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We provide professional veterinary care for horses across the length and breadth of Lancashire. The type of equines we see vary greatly from the international competition horse, to the faithful riding school pony, to the Blackpool beach donkey, and to the law enforcement horses of the Lancashire Constabulary.
Our huge depth of experienced is complimented by the excellent facilities that we offer at Oakhill Veterinary Centre. Our semi-rural location has allowed us develop an extensive site which boasts two indoor mare and foal boxes, a further five indoor stables, four large turn-out paddocks, and a purpose built trot-up and lunging arena. We also have extensive parking for your horse boxes and trailers, and a purpose built loading ramp is also available if required.
Our padded knock-down box, equine anaesthesia machine, and extensive anaesthetic monitoring equipment allows us to perform extensive surgery. Previous soft tissue cases include mare ovariectomy and equine caesarian section. Our portfolio of surgical orthopaedic cases include fracture repair using bone plating techniques and fracture closure using orthopaedic screwing techniques. We have also performed a large number of dental extractions under general anaesthetic.
Investigation of lame horses occupies a large amount of our time. Of course our experience dealing with such cases is invaluable, but with the help of a high powered xray machine located within the purpose built xray room, and our soft tissue ultrasound scanner, we are able to provide an extremely high level of diagnostics. Our work in equine medicine is extensive including gastroscopy, respiratory medicine, neonatology, ophthalmology and general medicine. Our 3 metre gastroscope/endoscope allows us to investigate stomach and intestinal conditions, and head and respiratory disease. With the help of our laboratory equipment we are able to evaluate blood samples, and analysis of skin samples.
Equine dentistry is becoming more and more important and recognising problems with your horses dentition is essential to your horses performance. We have an extensive range of dental equipment to provide your horse with excellent dental care.
During the stud season we are very busy with artificial insemination and evaluation of the mare’s reproductive performance. We have purpose built stocks for our obstetrical procedures, and semen storage facility.
We are also officially registered with the Joint Measurement Board.
Of course the most important part of our work is providing first opinion veterinary care for your sick and injured animals, as well as providing routine vaccinations, dental care, worming programmes, and preventative health programs.
And for many of you that are thinking of buying a new horse, or are buying the first family pony we hope we can alleviate any concerns about the soundness and suitability of that horse by providing a range of options regarding pre-purchase examinations or “vettings”.
We enjoy working as a friendly successful team, but also work very closely with your farriers and chiropractors. We also benefit from a very close relationship with Liverpool's excellent Leahurst referral hospital, the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, and a number of laboratories across the country.