Thrums Vets Equine

29/12/2024

🎉🐾 Happy New Year from Thrums Vets! 🐾🎉

As we ring in the New Year, we want to let our valued clients know about our holiday hours:

🐾 Kirriemuir Sugrery
📅 Tuesday 31 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅 Wednesday 1 January 2025 - CLOSED
📅 Thursday 2 January 2025 - 8.30am to 1.00pm

🐾 Blairgowrie Surgery
📅 Tuesday 31 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅 Wednesday 1 January 2025 - CLOSED
📅 Thursday 2 January 2025 - 8.30am to 1.00pm

🐾 Forfar Surgery
📅 Tuesday 31 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅 Wednesday 1 January 2025 - CLOSED
📅 Thursday 2 January 2025 - CLOSED

🐾 Scone Surgery
📅 Tuesday 31 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅 Wednesday 1 January 2025 - CLOSED
📅 Thursday 2 January 2025 - CLOSED

✨ If your horse needs urgent care during this time, please contact our Emergency on call Vet.

We’ll reopen and resume normal hours on 3 Janaury 2025. Thank you for trusting us with your horses’ care, and we look forward to a fantastic year ahead!

💙🐶🐱 Stay safe and enjoy the celebrations!

19/12/2024

🎄✨ Festive Opening Hours & Important Information ✨🎄

The Festive Season is upon us, and we want to ensure you and your pets are well-prepared during this time. Here’s everything you need to know about our opening hours and services:

🐾 Kirriemuir Surgery
📅 Tuesday 24 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅 Wednesday 25 December 2024 - CLOSED
📅 Thursday 26 December 2024 - 8.30am to 1.00pm

🐾 Blairgowrie Surgery
📅 Tuesday 24 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅 Wednesday 25 December 2024 - CLOSED
📅 Thursday 26 December 2024 - 8.30am to 1.00pm

🐾 Forfar Surgery
📅 Tuesday 24 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅Wednesday 25 December 2024 - CLOSED
📅Thursday 26 December 2024 - CLOSED

🐾 Scone Surgery
📅 Tuesday 24 December 2024 - 8.30am to 5.00pm
📅Wednesday 25 December 2024 - CLOSED
📅Thursday 26 December 2024 - CLOSED

We’ll reopen and resume normal hours on Friday 27 December 2024

💊 Plan Ahead for Medications
If your horse requires regular medication, please ensure you order in advance to avoid running out during the festive season. Our team is here to help with any prescription requests.

🚨 Emergency Services
We’ve got you covered! Our on-call vets will be available for emergencies throughout the festive season. If you need urgent assistance, simply call us, and we’ll be there to help.

From everyone at Thrums Vets, we wish you and your horse a safe and joyful festive season. 🌟🎁

19/12/2024

My kind of update photo received this week.
Sarcoid producing a nice eschar and dying off following application of AW-5 cream. Together with a very scenic winter sunrise.

Hopefully as the days lengthen we will get full resolution in this lovely young horse.

06/12/2024

Any progress with this horrendous disease is welcome news.

Good to see the team at Edinburgh heavily involved as always with this locally significant disease.

Hopefully some of the Biobank database should take us forward with identifying the causal agent to allow for further prevention.

Read the Beva Editorial here

https://bit.ly/4f5McNQ

Research links equine grass sickness to neurotoxic enzyme

Researchers believe they have made a significant breakthrough in identifying a possible cause of equine grass sickness: a neurotoxin, with intriguingly similar actions to snake venom toxins but produced by pasture microbes. This finding has the potential to lead to novel treatments and improved diagnostics for this devastating disease. Congratulations to the team behind this work.

While it is early days, and there is much work to be done, this finding could represent a major clue to help guide investigations. Research scientists now need your help more than ever, both in continuing to build the Biobank of EGS samples, and fundraising to help give further research the green light.

To this end The Equine Grass Sickness Fund will be launching a major fundraising drive in 2025 to support further work – watch this space!

https://www.grasssickness.org.uk/equine-grass-sickness-linked-to-neurotoxic-enzyme/

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our work

03/12/2024

21/11/2024

🐴 Meet Jude! 🐴

We helped Jude out with a much-needed sedation and leg clip. This gentle giant has a sensitive skin condition hiding under his gorgeous feathers, making his legs very tender to touch. By clipping his legs, his owner can now manage his skin more easily over the winter months.

Clipping like this is essential for managing skin issues such as feather mites, mud fever, or Chronic Progressive Lymphoedema (CPL), which are common in heavier horses and ponies.

Using sedation ensures the process is stress-free for everyone involved—horse, owner, and vet alike! Not only does this keep Jude more comfortable, but it also opens the door to training him to feel more confident about having his legs handled when they're no longer sore.

Early intervention = happy, healthy horses! 🐾✨

18/10/2024

Reminder ‼️

🍂 On Tuesday 22nd of October, we are hosting an Autumn Equine Client meeting, with topics including Strangvac! Refreshments are provided.

Please contact either Kirrie or Blair for your place!

11/10/2024

🍂 On Tuesday 22nd of October, we are hosting an Autumn Equine Client meeting, with topics including Strangvac! Refreshments are provided.

Please contact either Kirrie or Blair for your place!

10/09/2024

🐴 Equine Dental Month 🐴

📍For the month of September, we are excited to offer a FREE visit on routine days (area dependent) for routine dental care for your horse or pony.

To ensure a thorough oral examination, sedation is appropriate for the procedure. The total cost for routine dental treatment, including sedation, will be a maximum of £149 (VAT included). If multiple horses or ponies on the same yard require treatment, discounts will apply.

📅To schedule an appointment or ask any questions, please contact our Blairgowrie or Kirriemuir Surgery. We look forward to helping you maintain your horse's dental health!

29/06/2024

Jura has been under treatment for a Keratoma growth of the hoof and was feeling very sprightly after getting some progress x rays and new shoes on Thursday in conjunction with local farrier Neil Chalmers who is his usual farrier.

15/06/2024

Come while the sun is shining 🌞and visit us at our stand today. Lots of games and prizes to be won.

24/05/2024

🐴Equine Influenza 🐴
❗ Last week to book for your horse Flu Vaccination❗

Do you know the signs of flu?
📌 Cough
📌 Fever
📌 Dull and depressed
📌 Loss of appetite
📌 Nasal discharge
📌 Enlarged lymph nodes

Flu is a serious disease and all horses are at risk of flu even if they don't leave the yard.

During May we are running a Stamping out Flu Together Campaign for unvaccinated or lapsed horses and ponies, where you get one free vaccine as part of your horses or ponies primary course. Any horses or ponies that receives their first dose in May will be eligible for a free second dose 4 to 6 weeks later. Please note visits will be charged as normal (though can be on zone days) and all future vaccines will be charged as normal.

Contact our Blairgowrie or Kirriemuir Surgery to arrange your appointment for your horse vaccinations.

14/05/2024

🐴Equine Influenza 🐴

Younger horses, even if they don't leave the yard, are at risk of equine flu.

Flu is a serious disease and young, unvaccinated horses are at high risk of getting flu which can impact their health and the start of their ridden life.

During May we are running a Stamping Out Flu Together Campaign for unvaccinated or lapsed horses and ponies, where you get one free vaccine as part of your horses or ponies primary course. Any horses or ponies that receives their first dose in May will be eligible for a free second dose 4 to 6 weeks later. Please note visits will be charged as normal (though can be on zone days) and all future vaccines will be charged as normal.

Contact our Blairgowrie or Kirriemuir Surgery to arrange your appointment for your horse vaccinations.

09/05/2024

🐴Equine Influenza 🐴

While some horses are more vulnerable than others to equine flu, ALL horses are at risk of catching the disease. Even those who don't leave the yard. Vaccination is essential to help stop the spread of flu.

During May we are running a Stamping out Flu Together Campaign for unvaccinated or lapsed horses and ponies, where you get one free vaccine as part of your horses or ponies primary course. Any horses or ponies that receives their first dose in May will be eligible for a free second dose 4 to 6 weeks later. Please note visits will be charged as normal (though can be on zone days) and all future vaccines will be charged as normal.

Contact our Blairgowrie or Kirriemuir Surgery to arrange your appointment of your horse vaccinations.

03/05/2024

🐴Equine Influenza 🐴

The flu virus is not only spread in the air but can also be transmitted on clothes, tack, yard equipment, in water troughs and also feed bowls. Therefore horses and ponies can continue to be infected after the infected horse or pony has gone.

During May we are running a Stamping out Flu Together Campaign for unvaccinated or lapsed horses and ponies, where you get one free vaccine as part of your horses or ponies primary course. Any horses or ponies that receives their first dose in May will be eligible for a free second dose 4 to 6 weeks later. Please note visits will be charged as normal (though can be on zone days) and all future vaccines will be charged as normal.

Contact our Blairgowrie or Kirriemuir Surgery to arrange your appointment for your horse vaccinations.

30/04/2024

🐴Equine Influenza 🐴

Do you know the signs of flu?
📌 Cough
📌 Fever
📌 Dull and depressed
📌 Loss of appetite
📌 Nasal discharge
📌 Enlarged lymph nodes

Flu is a serious disease and all horses are at risk of flu even if they don't leave the yard.

During May we are running a Stamping out Flu Together Campaign for unvaccinated or lapsed horses and ponies, where you get one free vaccine as part of your horses or ponies primary course. Any horses or ponies that receives their first dose in May will be eligible for a free second dose 4 to 6 weeks later. Please note visits will be charged as normal (though can be on zone days) and all future vaccines will be charged as normal.

Contact our Blairgowrie or Kirriemuir Surgery to arrange your appointment for your horse vaccinations.