All Horses Veterinary Services

All Horses Veterinary Services Equine practice dedicated to providing best practice ambulatory veterinary care in Logan, Redlands and surrounding areas.

14/05/2026

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Dr Victoria and Dr Janine at the first wetlab of their six month advanced veterinary dentistry course. It finished yest...
22/02/2026

Dr Victoria and Dr Janine at the first wetlab of their six month advanced veterinary dentistry course. It finished yesterday. Great to update our extraction skills, radiography and radiology, wiring fractured incisors, odontoplasty and preventative care for any size equine’s teeth. Our new x-ray machine arrived just in time to take it with us and use it too.
Our team is very passionate about the maintenance of good equine oral health and regular high quality CPD ensures that we remain informed of current international recommendations and treatments, whether they be surgical or medical. Can’t wait until the second wetlab in April. Thank you for running such a complete course with world class tutors, Dr Oliver Liyou and his team at Equine Veterinary Dental Services.

We welcomed Dr Mackensie Cooper to the team recently. We are now a four vet team to provide our equine patients the bes...
24/11/2025

We welcomed Dr Mackensie Cooper to the team recently. We are now a four vet team to provide our equine patients the best service possible. We understand it has been difficult in recent months to get an appointment the same week or an emergency seen to, so we are now four vets to help address this. Left to right: Dr Janine, Dr Mackensie, Dr Fiona and Dr Victoria.

It was a Queensland Equine Veterinarians Australia meeting last night. Well worth attending for Dr Victoria, Dr Fiona, ...
08/11/2025

It was a Queensland Equine Veterinarians Australia meeting last night. Well worth attending for Dr Victoria, Dr Fiona, Dr Janine and Kate Hutchinson, our equine nurse. Dr Brian Anderson, an equine veterinary expert from Ballarat gave a talk on different injuries and I thought this slide was useful for horse owners too. All nail pe*******ons to the hoof are serious but the pe*******ons around the frog are the worst and if more than just superficial, often require surgery. The nail doesn’t have to pe*****te far either. 1.2cm in zone 1 to hit the bone, 2.2cm in zone 2 to hit the deep digital flexor tendon and pedal bone, 3.3cm in zone 3 to hit the coffin joint or the navicular bone/bursa, 5.4cm in zone 4 to hit the deep digital flexor tendon.
Dr Anderson’s advice was to leave the nail in if still present - bandage something under the hoof like a wooden block to keep the hoof off the ground to stop further pe*******on. Call your veterinarian to then x-ray to assess what structures may be pe*****ted. If the nail is gone then a probe or contrast may be used when x-raying to try and determine how far the hole extends but the original foreign body is always the easiest to assess. X-rays are important along with the prompt start of appropriate veterinary treatment.

Hendra virus will be forever in Queensland, certainly for my life time. It is sad to hear there has been a confirmed ca...
06/07/2025

Hendra virus will be forever in Queensland, certainly for my life time. It is sad to hear there has been a confirmed case in South East Queensland and the horse has passed away. My thoughts are for the owner of the horse, the horse who lost its life and for the veterinarian who attended. These situations are always extremely stressful for everyone.
No matter how long since the last case, there is always the chance that Hendra virus will occur again. Please vaccinate to protect your horse first and foremost and to protect yourselves and anyone in contact with the sick horse from exposure to the virus.
By chance, Zoetis have been running a special recently where new start ups and restarts who require a second hendra vaccination at three to six weeks, receive the second vaccine cost for nothing. It is just the cost of the vet to administer the second vaccination. While reception at All Horses Veterinary Services have been informing everyone who has rung in the last three or so weeks, I hadn’t got round to posting this. Now unfortunately, there has been this terrible reminder to be vigilant and protect our horses against hendra virus.
Treatment options can also be limited for horses who are sick if they are not vaccinated against hendra virus. Hendra vaccinations being up to date ensure that horse’s receive any treatment required in a timely manner, negating exclusion testing.
Common misconceptions are that horses who are in paddocks and don’t go to competitions are not at risk of contracting hendra virus but any horse in a paddock is at risk.
Owners often think that there are no flying foxes in their area. Most after hours calls at night I am at, I can hear flying foxes. Different species of trees flower at different times attracting the bats. When you become tuned in to flying fox noises, they are everywhere in our area at night.
Another misconception is that if you put the feed and water under shelter the horse will be safe. In my 2014 case, the feed and the water were in a shed, not even just with a roof over the feeder or the water trough. Any horse in a paddock is at risk if unvaccinated.
I really wish that Hendra virus never existed but it does and I truly believe that the only proven way to protect our horses against the virus is with hendra vaccination, given as recommended by the manufacturer and as approved by the APVMA.

As equine teeth extractions can be a challenge, it felt really good to get rid of this problematic fractured tooth for t...
31/01/2025

As equine teeth extractions can be a challenge, it felt really good to get rid of this problematic fractured tooth for this mare today. Hence the cheesy grin from Dr Janine! A satisfying surgery for a Friday and I am sure the mare will feel much better tomorrow.

Laminitis is a common presentation currently in our area. Humidity, grass growth and increased sugars in the grass at ...
18/01/2025

Laminitis is a common presentation currently in our area. Humidity, grass growth and increased sugars in the grass at this time of year can cause insulin dysregulation. It is the high levels of insulin caused by dysregulation of insulin that cause laminitis in many horses, not high levels of sugar eaten in feedstuffs as previously thought. Measuring insulin levels either at rest or in response to glucose challenge and the emergence of drugs on to the market which help to control insulin dysregulation in my opinion has been a game changer for horses worldwide in the last few years. The veterinary profession now have more tools to help manage many of these cases which have been difficult to manage in the past and hopefully fewer horses will develop rotation and, or sinking pedal bones seen with chronic founder as in the x-ray below. Insulin levels and x-rays are important to assess horses who may have laminitis due to insulin dysregulation. Contact us if you wish to know more.

Great to be in Orlando for the American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention. 5000 delegates. Already had gr...
09/12/2024

Great to be in Orlando for the American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention. 5000 delegates. Already had great information on the value of biologics such as IRAP, PRP, Prostride, Arthramid and Bone Marrow Stem Cells in joint therapy. Great to hear about the evolution of all these treatments. Interesting though that corticosteroids are still the first port of call for joint therapy.
I ran into these two little characters in the trade stands. I think they would have just preferred to do taste testing at the feed company stalls!!

Dr Michael Higgins retired this week. I love this photo of Michael waiting for a castration to wake up. We will miss M...
26/10/2024

Dr Michael Higgins retired this week. I love this photo of Michael waiting for a castration to wake up. We will miss Michael’s expertise and care very much. Michael has been a valued member of the Equine Veterinary Community for over 40 years spanning the Gold Coast and Logan areas and has helped many horses, other livestock and owners during this time. He has also inspired and educated many young veterinarians during his working life and many of us are very grateful for his commitment to the profession.
Sue Ellen, our afternoon receptionist who is always friendly and bubbly also finished recently due to family commitments. We are very sorry to lose Sue Ellen too.
We are very pleased to let everybody know though that Dr Victoria Parker will be coming back three days a week as of 31st October. Dr Fiona and Dr Janine and indeed the whole practice are very much looking forward to Victoria’s return. We remain committed to providing modern ambulatory veterinary practice primarily helping horses but also other livestock and their owners.

After a 26 hour flight and 9 hour truck trip the next day, Penmain Promise, Lord Lamarque, Sorena and I arrived in Deauv...
16/08/2024

After a 26 hour flight and 9 hour truck trip the next day, Penmain Promise, Lord Lamarque, Sorena and I arrived in Deauville in great shape. IRT as usual, did a great job. Sorena who I shared the air stable with at times just loves a pat and is always after more. A bit drizzly today in France but fairly warm. The rest of our Paralympic team arrive tomorrow. We are at a very large equestrian centre with 3 indoors and many many stables.

Was a beautiful day to vet at Tamborine Equestrian Group’s ODE today. Such a lovely setting and, even better, I had not...
28/07/2024

Was a beautiful day to vet at Tamborine Equestrian Group’s ODE today. Such a lovely setting and, even better, I had nothing to do!! Always good when the vet has nothing to do. Just enjoyed the great eventing and catching up with people enjoying the day. Congratulations to Charlotte and Dale and the rest of the TEG committee for running another great event. Particularly after so much devastation from the Christmas tornado. Very well done.

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608 Beenleigh Redland Bay Road
Carbrook, QLD
4130

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