Hunter Equine Centre in Scone, New South Wales | Veterinary surgeon

Hunter Equine Centre

Locality: Scone, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 5504 3820

Address: 5 Moonee Valley Close 2337 Scone, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.hunterequine.com.au/

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24.01.2022 A beautiful sunrise this morning

18.01.2022 Screwing around! Part 2: Coming out At this time of year, our surgery has a busy day or two each week doing ‘foal screws’. A transphyseal screw (or bridge) is a procedure that aids straightening of a deviated limb, slowing down growth at the growth plate on the longer side. ... The screw is inserted while the foal is under general anaesthesia and is usually left in place for 4-6 weeks. When the limb deviation has been corrected the screw is removed. If the screw has been in the limb for less than 60 days, removal of the screw is usually performed under standing sedation on-farm. This video shows us removing a screw from a sedated foal, on-farm.

17.01.2022 It's all about the animal. #LoveTheHorse

17.01.2022 Heatstroke in horses As the warm weather hits, it’s time to start adjusting our routines to avoid the hottest parts of the day. Most Australian horseowners... are pretty aware of the dangers of exercising horses in the heat but it’s always good to have a reminder about the signs of heatstroke and a quick look at the best techniques for cooling a hot horse! Signs of heatstroke or hyperthermia are an elevated resting respiratory rate (over 30, normal is 8-16) and heart rate (over 80, normal is 28-40) and an elevated rectal temperature (normal is 37.5-38.5C). Lethargy, weakness and strange behaviour as well as profuse sweating and sometimes even a lack of sweating may also be seen. Left untreated hyperthermia can cause major organ shutdown and death! Obviously exercising in hot and humid conditions is the most likely cause but horses can also develop heatstroke at rest when shade is either not available or inadequately ventilated. Dry heat alone is not so concerning but the combination of heat coupled with high humidity, which inhibits the body’s ability to thermoregulate, is a real problem. Most studies consider hot conditions to be over 30C and high humidity is over 85%. Other risk factors for heatstroke are lack of conditioning to hot weather and anything that interferes with the horse’s ability to thermoregulate such as excess bodyweight. Simple measures such as riding early in the mornings, later in the evenings and staying in the shade are fairly obvious. Ensuring your horse is adequately muscled but not carrying extra condition will help and slowly increasing exercise intensity as the weather warms up will allow your horse to get used to the warmer conditions. Electrolyte supplementation is important as horses lose a lot of salt and other electrolytes in their sweat. These can be given in feed, mixed with water or in an oral dosing syringe. Always provide plain water as well when providing electrolytes in water. After exercise apply cool water to the whole horse, concentrating on large muscle masses and areas where major blood vessels run close to the skin, eg. the lower neck and inner thighs. Fans or misting systems are also very useful if available! If you think your horse may have heatstroke: - Stop exercise straight away and remove the saddle, saddle pad, blankets and boots. - Move to a shady and ideally breezy area - Hose the entire horse with cool water, scrape the water off and repeat. Scraping off is esssential as water left on the body surface can heat up and actually act as an insulator! - Offer cool water to drink - Call your vet if your horse does have heatstroke the earlier treatment is given, the better! Keep cool and happy riding! Image by Christel Sagniez from Pixabay

15.01.2022 THE FULL STORY After stirring up rival Tony Gollan, Brett Cavanough has released his full pitch to the NSW Tycoons! With countless races won by Brett and his st...able including his most recent success story, "It's Me" who's won a perfect 4 from 4 starts in its young career, he sits atop of the NSW trainer ranks in the state. And now he wants to train for you in the TRL competition! Watch his pitch below and remember voting opens early next year! Cavanough Racing Racing NSW Scone Race Club Galloping Group

13.01.2022 Fabulous news: this little foal found a gorgeous heritage stock horse mare called Bonnie from Nundle to look after him. Thank you so much to her owners for allowing her to raise this little guy, and to everyone who shared our post looking for a foster mare. What a great result

12.01.2022 Capitalist is off the mark! CAPTIVANT showed stacks of natural ability to score on debut in the Victory Vein Plate at Royal Randwick for the Snowden Racing s...table and our colts partnership A tilt at the $1 million Golden Gift is potentially on the cards with co-trainer Paul Snowden commenting, "This colt has got so much more to come." Read more here: https://bit.ly/3467QQP China Horse Club Thoroughbred Daily News Aus NZ Breednet ANZ Bloodstock News Magic Millions Glenlogan Park Grant Bloodstock

10.01.2022 Looking for a foster mare if anyone has one. Excellent home. Edit: Fabulous news: this little foal found a gorgeous heritage stock horse mare called Bonnie from... Nundle to look after him. Thank you so much to her owners for allowing her to raise this little guy, and to everyone who shared our post looking for a foster mare. What a great result See more

09.01.2022 Get to know more about #TheKosciuszko runners Fender and It's Me from the Scone Race Club stable of Brett Cavanough Racing ahead of the $1.3m race at Royal Randwick on October 17.

08.01.2022 Melbourne Cup 2020 - what a great day, what a great horse, what a great team, HEC!

08.01.2022 Screwing around! Part 1: Surgery Day At this time of year, our surgery has a busy day or two each week doing ‘foal screws’. A transphyseal screw (or bridge) is a procedure that aids straightening of a deviated limb, slowing down growth at the growth plate on the longer side. The screw is inserted while the foal is under general anaesthesia and is usually left in place for 4-6 weeks.... This video shows specialist surgeon, Dr. Chris O’Sullivan from Randwick Equine Centre who travels to us in Scone weekly inserting a screw, and an intra-operative radiograph of the screw in place. When the limb deviation has been corrected the screw is removed. If the screw has been in the limb for less than 60 days, removal of the screw is usually performed under standing sedation on-farm. See more

06.01.2022 Christmas Eve out-of-ours colic

03.01.2022 A huge congratulations to Scone based trainer Brett Cavanough Racing & team and the connections of Its Me taking out the TAB Kosciuszko at Royal Randwick

03.01.2022 Vet surgery doors ..... all types #anvilenterprises #equineveterinarian #REC #australianmade #fabrication