Nearly Christmas! Hope everyone has a good one getting ready and making sure the 101 Christmas things to be brought/done lists are getting ticked off!!
Steve and Sally are our duty vets this weekend.
🐴 No Pain? Check Again! Could your performance issue be due to dental pain?🐴
Signs of dental disease in horse's can be really variable, including a wide range of signs:
* Resistance and evasion to the bit or bridle
* Resistance to the noseband being done up
* Changes in behaviour for example the horse becomes aggressive due to being in pain
* Change in behaviour when ridden for example head tilting, head tossing, mouth open, irregular head carriage
* Dangerous ridden behaviour for example rearing, bolting or bucking
* Facial swellings
* Inflammation of the gums
* The horse dunking hay/haylage in water before eating
* Headshaking
* Depressive behaviour
* The horse only chews his feed on the same side of his jaw, every time
* Bad breath (halitosis) often caused by decaying tissue damaged by periodontal disease
* Long fibre or undigested food in droppings
* ‘Pouching’ of feed in the cheeks
* Quidding - partially chewed hay dropped
* Dropping hard feed
* Refusing to eat
* Discharge and / or smell from one or both nostrils
* Excessive salivation
* Choke
* Weight loss
* Colic
We strongly recommend all horses receive a thorough dental check every 6-12 months, performed by an equine vet or dental technician (registered with the British Association of Equine Dental Technicians, BAEDT).
It’s essential these thorough checks are performed with a focus on spotting early signs of dental disease, to allow them to be treated quickly. We recommend a sedated oral examination at least every other year, to ensure any subtle signs of problems are spotted that might be missed if the horse is moving even the slightest.
Take a look at the resources provided by The British Horse Society & The Equine Dental Clinic Ltd as part of the Equine Dental Health Project.
www.bhs.org.uk/advice-and-information/horse-health-and-sickness/teeth/the-signs
Contact us to book your horse's dental check now!
The Signs Of Dental Problems | British Horse Society
bhs.org.uk
Pain caused by dental disorders is a significant cause of poor performance in horses but it can be easily overlooked. The early signs of dental problems are very subtle and may not be noticed by owners or carers at all.🎄🎄 It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas 🎄🎄
Our lovely client care team ladies have decorated some Christmas trees, they love a competition!
Which is your favourite?
🍬 Sweeties
❄️ Snow
🐴 Ponies
Comment below to vote!
Merry Christmas 🎄🎄
🎉 We’re celebrating this week!
Well done to Denise, in our client care team for her nomination for the #PetPlanVetAwards in the practice support staff category.
Denise is a real asset to our team, we’re so glad to have her - we’ve no doubt those of you that have come across her will agree!
Don’t forget there’s still time to nominate, if you think our practice or a particular member of the team has gone over and above, you can nominate for the PetPlan equine veterinary awards, head to the petplan equine website:
www.petplanequine.co.uk/vetawards/
🚨 PRACTICE NEWS 🚨
We are proud to announce we have received accreditation from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Practice Standards Scheme as an Equine General Practice.
What does this mean?
To become accredited, practices volunteer for rigorous independent assessment. This is a stringent inspection process that involves assessors looking at a wide range of factors. These include: clinical standards, staff training, practice equipment and facilities, and client experience.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with us via Facebook messenger or email at admin@gvgbrooksequine.co.uk
CHRISTMAS GIVE-AWAY!!
GVG Brooks Equine would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and are offering you all the chance to win in our Christmas give-away!
For the chance to win: You must do all three!
LIKE OUR PAGE if not already
SHARE this post
TAG TWO friends
Winner will be picked at random on Friday 21st at 2.00pm - Good luck!
Prize:
Free vaccination voucher
Free routine dental voucher
Chocolates for you
Treats for horsey
and a partridge in a pear tree - ok maybe not this last one!
🚨 PRACTICE NEWS 🚨
We are proud to announce we have received accreditation from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Practice Standards Scheme as an Equine General Practice.
What does this mean?
To become accredited, practices volunteer for rigorous independent assessment. This is a stringent inspection process that involves assessors looking at a wide range of factors. These include: clinical standards, staff training, practice equipment and facilities, and client experience.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with us via Facebook messenger or email at admin@gvgbrooksequine.co.uk
Huge congratulations to one of our top clients, an incredible horsewoman who has recently become a BHS Fellow.
What an achievement - Well Done Sarah!Massive Congratulations to new BHS Fellow, Sarah MacDonald
Sarah started riding aged 5 years old and then nagged sufficiently to get her own pony at the age of 10 years and joined the Sandown Chase branch of the Pony Club, achieving her A Test at 17 years.
Once leaving school she trained for several years under Jennie Loriston-Clarke at Catherston Stud, which is where she learnt an enormous amount of her knowledge and understanding of horses, riding, training and coaching, that is also where her passion and enthusiasm for educating and coaching was created, whilst Eventing at the same time.
Sarah is a Pony Club International coach and a Pony Club Assessor from E Test to A Test, she is also a British Horse Society Chief Assessor up to BHSI level /Stage 5 and mentors other BHS Assessors through the levels, she is also a British Eventing Coach and feels that the broad range of knowledge and experience she has gained held her in good stead for the Fellowship exam.
Sarah runs a Competition Livery yard and is a freelance coach, training and assessing, whether it is to take professional assessments, staff training or achieve and enjoy their own horses.
Sarah feels she is so lucky to have a job that she loves, that fills her with pleasure and that she is enthusiastic about everyday.
We are proud to announce we are one of The British Horse Society's Vet REACT Colic Champions, head to the BHS website for more information:
www.bhs.org.uk/our-work/welfare/our-campaigns/react/vet-react-colic-champions
We will be working closely with the University of Nottingham and The British Horse Society over the next 12 months to share some of their information and resources on colic. If you own or care for a horse, we would be very grateful if you could help us by completing this survey about your horse, any experience you’ve encountered with colic, and emergency planning.
Please click on this link to access the survey:
nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/colic-champions-horse-owner-survey
The survey has been reviewed and approved by the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham. Your responses will be completely anonymous – nobody at the University of Nottingham or here at the practice will know the identities of the people who completed the surveys. Anonymised results will be shared with the vet practice, so we can plan which information and resources will be most useful to our clients over the next 12 months of the Champions scheme.
🏆🏆 PETPLAN VETERINARY AWARDS 🏆🏆
Nominations are open for 2019! Do you think our practice or someone in the practice team deserves a special thank you?
www.petplanequine.co.uk/vetawards/
