Gibbs Marsh Equine Veterinary Ltd

17/06/2024

We are proud to be supporting this event and urge all our clients to support the initiative in any way they can!!

16/04/2024

We are currently experiencing problems with our broadband which is affecting our telephone lines!! If you have an equine emergency please call the pager number on 07623 908763 and we will call you. Please feel free to email us if you have any non urgent queries and we will contact you as soon as we can. Hopefully the problem will be resolved shortly and normal service will resume, in the meantime thank you for your patience.

22/01/2024

We are delighted to be able to announce that Georgie gave birth to a gorgeous baby boy on 11th January. Both mum and baby “Charlie” are doing well and as you can see from the picture below are already up and about.

21/12/2023

For one of our last sign off’s before Christmas we wanted to share our very best wishes to Georgie who, as many of you will know, has a special little arrival due…rather imminently! We wish her much luck and safe wishes saying TTNF as she starts her Maternity leave after Christmas.

Georgie has been part of the Gibbs Marsh furniture since March 2016 so has been an integral part of the hard working team for many years. She will be very much missed but will certainly be popping in to visit us regularly when she’s in Dorset and plans to hold some acupuncture/all things medicine clinic days later in the year for us - so watch this space!

Good luck Georgie 🍀🍀🍀🍀

15/12/2023

Where has the time gone? As we approach the Christmas period we wanted to wish all our clients a wonderful Christmas and happy and healthy New Year. Thank you as always for all your loyal support for yet another year and for all the wonderful gifts and cards that keep appearing in the office! 🙏🏼

As ever at the end of next week we’ll still be here if you need us over the festive period. Here is a reminder of our office opening hours over Christmas -

Christmas Day - BH emergency service
Boxing Day - BH emergency service
27th - 8.30 - 5.30pm
28th - 8.30 - 5.30pm
29th - 8.30 - 5.30pm
30th - usual weekend emergency service
New Year’s Eve - usual weekend emergency service
New Year’s Day - BH emergency service
2nd January - 8.30-5.30pm

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We also wave a fond farewell to Maddie next Friday who is starting her hospital internship at Liphook in the new year. We thank her for all her hard work whilst with us and look forward to hearing her progress not too far up the road in Hampshire! Good luck Maddie 🍀🍀🍀🍀

27/11/2023

Staff news

Sadly at the end of this month Hetty will be leaving us to start up her own practice in her home county of Gloucestershire. We are so grateful for all her immense support and expertise over the last 2 years with us and will miss her enormously, but we wish her every future success in her exciting new venture.
We are delighted to be welcoming Isabel Miralles de Imperial in January who has just finished an 18 month internship at B and W Equine hospital. Isabel has a particular interest in sports horse medicine and comes to us highly recommended.
Keith Jones, who many of you know and have met already will be working an extra day a week and we should therefore be well equipped to deal with everyone’s veterinary requirements!

28/09/2023

Look forward to seeing some of you tomorrow! 11-1pm Macmillan coffee morning at the office - do give this post a like if you’re planning on joining us so we can get the kettle on
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25/09/2023

We’d like to welcome the lovely Coral to the Gibbs Marsh office team who is another friendly local face many of you will recognise when you pop in or call in. Coral will take over from Christina who has done a fantastic job in our busy office and we wish her huge luck in her new chapter, lucky for us we still get to see her as a client!

Please don’t forget we need some cake donations this week - drop them in any time from Thursday afternoon ready for Friday’s coffee morning for Macmillan 11am - 1pm

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20/09/2023

SUMMER UPDATE ☀️🌤️

Congratulations to our wonderful walkers the other weekend and thank you to you all who sponsored, the Ladies raised an incredible £1250 in very testing conditions!

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Please join us for our annual Macmillan coffee morning on 29th September to congratulate them and share a piece of cake and a coffee, 11am-1pm.

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We would also like to warmly welcome Libby to our team at Gibbs Marsh, a local, familiar friendly face to many of you. Libby is very much looking forward to getting out and about to meet all of our lovely clients and patients with Ruby her trusty 4 legged companion. Libby will take over the Intern baton from Maddie who completes her Internship with us at Christmas. Following her internship with us Maddie has been offered a prestigious role as one of the house vets at Liphook starting in the new year! Well done Maddie and Welcome Libby 😍

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We are looking for cake or bake donations for our Coffee morning on 29th – if you’re a dab hand in the kitchen we would love to have lots of donations there will be a prize for the best ‘Bake off Entry’. Drop off for all entries 28th or bring with you on 29th September.

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08/09/2023

24hours to go and the temperature is looking a little toasty for our lovely walking ladies - THANK YOU SO MUCH to all those who have donated so far. We have already exceeded our target of £500. If anyone is yet to give, please do this evening. We are so grateful.

Alex and Debbie set off tomorrow at 7am from Weymouth and hoping to finish in day light in Wareham.

A photo at the finish will be required!

Another date for your diary - 29th September
Our annual Macmillan coffee morning at Gibbs Marsh, this year also to celebration for our walkers achievements and thank you all for your donations! Please put it in your diaries to join us that morning for a slice of cake and cup of tea. 🍰🧁🎂

Further details to follow …. 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

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Help Gibbs Marsh Equine Veterinary raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

18/04/2023

❌ Atypical Myopathy High Risk ❌ please be aware….

18/04/2023

‼️ Please keep a close eye for any sycamore saplings in your fields at the moment.‼️

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There have been quite a few concerning reports of acute Atypical myopathy cases in the equine population recently that have been fatal with little chance for treatment.

Atypical myopathy is caused by horses eating sycamore seeds that fall onto pasture in Autumn and Winter, and their germinating seedlings in Spring.

Seeds and seedlings contain the toxin hypoglycin A (HGA) which slows or stops energy production in muscle and heart. Signs to watch out for are varied and can appear at differing severities:
Colic signs, sweating, shaking, stiff muscles leading to what appears to be tying up, high heart rate and puffy breathing, dark urine, dull and lethargic.

This disease can be fatal in up to 3/4 of affected horses. Some apparently unaffected horses have high concentrations of HGA in their blood suggesting that some horses are more susceptible to the toxin than others.
Treatment is often not successful and rapid supportive therapy and referral is often the only option left to us.

Prevention is difficult:
When food is sparse provide supplementary forage. Clear fallen sycamore leaves and seeds from grazing areas.
Fence off any trees in paddocks to reduce ingestion.
Check neighbouring areas for high risk plants/seeds as some ‘helicopter’ seeds can travel up to 200 yards.

Please have a good look around all your paddocks tomorrow!

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30/03/2023

Huge thanks to all our wonderful clients who joined us last night for our client evening. It was great to see so many of you and we really hope you enjoyed the evening with some fabulous speakers. Enormous thanks to Dicky Hepburn (B&W) and Henry O’Neill (Donnington Grove) who delivered incredibly engaging and interesting talks, we are very lucky to work with wonderful specialists who always give, so generously, their time to share their knowledge with us all. Big thank you also to Boehringer who sponsored the evening. 🥰🎉🥂🙏🏼

23/03/2023

Not long left to register to attend our client evening next Wednesday evening. Please email [email protected] by Tuesday to secure your place

*** CLIENT EVENING 29th MARCH ***
Inviting all our wonderful clients to join us for a fabulously informative evening with brilliant guest speakers. Please email [email protected] if you would like to attend

12/03/2023

*** CLIENT EVENING 29th MARCH ***
Inviting all our wonderful clients to join us for a fabulously informative evening with brilliant guest speakers. Please email [email protected] if you would like to attend

24/02/2023

⭐️SAVE THE DATE ~ CLIENT EVENING⭐️

Wednesday 29th March from 7-9PM
🏠at Stalbridge Village Hall
🐴Topic of ‘Lameness and Poor Performance’

We would like to invite you all to join us for an evening of talks by our vets and visiting specialists on topics relating to the underperforming horse!

There will be nibbles and light refreshments provided. More details to follow!

We hope to see you there!
Gibbs Marsh Equine

23/12/2022

Wishing all our clients a very Merry Christmas and health, happiness and success in 2023! Thank you for all your loyal support for another year - as always we’re here if you need us over the festive period.
Christmas Eve - emergency service
Christmas Day - emergency service
Boxing Day - emergency service
27th Bank Holiday - emergency service
28th - 8.30 - 5.30pm
29th - 8.30 - 5.30pm
30th - 8.30 - 5.30pm
New Year’s Eve - emergency service
New Year’s Day - emergency service
Jan 2nd Bank Holiday - emergency service
Jan 3rd - 8.30 - 5.30pm as usual

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23/12/2022

We had to wish Chloe Bon Voyage this week as she has an exciting year ahead. After completing her Ambulatory Internship with us this month she is off to Australia to undertake a prestigious hospital Internship at Randwick, Sydney. We are so proud of her to have achieved this and all she has achieved at Gibbs Marsh having joined us fresh out of vet school, her zest for work and life will be hugely missed! Good luck Chloe 🍀🇦🇺🐢🪲🦋🐴

16/12/2022

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Jackie Potts Equestrian Services who we have had the honour of working with for many years - hugely well deserved 🎉🥰

Today, in the main arena at The London International Horse Show, we awarded eight leading equestrian figures with the British Equestrian Medal of Honour.

It was a double-whammy of presentations, with recipients from 2021 and 2022 due to Covid restrictions last year.

Congratulations to...
🎖 Charlotte Fry (2021)
🎖 Gareth Hughes (2021)
🎖 Sophie Thomas (2021)
🎖 David Trott (2021)
🎖 Professor Eric Jenkinson (2022)
🎖 Dr. Chris Meadon (2022)
🎖 Jackie Potts (2022)
🎖 Charlotte Thornycroft (2022)

The British Equestrian Medal of Honour is awarded to those recognised as having completed acts of international endeavour in relation to equestrian sport, and for outstanding services to the Federation or its Member Bodies.

Full story here 👉 https://bit.ly/BEFMoH22

10/12/2022

Wise winter tips shared from the fabulous Equine at Donnington Grove Veterinary Surgery

With temperatures dropping, here are some top tips:

❄️Add warm water to your buckets to persuade your horse to drink
❄️If it drops below 5C, provide ad lib access to good quality forage
❄️Have some grit available to use on icy paths
❄️Make sure rugs fit properly and you have spares in case they get wet
❄️Keep an eye on your horse's legs, looking for mud fever and other skin conditions

How do you keep your horse happy in cold weather?

18/11/2022

***Exciting News!!!***
Our new website is now live, check it out at www.gibbsmarshequine.co.uk The new site has lots of exciting new features and is up to date with all our services. You can now also complete registration and vetting forms online. If you have any queries or feedback we would love to hear from you.

16/11/2022

Due to staff training our office will be closed this morning from 9.30 - 11.30am. If you have an equine emergency, please call our pager number and we will respond immediately!! For any non-urgent queries please give us a call this afternoon or leave us a message on our ansaphone and we will call you back. Many thanks for your patience.

20/10/2022

**MOTORISED DENTISTRY EQUIPTMENT**

We are very excited to announce that the practice has recently acquired BRAND NEW motorised dentistry tools! In an effort to always provide our clients with the best services that we can, the new motorised equipment means that we can now increase the scope and volume of our dental services.

Going forward, we will also offer *DENTAL CLINIC DAYS*!
Why not save yourself a visit fee and book your horse into one of our regular clinic days, where we will have a dedicated morning or afternoon of dentistry at Gibbs Marsh for our clients?

Our next dental clinic date will be Friday 4th November 2022

For more information, give us a ring at the office on 01963 362699

20/09/2022

Unfortunately we are having some issues with our telephone lines this morning. Please bear with us, if you have an urgent query please call my mobile number which is 07771 627336 or if you have an equine emergency you can call our pager number which is 07623 908763. Many thanks for your patience.

Debbie Carroll

19/09/2022

What a monumental day - many incredibly moving and historic moments like this one that the odd tear (previously being just about held back!) snuck through. God bless our Queen and God save our new King 🇬🇧👑🥰

14/09/2022

On Monday 19th September as a mark of huge admiration and respect for our beloved Queen Elizabeth II our office will be closed. We will of course still be providing our normal emergency cover for our clients and will be contactable on our usual out of hours number. Thank you for everyone’s flexibility and understanding.

Our thoughts are with the Royal family and the rest of the nation at this time and we send our deepest condolences.

08/09/2022

We couldn’t choose just one photo - what a passionate and accomplished horse woman. A life of service and dedication with always a trusty stead not too far away. Her last reported mount to have been in June of this year after being told she may not get back in the saddle. A true inspiration, who will be missed by the entire world. Thank you Ma’am and kick on 🐎❤️

24/08/2022

Thank you so much to everyone who entered our prize draw to spot HRH on her fell pony amongst our client photos - no one found all 10 but a very close next guess won and all winners have been contacted! Thank you to all who sent photos and entered 🇬🇧🤩