Equine Hospital
Our highly skilled equine team offers a broad range of medical and surgical expertise. You can bring your horse in by appointment or ask your vet to refer your horse to us in difficult cases.
Our services
- High-speed treadmill to investigate poor performance and upper airway problems.
- Dentistry: the clinic is equipped with the most modern equipment.
- Video endoscopes allow visualisation of the horse’s pharynx, trachea, oesophagus and stomach.
- Colour ultrasound for imaging soft tissue including tendons, the heart, abdominal organs and internal reproductive organs.
- Digital radiography to x-ray limbs, neck, chest and skull.
- Computerised tomography (CT) to image head and limbs.
- Surgery by surgical specialists for emergency and elective surgical procedures.
- Orthopaedics to investigate lameness, key-hole joint surgery (arthroscopy) and fracture repairs.
- Soft tissue surgery including castrations, cryptorchids, tie-back operations and colic surgery.
- Medical expertise in gastroenterology, neurology, ophthalmology, respiratory disease, cardiology, poor performance, behavioural problems, neonatology and critical care medicine.
- Reproductive services are offered in-house, including breeding with frozen semen.
Our team
Our senior equine clinicians are supported by experienced and qualified anaesthetists, nurses, technicians, clinical pathologists, and diagnostic imaging specialists. Final-year vet students working under supervision allow us to provide 24-hour intensive care.
Contact
Appointments and out-of-hours emergencies:
Tel (06) 350 5328
Fax 06 350 5747
equinefarmservices@massey.ac.nz
