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August Newsletter 2011
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Hi all,
We'd like to say a big happy birthday to our favourite equine friends! This month also marks the beginning of foaling and repro season, which should keep the VEVS team out of mischief.
If your mare is due to foal this season, we urge you to check out our reproduction and foaling page on the website. Featured are the VEVS foaling notes, a good guide to the event, written by our Dr Dave.
If you are at all concerned about your pregnant mare or foal, please do not hesitate to phone us straight away! An ill pregnant mare or off-colour foal can be life-threatening.
This month we have followed on from our article on overweight horses, to take a look at underweight horses. We are also going to be looking at ticks and their effects on horses...
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Underweight Horses
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Every year we see many horses who are underweight. Often their owners are already trying to help the horse get to their optimal condition, or even some are not aware that their horse is at all underweight. Weight loss or an inability to maintain optimal condition can be the result of various factors, so many in fact that we understand how it is easy for the owner to miss something....
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Ticks and Horses
Most adult local horses have built up a resistance to ticks. Ticks affect foals and young horses more severely as well as immune-compromised older horses. Miniature horses may be more sensitive due to their size but usually build up a resistance over time. Horses which have been introduced to the area may not have built up a resistance to the local ticks and may also be at risk of a bad reaction...
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Fluffy's Corner for Kids
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Hi Kids! Fluffy loves your drawings so much, he would like to give out a prize! To celebrate his equine friends' birthday this month he will be giving away an Equest plus Tape horse wormer to the lucky person whose name is drawn. If you can do our August colour-in, and send it in to him, your name will go into the bucket to be drawn on September the 1st! Competition has closed
Download your August colour-in here.
To enter, post in your artwork to:
Fluffy at VEVS
PO Box 445
Jimboomba Qld 4280
Warm regards and please take care,
— Dr David, Dr Kylie,
Kelly, Carol, Emily & Liz from the VEVS team!
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