Hillcrest Highland Ponies

26/01/2025

It's a hard life being an entertaining kitty! 🐯🐯

24/01/2025

Life on the new homestead 😍 and a coffee by half nine ☕

21/01/2025

The man's been busy 😍

21/01/2025

I suppose this makes it official if the local vets are announcing it :(
Not us but we are going to a show in a few weeks 🤞it stays isolated

There has been one confirmed case of Strangles on a yard in North Canterbury. It is important that horse owners know what signs to look out for and how to protect their horses.
Strangles is a highly infectious bacterial infection that causes high morbidity in horses. Symptoms are related to the upper respiratory tract and include:
- Fever (>38.5 deg C)
- Thick, p***y, mucous nasal discharge
- Enlarged or abscessed lymph nodes, often seen as swellings around the head and neck region
- Cough
- Difficulty eating
- Reduced appetite
- Respiratory noise or difficulty breathing
- Complicated cases can lead to pneumonia, guttural pouch empyaema and bastard strangles – the development of internal abscesses which is often fatal.
It spreads via nose to nose contact and shared equipment/facilities such as tack, brushes, water troughs and yards so horses showing symptoms must be isolated immediately and tested.
What can you do to prevent your horse contracting this infection?
- Vaccination – there is a vaccine for Strangles which fully prevents infection in some horses and reduces the severity of clinical signs in others
- Do not move your horse on or off a yard that has infected horses
- Avoid nose to nose contact between your horse and infected horses.
- Consider the risks of transporting your horse, especially if it is unvaccinated, to locations where there will be other horses. Younger and older horses will be more vulnerable.

Get in touch with us if you have concerns or questions about Strangles or if you would like more information about vaccination

20/01/2025

It's been a whilst! Christmas and then moving house this wee hunka chunka hasn't had much done since Christchurch Show. Given we are booked in for Christchurch Heavy Horse Show in Feb (which is creeping up with alarming speed) I thought we'd best do some work! First time with roller on, though he has had all gear on as a youngster, a few manners reminders and he was away :)

18/01/2025

Another new view 😍☕

17/01/2025

New view!

16/01/2025

Exciting, hope to see them out and about 😍

15/01/2025

Bannock and Asterix not too impressed with the early morning gallopers routine next door 🤣

14/01/2025

Well that's moving property done! Thankyou sooo much to all those involve!
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29/12/2024

Not on the home straight but coming round the final turn............28 days and a strong heartbeat. 😘🎉🦄 Moss side Treanna Mor x Torrin of Croila (AI frozen)

28/12/2024

Top a tha mornin to ya folks :)