Equus Veterinary Reproduction and Consultancy

09/04/2025

Some excellent information available here from Holly Blue at WormEd, it’s so important to use the correct drenches at the correct time, especially with young horses. Book a consultation today and comment on the original post to receive more information from Holly and her team.

Weanling Worming Wednesday.
If you're brave enough to zoom in you will see red AND white worms here. This is taken a day after deworming a warmblood weanling. These are both the adult and juvenile stages of Redworm (small strongyle/cyathostomin). Is this normal????!!!!!!🤔
We will be offering a webinar on
🪱 When to worm
AND
🪱 What to use
With a bonus of HOW to worm your babies safely with our mate Bex Tasker from Positively Together
Spoiler alert this p**p is a normal finding from a young filly!
Details of webinar to follow. Comment below if keen and we will send you details as we confirm dates 😊

22/03/2025

11/03/2025

An inspiring, fun few days last week at EquiBreed ART upskilling in O**m Pick Up (OPU).

We are excited to be able to offer this technology and breeding option to clients in the lower North Island, meaning eggs can be collected and shipped at any time of the year for ICSI, and embryos frozen and returned to us for transfer into recipient mares in the spring!

23/02/2025

The latest addition to our services here is a full in-house offering of laboratory blood analysers.

This is super exciting as it allows us to process bloods instantly on site any time if the day or night. Very very useful if we have a sick mare or newborn foal to help direct and monitor treatment.

We are always looking to offer our patients and clients gold standard care. This is another string to our bow allowing us to strive to be the best!

23/02/2025

The final foal Friday for the season, 2 days late!

The last foal for the season arrived this week at EVEC! “Lola” is a wee sweetie, she is the result of lots of hard work are care, being a very tricky baby from conception to arrival! But she is doing so well and heads home this week.

Again, lots of positive pregnancy scans from the likes of Escanto, ES Darco Obolensky, Diamond Furst and Don Romance.

Just a handful of mares left to breed and then we begin preparations for next season! It will be here before we know it and we are already booking up, so please touch base if you’d like to book to foal or breed here next season.

23/02/2025

Lovely to send beautiful, healthy mares and foals like these home!

05/02/2025

It was our pleasure to host the NZ New Zealand Hanoverian Society for the Manawatu part of their tour this year. As well as presenting our own horses, we hosted our clients to present their mares and foals, who also had the chance to view Remi State Secret. We enjoyed the chance to catch up, have a fun meal with everyone and the chance to have the members of this years tour stay with us. They were even treated to a new foal, born while they stayed!

04/02/2025

Some more foal spam for you all, because who doesn’t love foals?!

Negro/Finest/Solitair Hit c**t out of Pr M Finest Hit.

03/02/2025

There have been several confirmed cases of strangles (a bacterial infection caused by Streptococcus equi equi) in South Island horses over the past month. Cases have been confirmed in Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

🩺 Clinical signs appear quite mild in affected horses. Symptoms include dullness, fever, nasal discharge and a cough, with few lymph node abscesses reported.

🐎 Primarily Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds appear to be affected, and most of these cases are in broodmares.

⛔ All clusters appear contained at this time. Quarantine measures are in place on the affected properties and the vets involved continue to do an excellent job managing this.

🦠 At this stage, a common source of infection has not been identified but investigation is ongoing. The bacteria is spread via contact with infected horses or contaminated equipment.

👀 Please remember to keep a vigilant watch for any potential strangles cases and notify your vet of any suspected cases.

💉 Strangles vaccinations can be administered by your vet. Please contact your vet directly for more information about vaccination.

🧼 You can also help minimise the risk to your horses by maintaining good cleanliness and hygiene measures, and avoiding mixing with potentially infected horses.

The New Zealand Equine Research Foundation has some great information on strangles on its website 👉 https://nzerf.org.nz/strangles

To read our full update, please visit our website 👉 https://nzva.org.nz/home/news/strangles-cases-in-canterbury/

31/01/2025

Foal Friday this week brings you one baby! A seriously cute c**t, Negro x Pr Finest Hit ( Finest/Solitair Hit) and he is ours! Taking name suggestions now…

Along with lots of positive pregnancies this week including babies by Vivaldi, Total Hope, Ocaso, Remi State Secret, Donnerubin and many more that I can not remember!

29/01/2025

Remi State Secret (Remi to his friends!) has settled in well and is off to a flying start. He is fully booked for the rest of this season and has achieved excellent results so far with several confirmed pregnancies including 3 sets of twins (now reduced successfully to single pregnancies of course).

Here’s some info about his dam from Remi Stud…

Remi’s dam, Pr M Remi Donna Karan (Don Index / Sue Donnerhall I) was MPT Champion in 2019, as well as Champion Jumping Mare, Champion Dressage Mare, and Aust Champion 4 year old in 2019. She has now had 3 foals and is back in foal to Dynamic Dream. His (now) 2 year old 1/2 sister by Iron (Remi Insignia) was awarded Aust Champion filly in 2023.

Her dam is EM Suleika who was imported under an initiative the HHSA ran, called the Filly Importation Scheme. With the support of the Hannoveraner Verband, our members purchased and imported 15 Hanoverian fillies from a foal auction in Germany. Suleika was one of these.

An impressive pedigree behind him on his dams side, matched by that of his sire, Secret.

And most importantly he is a lovely lovely horse, in both type and temperament. If you’ve never met me, I’m tiny! And he is my first stallion, we are getting along famously and his gentle, kind and trainable nature impress me every day.

It is a huge loss that Baldeep is no longer with us to care for Remi, I hope I can do his dream justice. I am forever grateful for this opportunity given to me by Baldeeps’s family and for Baldeep’s foresight in importing this special horse.

Booking taken now for a limited number of quality mares for next season.

New Zealand Hanoverian Society

17/01/2025

Come and join us for the 2025 Hanoverian Tour at Equus Veterinary on January 30th at 3pm.

We will present some of our own mares and foals, plus show Remi State Secret. A number of clients mares and foals will also be inspected.

Drinks and nibbles provided. Please rsvp to [email protected] for catering please.

New Zealand Hanoverian Society

17/01/2025

I have to pinch myself getting to work with this beautiful horse!

Remi State Secret has settled in beautifully and admirably on a farm full of mares and foals. He is an absolute pleasure to have around. I have never ridden a horse of this quality, with such a genuine temperament and work ethic. He really blows me away.

Good boy Remi! We have ONE remaining service available this season if anyone would like to breed their own little star.

Remi State Secret: NZs only registered Hanoverian dressage stallion. Secret/Don Index/ Sir Donnerhall

Pic of our third ride together today, for all those wondering if I will ride him, yes! He is so balanced, uphill and trainable to ride.

Remi Stud
New Zealand Hanoverian Society

14/01/2025

Our Christmas Day insemination was worth it! A positive pregnancy resulting for our lovely client, Katherine KPH Stud—Kathryn Angus. Super service from stallion owner of Derrynysagurt Silver and Wai Eyre farm.

30/12/2024

One last announcement for the year, for those of you who guessed our big news was the addition of ICSI to our services. From next year we plan to be able to offer O**m Pick Up (OPU) and shipping of collected eggs to EquiBreed ART where the very talented Lee Morris will be able to perform Intracytoplasmic S***m Injection (ICSI).

This will mean you no longer need to travel your mares so far to utilise this technology.

Here’s a 28 day pregnancy for fun, on ultrasound with colour flow Doppler showing the blood flow within the heart (little red and blue dots in the middle of the image).

28/12/2024

Equus Veterinary are very excited to announce that we have been lucky enough to become the proud new owners of…

***REMI STATE SECRET***

Remi hails from the hugely successful Remi Stud in Australia, and was imported by long time client, friend and rider Baldeep Dhillon who we sadly lost this year. We are grateful for Baldeeps foresight importing this special horse, and to his family and Vicki Samuels who have allowed us this opportunity. I hope to do Baldeeps dreams for this horse justice.

Remis breeding is top notch: Secret (Bundeschamp 2020 and son of triple World Champion of Young Dressage Horse, Sezuan) x Pr Remi Donna Karan.

Remi is royally bred for dressage carrying famous bloodlines including Sezuan, Don Schuffro, Sandro Hit and Rotspon on his sires side and Don Index, Sir Donnerhall, Don Bosco, Sandro Hit and Worldly on his Premium dam’s side.

He is a lovely size at 16.1hh, beautifully put together and has an outstanding temperament both on the ground and under saddle (certainly the nicest horse I have ever sat on!). He is sensitive, trainable, has an exceptional canter and natural talent for piaffe and passage.

WFFS negative, OCD free and with a clean veterinary inspection.

Remi has already gained Registration as a Hanoverian stallion, another testament to his quality.

Standing at stud via AI for $2000 plus GST to a limited number of quality mares this season and destined to continue his ridden career in the dressage arena.

Email [email protected] for further information.

27/12/2024

Meet Trixie, the latest embryo transfer foal to arrive here, made and foaled at EVRC! (Elastic/Secret)

You may know that we already offer:
🐴Fresh and frozen AI
🐴Embryo transfer
🐴Recipient mares on site
🐴Problem mare management
🐴Foaling down
🐴High standard perinatal mare and foal care
🐴Stallion training
🐴Semen collection, processing and shipping
🐴Transportation and walk outs

Trixie wants to know what’s next…?!

We have some exciting news to share with you, check back tomorrow night to find out the answer!

Got a good guess? Let us know what you think we might have up our sleeve below and a random comment will win a wee Equus Christmas gift pack.