Kessock Equine Vets

23/06/2025

🔷EMERGENCY PHONE CALL🔷
Please note due to a staff meeting the phones lines will go to our emergency answer service up to 10 am Tuesday.

For Emergency calls please call 01463 731107

22/06/2025

🔷Kessock Equine Vets Strangles Talk with Sutherland Riding Club🔷
Amber will be hosting a talk for Sutherland Riding Club on Monday evening at Tain Royal Academy Community Complex

For more information contact Sutherland Riding Club

If you are interested in one of our vet team hosting a talk for your riding club please contact us for more information

20/06/2025

🔷Foal Friday🔷
Another beautiful foal to share with you all this week. This lovely young chap has spent the week in with us at the clinic with his mum who needed a little help from us post foaling.

The Kessock Team have enjoyed watching them play in the paddocks 😍We are delighted to see them head back off home now and cant wait to hear some updates from the owners

19/06/2025

🔷Good Luck🔷
Good luck to all our clients competing at Royal Highland Show this week.

We would love to share some photos of you competing your lovely horses this summer. Share them in the comments and we will choose some for our next cover photo 📸

19/06/2025

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18/06/2025

🔷Artificial Insemination Package🔷

We have been busy over the last few weeks with a good uptake on our Artificial insemination package, including the lovely mare Bella who is pictured below. We are able to offer livery here at the practice, making full use of our stocks and clinic facilities for daily scanning and procedures, with both grass and stabled livery on offer. In some cases, we are also able to offer these services at home where suitable. Our comprehensive package includes an initial breeding evaluation, medical management and scans to determine when the mares are at the best point of their cycle to inseminate them, followed by scans post insemination. Bella will be seen again in a couple of weeks' time to see if she is pregnant, which is all included in the package, so hopefully there will be a positive result! There is still time to book your mare in for the artificial insemination package, so for more details please call the practice to speak to a member of our team.

17/06/2025

🐴🔹HEALTHY HORSE CLUB MEMBERS🔹🐴
Please send your horse's dung💩 sample in this month using your special HHC FWEC bag.
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13/06/2025

13/06/2025

🔷Foal Friday🔷
We think this beautiful chap is going to be stunning 😍

12/06/2025

🔷Thistle Equine Referrals at Kessock Equine Vets🔷

We are delighted to have John Marshall joining us here at the clinic on 18th June.

The following Dates we have for John Marshall visiting Kessock Equine Vets are
🔹16th July
🔹20th August

📞Call 01463 731107 to book in or for more information

09/06/2025

🔷𝑺𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 - 𝑨𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 & 𝑻𝒂𝒛𝒛🔷

After a quiet start to the year, May has certainly picked up and poor Tazzy seems to have been ridden away from home more than at home.

For our first competition of the year we travelled down for Ardmeddan for the Neighfield summer show. We chose this show for the TGCA (Traditional Gypsy Cob Association) ridden classes as there's very few shows in Scotland that run these. It also had a CHAPS ridden classes to make it worth the travel. Tazz felt great in both classes however after a very unusual wrong canter lead in both individual shows we were unfortunately dropped down the line. Tazz went absolutely beautiful other than that though and received some lovely comments from the judges so I couldn't have asked for anything more from him. We then went into the workers which was a challenging course but Tazz gave me a wonderful clear round to receive a red rossette. A long day with lots of driving, but definitely worth it.

We then also went to Caledonian Riding Clubs Showjumping the same weekend where Tazz felt great and gave 2 clear rounds there as well. A great start to the season, especially as I'd put him into the 70 which is his first time doing this height in competition.

The next week we were out to Ross Shire Pony Clubs Spring show where it unfortunately wasn't our day as Tazz decided that he wasn't keen on the beautfully dressed workers course. But these things happen and we go again!

And to finish it off, last weekend we were out at Ross Shire Riding Clubs spring show. The workers again challenged us, but after getting his confidence through the 60, Tazz went really well through the 70 and felt more like the Tazzy I know.

Between all those, we've had a range of trainings also and we were lucky enough to get a chance to take Tazz over his first solid fences where he was an absolute superstar and jumped his heart out. The confidence boost we both needed!

Reflecting on this month has given me lots to work on over the summer. The next couple of weeks will be a wee bit quieter again so we'll be taking the opportunity to work on our flatwork as well as building back Tazz’s confidence with different jumps.

07/06/2025

🔹Supplements - EquiXcellence🔹
Equi Probio Paste
EquiProbio is a synbiotic, meaning that it contains both probiotics and prebiotics. Probiotics help to repopulate the gut with good bacteria that your horse needs, while the prebiotics help to stimulate the good bacteria already in your horse’s gut. Synbiotics can also support hind gut health.