Equitait Veterinary Practice

15/12/2025

Throughout the festive period we continue to provide 24-hour emergency veterinary cover. If you require our services, please call 01361 889106.

The Equitait office, however, will be closed on 25th & 26th December 2025 and 1st January 2026. The rest of the festive period will be business as usual.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our clients a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year.

10/10/2025

Get in touch for more info on our upcoming clipping clinics!

03/10/2025

Last week was a busy week at the clinic premises at Duns. While the majority of our work is still ambulatory - it's great to occasionally get things in to the clinic that need a bit more attention/hands/equipment or the stocks to make it safer. So he's a peek into what we got up to last week :
• Hoof surgery (presumed Keratoma removal)
• Guttural pouch mycosis treatment
• Removal of a non-healing splint bone fracture
• Gastroscopy x 5 (looking for gastric ulcers) - we also found some bots.
• Dummy training a stallion for artificial insemination
• Scanning mares for pregnancy (many of the Thoroughbred studs payment terms mean that mare owners want to check that their mares are still in foal before the 1st October because that's when they have to pay for the service fee)
• Lameness work ups or re-examinations with our objective Gait analysis system x 6. Some of these included radiographs and ultrasonographic.
• Radiographic assessment and medication of dorsal spinous processes of a back.
• Sacro-iliac joint medication
• Surgical wound care - debridement and surgical cosmetic correction of a wound sustained whilst travelling. Debridement of granulation tissue from a different horse.
• Shockwave Therapy (to assist with ligament rehabilitation). We have our own shockwave machine.
• Last dressing change before discharging a horse that we had been treating for 'Canker' (this included surgical debridement)
• Radiographic and ultrasonographic assessment of an unusual lump near to the stifle.
A great variety of work and that's before we caught up with you all on the road.

We're also working hard on our Lauder premises so we will soon be able to welcome clients to meeting us there for routine care. We just need to give the owls a few extra boxes so they feel safe when more people turn up.

27/06/2025

17/06/2025

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our clients competing at Royal Highland Show this week!

Please share any photos of you and your horses looking fabulous!

14/06/2025

Yesterday we had a big day of foals. Congratulations to two of our clients with beautiful foals overnight (both artificially inseminate at Equitait Veterinary Practice last year, with local stallions) then one snoozy chap who came in with his Mum and was so chilled he had a little lie down.

28/05/2025

As part of our Stud Farm which operates over two sites at Lauder and Duns we are making more ground and barn space available for equine purposes. We have spaces for summer grass liveries, DIY liveries with stables, retirement liveries, as well a number of packages for the care of broodmares, stallions and youngstock. Certain areas may suit someone with multiple horses.

For enquiries please Whatsapp message the office mobile on 07776688646.

Both locations have exceptional off road hacking. With the equine veterinary practice now having a base on both sites the vets are part of the team performing regular checks, as well as dealing with any emergencies.

For our retirement livery offering please see our website - https://equitait.com/services/retirement-livery/

08/05/2025

Another addition to the pride this week with MUFASA joining us by the stallion Bon Jovi and out of the mare Bon Belle (whose dam was Hacuna Matata).

01/04/2025

Dear All,

To mitigate our increased costs as a result of recent governmental budget changes you will see a modest increase in some of our fees.

Thankyou for your on-going support - we truly love supporting you and your 4 legged friends.

Best wishes, The Team at Equitait Veterinary Practice.

01/04/2025

We had our very own foal at the end of last week. Welcome 'Majestic Matilda', our latest out of Tilly by Bon Jovi. If anyone is interested in breeding from their mare or stallion this years please do not hesitate to get in touch.

19/03/2025

🏆Thanks to everyone who entered to win the rug in our previous strangles signs and symptoms post. We had lots of great answers, all were entered into a random number generator which selected number 18. Susan Laidlaw was our winner! Well done Susan we'll be in touch to arrange getting the rug to you 🏆

11/03/2025

STRANGLES VACCINE YARD UPDATES - We completed another 2 whole yards yesterday in East Lothian and Midlothian. Anecdotally, it is thought in Sweden between 70 - 80% of horses are now vaccinated so while we're a bit behind, we are catching up fast. The advantage of many horses having been done in Sweden is there is good data that the vaccines are safe and effective.