When to call the vet out to your horse - emergency

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When to call the vet out to your horse - emergency

  • If your horse is unable or unwilling to move
  • Road traffic accidents
  • Profuse bleeding: apply pressure, call vet
  • Obvious or suspected fracture, the horse should not be moved
  • Suspected signs of colic that last over thirty minutes don't delay longer
  • Foaling difficulties
  • Swollen, closed eye
  • Azoturia
  • Difficulty breathing or obviously distressed
  • Lacerations requiring suturing
  •  Puncture wounds on dangerous sites like joints and tendon sheaths.
  • If your horse's temperature is greater than 40C or 101.5F
  • Suspected strangles
  • Cases of choke that don't resolve themselves fairly quickly
  • If your horse hasn't eaten or drunk for more than 6 hours
  • If your horse has not passed faeces for longer than 12 hours
  • Lameness unusual to the horse with indications of heat and swelling that don't show improvement within 36 hours
  • Shock

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