Mortimer Equine Vets

04/07/2025

Fantastic job Di 💐 how beautiful 😍

⛪️ Kingsland Church Flower Festival ⛪️

Some of you may know Di Harris, who is a close friend to us all here, especially Row 💞

She has made this flower display for Kingsland Church’s flower festival this weekend, where there are 30 flower displays! 🌺

She used some supplies from the practice, can you zoom in and see what supplies she used? 🌼

It’s beautiful Di, you’ve done a fantastic job 😍💐

30/06/2025

Today is going to be a scorcher! 🌞

It’s important we do all we can to keep our horses, ponies and donkeys cool:
💦 Ensure they have access to a stable, field shelter or shade
💦 Regular hosing or sponging off with cool water
💦 Access to clean, fresh water

☀️ Don’t forget to apply sun cream to any pink noses!!

07/06/2025

🐴Foal Passports🐴

Where there’s foal’s being born, there’s also paperwork for passports that needs doing 📝

Rowena has been out recently microchipping foals, and completing the paperwork for their passports 🩺

This includes carefully drawing and writing their markings ✍🏼

Foals must have a passport and be microchipped within six months of birth or by November 30th of the year they were born, whichever date is later 📆

Give the practice a call if you have a foal that needs a passport 📞01568 601300 📞

03/06/2025

🪡 Stitch Ups 🪡

As we all know, horses do like to get themselves into bother at times 🐴

Rowena was called out to stitch this horses wound up recently 🩸

She managed to clip, clean and staple the wound together nicely 👩🏼‍⚕️

Followed by a bandage to keep it covered and clean for a couple of days after 🩹

31/05/2025

During this time of year we are getting very excited to welcome to the world the foals that we helped create last season 🥰

In order to help your mare deliver her foal safely, we urge our breeders to be present at the birth of their foals. Either in person or through cameras, in order to be on hand should something not go to plan!

It is important to remember the 1,2,3,4 rule:
1️⃣ hour, the foal should be standing
2️⃣ hours, the foal should be suckling
3️⃣ hours, the placenta should be passed
4️⃣ hours, the first meconium should be passed

It is very important that the mare passes her placenta as if left too long, this can lead to complications such as infection, laminitis and septicaemia 🐴

If the mare hasn’t passed her placenta within 3 hours, you can try using water filled gloves in the placenta which aids gravity to help release it 🧤

If this still doesn’t help, it may be time to call the vets! We will manually release the placenta, give pain relief, anti-inflammatory drugs and may give the mare a course of antibiotics to protect her from infection 💉

Sometimes, mares may eat their placenta and make you think they have not passed them! Hence the importance of checking this soon after birth 👀

If you have any questions please call and speak to one of our vets 📞 01568601300 📞

29/05/2025

🦷 Pony dentals 🦷

Given we seem to have an increasing number of smaller ponies on our books we decided to invest in a mini headstand!

This will make dentals on our smaller friends much easier. Small ponies and donkeys need just as much dental care as their bigger friends – sometimes more as they have smaller heads for similar sized teeth 🐴

If your horse or pony hasn’t had a dental assessment in the last 12 months get in touch to make sure they’re as comfortable as possible 📞 01568 601300 📞

27/05/2025

Friday was a busy day for the team, in the afternoon Abi and Fiona were out doing a lameness work up and x-raying the lovely Mia 🐴

After seeing Mia’s movement whilst trotting up, Abi carried out some flexion tests initially, then gave Mia a once over and listened to her heart before sedating her for hock x-rays 🩻

Mia was a very good girl throughout, they were able to get the correct x-ray views which Abi will look over in more detail back at the practice 👩🏼‍⚕️

25/05/2025

C**t castrate season is well and truly under way ✂️

On Friday morning Abi, Rowena & Kerry spent a sunny couple of hours out castrating this lovely chap 🐴

It’s a good time of year to get this done, now that the weather has warmed up, and before the flies become too much of a nuisance ☀️

Contact the office if you have any questions or want to discuss getting your c**t castrated 📞 01568 601300 📞

24/05/2025

🥳🎉🎂2️⃣5️⃣🎁🥂🎈

Happy 25th Birthday Kaz 🥳🥂

Since you started with us as a new grad in September you have excelled in practice life, you’re a thriving and fantastic young vet, who’s always so enthusiastic 🙌🏼

We’re also extremely happy you love cake as much as the rest of us 😋🎂

Enjoy celebrating the big 2️⃣5️⃣ this weekend 😘❤️

23/05/2025

🐴 Newborn Foal Checks 🐴

Take a look at this adorable foal that Abi went out to health check last week 🩺

Abi took a blood sample from the foal and ran a stable side test called IgG 🩸

Foal IgG testing measures immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels in foals to assess whether they have received enough antibodies from the mare's colostrum, ensuring a healthy start to their immune system. This testing is crucial because foals are born with no IgG of their own and rely entirely on passive transfer from colostrum 🦠

Her IgG result was within the normal range, so there was no need to do anything further. Her milk covered face showed she had no problem suckling! 😋

Well done to Galaxy on a textbook foaling, we look forward to seeing her foal grow 🐎

21/05/2025

🌞 Bank Holiday Weekend 🌞

The office will be closed on Monday 26th May 🐴

We will be back open as usual 9am - 5.30pm on Tuesday 27th 🗓️

We would like to remind you that we’re always on hand 24/7 in case of emergencies📞 01568 601300 📞

📲 www.mortimervets.co.uk 📲

19/05/2025

Sunny days at Badminton 🐎🌞

Who else attended Badminton Horse Trials?

Rowena and Ruth, along with their families spent a couple of days there enjoying themselves 🐴

Share some of your favourite photos from the days you were there in the comments below ⬇️