Equine winter health alert: Common winter illnesses
As the temperatures drop, it's essential to keep an eye out for common winter illnesses that can affect our equine friends. Here is a video with a few key conditions to watch for this season.
Equine vet visits: Steps for a successful routine veterinary visit
Preparing for your equine vet's visit is important for ensuring a smooth and productive assessment of your horse's health. Here's some tips on how to prepare.
Ensuring equine wellness:
Five fundamental elements of horse health care
Ensuring the health and vitality of your horses is essential and implementing a comprehensive wellness regime is key. Watch the video to find out five essential components to include in your horse's wellness routine.
Understanding summer colic
Can you recognise the signs of colic and do you know what you can do to prevent it?
Clinical signs of equine colic
Flank watching
Lying down and/or rolling
Pawing the ground
Kicking their abdomen
Stretching
Reduced or no passing of droppings
Lack of interest in food
How to prevent equine colic
Maintain a feeding routine – do not suddenly change the feed and always introduce new feed gradually
Ensure your horse always has access to fresh, clean water
Have a targeted worming plan based on risk and testing
Book regular dental checks - at least once a year - with your vet or qualified equine dental technician
Maintain regular exercise which includes turn out or ridden/in-hand exercise
Plastic Free July
During Plastic Free July 2024, let's saddle up for a greener ride by minimising plastic waste in every aspect of horse care and ownership.
Laminitis risk checker
Laminitis is a painful and potentially debilitating condition in horses that affects the tissues connecting the hoof wall to the pedal bone.
Early detection and proactive management are crucial in mitigating the risks associated with laminitis.
Here's a handy video guide to performing a laminitis risk check.
The benefits of giving your horse some time off
Incorporating breaks into your horse's routine not only aids in physical recovery and injury prevention but also supports mental wellbeing, ultimately contributing to a healthier, happier, and more sustainable partnership between you and your horse.
Here is a video with some key advantages.
🩻Mobile radiography: information for owners
🩻We understand that Diagnostic Imaging is often essential to provide us with the answers we need to deliver a correct diagnosis. Whilst we offer mobile state of the art radiography, we need to ensure that we keep our customers, as safe as possible.
🩻Radiography can be harmful if HSE rules are not adhered to. Therefore, we must always follow guidelines and regulations set out by the Health & Safety Executive. These points will hopefully help you to understand these.
❤The healing power of horses❤
Growing evidence suggests that the connection between a horse and human improves mental health🐴🧠
-Increases your physical activity
-Provides companionship
-Helps create a daily routine
-Helps you to meet new people
-Reduces anxiety
❤Where would we be without of furry four legged friends?!❤
🌟TOP TIP TUESDAY 🌟
When putting hay in the field, ensure there are more piles of hay
than there are horses, and keep them far enough apart to help
prevent kick injuries and reduce bullying. This also encourages
your horse to move around and reduces poaching and the risk of
conditions such as mud fever.
Be Safe Be Seen
With the light becoming dim, and the weather drawing in, it is important to Be Safe Be Seen 💡
In correspondance to road awareness week, our team here at Rosevean would love to see all of your HiVis efforts to help keep you and your 4 legged bestie safe when your out and about exploring! ❤️
Post your favourite Hi Vis photos below to show us how you light up the road 🌟
PS. The brightest horse and rider combo will be our new cover photo for he rest of road awareness week 💡
