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

24/01/2025

🎉Its almost the weekend! We hope you all have lovely things planned! 🎉
Check out this weeks quiz answers. Did you guess correctly? Well done to those of you that did 🥳🥳

20/01/2025

🌟Happy Monday Everyone!🌟
Fancy having a go at this weeks quiz ❓
Horse's can have asthma flare up's all year round, especially during the hotter dry months. Can anyone tell us any clinical signs of equine asthma?and what might trigger an episode?

16/01/2025

💥This weeks quiz answer 💥
Did you guess right? Keep an eye out for the quiz next week!

14/01/2025

Happy Tuesday! It's time to test your knowledge again! 🧠🐎

Keep an eye out for the answers at the end of the week 😁

09/01/2025

🎉QUIZ ANSWERS🎉
Well done to all of you who guessed correctly 🥳
Keep an eye 👁️ out for our next quiz❗

08/01/2025

Did you know you can use ultrasound imaging to investigate eyes, not just tendons, ligaments and abdomens!

We recently put our high-quality, fully portable ultrasound machine to good use when investigating a case of Equine Recurrent Uveitis (ERU).

This pony presented to us with a history of multiple bouts of uveitis (ocular inflammation). Vet Emma was very worried to find the pony's eye was visibly smaller than the other with a very constricted pupil.

Using ultrasound imaging Emma and Kita were able to accurately assess the inside and back of the eye, despite not being able to see through the pupil. We think this imagine is fascinating and shows how beneficial ultrasound can be. The degree of change in the right eye (on the right of the image) compared to the left, which appears mostly normal, is astounding, with evidence of cataracts, retinal detachment and phthisis bulbi (a shrunken eye)!

Very sadly in this case it was determined that the chronic changes were too severe and the eye could not be saved. The patient was admitted to our clinic where surgery was performed to remove the eye, and the patient has made a full recovery with the owner reporting that this lovely pony seems much happier now the nasty eye has been removed!

We hope you find this as interesting as we did!

07/01/2025

Its time for another Quiz! 😎
Do you fancy testing your knowledge? Put your answers in the comments and we will reveal the correct answers on Thursday. No prizes but major gloating rights available!

06/01/2025

It's time to start planning your horses worming programme for 2025! Sign up to our worming programme for £30 per horse which includes three counts over the year and a kit with everything you need to take your samples. We will send you email reminders and make a plan should you have a positive count.
If you would like to sign up please email us on [email protected]

25/12/2024

24/12/2024

A very Merry Christmas to Kelly Evans, who is the winner of our Christmas Giveaway! Please contact us to arrange collection of your prize in the new year.

Thank you to everyone who entered and sent us wonderful pictures of your horses. We hope you all enjoy the festive period, and thank you so much for your support this year. Merry Christmas from the Linkswood Equine Team 🎄🎊🥂

23/12/2024

We hope that you do not need us outside of these hours, but if you do have an emergency, please call the usual number (01787 383171) and you will be forwarded to our vet on call. Have a wonderful Christmas everyone, love team Linkswood Equine Vets.

18/12/2024

Hello all and a Merry Christmas! Just a reminder that repeat prescription requests will need to be in to us by Friday the 20th December at the latest, to enable us to get them ready before the Christmas break. Add up your meds and make sure you have enough to get you through our period of closure (25th - 30th December). Please avoid using Royal mail and collect direct from us (prescriptions can be collected up until 7pm if needed) The post is not as reliable this time of the year. Many thanks xx

17/12/2024

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We know it might seem a bit early to be talking about sweet itch but our order will be going in shortly for the Insol vaccine. It is a special import and therefore we need to place the order for a specific number of horses in advance.

The vaccine was originally licensed for Ringworm but has also been found to be effective in cases of sweet itch (off license).

The vaccine course comprises of two injections, two weeks apart, with a booster in the summer. The initial two vaccines must be given well in advance of the midges and flies hatching.

If you would like more information on this vaccine please get in touch on 01787 383171 or [email protected]

12/12/2024

To those of you who guessed laminitis in our quiz, you were correct!
In a healthy hoof we'd expect to see the pedal bone parallel to the hoof wall, which you can see here it isn't.
Keep an eye out for our quiz next week!

10/12/2024

Welcome to the Linkswood Equine Vets Weekly Quiz! Those of you that attended our client evening will know we love a quiz, so we've taken to our socials to give you a chance to test and expand your equine knowledge. Put your answers in the comments and we will reveal the correct answers on Thursday. No prizes but major gloating rights available!

09/12/2024

With Christmas just around the corner, It is time for our Christmas giveaway!

This lovely prize donated by the very kind Laura from Audevard , is available to our clients only and the prize will need to be collected from our clinic. To enter please post a Christmassy photo of your horse (with you too if you wish!)

Up for grabs in a lovely sturdy bucket:
*Ekyguard Plus, a 2.4 kilos of Gastric Ulcer Supplement
*A beautiful head collar
*A bottle of Balsamic air, a fab airway supplement for those winter coughs!
*Zen Flash, a supplement for anxious and hot horses
*A hoof pick

The competition will close on Christmas Eve, 12pm and a winner will be chosen at random and notified via our social media that afternoon.

Merry Christmas Everyone! Have a peaceful and relaxing time!

Our lovely vet Emma will be on call over Christmas if you need our help and care

The Linkswood Equine Team

02/11/2024

Our vets Kita and Emma are very excited to be on duty at Codham Park Equestrian today for the arena eventing hosted by Area 8 Liason Riding Club. We were especially excited to see our lovely client Sarah Cavill and her horse Ruben who has had some treatment with us recently. Sarah and Ruben were looking absolutely brilliant today and had a fantastic round in both the 70cm and the 80cm - well done Sarah! We are very proud to be your vets! 😁🤩🐎

31/10/2024

🎃🎃HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃🎃

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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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http://www.linkswoodequinevets.co.uk/

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A very Merry Christmas to Kelly Evans, who is the winner of our Christmas Giveaway! Please contact us to arrange collection of your prize in the new year. Thank you to everyone who entered and sent us wonderful pictures of your horses. We hope you all enjoy the festive period, and thank you so much for your support this year. Merry Christmas from the Linkswood Equine Team 🎄🎊🥂

We have a really interesting case to share with you all! Our patient Woody developed exercise intolerance (out of breath and unable to trot) and upper respiratory noise during ridden work which failed to improve with rest. An endoscopy exam (video camera up the nose) on his yard by Carolyn and Eyrin revealed the cause of the issue: poor Woody had an "Entrapped Epiglottis" which is not a common condition! What does this mean? The epiglottis is a triangular shaped cartilage in the airway/throat area which protects the airway when the horse swallows. When it gets entrapped, the epiglottis gets stuck under the loose tissue beneath it called the subepiglottic mucosa. In this poor horse, there was significant thickening and ulceration of the mucosa because of the severity and chronicity of the entrapment. Not only does this give the horse a permanent sore throat, but it can subsequently lead to the horse being unable to breath and swallow properly, so Woody's owner made the difficult decision to have him operated on. The main complications of surgery can be severe haemorrhage and airway swelling so Woody stayed with us the night after surgery and was monitored extremely carefully. We are pleased to report that Woody was operated on at Linkswood Equine clinic recently by the amazing surgeon Safia Barakzai from Equine Surgical Referrals. The procedure is done with the patient standing up and sedated, a camera up one nostril and a long handled Bistoury knife is used up the other nostril: The video below shows the mucosal fold being cut to permanently free the epiglottis. This should bring long term relief to poor Woody and allow him to breathe normally again. We scoped him again yesterday at home and his throat is healing really well at only 7 days post op! He will have a month's holiday now before starting to hack again. Thank you as always to our team, our amazing client and patient and Safia the surgeon for coming to operate on him.

Following on from our post this week on strangles carriers, here is an awesome video taken last year. Do you know that 1 in 10 horses who get strangles can become carriers? A carrier is a horse who appears perfectly well on the outside but can shed strangles bacteria to entire yards with no signs whatsoever. These horses have chondroids lurking in their guttural pouches… Do you know what chondroids are? Simply put: they are balls of dried out old pus! They look like stones and hide from the world whilst spreading their bacteria about! Carolyn and Hailey removed Chondroids from the guttural pouches of a horse who was showing no signs of being a carrier but tested positive for strangles surprising us all! This horse had Chondroids in both guttural pouches! The video endoscope was used to visualise the chondroids and a basket grasper was then used to extract the chondroid out of the pouch and down the nasal passage. After removal, copious amounts of flushing with saline and an antibiotic was instilled into each pouch. A week later we resampled from the pouches to determine that the horse was no longer a Strangles carrier. Very cool and much like a computer game. Serious skills involved and a very satisfying job well done. #stampoutstrangles #linkswoodequinevets #independentvets #girlpower