Tregonhawke Farm Livery Yard

05/04/2025

87.1K likes, 9473 comments. “ #зеленськтйвгоспіталі ”

05/04/2025

*** COLIC MYTH - IT’S ESSENTIAL TO WALK ANY HORSE SHOWING SIGNS OF COLIC ***

Reposting this, as I was asked about it yesterday from someone who had seen incorrect advice!

I think one of the main myths surrounding colic, is that you must walk them, even if they don’t want to walk. There are definitely some types of colic when movement is good/essential for the horse, but there are equally many occasions when it’s actually detrimental to keep the horse moving.

Before knowing whether or not you need to keep your horse moving, you need your vet to diagnose what is causing your horse to colic. If your horse has a classic “twisted gut” then no amount of movement will help. In fact, forcing horses to walk if they’ve got intestinal torsion will result in extreme pain. If surgery is an option, then continuing to walk a horse with intestinal torsion (twisted gut) will also wear him out, and potentially cause even more damage to the gut itself, reducing the odds of surgery being a success.

My general rule of thumb for any colicking horse is to allow them to do what they want to do whilst waiting for the vet. If they are standing quietly, then that’s perfect. If they are down in the field then I do normally advise getting them up and to somewhere easily accessible for the vet. If they are thrashing about in a stable and could hurt themselves, then getting them out and into the safety of a lunge pen or arena is a good idea, as long as you don’t risk injuring yourself. If they want to march around, then let them walk. It’s a complete myth that a horse rolling around will result in him twisting his intestine; we’d obviously be seeing hundreds of colic cases daily if this were true.

To conclude, walking a horse with colic MAY be advisable, but you need your vet to diagnose the cause of the colic first. If your horse is reluctant to walk, then definitely don’t force them to move.

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31/03/2025

14.6K followers, 51.9K likes, 4007 comments

29/03/2025

Nigel Farage has been criticised after he admitted he would accept chlorine-treated chicken from the United States as part of a trade deal.

20/02/2025

12/02/2025

11/02/2025

✂️ We have an EXCITING event coming your way!

👉 We have teamed up with C&C Sharpening to offer their services ON SITE at Serpells on Friday 21st February 2025.

☕️🍔🍰 Clippity clop.said fred” vintage catering trailer will also be joining us from 9am, so why not bring in your clippers, garden tools, chainsaw blades (and more!), and grab some refreshments whilst you wait!

✍️ All details will be posted on our events page. Go give C&C Sharpening a follow, and they'll be able to help with any sharpening queries before the big event!

18/01/2025

TikTok | Make Your Day

04/12/2024

Today’s prize is sure to keep you cosy during those chilly winter rides! But that’s not all—there’s more to unwrap!

Join us in this festive celebration - you won’t want to miss today’s prize!

👉 https://bit.ly/4fT6TOh

04/12/2024

🎅 Happy 1st December! Let's kick off the festivities with our Serpells Advent Giveaway!

🎁 Day 1 🎁

We have teamed up with Saracen Horse Feeds to giveaway one bag of Super Fibre Cubes.

👇 To enter, all you have to do, is follow the instructions below. Good luck! 🤞

*Prizes to be collected in store only.

Lucy Pearce Saracen

29/10/2024

📲 A text or phone message alert will be sent to thousands of residents on Wednesday 30 October as part of an annual test of our emergency notification system.

A test message will be sent to everyone who is signed up to the service, used to provide public information in the unlikely event of a major incident at Devonport dockyard (which supports nuclear powered submarines for the Royal Navy) or the fuel terminals in Cattedown.

Those who are registered will receive the test message at around 3pm on Wednesday but they do not need to take any action.

You can sign up for alerts here ➡️ https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/emergencies

21/09/2024

318.4K likes, 2978 comments. “All the 280 horses galloping like we are in a movie it was amazing buzz was a good boy it was so much fun”

20/09/2024

Another pretty morning Tregonhawke Farm Livery Yard

08/02/2024

❄️🐛 If you've used moxidectin (in Equest and Equest Pramox) for your encysted redworm dose it will also treat any bot larvae present. These hatch in the horse's mouth from tiny eggs laid on the coat in summer and autumn. Over the course of about a month they slowly work their way down to the stomach and attach to the mucous membranes to overwinter there.

👀 Bot infection can be hard to detect as there’s no way to test for the presence of larvae in the horse. While it’s rare to find them expelled in the dung, some customers do report seeing them, so look out for these small pink armadillo shaped bot larvae that might appear after worming having been ousted from their winter digs!

🤓 more info 👉 bit.ly/BotsInHorses

08/02/2024

There she is; having some quiet me time - Far From The Madding Crowd.

08/02/2024

Cocoa joined Flicka, Carrie and Yana but where’s Rosie?

08/02/2024

Funny how they seem to come in threes