Equus Veterinary Reproduction and Consultancy

16/08/2024

Happy foal Friday! Here’s our first one for the season… Acrobat c**t 🐎🐎🐎

12/08/2024

How clever is my awesome Dad?! This amazing new sign appeared im my driveway, an extra special surprise ❤️ Jenny Cahill

11/08/2024

Here’s the product from the waxed up mare in our last post!

A lovely c**t foal by Acrobat, a TB stallion who stands in Aussie. A great start to foaling season here at EVRC.

09/08/2024

Holly provides an amazing service, we recommend her highly and use her expertise to help formulate our deworming program at EVRC.

Dr. Holly Blue, the owner of Worm-Ed, is a horse health expert with over a decade of experience, specializing in worm-related diseases in horses. Driven by her passion for horse health and a commitment to educating owners on effective, evidence-based deworming strategies, she introduced Worm-Ed to the NZ horse community.

At Worm-Ed, we use science to provide the facts about these elusive parasites, ensuring you're never left in the dark. Sign up today and gain exclusive access to members-only information, personalized advice, and expert help from Holly herself through your personal online login. Enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing your horse’s health and wellbeing are well taken care of for another year.

Don’t miss out on this invaluable resource! Contact us and follow our page to discover the importance of understanding worms and drenches.

Book your free consultation now ⬇️
https://www.worm-ed.com/book-a-consult/

09/08/2024

What does it mean when someone says to check if your pregnant mare has “waxed up”?

The term refers to development of small beads of colostrum appearing at the end of the mares teats. This happens 6-48 hours prior to foaling in 95% of mares, but doesn’t occur in all mares, and can also occur earlier in some. It’s still a useful part of your pre-foaling check though.

Here’s a pic snapped in our foaling paddock this am, hopefully our first foa of the season will arrive soon!

05/08/2024

Read a write up with a different perspective on our little business.

Thankyou to Advanced Accounting & Business Advisory Limited for your super valuable support and advice as we have started on this very steep learning curve!

03/08/2024

01/08/2024

We are proud to have been chosen for a profile in NZVeterinary publication Vetcsript this month.

The write up focuses on both our business and my recent election into the role of President of the NZ Equine Veterinary Association. Giving back to our profession is really important to me, I’ve got some big boots to fill, and hope that I can do the position justice!

28/06/2024

We are putting the finishing touches on our new office and foal watch accommodation this weekend. Today Dan hung some special degrees on the wall, starting from the top:

My grandfather, Paddy Cahill. He emigrated from Ireland with my grandmother and started what is now Vet South in Winton, working as a mixed practice Veterinarian, then later as a Government Vet. He was a proud horseman and had many racehorses - I think this is where I got the horse big from!

My Mum, Jenny Cahill’s and Dad, John’s Veterinary degrees. Mum and Dad were small animal vets, owning their own practice in Palmerston North, Cahill Animal Hospital, for many years. Mum then worked for Massey University and Dad for MPI. Mum’s PhD also made the wall, and between them there are many more post-graduate certificates, but our wall is not big enough for them all!

Finally at the bottom, my Veterinary degree, Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice (Royal Veterinary College) and Certificate in Veterinary Professional Studies (Liverpool University).

So there’s a little family history for you. I’ve always wanted somewhere to hang these together. It’s pretty special to look at them on my wall.

I hope I can fill the big footsteps I follow in as a third generation veterinarian and practice owner and make my family proud.

27/06/2024

We have only FIVE foaling places remaining for the coming season!

There has been unexpectedly high demand to foal mares with us this year. If you have been meaning to contact us to book, please do so soon to avoid missing out.

Places for foaling and breeding at Equus Veterinary are limited to allow us to provide the gold standard service that we pride ourselves on to each and every horse through our gate.

25/06/2024

Last week Donna Aldridge (manager and equine technician) traveled to an excellent equine reproduction conference in Australia, hosted by Minitube Australia. She reports that it was a fantastic experience and she has lots of new knowledge to put in place for the coming season!

We are committed to continuing education, and keeping informed of ever the evolving body of information to help us stay at the top of our game at Equus Veterinary Reproduction and Consultancy.

24/06/2024

We are looking for one more person to join our super team this coming season!

We need someone to help us with foal watch for several night time shifts each week from September. This involves monitoring in foal mares, assisting with foalings and post-natal care. Some day time work for right person.

EVRC will foal approx 80 mares this season, under the watchful eye of equine reproductive veterinarian, Lucy Russell. We run a gold standard, high input system through new, purpose built facilities.

The team member we are looking for has:

🐴 An awesome attitude and work ethic
🐴 Lots of experience with horses (mares and foals a bonus)
🐴 A passion for providing high standard equine and client care
An eye for detail
🐴 A high level of physical fitness

Email [email protected] for more information.

26/05/2024

Our super team member Olive McLeod is making great progress with her Kaimanawa horse Bacardi, just a few weeks out of the wild.

Bacardi is a yearling filly and Olive is taming her very cute new pony herself. We think she is very clever!

23/05/2024

Proud to support our local dressage group!

Celebrating another sponsor of dcd. Please remember to pop onto our sponsors page and thank them for their ongoing support. Lucy is a rider herself and our president and business owner. Thank you Lucy

05/05/2024

If you missed our latest episode about a vet who runs a horse reproduction business
Equus Veterinary Reproduction and Consultancy with her husband on their family farm, you can see it on TVNZ+ here:

30/04/2024

Tune in this week to see a little of what our day involves here at Equus Veterinary Reproduction and Consultancy!

18/04/2024

And that’s a wrap on the 2023/24 breeding season, with our last mare departing today! It has been a BIG, successful and rewarding season for our team, and we have loved every minute.

Here’s our final mare’s positive 23 day scan, prior to departure. This one was extra special as the mare was referred to us due to persistent endometritis, and required every tool in our box to achieve this pregnancy.

We can’t wait to see her, and all of the other special mares we have bred this season back very soon for foaling!

On that note… we are filling up super fast for next season, only 11 spaces for foaling left! Please get in touch if you would like to book.

17/04/2024

A lovely message from one of our class winners at NZ National DressatChamps:

I just wanted to say thank you very much for your sponsorship at Nationals! 😍
We were lucky enough to win 1A and receive your stunning rosette (which has pride of place in my tack room) and fabulous cap.
This is a pic of myself and my lovely 5yo that also won reserve champion 5yo.
But the highlight of the show was winning your class. Thank you so so much especially in this tough economic environment it’s much appreciated.

Kind Regards
Lisa Brown & Shall We Dance AH

22/03/2024

We are proud to support the people that support us. Equus Veterinary are the sponsors for the Level 1 Championship classes at the Bates NZ National Dressagw Championships.

Best of luck to all riders!

17/03/2024

Happy birthday Donna Aldridge! You’re the glue that holds Equus together! Clinic manager, equine tech, foal whisperer, Ella’s honorary Aunty and the hardest worker we know!

Have a fab day, from your Equus Veterinary family.

16/03/2024

Thankyou to C & L Equine for choosing us to care for your special mare, we are excited to see what is sure to be a lovely foal when it arrives!

16/03/2024

Here’s another reason that we feel like we can offer a unique perspective within our special little family business. We are breeders too! Enjoy our New Zealand Hanoverian Society tour results.

08/03/2024

FOAL FRIDAY brought to you again this week… two from two frozen semen pregnancies today, one to Ocaso and one to Negro!

Every pregnancy scan is as exciting as the last, and every mare here is important to our team, we celebrate every success with you all.

03/03/2024

Wishing all of our clients and followers competing at HOY a fun and successful week. We look forward to following your success!

Here’s a flash back for you, to a another time in my life, attending my first HOY with Pixie.

27/02/2024

Although we are still breeding the last few late mares of the 23/24 season, we are almost fully booked for foalings next season already!

If you have indicated you’d like to foal your mare with us but haven’t yet returned your contract, now is the time to get it back to us.

If you would like to secure one of the last few foaling places for 24/25, please contact us to avoid disappointment.

The benefits of foaling your mare in the care of an experienced, on-site equine reproductive veterinarian in a boutique, purpose built facility are clear.

18/02/2024

A busy Sunday at EVRC flushing two precious frozen semen embryos from a donor mare.

One has been transferred directly into our lovely recipient mare Kiki, and the other is winging its way to EquiBreed ART to be frozen for transfer at a later date.

16/02/2024

Foal Friday this week features more positive pregnancy scans to frozen semen, including an extra special one!

This 14 day pregnancy is an embryo transfer baby, by Elastic, an exciting young Warmblood sire, out of a Secret mare and now carried by one of our lovely recipient mares, Charlie ❤️

Bred, flushed and transferred at EVRC