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VETERINARY

Strangles evening in Ayrshire

THE British Horse Society Scotland Ayrshire region are holding a strangles information evening tomorrow night (Thursday, January 19).

Olympic rider opens new equine clinic

MARY King, the HSBC world’s number one event rider, officially opened the Alnorthumbria Veterinary Group’s Fairmoor Equine Clinic recently.

Dealing with diastemata

A DIASTEMA is an abnormal space between teeth and, when it affects the cheek teeth of horse, is a major cause of oral discomfort, quidding and weight loss, especially in older horses.

Award for Verm-X

FOLLOWING a successful year, the icing on the cake has arrived for Verm-X in the form of a ‘Silver’ Green Apple Award, backed by the government, and recognising Environmental Best Practice in Farming and Agriculture.

FEEDING

Feeding and coping in a frozen winter

WELL winter has arrived in Scotland, and although we knew it was coming that first week of frost and snow always comes as a shock to the system, especially when autumn was so unseasonably mild.

MP’s praise as Hannah turns clicks into bricks

LANCASHIRE horse health entrepreneur Hannah Wild was congratulated recently by her local MP Ben Wallace as she moved her fast-growing internet business to bigger premises.

Y – For yeasts feeding

MANY commercially available horse feeds contain yeast of some description and, therefore, horses have benefited from yeast in their diets for a number of years.

X–Xtra feeding over winter – does your horse need it?

WINTER is coming and if the forecasters are to be believed it will not be long until we are once again covered in snow – let’s hope they are wrong!

FARRIERY

Lanark Riding Club host club expo day

LANARK RIDING Club are holding an Equine Expo Day tomorrow (Saturday, June 18) at Mid Drumloch Farm, Strathaven.

Helping to prevent a lost shoe

Everyone who has a horse that wear shoes will at some time or another be fustrated when with they bring their horse in from the field to discover that they’ve pulled a shoe off.

‘Master farrier’ is now a trusted trademark

This week the term master farrier became a trademark and can now only be used by associates and fellows of the Worshipful Company of Farriers (WCF).

Scot wins farrier title