Canterbury Equine Clinic

14/10/2024

🐴 Breeding Update 🐴

As many of you will have heard, Dr Harriet Walton has embarked on her exciting new adventure of companion animal medicine. We will miss her skill and care she took to create your next superstars 🌟

We will still have all your breeding needs covered. This week we welcome reproduction veternarian, Dr Rikke Munk, from Denmark. She will be joining us for 8 weeks to cover all your breeding needs from routine insemination to infertility to embryo transfer. We look forward to benefiting from her extensive knowledge.

We will also have, Dr Caitlin O'Connor, from Ireland joining us in November. She has a keen interest in reproduction and will be upskilling under Rikke to keep all your breeding needs covered for the rest of the season.

Please get in touch if you are interested in breeding your mare this season 🦄

19/09/2024

Weekend Stable Hand Position

We have a part-time/casual position opening up at the Canterbury Equine Clinic as a weekend stablehand.

The position involves:
- primary responsibility for the feeding and mucking out of horses
-Assisting the vets with treatments
-Keeping the outside area clean and presentable

This can range from 4-14 hours per weekend, with at least one weekend a month as a requirement. There may also be the possibility to work some weekdays.

The ideal candidate would be
-confident and competent around horses, including stallions and young horses
-reliable
-posess good time management skills
-be able to work both independently and as part of a team
-physically fit

If this is something that interests you, please send through a CV and coverletter to [email protected]

22/04/2024

🐎🐎🐎SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🐎🐎🐎
Dr. Hamish Ranken
BA BVSc (Hons) MANZCVS and Dr.Danielle Guiver BVSc

Dr. Hamish Ranken graduated from Melbourne University in 2000 and practised in Australia for two years prior to completing an internship in equine surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Canterbury Equine Clinic in 2004 and continues in his roll as a director. He has completed his membership examinations (MANZCVS) in equine surgery. In addition to his surgical skills, Hamish has a keen interest in sportshorse medicine and lameness investigations.

Dr. Danielle Guiver graduated from Massey University in 2019. Since then, she has been an integral part of Canterbury Equine Clinic, where her passion for all aspects of equine veterinary medicine shines through.
Dani enjoys working with all facets of the equine industry, from racehorses to beloved pets.
With a commitment to continual learning and improvement, Dani has pursued additional training in equine dentistry and is interested to expand her skills in internal medicine.
Her personal experience as a keen show jumper, coupled with her own horse's battle with gastric ulcers, has provided her with hands-on experience in dealing with this issue.

Dani and Hamish will discuss Gastric Ulcer Syndrome - The hidden culprit behind Performance Problems.

09/04/2024

It’s that time again - free ACTH testing is back!
We have limited availability for free ACTH testing. Please note that this is only valid for horses and ponies that haven’t been tested before.
Please contact the clinic on 033494791 to book your test.
Please note that the laboratory fee is free but there may be a sampling and processing fee.

05/04/2024

We love being able to see ex patients so healthy 🐴 'Dennis the menace' as he became known at the clinic had an unfortunate start to life but is now thriving and we are excited to see his future 🏇

19/03/2024

Exciting news! 🐴 🦷 🩺🪱
For the remainder of March and all of April we are including a complimentary health check and a Faecal Egg Count with every dental performed by one of our experienced equine vets.
To make the most of this, contact reception on 033494791

25/02/2024

Congratulations Molly and Ruby!

WINNER of the East Coast Performance Horses 5 year old in conj with Canterbury Equine Clinic

1st= Molly Buist-Brown & Granttorio
1st= Ruby Rae-Wood & Dremus

07/02/2024

07/02/2024

Waitangi day spent well! Some of our staff had the joy of driving some race horses (well the GPs) 🐎 and getting rather competitive! Thanks to our wonderful practice manager Maree for the use of her beautiful horses and property 🌸

24/12/2023

All hands on deck this Christmas break with Julie the cat giving our lovely vet Charlotte a helping hand with an emergency”

21/12/2023

The team at Canterbury Equine would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We are closed from 5pm Friday 22nd December for any routine work and reopen on Wednesday 3rd January. You can contact us on our after hours phone for any emergency work or concerns 027 471 4608.

05/12/2023

***Foster Mare Wanted***

Please contact the clinic if you know of any foster mares available for a very special foal. Ideally a taller mare as foal is large. We have contacted foster foal services. Any help is much appreciated! 🐴 The mare is still with us just needs some recovery herself.

03 349 4791