If you are registered with us, we can send you a copy of the following owner factsheets.
Just let us know which one(s) you would like to receive by e-mailing your selection to info@norfolkequinevet.co.uk
Alternatively, you can consult and print off certain factsheets by clicking here.
We can supply owner factsheets in the following subjects:
Owner factsheets on behaviourial issues:
- Aggression
- Bolting
- Box-walking
- Bucking
- Crib-biting / wind-sucking / wood-chewing
- Headshaking
- Rearing
- Vices - why and how to manage them
- Weaving
Owner factsheets on vaccination related issues:
- Equine herpesvirus - EHV
- Equine influenza - 'flu'
- Equine viral arteritis - EVA
- Tetanus - 'lockjaw'
- Vaccination protocols and safety
- Vaccinations - essential protection
Owner factsheets on managment related issues:
- Bandaging - the do's and don't's
- Body condition scoring
- Buying a horse
- Caring for the older horse
- Caring for your horse before and after surgery
- Caring for your horses feet
- Clicker training
- Clipping your horse
- Common training problems - how to deal with them
- Dental care
- Emergencies - when to call the vet
- Equine passports
- Essential equine management
- Exercise - keeping your horse fit and happy
- Feeding the older horse
- Feeding the young horse
- Fitting a saddle - why it's so important
- Identification - keeping your horse safe
- Insurance - do I need it?
- Normal parameters and vital signs
- Nutrition - keeping your horse on top form
- Obesity - the fat horse
- Pasture management
- Poisonous plants – what to look out for
- Problems with clipping - how to deal with them
- Problems with shoeing - how to deal with them
- Routine health care
- Samples - how they help your vet
- Taking your horse abroad
- Taking your horse barefoot
- Traveling with your horse - bad weather conditions
- Traveling with your horse - loading problems
- Traveling with your horse - safety first!
- Worm control
- Stocking densities
Owner factsheets on lameness related issues:
- Diagnostic imaging
- Fractures
- Lameness examinations
- Lameness
- Laminitis - the facts
- Ligament injuries
- Mud fever
- Nail bind / nail prick
- Navicular disease
- Nerve blocks - the lame horse
- Osteoarthritis - the facts
- Osteochondrosis
- Sidebone
- Tendon injuries
- Thrush and canker
Owner factsheets on medical issues:
- All about castration
- All about worms
- Azoturia - Tying-up
- Choke - esophageal obstruction
- Colic - a serious belly ache
- Common skin problems in the horse
- Equine Cushing's disease
- Equine gastric ulcer syndrome
- Equine grass sickness
- Equine infectious anemia - EIA
- Euthanasia - saying goodbye
- Heart murmurs
- Respiratory problems - not a good wheeze!
- Rotavirus
- Sarcoids - what you need to know
- Strangles (Streptococcus equi infection)
- Sweet itch - an itchy business
- West Nile Virus - what owners should know
- Whistling and roaring
Owner factsheets on breeding issues:
- Contagious equine metritis (CEM)
- Foaling - what you need to know
- The pregnant mare - health and well-being