Our hospital is the only Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Approved Tier 3 Equine Hospital in Cheshire.
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Keeping you informed from the only RCVS Tier 3 Equine Hospital in Cheshire, offering ambulatory and Hospital based services for first opinion and referral work. This means we have passed a rigorous inspection and have met the highest standards possible for Equine Hospitals. We have a nurse on site 24 hours a day, providing the best care for your horse, and peace of mind for you. The hospital is easily accessible from the motorway network and from across the north west.
🤓Have you ever wondered what structures are under your horse's skin? This shows how close the joints and tendon sheath are to the skin surface. This is why we often like to check wounds on the lower limb and are concerned if the horse is lamer than we would expect. If you really want to test yourself or your friends, why not see if you can identify and name all the structures present?!
🤞 Great news - we've found a mare, thank you all for sharing our post so far and wide! We've got everything crossed for a happy outcome after the very sad loss of the foal's dam.🤞
🐴FOSTER MARE REQUIRED 🐴
For 2 week old foal
Cheshire
Please call Corinne on 07943865321
Please share. Thanks
What a cracker of an abscess! Do you think it's worthy of The Hoof GP ?! This little horse is hopefully much happier once this has drained and been poulticed!
As a side note, we'd always recommend your horse's tetanus vaccines are up to date to ensure the abscess does not result in a case of tetanus.
🐴Are you confused about pre-movement strangles testing? Hannah has made this beautiful picture to help understand the positives and negatives of each testing type.
Just remember a:
🐴False positive = over-diagnosis
🐴False negative = under-diagnosis
✅Blood test - low cost but lots of false positives and false negatives
✅Nasopharyngeal swabs - low cost, few false positives and lots of false negatives
✅Nasal wash - low cost, few false positives and some false negatives - this might be the best 'half-way house' between cost and accuracy of results
✅Guttural pouch wash - high cost with few false positives and few false negatives - ie the most reliable but expensive
If you want to discuss your circumstances please do call us on 01565 723030.
After a very busy week working with the AI mares on our breeding programme, Roger caught Sophie and Millie having a well-earned 5 minute rest!
And rudely suggested that if they got ON the broomstick, they would fly around faster!! 🧙🐎🤣
🥳😎 Star of the month goes to our wonderful nurse Sam!
Sam has recently been promoted to Head Nurse and was nominated for stepping into this role so competently. We really look forward to watching Sam develop further into this role in years to come.
Her star of the month award was delayed slightly by an impromptu flying lesson off the back of her lovely horse Merlin.
🥳Congratulations to Cheshire Hunt Oldies for winning the Inter Hunt Relay at Royal Cheshire County Show today! Kerry and Steph are out and about providing veterinary cover for the Show so do say hi and have a chat if you see them!
Our great neigh-bours at Cheshire Show have lent us a hay bale to prop our brochures and snacks on! Cheshire Stables thank you!
Do pop in and visit us by the show jumping at Royal Cheshire County Show ! We've got drinks and a few nibbles to share.
So exciting to be a part of something so massive!
Do you remember some of our staff members took part in the 'Month of Movement' to raise money for Vetlife and World Land Trust? As a team, VetPartners UK practices have raised more than £50000 - it certainly supports the mnemonic Together Everyone Achieves More!
🤩Happy father's day!🤩
To those celebrating with fathers, missing their loved ones due to geography or grieving their loss, we celebrate them.
Do you think this guy is telling Millie all about his dad?!
Don't forget your suncream (and your horse's!) if this amazing ☀️☀️☀️ continues!
📌Office opening hours update📌
📌With effect from 1 July 2024📌
We would like to announce a change of office opening hours with effect from 1 July 2024.
The office will be open from
Monday to Friday 8am - 5.30pm
Saturday 8am - 12 noon
for all routine and emergency calls
As ever, our out of hours emergency veterinary service is open 24/7 on 01565723030, enabling you to always contact an experienced and dedicated equine vet for advice or visits.
🥰Picture perfect!🥰
Happy Sunday everyone!!
Some of our vets have been teaching students from Harper & Keele Veterinary School . All the students have been great - engaging and enthusiastic and should make lovely additions to the veterinary industry in years to come. Can you guess which Stud we did some of the practical sessions at? There's not many places where a white peacock could come to listen in?!
Remember 5 horses = free visit! Why not chat to your friends over the weekend and arrange your next visit as a group to save money?
Do give us a call on 01565723030 to arrange a visit!
https://www.ashbrookequinehospital.co.uk/post/important-information-regarding-insurance
☕🤓Our website has an updated article discussing insurance options and the claims process! If you're looking for some coffee break reading, it might be a very useful overview of the insurance options available and the claims process.
www.ashbrookequinehospital.co.uk
This may be the best thank you gift one of our vets has ever had!!! Nikki was made up today when she returned to the practice from her visit!!
🥰😻Can I be a cat???
It's National Hug a Cat day, but we think think this guy looks very cuddly instead! Why not post your cat, dog or horse pics below for us to enjoy?👇
Ultrasound scanning can provide vital information about the soft tissues of the leg and can be an essential part of a lameness investigation.
Commonly people assume ultrasound scanning is only used to assess tendon lesions, but it can also be used to examine menisci (cartilage pads) in the stifle, collateral ligaments around joints, tendon sheaths, necks and backs, intestines and even wounds.
🐴 🌱𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬 🐴🌱
The grass seems to have gone from zero to hero!! Please watch out for signs of laminitis as we've seen a few cases recently.
Helpful hints:
🧐Monitor weight on a weekly basis using a weight tape or a piece of marked string so you can initiate dieting if the girth line is expanding!
🧐Ensure hooves are well looked after and trimmed regularly.
🧐Address and treat any known underlying endocrine disease such as metabolic syndrome or Cushing's syndrome
🧐Monitor your horse daily for signs of laminitis. Symptoms can include discomfort on hard ground, warm hooves or a raised digital pulse.
🧐Laminitis is a medical emergency and must be treated as such. If you are suspicious of laminitis, please keep your horse or pony on box rest and arrange a visit as soon as possible.
🧐Although anti-inflammatory painkillers are required, we must also monitor for signs of catastrophic changes within the hoof, which would indicate the pedal bone is rotating or sinking, causing extreme distress and pain to the horse. Over-dosing, or continuing to allow free movement whilst on painkillers may mask these changes and result in a much worse prognosis for the horse.
Prevention is always better than cure - if in doubt, call the practice on 01565723030 for more information.
From this....to this!!
We're loving seeing all these beautiful foals arriving! (Especially now the sun seems to be making a more regular appearance!)
Do drop us a picture of your foals enjoying being out and about this weekend so we can all ❤ them!
If you're interested in breeding, it's not too late in the season, so do give Roger, Millie or Hannah a call on 01565723030 to chat about the details.
Happy weekend everyone!
We're very excited to launch our new respiratory endoscopy clinics. Our gastroscopy clinics were very popular; however, for a limited time, we've decided to offer a new special offer so it's not just the same horses that benefit each time we run a special offer!
Hope you all have a great time enjoying your horses, ponies and donkeys. As ever, we'll be available on the end of the phone if you need us, on 01565723030.
Dear clients, thank you for your kind feedback! One of the points raised was the ability to contact our vet team. We've now added vet's email addresses to our website to help you contact them directly and provide an easier communication pathway!
We still run the Whatsapp contact for generic messages or advice, but specific queries to individual vets may be easier via email.
Please remember both these contact media are not appropriate for emergency veterinary requirements as they are only monitored during office hours. If you need one of our team in an emergency, please call on 01565723030.
🥳Happy Bank Holiday!!!🥳
Our offices may be shut this morning, but remember, our emergency vet is always on the end of the 'phone, a nurse is always in the Hospital, and we always have a surgeon on call. If you need us out of hours, please call on our normal number 01565723030 and we'll be able to help.
❤️💐What beautiful flowers arrived this week - it's always such a treat when the clinic is brightened up with amazing gifts such as these. These were kindly sent from a lovely client who's horse we have treated for many years and he was definitely one of our favourites. Thank you very much 🥰
🤩🥳🎂Happy birthday Sam - to some, you're getting older, but to so many of us, we dream of those days!!!Have a great set of celebrations!
🐴🦷Has your vet ever mentioned peripheral caries to you after a routine dental examination? Peripheral caries are a disease whereby the outside aspect of the teeth become demineralised, in just the same way as we have caries. When it is superficial, there is little impact on the horse, but if severe, although rare, they can erode through into the sensitive areas of the tooth.
🦷Although we don't know exactly what causes this disease, standing water sources or cereal rich diets together with certain types of oral bacteria, may all be implicated.
🦷This horse is a perfect example of peripheral caries, which are the black and grey areas on the inside edge of the upper cheek teeth, with a rim of more healthy cementum and enamel erupting from the gum. In this case, we attributed the improvement to a change from haylage to a grass based diet, but we will monitor carefully at each routine dental.
🐴🥰 We had the most fantastic evening celebrating Julia's 15 years at Ashbrook and wishing her well on the next exciting phase. There were reminiscences, laughter and a few tears shed as we revisted so many years of highs and lows in veterinary practice!
Julia also wants to say a huge thank you for all the amazing cards and gifts that have arrived during the week prior to her leaving - what an amazing client base we have! 🐴🥰
Thanks also to Groobarbs for a great meal with fresh, seasonal food.
Middlewich Road
Knutsford
WA169JQ
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What a cracker of an abscess! Do you think it's worthy of The Hoof GP ?! This little horse is hopefully much happier once this has drained and been poulticed! As a side note, we'd always recommend your horse's tetanus vaccines are up to date to ensure the abscess does not result in a case of tetanus.
🐴🤩Ready for tomorrow's client meeting? Here's the video of Nikki placing an acupunture needle as a teaser!
The secret is revealed.... Breeding night is reinvented and Roger, Millie and Hannah will be answering all your questions! Please email in any questions in advance to [email protected] #ashbrookequinehospital #breedinghorses #cheshirehorses
Here's our very first Tiktok reel - why not go and find us there!
Here's Cedric injecting a hock in a very well behaved horse! We're loving the portable stocks, thanks to Equisafe Horse Stocks !
Here's vet Sophie placing a stifle joint block in our beautiful new Equisafe Horse Stocks . Did you know there are 3 separate joint compartments in a stifle joint and, in order to be sure if a lameness originates from the stifle, all 3 compartments should be anaesthetised? This little dude was an absolute trooper and stood like an angel while he was blocked.
🧐 Vets in the region had a great CPD session last night, thanks to Boehringer Ingelheim! It was even Christmas themed! 🎄 The discussion topic of the evening was the future of Artificial Intelligence in lameness diagnosis. Huge thanks to Cedric for a very informative evening, leading us through subjective lameness assessment and culminating in the very objective gait analysis systems available throughout the world. Can you tell which leg the horse was lame on?!
Did you know we can easily test for tapeworm by taking a sample of saliva and sending it to a lab for analysis? It's vital we don't overuse worming medications and only use them as required as worms can easily develop resistance to these medications. If there are resistant worms infecting a horse, it can result in clinical disease that we cannot treat so prevention is definitely better than cure. To learn more, please do visit https://canterforhorses.org.uk/horse-owners/ or discuss appropriate worm management strategies with one of our vets on 01565 723030.
What's involved in a 'routine dental'? A full oral check up for signs of problems. We commonly find: 🦷sharp enamel points 🦷focal overgrowths 🦷caries (decay) 🦷diastema (gaps which often become packed with food and painful) 🦷fractures 🦷periodontal disease 🦷soft tissue ulceration After the examination, routine reduction of enamel points and overgrowths, is commonly done using motorised dental equipment, leaving the horse's mouth happy and healthy!
🎉🐴Happy Fri-yay everyone!🐴🎉 Enjoy your weekend, horsing around! As ever, we're here all weekend if you need us for advice or emergency work - please call us on 01565723030 if required. Video credit: Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience
Keep the donations coming!!!!! Bounce-athon continues!! 2hr 10min to go!!! 🎉🎉 Thankyou to those that have donated so far!! Let’s keep it going until the end. Keep supporting Children In Need!! #childreninneed2022
Only one week to go until Roger’s sponsored skydive for Nature’s SAFE! 😬✈️🪂 Please watch the video for more info about this fantastic charity- more donations means more help for endangered species! All donations gratefully accepted- please click on the link below to donate! 🙏 https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/roger-dixon?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=roger-dixon&utm_campaign=pfp-share&utm_term=fec2f8bacba4425b97a642fdf4d92eda&fbclid=IwAR0JGfERaxu7-0c1jeVh7QhBP6io5hdpIsTYNEToUiEKkF67QEglhxu50tQ
🐴 Exciting news! 👀 Yesterday, we were lucky enough to have a sneak preview of the next generation of oroscope currently under construction with MED Equus . Generating a huge 41 lumen of light, once completed, it should be a fantastic asset to any practice. 🦷We're sure you'll agree that examining the diastemata (gaps) packed with food in this horse's mouth is amazingly clear. You can also see the peripheral caries eroding the side of the tooth.
Scan of the heart
This video shows the cardioconversion - some viewers may prefer not to watch!
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