Linkswood Equine Vets

Linkswood Equine Vets Linkswood Equine Vets is a friendly and independent equine ambulatory veterinary practice

Thankyou for our Petplan nominations🎉🥰.The certificates will be displayed in our lovely treatment room♥️
02/07/2025

Thankyou for our Petplan nominations🎉🥰.
The certificates will be displayed in our lovely treatment room♥️

🥵☀️🔥Top Tips on how to keep your horses cool this summer!🥵☀️🔥☀️ Ride early in the morning or in the evening if possible ...
23/06/2025

🥵☀️🔥Top Tips on how to keep your horses cool this summer!🥵☀️🔥

☀️ Ride early in the morning or in the evening if possible and allow ample time for cooling off.☀️
🌡Offer a drink straight after work (it is a myth that this causes colic!)🌡
🔥Continuously apply cold water to cool a horse off. Evaporation is best, not scraping off! 🔥
☀️Change water daily to avoid it becoming warm. Encouraging horses to drink in hot weather is the key to avoiding problems. Soaking feeds and hay may also be a sneaky way of getting more fluids in.☀️
🌡Horses with very shady paddocks may be better outside. Others without shade may be better stabled during the day and out at night.🌡
🔥 Apply sunblock to prevent burning of horses with pink or white noses and if you have a fly mask that covers their pink noses this can also help protect them against the sun🔥

We hope you're all enjoying the sunny weather 😊!
Love from the
Linkswood Equine Team

🌟🎉The Petplan Veterinary Awards are back for another year and recognise the fantastic work that goes on in veterinary pr...
10/06/2025

🌟🎉The Petplan Veterinary Awards are back for another year and recognise the fantastic work that goes on in veterinary practices across the UK. You can use the link below to nominate our practice or a member of our team! It gives us a lovely boost when the certificates come in and they are displayed with pride in our treatment room.🌟🎉
https://awards.petplan.co.uk/?fbclid=IwY2xjawK0zzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBiRGxveUZ5cjA4OU9FQmpzAR625cpSIpXbebIvARjPMkA-cxg-g-7aCgQMyUauPnueqxnmbBDYYX5VV6_Bdg_aem_IN_tT1pz-JiFlmc9mJb1MQ

🥰 Cuteness overload alert! 🥰 This little lady is our second foal of the year by our fabulous repro vet Emma Wade- and is...
07/06/2025

🥰 Cuteness overload alert! 🥰

This little lady is our second foal of the year by our fabulous repro vet Emma Wade- and isn't she adorable!

Our team of vets are always on hand day and night and love nothing more than helping to bring life into the world. Carolyn spent most of Thursday night into Friday morning with this filly because she was slow to suckle and it's so important to get that vital colostrum into them in the first few hours.

Then, Friday evening Kita went back to check her IgG levels, to tell us whether or not the colostrum did it's job in providing sufficient antibody protection to the foal in her early life. Fortunately this filly had an excellent transfer- but we were fully prepped with plasma in case it wasn't!

If you have any questions about foaling or would be interested in putting your mare in foal with one of our AI packages, please do not hesitate to get in touch 📞

🌟CHECK OUT OUR ZONE DAYS🌟!!Every Tuesday we offer zone days! On these days, we will be offering HALF PRICE visit fees to...
06/06/2025

🌟CHECK OUT OUR ZONE DAYS🌟!!
Every Tuesday we offer zone days!
On these days, we will be offering HALF PRICE visit fees to clients within the zone for the week. Our zone days are divided into four different zones. Check out our map to see which zone you fall into!
The visits on the zone days are for routine appointments only, for example, vaccinations, dentals, routine bandage changes and blood samples.
If you would like to book in on a zone day please emails us at
[email protected] or give us a call on 01787 383171.

✨️ Veterinary Nurse Awareness ✨️May is veterinary nurse awareness month, and we couldn't possibly go without saying a hu...
30/05/2025

✨️ Veterinary Nurse Awareness ✨️

May is veterinary nurse awareness month, and we couldn't possibly go without saying a huge thank you to our nurses here at Linkswood.

👩🏽‍⚕️ Hailey Harvey REVN is an inspirational woman. As practice director and veterinary nurse, mum to two lovely boys, and manager of us vets, Hailey wears many hats! Despite being immensely busy, Hailey manages to be everywhere doing everything to keep this practice running, and always has a joke to make you giggle even at the end of a hard day.
Hails is our Knight in shining armour, our absolute rock within this clinic, and we couldn't possibly be without her. Her experience within the profession is profound, and whilst she is extremely modest, there is very little that this lovely lady doesn't know about equine veterinary! We adore her, the patients adore her, she is truly one in a million and exceptional at her job.

👩🏼‍⚕️Eyrin Griggs, our equine veterinary nursing assistant has proven herself to be worth her weight in gold since joining the team. Eyrin is a hugely experienced horsewoman having worked in a busy event yard prior to joining us, and has two horses of her own. She has an ability to be one step ahead at all times, and picks things up so quickly you'd think she'd been nursing for years! The patients are her priority and each horse Eyrin sees gets individual, genuine management and attention, and even the nervous horses are calm in her capable hands. She is so dedicated to her role and we would be lost without her.

Both these wonderful women are invaluable to our team at Linkswood, and we are grateful to have them every single day. Thank you ladies for everything you do!

With not long left in the day we wanted to wish our most amazing nursing assistant Eyrin a very happy one year anniversa...
27/05/2025

With not long left in the day we wanted to wish our most amazing nursing assistant Eyrin a very happy one year anniversary here with us at Linkswood Equine Vets!!

Eyrin you have no idea how much you mean to our team and how absolutely fabulous you really are!

From helping things run smoothly on a day-to-day basis to putting in 30000 steps with sick colics, from staying late at night to nurse a critical patient to coming out on the road to help us Xray or scope, from making the most beautiful shavings beds for our poorly horses in the clinic to being the calm voice on the end of the phone when our clients have Emergencies: if anything is clear it is that you are a natural future nurse, an invaluable asset, a dedicated hard-working team player, someone who will always go the extra mile, always have the right words and someone who is going to go very far in this profession.

It feels like you’ve been doing this job forever sometimes and so it is easy to forget that you only joined us a year ago!

We cannot thank you enough for all your hard work, dedication and keeping us safe (especially when we are handling tricky horses).

We really hope you know that having you on our team makes us feel like we won the staff lottery. We can’t wait to see you continue to flourish!

Here is to an amazing future here in our work family!

A little selection of photos from the past year!

We are so excited to welcome the first ever Linkswood Equine foal to the world! 🥰Huge congratulations to our client and ...
27/05/2025

We are so excited to welcome the first ever Linkswood Equine foal to the world! 🥰

Huge congratulations to our client and friend Luke Patterson-Tarling on the arrival of his beautiful filly. She is absolutely perfect and we are so pleased that both mare and foal are doing well. Luke’s mare Belona was the very first mare to stay with us for her AI package last year and we are all so proud of her for producing such a gorgeous foal, and honoured to have played a small part in the process.

⚠️Laminitis Warning⚠️ We have been experiencing a massive influx in cases of laminitis. Please be cautious with the rain...
21/05/2025

⚠️Laminitis Warning⚠️
We have been experiencing a massive influx in cases of laminitis. Please be cautious with the rain forecast over the next couple of days, as there may be a spike in grass sugar levels.
We would like to remind you of the warning signs, especially during this time of the year, and encourage you to monitor your ponies closely.
⭕Prevention
Things to look out for are visual signs that your horse is overweight such as fat pads (for example over the shoulders and rump) and a hard, 'cresty' neck. If you are concerned about your horse's weight you should avoid turning out onto large amounts of grass, strip graze if possible to monitor your horses grass in take and a grazing muzzle can also be worn to reduce your horses grass intake whilst still allowing turnout.
⭕Signs of laminitis are:
*An inability or reluctance to walk.
* An increased digital pulse in the foot
*Reluctance to get up after lying down.
*A hoof that is hot to the touch
*Visible lameness on a hard surface or when turning a circle.
*Leaning back onto the hind feet
If you have any concerns please do not hesitate to contact us!🐎🐎🐎

Happy World Veterinary Day!This year’s theme focuses on the importance of teamwork in veterinary care. Here at Linkswood...
26/04/2025

Happy World Veterinary Day!

This year’s theme focuses on the importance of teamwork in veterinary care. Here at Linkswood Equine, we are so proud of our team. Each individual here shares the same ethos for providing the ultimate care to our patients. We would like to give thanks not only for our team but also to the wider professionals in the labs and referral centres, which are integral to our day to day care of patients.

We would have posted an excellent team picture. However, we have neglected to get everyone together for this! So enjoy a picture of one our newest and cutest patients.

With the last few days of April here, book in for either the Flu or Strangles vaccination amnesty. The first vaccine mus...
24/04/2025

With the last few days of April here, book in for either the Flu or Strangles vaccination amnesty. The first vaccine must be given in April to be eligible for the offer of a free second vaccine. Call 01787 383171 to book an appointment.

Here are some helpful steps you can take to minimise the risk of flu on your yard and limit the spread of disease.

Strangles is a highly contagious disease in horses worldwide. Once infected, abscesses can form in the lymph nodes, caus...
23/04/2025

Strangles is a highly contagious disease in horses worldwide. Once infected, abscesses can form in the lymph nodes, causing severe respiratory problems.

Jump on our vaccination amnesty this April to get your second vaccination of the course for free*

To find out more about how the disease is picked up and spreads and how strangles leads to carriers visit

https://www.dechra.co.uk/equine/vaccines/strangles -Pathogenesis

*excludes visit fee and any other procedures done at the time. First vaccine of the course must be given in April.

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Linkswood Stud
Sevenoaks
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Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5:15pm
Saturday 8:30am - 12pm

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