Anvil Equine Veterinary Clinic

28/01/2025

📌 Please order all medications and prescriptions at least 24 hours before they are needed 📌

We wish you all a Happy and Healthy 2025 and look forward to continuing to provide your animals with exceptional veterinary care
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13/03/2024

🦟🐴 Insol vaccine for Sweet Itch 🐴🦟

The Insol vaccine was originally developed to treat Ringworm but has, coincidentally, been found to have a positive effect in helping to reduce symptoms for many horses with Sweet Itch. It is now being used (off license) specifically for Sweet Itch cases. Recent studies have shown it to be more effective in horses with a recent onset of symptoms over longer standing cases and is most successful if started early in the season before the midges and itching start! Preventative measures are still very important, in addition to treatment with the vaccine.

The course requires two vaccines given 14 days apart and should be repeated after 9 months for optimal ongoing protection, or re-started the following year before any midges appear.

If you have any question or feel this vaccine would benefit your horse, please phone the office on 01403 731213 and we would be happy to help!

11/03/2024

📌 Receptionist/ Nursing Assistant position available

29/01/2024

💉🦠 Updated Vaccination Schedule 🦠💉

You may have heard that FEI, British Dressage and Pony Club vaccination schedules have changed - hopefully the below will clarify these new rules.

From 1st January 2024, all first and restart vaccination courses for influenza must be given on a new schedule to comply with the change in regulations. These are as follows:

• Second vaccination must be administered 21-60 days after the first vaccination

• Third Vaccination must be administered 120-180 days after the second vaccination

• Annual boosters (within 365 days) are administered following the third vaccination (or within 6 months + 21 days of any FEI competitions)

Any horses that are up to date from 2023 do not need to restart the vaccination programme.

Please don’t hesitate to contact the team on 01403 731213 with any queries!

02/11/2023

UPDATE - power is now back on and phone lines are working as normal 😊

** We currently have a powercut so unfortunately our phone lines are not working - for any emergency enquiries, please call 07850326354 (temporary number). We hope to be back up and running by this afternoon. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause! **

22/12/2022

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We would like to wish all of our clients a Very Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year!

From Alastair & the team at Anvil Vets 🐴🐄🐑🐖

01/11/2022

🍯 Local hedgerow honey 🍯

Hedgerow honey produced in Copsale - runny and set honey available.
Good for your porridge, allergies and even wounds!
£7 per 12oz jar
Visit Anvil Equine Veterinary Clinic, Tuckmans Farm, Bar Lane, Copsale RH13 9AY 9am-5pm, Monday - Friday, speak to Alastair or phone 01403 731213 with any enquiries.

02/09/2022

📌 PLEASE NOTE 📌

Our Out of Hours answering service provider is changing from next week but please rest assured that the service remains the same.

Please phone the office number on 01403 731213 for 24/7 veterinary assistance.

15/07/2022

☀️ Keeping Cool when you could be Heated ☀️

08/03/2022

🎁 March Madness 🎁

The horse in the attached x-ray images has a 10° pedal bone (P3) rotation [first image] and visible ossification of the left collateral cartilage of the left foot (also known as Sidebone) [blue arrow in second image].

Foot x-rays can be very useful in detecting imbalances, as well as more serious problems including chronic laminitis, fractures, osteoarthritis and many more. March is also a very useful time to check for pedal bone rotation before the spring grass comes in!

For this reason, for the month of March, we have a special offer on foot balance x-rays at our clinic. This will include two views; Latero-Medial (from the side) and Dorso-Palmar (from the front) of each foot.

The cost of this will be:
* £45 for both front feet
* £80 for all four feet
* A reduced price of £45 for sedation (if needed)
[All prices are inclusive of VAT]

Make sure you keep an eye on our page for future offers which you won’t want to miss!

19/01/2022

** EHV vaccine **

We have a small number of short dated EHV vaccines which we are offering at a reduced price of £30 per vaccination to stop them from going to waste - if you are thinking about starting to vaccinate your horse against EHV, or your horse is due their booster, please phone the office on 01403 731213 to make use of this offer!

21/12/2021

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We hope everyone has a Very Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year! We, at Anvil, very much look forward to seeing you all in 2022 to continue providing your animals with the best veterinary care 🐴

23/11/2021

❄️ POSTAGE OF MEDICATION OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD ❄️

We are writing to inform you that we will unfortunately be unable to post medication over the Christmas period. As you can imagine, this time of year the postage is quite unpredictable and therefore between 12th - 31st December we will be offering a collection only service for medication. It would be advisable, if possible, to check your stock carefully over the next couple of weeks!

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Anvil Vet Team

10/08/2021

❗️ UPDATE RE COVID SITUATION ❗️

To all our clients,

Whilst we would love to welcome clients back into the practice, we have made the decision to keep our existing protocols in place for the time being. The main reason for this is to protect the service we offer to our clients - we have recently received calls to attend clients of other practices due to staff shortages caused by their vets/ nurses having to self isolate. Hopefully we are close to the end of this pandemic and will be able to review this soon!

In the meantime, please continue to request drug orders by phone before collecting them from the gate at the end of our drive and remain in the carpark if you bring your horse to the clinic.

Many thanks for your continued patience!

The Anvil Team

24/05/2021

📌 Date for the diary 📌

One of our amazing local animal charities has organised a Tack Sale - show them some support in their upcoming fundraising event!! 🐴🐑 🐖 🦆

A date for your diary ..... Saturday, 7th August 21

We are having our first Tack Sale!

If you would like to book a table as a seller please contact Gemma on: 07971 261 629 - £10 per table

Entry is £1 per person

We will be open from 1:30pm to 4:00pm

Check out poster for full details!

Please spread the word and share this post - thanks so much!

www.abcanimalsanctuary.co.uk

11/05/2021

To all our clients,

Message from Georgia:

After 18 happy months, tomorrow is regrettably my last day at Anvil Equine Veterinary Clinic, as I am taking on a new training position in an Equine Hospital in Newbury. I have loved my time working at Anvil and have thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and all your lovely horses, donkeys, farm animals and camels 😂 Our clients are truly wonderful 🥰 I am sure I will see many of you on the horsey circuit!

A huge thank you to Alastair who has been a truly inspiring mentor and my colleagues behind the scenes (Kim, Lydia and Liz) who have been nothing but caring and kind. I feel privileged to work with such a team.

The practice is looking forward to welcoming Anna who will be starting next Monday. Look out for more introductions on our page!

I hope our paths will cross again in the not so distant future,
Georgia x

30/04/2021

APRIL PATIENT OF THE MONTH 💉

A rare case this month!! The lovely Danny has been prone to small lumps and bumps over the years when suddenly one on his rump and one on his face dramatically enlarged, started oozing and lead to further self-trauma. An ultrasound scan showed a solid encapsulated mass and soft core. Unsure of the diagnosis, we decided to perform a biopsy which confirmed the cause to be Mast Cell Tumours.

Mast Cell Tumours (which release histamine) account for a small 4% of equine tumours, and unlike dogs, they very rarely metastases and spread internally. Surgical resection is curative and other treatments include intraslesional steroid injections, cryotherapy and radiotherapy. The mass on Danny's rump was surgically removed (photo 2) and left to close mainly by second intention healing due to the lack of mobile skin. The mass on the side of the face was running quite close to the facial nerve so we decided to take a more conservative approach by debulking and infiltratation with steroids (photo 1). A further 5-6 smaller masses were also treated this way and a course of anti-histamines was prescribed.

10 days later, we are extremely happy with the results. Danny is no longer irritated by the existing tumours and they have reduced in size by at least 50%. We look to repeat steroid injections in 6 weeks time!

18/04/2021

Sunday Suprise 🥳

This gorgeous bundle of joy was delivered under a beautiful blue sky this morning, much to the owners surprise who didn't know their rescue pony was expecting!

Both mum and new born c**t are fit and healthy and must have read the textbook as everything went very smoothly. A little bonding in a stable and guidance for the first drink was all that was needed. So all that is left is to think of a name!? 🐎