Highland Equine Vets Ltd

11/01/2025

I know I’m not the only one, I’m not alone!🥶

I’ve seen lots of snowed filled images on Facebook with captions such as “I love my horses; I love my horses!”🐎❤️

This deep wintery spell is tough going on all of us. 🥶It really reached new limits over night last night. When I got home from calls last night it was -11 degrees. And when I go up with morning it was -10 degrees. I dread to think what temp it reached through the night...

Obviously, it is so important to provide the basics for our horses shelter, clean, fresh water, forage and feed. In this weather it can feel like you’re having to break ice on water buckets continuously🪣.Horses can be reluctant to drink such cold water in weather like this and this can lead to colic, in particular impaction colic.

Personally, I’m a huge fan of bran mashes, I like to make them very watery and with warm water. It’s a great way of getting fluid and fibre into our horses. And my horses love bran mashes!

Picture of 2 of my little herd waiting patiently for a bran mash feed!

21/12/2024

This is fantastic. What a Christmas present for Street Vet 🎁 This is one of the reasons I love our profession. We are a family. We support one another. We always do our best for our animal patients.

RCVS makes StreetVet Christmas donation

The president of the RCVS has chosen StreetVet to be the recipient of the college’s annual Christmas donation. The £4,000 donation was made by president Linda Belton to the charity, which delivers free essential veterinary care to the animal companions of people experiencing homelessness in towns and cities across the

https://www.vettimes.co.uk/?post_type=news&p=295949

21/12/2024

Our team at Highland Equine Vets would like to wish all of our clients and patients a fabulously festive Christmas! 🎄

Thank you for all your support throughout 2024.

21/11/2024

I've thought about writing this post for a while now... It's about time I put it up!

We work hard to try to get your horses fit and well, and back up to what you both enjoy doing. But who keeps us on the roads and able to do our jobs?

There are some important people in the background who keep us and our vehicles on the roads and able to do our job. A genuinely well deserved thank you to -

21/11/2024

❄️ Please bear with us as our vets navigate their way through this wintery snowy spell ❄️

16/10/2024

Due to our increasing numbers of acupuncture patients in recent weeks we are offering up a further acupuncture clinic day -


🌟Tuesday 29th October🌟
This will be available for new clients as well as existing acupuncture clients 🐴

To arrange an appointment or check availability please email us on [email protected] 📅

If you would like to speak to Lindsay to discuss if acupuncture might be helpful as part of your horses on going recovery or maintenance just call or drop us a message on Whatsapp 07880 355 105 📞

The advantages of booking a session on our acupuncture days is there are no visit fees 😊

04/10/2024

Lindsay was away at Osberton BE this week at a BEVA CPD event on sports horses. And she absolutely loved it!

Well done to BEVA on a truly excellent CPD event!! Sports horse CPD at its best!

Thank you to both Osberton and BEVA.

Osberton International Horse Trials
BEVA - The British Equine Veterinary Association
BEDE Events

02/10/2024

Yesterday we met up with our sponsored riders Charlotte and Alex from Team Redford. We dropped off official Highland Equine Vets jackets to them both.

Hope you enjoy riding in these Team Redford!

26/09/2024

🍂 October drop in clinic 🍂

Our next date for our Wednesday drop in clinic is Wednesday 16th October

Should you wish to take advantage you can email us on
📧 [email protected]

06/09/2024

⭐️ Worming ⭐️

So it's that time of year where us horse/pony/donkey owners are starting to think about worming!
Worming can often be a confusing aspect of horse care however lets try and simplify it
Ideally -
🔬 4 f***l worm egg counts per year

🟢Springtime (March-June) - Tapeworm test via Saliva or blood test

🟢Autumn Time (September - December) - Tapeworm test via saliva or blood test

🟢Autumn/Winter (Optimum time September - December) Small Redworm blood test -This test can be done outwith optimum time although worming history is required

To help...... we have an Autumn offer

FWEC & Tapeworm saliva test kit - £24.00
Should you wish to take advantage of our Autumn offer please email
📧 [email protected] to arrange collection/drop off

02/09/2024

*Prescriptions*

If your horse is prescribed a medication long term then we will advise you of when we need to carry out a prescription check up, this may involve a blood sample, depending on the medication your horse is on.

Look out for communications from ourselves if your horse is on a long term medication. Don't worry we will guide you through this.

The benefits -
*You don't run out of medication
*You're horse is checked to ensure the dose is correct
* Hopefully takes a weight off your shoulders!

Our Wednesday drop in clinic days are a great way for us to manage the prescriptions.

Please allow 4 working days for us to process prescriptions . All you need to do is drop us an email to [email protected]

We are aware that some of the online pharmacies are experiencing large delays in processing prescriptions - so rest assured we will do our best to process the prescriptions promptly from our end!*

01/08/2024

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIGHLAND EQUINE VETS!!*

Today we are celebrating 🍾 our 3rd birthday!

Since starting up we have registered an incredible 1,042 patients.

We set up Highland Equine Vets with the aim of being more than the standard veterinary practice. Our aim has always been to champion the 'old-fashioned' approach, where your horses, ponies and donkeys come first, combined with modern state-of-the-art ambulatory equipment.

We couldn't do it without you, our steadfast supporters, so thank you. Thank you to the livery yards, to the farriers and physiotherapists who work closely with us, to the referral centres for their continued support and to our sponsored riders Redford Equestrian Chris Grieve and sponsored horses Mairi Scott-Macleod with Jet 🐎, thank you to all our wonderful clients and patients.

*Proudly independent- compassionately caring - clinical excellence*

29/07/2024

*Wednesday drop in clinics*

We understand the cost of everything has and continues to take its toll on everyone. We as horse owners understand this and understand how important our horses all are to our sanity and own well being. With this in mind we have put our heads together to see what we can do to help.

You can email in to request an appointment at one of our "Wednesday drop in clinics". Take advantage of no call out/travel fee. You can have your horse health checked and get any niggles or concerns about your horse sorted out. This is for those niggles that you wouldn't necessarily think you need to call a vet out for.

Email [email protected]

26/07/2024

A lovely surprise in the post! ❤️

24/07/2024

What does the boss do on her night off from work?...

She does a client evening talk!

Lindsay went to Borlum last night to do an open discussion on some of the conditions and challenges facing horse health and welfare. There was lots of discussion and it made for an excellent interactive evening.

Thanks to everyone who turned up and joined in! What a great bunch of equine owners!