I s s ue 1 Po o l H o u s e E q u i n e Cl i n i c MAY 2015 NEWSLETTER Special Offers Equipalazone - £75.36 box Danilon - £71.11 box Ventipulmin - £55.86 tub Prascend - £175.36 box Clenil Inhaler - £36.23 Sedalin Gel - 20.12 tube Joint Supplement - 47.84 Hoof Supplement - £40.70 Gastroguard - £171.60 box These are available if paid for at time of collection and are on prescription. Payment by cash, card or cheque. Orders taken over phone collection from Crown Inn or Pool House Hospital Fosseway by prior arrangement. WORMING - Spring is an ideal time to ensure your worming programme is up to date. If you follow a sampling programme then send a poo sample into us for our trained nurses to analyse in our on site laboratory and a vet will contact you with the results. We are only need a small amount of dung, approximately a table spoon, and we can provide the sample pots for you. All samples must be clearly labelled with your surname and horses name and results usually take 3-5 days. The price for one sample is £11.40, for two or more it's £10.20. Equest Pramox wormers are currently at a cash sale price of £17.50. With every wormer purchased, you get a voucher for £3 off your next worm egg count. please ring to place your order. SPRING HAS SPRUNG The sun is finally shining and the sodden ground drying up. Exciting things are happening at Crown Inn Farm with lots of new arrivals of both equine, human, stables and diagnostic machine! information can be found on our website and referrals can be made by telephone on 01283 799700. As some may know our most exciting addition of an MRI service is now well and Our new stable block truly up and running. We feel very proud to be able to offer this important service in the area. MRI is a non-invasive diagnostic technique that permits fine details of both bone and soft tissues structures within the foot (and other locations) to be visualised and assessed permitting very accurate diagnosis of problems. In turn this means that targeted treatment can be given and a more accurate prognosis at an early stage of the disease process. More Springtime Hack We are also welcoming some new members to our expanding team to ensure we can offer the very best service to our clients. We now have three on site interns with the new additions of Andrea and Ron completing our team. On our website you can find more details about all our staff here at Crown Inn. Emilie, our stud vet has been very busy welcoming many new foals into spring. Foal Cam capturing mare in second stage of labour, We now have an on site facility that enables 24 hour cctv monitoring, for mares that come in for foaling, to ensure we are ready to assist in the amazing process of new life. PADDOCK MAINTENANCE Now is the perfect time to get our fields manicured by fertilising (if needed), chain harrowing and rolling. This helps establish good new growth of grass, one of the most important elements of a horses diet. It is also a time to be careful, as with the influx of new fresh spring grass, it can lead to problems in horses and ponies susceptible to laminitis and increased weight gain. It is a good idea to monitor your equines closely and restrict grazing as necessary with turning out for shorter periods of time, using electric strip grazing sections or using a grazing muzzle. It is also essential to check your grazing regularly for any poisonous plants such as ragwort and sycamore saplings. TACK ROOM This months word search has a tack room theme, see if you can find all the words! BANDAGES BOOTS BRIDLE GIRTH HATS LEATHER NUMNAH REINS SNAFFLE STIRRUP Time to get the sunnies out!! KANNAN - Number 1 Show Jumping Stallion. Semen now available. We are proud to say we have been chosen by The Stallion Company to stock semen from their number one jumping stallion Kannan. A tall rangey stallion he brings power, movement and scope. He is noted for his style, balance, temperament and good mouth. We are offering frozen semen at a cost of €2050 + 10 % vat . We are also stocking semen of Bentley Van De Heffinck, Grafenstolz, Leprince Des Bois, and Quintero La Silla. More information can be f o u n d o n www.thestallioncompany.c om. For more information about our stud packages please get in touch. Pool House Equine Clinic Putting your horse first Crown Inn Farm Rykneld Street Fradley Lichfield Phone: 01283 799700 Fax: 01283 799707 Email: [email protected] BLING BREASTPLATE FLASH GRACKLE KIMBLEWICK MARTINGALE PELHAM SADDLE SPURS WHIP S TA R H O R S E F O R M A Y This month’s star horse is J'Yvole, a 16hh thoroughbred bay mare, who has had a tough year. She is owned by Mr Paul Murphy. In 2014 after a non eventful pregnancy J'Yvole sadly lost her foal three weeks before her due date. After successfully getting in foal to a thoroughbred stallion last year J'Yvoles pregnancy started well. Unfortunately in July she had severe colic which needed surgery under general anaesthetic. She had a displaced colon and massive distension of the small intestine. J'Yvole recovered well and managed to hold on to the pregnancy and was well enough to be discharged just over a week later. The unborn foal and J'Yvole had regular checks to ensure both were doing well. In September she had to come back to the clinic as colic struck again. Another severe episode led to her needing a second colic surgery, this was high risk due to a further general anaesthetic within three months and the impact of major surgery to both the mare and the foal. The surgery was again a success, the large colon displacement and the small intestine displacement around the pregnant horn were manually corrected and she recovered well. She had round the clock care and monitoring for two weeks at the clinic before returning home, and was still showing a healthy strong pregnancy on scans. New years' day saw J'Yvoles return to the clinic with colic yet again, this time it was non surgical and was managed medically. J'Yvole then stayed with us under constant supervision and round the clock care to ensure she stayed as comfortable and healthy as possible in the run up to foaling. On the 3rd March at 2.56am J'Yvole gave birth without complication to a strong healthy chestnut colt! Unfortunately she then coliced once more and had to have surgery the very next day. The odds weren't stacked in her favour but it was the only option and surgery was performed. This time it was a gassy colic with fortunately no intestine displaced. This mare is certainly made of strong stuff and coped very well with a third general anaesthetic and major surgery and was up and back with her foal within a few hours. After two weeks of further close monitoring and hospital care J'Yvole finally went home, where she is enjoying motherhood with her foal and is healthy and happy. The journey has been a rocky one for this lovely stoic mare and it is the first time we have performed three major colic operations on the same horse, and all in the same year! With our highly knowledgeable and experienced team we could offer the required treatment, after care and support for the mare, foal and owner ensuring the best possible outcome. We wish J'Yvole and her foal 'Richard' all the very best! If you would like to appear in next months newsletter then please email your story and a p h o t o t o e q [email protected]. We would love to hear about your horses success stories, whether it be coming back from injury, surviving surgery, having a foal or for just being your best friend, please get in touch.
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