Rosevean Equine

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 💡

Horse Ice Lollies 🍧

Horse Ice Lollies 🍧 Perfect cool down for your horse in this hot weather ☀🥵

Today our vet Sam has been busy scanning lots of mares. Here's a happy 28 day heartbeat scan 💓🐴

World Environment Day was created to raise awareness and action to protect our environment. Here is a video with some sustainable horse ownership ideas.

Care of a new born foal.

Care of the new-born foal The equine species has adapted to move as soon as possible after birth and to exhibit few outward signs of disease to cope with life surrounded by potential predators. This makes close monitoring of foals essential for the first 24 hours of life and early veterinary intervention important if there is any concern. Here is a video with some points to remember with a new-born foal.

What does dishing mean? In an ideal world, all horses’ legs and feet would be straight. Sadly, this is not the case and many horses have gait abnormalities. Dishing is a common abnormality of limb flight (how the leg moves through the air) and is described as a winging-out movement of the front feet (abnormal circular motion). This is more often seen in horses who have a standing toed-in conformation.

Important warning issued to the public- to not feed horses

Autumn Stabling