Loch Leven Equine Practice

22/04/2025

💙An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
ℹ📚🎥🎙Our team are passionate about client education and preventative healthcare. Our Learning Hub has been designed with you in mind, with a series of veterinary based podcasts and informative download library and blogs.

➡Available for everyone to learn: https://rebrand.ly/LLEP_Learning_Hub

21/04/2025

➡➡At Loch Leven Equine Practice, we run discounted gastroscope clinics, which are conveniently at the practice, located just off J5 of the M90 and open to both clients and non-clients.

ℹNot all horses show any signs of gastric ulcers, but clinical signs may include:
• Dullness
• Poor appetite
• Attitude changes
• Decreased performance
• Reluctance to train
• Poor body condition
• Poor hair coat
• Weight loss
• Low grade colic
• Girthiness (ears back when doing the girth/putting on rugs)

ℹGastroscope Clinics are a great opportunity to get your horse scoped at a reduced rate.
❗️❗️Clinic 1st Scope - £184 (excluding sedation).

Call 01577 841010 or book your appointment here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/request-an-appointment/.

17/04/2025

😁Would you like £10 off your next invoice?
💙💙Simply tell your freinds about your experiences with Loch Leven Equine Practice, and when they register you will both get a credit on your account to say thank you, or if you would prefer, we can make a £10 donation to a charity of your choice.

ℹFill out the form here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/contact-us/recommend-a-friend/

16/04/2025

🍀Good luck to our clients, and all Scottish competitors, who are at Addington Equestrian for the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships and the Petplan Area Festivals Winter Championships, which starts today🏆

💙It's such an achievement to get there, we hope that you all enjoy the experience and come home with big smiles flying the flag for Scotland.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

➡Find out how to follow the action here👉 https://bit.ly/PreviewWinters25

British Dressage - Scotland Region

15/04/2025

💙It's almost Easter time and don't worry, we are open for business as normal over the Bank Holiday weekend.💙

🐣Friday 18th April - open as normal
🐣Saturday 19th April - Out of Hours Service
🐣Sunday 20th April - Out of Hours Service
🐣Monday 21st April - open as normal

🥰Our veterinary team are always on hand to help 24 hours a day, and our office team will be here for you as normal, whilst enjoying some guilt-free chocolate!

➡Here for you: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/

12/04/2025

🦷It can be hard to know what is going on inside your horse's mouth without a proper examination, which is why we always sedate every horse we see for a thorough examination before we carry out a dental.

🦷We recently saw this young horse with bit trauma caused by sharp enamel points. Problems can be corrected immediately with routine rasping and we left the horse feeling more comfortable and, once the sores had healed, happier to have a bit in again.😁

We offer routine dental rasping, and advanced dentistry services.

➡To find out more go to: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/services/advanced-dentistry/ and if there are four or more dentals then your visit is free.

11/04/2025

🥰How cute is this little guy!🥰
Welcome to the world Prince - an unexpected surprise for his Mum Dora, and owner Michael, who found Dora foaling last week.

🛻Hugh and Rachel went out to see them to check that everything was OK and we are delighted that both mum and foal are doing very well!

➡ https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/

11/04/2025

🌟 One of our many big livery yards taking advantage of the Strangles vaccine amnesty. Thank you Bouprie Farm Livery for being so proactive & leading the way in bio security, not following behind!

If you’d like your yard to take advantage of this great chance to improve your biosecurity & help protect whole yards of horses (& owners!) from the awful disease that is Strangles, then please call us. We’d be delighted to assist you.

☎️ 01577 841010 during office hours to speak to one of our 6 strong vet team.

Yesterday Loch Leven Equine Practice visited the yard to start vaccinations against the horrid deadly disease Strangles.
All our great liveries participated in the fight against strangles and going forward Bouprie farm livery will only accept new horses onto the yard that also have had the Strangles vaccine or prepared to get prior to moving.

06/04/2025

💉Strangles Vaccine Explained💉
💡With the launch of a new vaccination that has the potential to eradicate strangles we wanted to give our community all of the information they need to make an informed decision.

➡➡We discuss how it is different to the previous one, how often it needs to be given, which horses can have it, any potential side effects and whether it has the potential to remove the need for pre-movement blood testings.

🎙Listen to the podcast: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-strangles-vaccine/

🔗Read our FAQs: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/strangles-vaccine-faqs/

💉Book your vaccine now and get your second one for free with our Strangles Vaccination amnesty. You can request and appointment here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/request-an-appointment/ or give us a call tomorrow.

If you have any other questions we are here to help.

04/04/2025

🪰Sweet itch requires careful management and is the most important aspect of dealing with the condition.

➡It is important to take preventative precautions to stop your horse from getting bitten before the vicious cycle starts.

⚠️Midges start hatching as soon as the temperature reaches double figures, so the most effective management strategies are specialist sweet itch rugs (not like the one pictured) that should be put on before the temperature reaches double figures and should be worn for 24 hours a day.

These can be worn underneath other rugs if your horse is still wearing rugs as the temperature fluctuates!

Fly masks are also important to prevent bites to the forelock, face and ears.

🔗Read more about sweet itch, prevention and management tips here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/sweet-itch-in-horses/

03/04/2025

🥳Today we are celebrating our wonderful equine vet Karen being part of our brilliant team for 8 years!🥳
Karen is a huge asset to our team and has a lovely, gentle manner, and has a real passion for making sure all of the clients (two and four legs) get the best possible care and service.

Find out more about our team here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/team/

02/04/2025

🥳🥳𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿🥳🥳
Congratulations to this month's Healthy Horse Club winner, Alison, who has won 2 tickets to the Royal Highland Show, very kindly donated by our own Anne Logan.

💙The RHS takes place Thursday 19 - Sunday 22 June, 2025, and tickets are on sale now!

🙏If you are a Healthy Horse Club member, then next month you could be our winner as all of our members are automatically entered into a monthly prize draw.

💡Save money, spread costs, and enter our monthly competitions here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/client-info/healthy-horse-club/

01/04/2025

💙💙Happy Workiversary to the lovely Emily, who joined us a year ago today as our Equine Veterinary Groom.

🐴Emily brings a lovely energy to the practice and her love of horses and natural empathy means she is a brilliant asset to our team, always making sure that our in-patients want for nothing and are treated as they would be at home.💜

➡Find out more about our team here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/team/

31/03/2025

☀️What a beautiful day across Central Scotland and it's so nice to feel some sunshine and get those rugs off!
🌱🌱But with the recent rain and mix of sunshine, comes a growth spurt for the grass - you might not see it in your horse's field yet - but that is probably because they are nibbling it down as it is coming through!

🌱If you are unsure check the surrounding non-grazed fields/verges/your garden and assess the growth, as Spring grass is highly nutritious and poses an increased risk of laminitis.

ℹWhilst laminitis can be caused by underlying conditions such as Cushing's Disease/EMS, research has shown that horses and ponies that gain weight are more than twice as likely to develop laminitis than if they lose or maintain their weight.

⚠️Laminitis is extremely painful and has significant implications. The Royal College reports that more than 7% of equine deaths are linked to laminitis, with many animals having to be euthanased.

💡Prevention is better than cure so please put management strategies in place to help reduce increased risk which is often associated with weight control.

✅Ensure your horse/pony is the correct weight/body condition score and if they are not put immediate management strategies in place:
- Restrict access to grass/use a grazing muzzle
- Soak your hay for at least 12 hours to reduce the nutrients and goodness in it
- Avoid foods rich in carbohydrates or rapidly fermentable fibre i.e. cereals, coarse mixes, rapidly growing or fertilised grass.
✅Increase exercise where appropriate and there are no signs of laminitis (beware of excessive work on hard ground and the effects of concussive laminitis)
✅Check digital pulses every day and act accordingly
✅Know the early warning signs and do not ignore them
✅Always seek professional advice

🎙Listen to our episode of the Podcasting Equine Vets discussing laminitis here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0cpONKikL9c5OSh7tTmDbo

Our team are always on hand to offer advice so if you are at all concerned please get in touch.

30/03/2025

💙Happy Mother's Day, from a team who understands!

🐴 https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/
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29/03/2025

🍭The best part about getting vaccinated isn’t the lollipop.
💙It's the part where your horse doesn't get sick.

📅Request an appointment for vaccines today and one of our team will get back to you on Monday - and remember you can save money by taking advantage of our flexi-visit calls, or if you have four or more horses on your yard then your call out will be free.

🔗 https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/request-an-appointment/

29/03/2025

😁What an incredible night we had last night at our Strangles talk, in collaboration with Perth Equine Vets LTD and Thrums Vets Equine.

💉 We are so proud to be working together in such a proactive way, for the benefit of the horses in our area - it’s much better to be proactive than manage an outbreak.

Thank you to everyone who came along, we’ve seen some brilliant feedback on Facebook, including: “Thank you so much Loch Leven Equine Practice for a very informative talk tonight about Strangles, I totally agree this new vaccination is a game changer. I will be contacting the practice on Monday to arrange for my girls to be vaccinated.”

📆 If you’re a client of LLEP you can request an appointment here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/request-an-appointment/ and one of our team will get back to you on Monday.

➡️If you’re registered with Perth Equine Vets or Thrums Vets Equine their lovely teams will be happy to arrange to see you. Please contact them to make an appointment.

Thank you to Dechra for sponsoring this evening - it’s really important to be able to share, education and come together for the horses in our care 💙

27/03/2025

💉Are your vaccinations up to date?💉
📅We do send out reminders to our clients, but if you are heading away on holiday or entering an important competition, it is a good idea to check that your renewal date doesn’t fall at an inconvenient time.

💉If you're interested in the Strangle vaccine then unlike the old live vaccine, this new vaccine can be given at the same time as your horse’s flu, tetanus and herpes
vaccines.

📞Request an appointment here: https://lochlevenequine.co.uk/request-an-appointment/ or call us on 01577 841010.

💙Remember that if you are a Healthy Horse Club member then your flu/tetanus is included as part of your plan.