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VETERINARY CLINIC

Equine Veterinary Clinic Services

The Equine Veterinary Clinic provides a 24 hour/365 days a year ambulatory service for routine as well as emergency attention for your horse. The Clinic also boasts modern inpatient facilities, equipped with state of the art equipment for diagnostic investigations and advanced procedures.

Many of the routine services we offer, such as vaccinations, dental work and examinations, can be performed on visits to your horse. 

We offer a 'Four Horses For a Free Visit' booking structure.   This means If you have four or more horses at the same yard booked in for treatment on the same day you will each receive a free visit.  It certainly pays to get together with others on your yard and organise same day treatments.

You can also save on a visit fee by bringing your horse to the clinic for treatment

 

 

Some of the services we offer:

  • Routine visits and examinations - vaccinations, micro-chipping, routine rasping and wolf tooth removal, and health checks
  • Pre-purchase examinations
  • Poor performance examinations
  • Lameness examinations
  • Dentistry - molar extraction, electrical rasping, and correction of conformational abnormalities and diastemas
Eye Ulcer - Stained
  • Medical investigations - weight loss, liver disease, chronic coughing, skin disease, recurrent colic, neurological disease, eye injuries and disease
  • Specialised surgical procedures - For example arthroscopic treatment of joint infections and osteochondrosis, 'tie-back' and Hobday surgery for larngeal paralysis, chronic foot pain or hind limb suspensory ligament injurys and surgery to correct foal limb deformity.
Cervical Examination
  • Stud medicine - pre-breeding assessment of mares and stallions, artificial insemination (AI) of fresh, chilled and frozen semen, collection of semen, and embryo transfer - click for more details
  • Neonatal care – post-foaling checks, plasma transfusions, correction of angular and flexor limb deformities, hernia repair
  • Export health certificates
  • Referral work - we welcome referrals of cases from other veterinary practices for investigation and/or treatment
  • Event support - we provide veterinary cover for shows, hunter trials, one- and three-day events, endurance rides, and harness racing
  • Education - we are happy to talk to livery groups, riding and pony clubs about any aspect of horse health and care

In-house Facilities

X-ray of Spavin
  • Static inhouse and mobile radiography - including full sets of pre-purchase and insurance radiographs.
Ultrasound Machine
  • Ultrasonography – an imaging technique in which deep structures of the body are visualised by recording the reflections of ultrasonic waves directed into the tissues.  It is used for a variety of purposes, including scanning tendons and stud medicine.
  • Video Endoscopy -  used for direct, visual examination of internal structures – including the larynx, trachea.
  • Video Gastroscopy -  an endoscope especially designed for passage into the stomach to permit examination of its interior for ulcers etc.
  • Arthroscopy System - this system allows us to perform keyhole surgery on infected or injured joints by allowing visual examination,  It is also used to treat problematic tendon sheaths and bursa.

Gavin Operating in the Theatre

 

 
  • Surgical Theatre – including bespoke made theatre table, winch from the knock down box to theatre table to the recovery box and full anaesthetic circle.
Dummy A.I.
  • Artificial Insemination -  Dummy mare for semen collection from stallions.
ECG being taken under anaesthesia
  • E.C.G and Full Anesthetic Monitoring . - including arterial blood pressure monitoring.  All procedures performed by a veterinary surgeon.
  • In-house laboratory - including routine blood Biochemistry and Haematology, joint fluid testing and Worm Egg Counting.
  • Weigh Scales – to accurately determine a horses weight for drug dosage and worming.
  • 12 Stables – including 2 fluids boxes, isolation facilities and foaling box.

 

Referral Services

The Equine veterinary clinic accepts referrals from other veterinary practices throughout the UK.  This can only be achieved if the first opinion vet refers the case to The Equine Veterinary Clinic. In order to facilitate this we ask that the veterinary surgeon initially contacts us and then proceeds with a full history faxed through to 01505 610510 for our perusal.

The Equine Veterinary Clinic, Turningshaw Farm, Houston, Renfrewshire, PA6 7BP
Tel 01505 610100  ◦  Fax 01505 610510  ◦  Email horsevet@tiscali.co.uk

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