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Ashbrook Equine Hospital, part of Willows
Veterinary Group, is based near Knutsford
in beautiful Cheshire countryside, between
junctions 18 and 19 on the M6. Our
team of dedicated equine-only vets are
experienced in all aspects of equine work.
We travel throughout Cheshire, Lancashire,
North Staffordshire, Greater Manchester
and The Wirral on a daily basis to visit,
examine and treat horses. For more
complex conditions, horses may be brought
to our state-of-the-art hospital for thorough
diagnostic investigation and treatment.
Our hospital provides a friendly service
with experienced staff caring for your horse
24 hours a day. We are able to offer
complex lameness investigations, including
high quality digital radiography and
ultrasonography. We also routinely perform
gastroscopy and respiratory endoscopy.
Our surgical services include routine and
emergency orthopaedic and soft tissue
surgeries, and are one of the few UK
clinics able to provide laparoscopic
surgery under standing sedation. During
the breeding season, we run a very
successful AI programme.
At Ashbrook, we are lucky enough to
hold regular visiting clinics with
dermatology specialist Sue Paterson
MA,VetMB,DVD,DipECVD, MRCVS,
remedial farrier, Ian Hughes and
manipulative therapist, Mark Windsor.
Knutsford, Cheshire
Practice
Focus
In each issue of
Equine Matters
we feature a brief insight into a
selection of the XLVets Equine
Practices. Featured in this issue
are Ashbrook Equine Hospital,
Northvet Veterinary Group and
St Boniface Veterinary Clinic...
Kirkwall, Orkney
Northvet Veterinary Group is an eight vet
practice situated in the Orkney Islands off the
north of Scotland and is the mostly northerly
practice in the XLVet group. Orkney is made
up of 70 islands, 18 of which are inhabited.
The old Norse name for the largest of these
islands is Hrossey which means The Island
of the Horse.
So there is a long history of horses in Orkney!
Working horses have now given way to
leisure horses and Orkney has an active
equine community.
Northvet provides an ambulatory service to
our clients for routine work but we also have
facilities at our premises in Harray to take
horses into our stocks for dental, lameness
workups, x-ray and fertility procedures. All our
vets get involved in the equine side of the
practice and so do our support staff - in fact
most of them own horses themselves - not a
prerequisite, but it helps!
St Boniface Veterinary clinic is a first opinion
mixed practice. We are proud to have served
the people and animals of mid-Devon for over
65 years. Our dedicated small and large
animal teams are committed to a high
standard of veterinary care at a fair price.
Our large animal vets cover an area from
Okehampton on the edge of Dartmoor to the
west, through to Honiton in the east.
We have just purchased a new building on
the outskirts of Crediton giving us a main
practice site of over eleven thousand square
feet. A significant part of the premises will be
converted into a large animal centre that will
include an equine knock down box. The new
facility will give us the opportunity to carry out
a broad range of procedures in house.
The new practice will also include an audio
visual room where we intend to host regular
client meetings and practical workshops. We
look forward to seeing patients, new and old,
at the new premises in spring 2012.
Crediton, Exeter
(Above)
Sunny was just 4 days old
when he fractured his metacarpal
bone. Here he is trying to escape
from Leona and Lindsay on his way
home after the fracture was repaired
with a lag screw.
(Centre)
Andy rasping teeth in the
stocks at our Harray surgery.