IT’S COMPETITION TIME
- ROAD TO LAND ROVER HORSE OF YEAR SHOW-
"STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS"
ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN FOR OUR DECEMBER COMPETITION
The team here at Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre are dedicated to Excellence in Equine Performance.
Throughout the year, we sponsor a very wide range of disciplines, and we love seeing our clients out and about, performing at the top of their game, meeting their goals or challenging themselves to try something new or with their new equine partners.
Many of you will have competed or will compete in shows, classes or events that we have sponsored or will be sponsoring throughout the coming months, with the result of this hard work and dedication culminating in participation at Land Rover Horse of the Year show in March 2024 in Hastings.
We want to help celebrate your successes and achievements and would love to share your aspirations and stories with our other clients to hopefully inspire the next generation to pave their own road to future LRHOY shows.
So, we want your stories!
• Simply comment on this post with your horse’s name, your discipline, and if applicable how Waikato Equine Veterinary Service helps you and your goal of participation at LRHOY 2024 and your best competition result for the month of DECEMBER
• Please include a photo* and state whether you are a “newcomer” or “seasoned campaigner”.
• *Please note if photos carry a photographer’s copyright please respect your photographer’s rules surrounding use- they must be authorized for public use to be allowed to be used by WEVC before posting.
For all clients that submit photos to this competition please note that we reserve the right to use these potentially for promotional material at Waikato Equine Veterinary LRHOY Trade Stand.
• Each month between now and February the team here at WEVC will choose our two favourite stories of competitors and their achievements for that month.
• You can enter each month, one entry per month p
In the spirit of Vet Nurse Awareness week…Have you ever wondered if you’d make a good equine nurse?’
Happy Christmas from the Directors
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Following on from Transfusion Thursday we today have Frisky Friday!! Happy to report that our NI baby is doing much better today ❤️
Case of the day: The horse was found this morning by a very concerned owner and rushed into the clinic. After sedation, assessment, some diagnostic imaging it was clear that there was a foreign body embedded adjacent to the fetlock joint - and as the owner suspected - a piece of wood!
It was felt that it had somehow missed the vital structures and was safe to remove. After application of a tourniquet and a regional IV local anaesthetic, the sizeable foreign body was removed...without incident.
Dr Keelin MacDonald and Dr Emily Sherlock had a morning gastroscoping down at the Taupo clinic on Tuesday. It’s always rewarding to find ulcers and then to be able to treat those individuals appropriately. It’s also rewarding to see no ulcers when they’ve been on treatment, knowing that your treatment has worked. Sometimes though, the unexpected surprise you!
Here’s a friendly reminder to make sure you’re worming your horses against bots, even if their fecal worm egg counts come back as zero. The same applies for tape worm.
We will be having another gastroscopy day at the Cambridge clinic later in August. Please contact the office on 07-827 5570 to register your interest
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F08. Waikato equine veterinary centre, proud of all our clients attending Land Rover Horse of the Year Show 2020
Bladder Stone - Case of the week - Part one...
The video belongs to a middle aged stallion that presented recently with a history of blood in the urine. The image is a view of the inside of the bladder (cystoscopy) and shows a large mass. This is not a Fabergé Egg, but a urolith (bladder stone). The horse had been out of work for several months, as usually these are picked up with a history of bloody urination after exercise. Male horses are more prone than females, but thankfully these are relatively rare lesions. High calcium diets can be a risk factor as these stones form as a result of the normally high levels of calcium salts in horse urine. Calcium carbonate is the main consituient of the stone. One this large is not easy to remove, smaller stones can be removed from mares via the urethra and in males via a small incision below the tail into the pelvic urethra.
