with you all.

Thank you to all our clients, so many we have known from the very start! It's a journey.

Mainly THANK YOU to the horses. It's a privilege to work with these phenomenal animals. We are very lucky and it is appreciated.

Lucinda

Our homebred, Fuji, is poster boy because you don't get a kinder (or more handsome) eye than his.

19/08/2025

13/08/2025

Tussle the Basset Hound has some exciting news. We had a quick look this morning with one of our ultrasound scanners (albeit it with our equine tendon scanning probe) and baby Bassets are baking! The flickering on the scan is a little heart beating away.