Three Moors Veterinary Services

20/09/2025

‼️ Mast Year ‼️

🍂 Care with grazing under trees this autumn. 🍂

🍁 The climatic conditions last Spring has resulted in a bumper crop of fruits or nuts.

🌰 The trees to watch are Oak and Maple due to acorns and sycamore seeds and saplings. Horses often eat acorns even though the tannins are incredibly toxic.
They are unlikely to eat the sycamore seeds but may ingest ingest them as they graze very short grass areas.
Best practice is to avoid these fields or fence off under trees and if you have maple trees it’s advised to feed hay off the floor. The seeds are designed to travel long distances in the wind.

⚠️ Clinical signs to watch out for can mimic colic; lying down more, off food, darker coloured urine, lethargy.

If you have any concerns please call 07483 831763

14/09/2025

So I did something a bit different today-XC on foot. This combinations first ever XC (and jump!) fun was had by all and we even avoided the rain 😅🧡 🤩
We’ll be up for pairs next 🤣

05/09/2025

Happy Friday everyone 🐶 🤩💕💛

My companion for the day 😍 ready to spread some cuddles

03/09/2025

My ponies and I are always lit up like a Christmas tree, all year. And when off road riding -we never want the worse to happen but if it does I want the rescue crew to see me and the horse! ✨
But worth knowing you may be uninsured if you don’t wear it!

Did you know that not wearing high vis when riding on the road is a breach of The Highway Code?

Section 50 sets out that riders should wear: ‘light-coloured or fluorescent clothing in daylight’ and ‘reflective clothing if you have to ride at night or in poor visibility’.

“The Highway Code is a set of rules that you should be adhering to when hacking out,” explains a solicitor.

“It’s used to back up other laws; traffic laws in England don’t tell us how to ride on the road, therefore the wronged party would potentially cite other civil laws and legal principles, such as negligence, when trying to bring a claim against a rider.”

So, if you’re involved in an incident and not wearing high-vis, could it be argued that you were partially liable?

Yes.

Read the full solicitor advice via the link in comments 👇

03/09/2025

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!
Melissa Symonds
Lisa Taylor, Taya Perfili, Zoe Berry fans

28/08/2025

Equine Dentistry

The first case is a young horse who has a routine rasp every 6 months to keep her mouth comfortable for ridden work and when eating. 🙂

The second case is one of my favourite geriatric horses who has diastema (gaps between the teeth) as well as an uneven mouth. She gets checked and treated every 3 months. This allows me to flush out all the deep gingival pockets and over time heals the gums. The owner flushing her mouth daily also helps 🐴 🥰

With over 20 years experience of rasping teeth plus extra training, I can help whatever your situation
Call 07483 831763 to chat and book in

And if I am doing 4+ horses on one yard there is no visit fee 😃
I also include sedation (if needed) so no nasty extra charges

Videos in comments

21/08/2025

Keeping our horses healthy 🪱

Pictures show a strongyle egg

I recommend and do worm egg counts for my clients (I can offer this to you as well via post or drop off if local)

Generally 3 x a year but this can vary depending on the management and age of your horses.

The most important part of the service I offer is that all the work is done by me, an experienced equine vet with an internal medicine certificate.
A technician or lay staff can’t offer the same service as they just aren’t trained in the knowledge of parasitology that I have!

So many companies offering this service, even some veterinary practices, don’t give the best research proven advice.

If you want the best advice ask the right person 😃 message or call 07483 831763 to discuss your needs.

Multiple horse or yard discounts available

29/01/2025

It happens to us all -even Equine Vets!
Despite doing very well with her rehabilitation and looking amazing 🤩 when I started to increase the work in the arena Lettie just wasn’t comfortable. She was showing classic signs of pain; less forward off the leg, wanting to canter not trot and being spooky at very little
After consulting with Gillan Tabor who confirmed localised soreness I re radiographed her back and have remedicated T14-16.
We are now building the work back up to see the effect this has had. 🤞 for success

24/12/2024

Happy Christmas 🎄 to you all 🐴 🦄

Looking forward to 2025 🎉

From Orla and Juno 🤩

20/12/2024

Please be aware! It’s illegal and you just don’t know what’s in any medicine you import.
Even if you have the best of intentions for your pet 🐴 🦄 🐱 🐶

💊Veterinary Medicines Directorate Seizes over 13,000 Unauthorised Horse Medicines Being Sold Illegally Online💊

The VMD, working with Border Force UK, has seized AbPrazole and Absucralfate, medication for equine gastric ulcer treatment manufactured by Abler PTY Ltd (a company based in Australia), after they received intelligence that these products were being illegally sold and imported into the UK via an equine Facebook group and via Abler’s website.

The VMD has reminded horse owners and equine vets that:

🐎 it is an offence to advertise unauthorised products online
🐎it is an offence to import unauthorised veterinary medicines into the UK.
🐎 it is an offence to administer unauthorised medicines to your horse, and this will also invalidate your insurance
🐎 the ingredients of unauthorised veterinary medicines may be unknown, and could therefore pose a risk to animals

Animal owners, vets or any member of the public are able to report any suspected breaches of the VMR via our anonymous online reporting form: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-illegal-animal-medicines

04/12/2024

Equine dentals £65 including sedation if needed!

No visit charge for 4 or more horses on the same yard.

Experienced advanced equine dental work. All remedial work including dental extractions and xrays possible.

I cover Devon and Cornwall.
Mainly booking for 2025, odd availability left for 2024.

Three Moors Vet Services - Dental Services - Dr Zoe Marsh BSc(Hons) BVSc Cert AVP(EM) MRCVS - Equine DentistExperienced Equine Veterinary Surgeon available...