Equifarm Veterinary Practice

26/04/2025

Today we celebrate World Veterinary Day. 🌍This year's theme, 'Animal Health Takes a Team,' celebrates the power of collaboration in veterinary care. It's a reminder of the amazing professionals who work together to provide the best possible care to your animals. 💚💙

📸Freda Bauer

12/04/2025

🏆We always celebrate small wins. Today we celebrate a big win, all thanks to modern medicine and very dedicated owners and their teams. These two horses were very sick due to African Horse Sickness and we could support them with modern medicine while they've put on a huge fight to get better. They are doing very well currently with almost normal clinical parameters.

📒📊🦟🦠Our observations thus far regarding AHS is this:
📌Early detection and treatment without delay is key. Thus twice daily temperature recordings are essential.
📌Midge repellants and insecticides are working and worth the effort and money.
📌Herd immunity though vaccination of whole population of horses in an area is proving more protection than in herds which contains unvaccinated horses.
📌Testing is available and turnaround times are quick therefor testing is advised to help with statistics.

09/04/2025

Be informed. Register for the Kuda Sport Horse webinar on African Horse Sickness.

Kuda is proud to announce our upcoming free interactive webinar:
African Horse Sickness, What Every Horse Owner Needs To Know.

This informational session will feature expert guest speakers in the equine health industry, such as:
- Adrian Todd, MD of SA Equine Health & Protocols NPC (SAEHP)
- Dr John Grewar
- Dr Camilla Weyer

Space is limited to 1000 attendees, so be sure to register soon to secure your spot!
Registration form: f79e9b1a-74e2-4716-98c5-a153d846abf4@517d7b6e-bcac-49da-aa63-24c11c1ffbcc" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f79e9b1a-74e2-4716-98c5-a153d846abf4@517d7b6e-bcac-49da-aa63-24c11c1ffbcc

07/04/2025

In this newsletter we share some parasite control tips as well as shed a light on common skin diseases we see from time to time.

05/04/2025

It seems appropriate to share these tips again.

Practical Precautions against African Horse Sickness
1. To reduce contact with biting midges infected with AHS virus, stable horses at night from 2 hours before sunset to 2 hours after sunrise.
2. Provide additional protection to stables: reduce the number of midges entering by using 70% shade cloth to cover stable openings like doors and windows.
3. Spray stable walls and protective mesh with an insecticide effective against biting midges eg. Fendona 6 containing alphacypermethrin. Take note that it is toxic to pets, especially to cats.
4. Apply insecticides (kill biting midges) in late afternoon and early morning, focussing on the preferred sites for biting midges such as head, neck, back and belly. Use products containing cypermethrin and permethrin.
5. Apply insect repellants (keep biting midges away) same as above. Examples are the products containing DEET.
6. Move horses away from biting midge breeding sites such as standing water and muddy areas.
7. Remove stable waste on a regular basis.
8. If you have electricity at the stables, switch on fans in the stables while horses are stabled to keep midges away.

05/04/2025

Be kind to your farrier. Train your horses.

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30/03/2025

🔬👩‍⚕️💉At Equifarm Veterinary Practice we offer "horse-side testing". So for example if we do a stable consult for a horse that has a fever we can quickly (within 5 min) assess a horse's health, give you piece of mind and we have a guide to base our treatment decisions on. Early treatment ensures a better outcome for your horse.

24/03/2025

Wishing you the best this morning🌱

23/03/2025

⛈️⛈️☔️ We had a rough start to the FEI2* endurance at Otjere as we had to take a 200km slippery detour due to a broken bridge. But from there on it was a beautiful endurance weekend with amazing sunsets.

19/03/2025

14/03/2025

Foreign Veterinary Delegate at Darling FEI3 *** in scorching heat🥵. It took grit from the riders to finish 160km in this heat.

12/03/2025

Do you think this is the same horse? I can assure you that it most definitely is. This case illustrates how important it is to get the right diagnosis before you start treatment. This approach ensures that the patient receives the correct treatment. It prevents a lot of frustration and definitely benefits the welfare of the horse. We didn't use buckets of medicine on this horse to get to the shiny almost perfect skin as we had the correct diagnosis to start with. 🐴🔬🩺

07/03/2025

The New Mandatory Influenza Vaccine Recording System from the FEI was implemented in February 2025. If your horse is FEI registered: Check out how this will impact you. If you use a non-FEI veterinarian for your vaccinations, they will need to register and get training on how to use the App before they can schedule appointments.

28/02/2025

Here is more expert advice for the best care for your horse🐴👩‍⚕️

20/02/2025

Update as promised: I am happy to report that he is doing very well and felt huge relieve after his surgery.

So this horse had a bad tooth that has also resulted in this abscess. No amount of antibiotics will fix this situation. The only treatment option is extraction of the bad tooth and draining the abscess. The bony swelling will go down in a couple of months time.

18/02/2025

Who can guess what is wrong with this horse? Your clue: he is only 3 years old and it was very smelly🤢...... We might post a update on the smelly part😉....

09/02/2025

Tell us about your pets's favourite unusual sleeping spot. Krummels often chooses a shady spot in the garden.