Routine and Emergency Consultations

Mobile Veterinary Services

Our Mobile Veterinary Services cover a large area including Serpentine, North Dandalup, Pinjarra, Mandurah, Stake Hill, Dwellingup, Waroona, Yarloop, Hamel and Harvey.

We now also provide set fee travel days for routine services to the area between Harvey and Bunbury including Benger, Burekup and Dardanup.

Routine Visits can be arranged by appointment. Our team of vets are equipped with the latest equipment and up to date knowledge to provide your horses with comprehensive veterinary care.

All our veterinarians are experienced equine practitioners and can provide a wide range of routine services at your property. This includes vaccinations, drenching and worm management, dentals, pre purchase examinations, routine health checks, lameness evaluations, diagnostic ultrasound and radiography as wells as routine and minor surgical procedures. Travel to your property is charged by zones based on distance from our Hospital in Coolup and is kept to a minimum. Where possible we try to accommodate a request for your preferred veterinarian but in an emergency this is not always possible.

Hospital Care

Our Hospital facilities allow us to treat horses in a safe and purpose built facility. We have dedicated reproduction facilities and laboratory for mare and stallion work. The large treatment area, imaging room, trot up strip and arena gives us plenty of space to workup even the most complicated lameness.

The hospital is fully equipped with all the equipment required to perform diagnostics and anaesthesia on your horse. Digital radiography, ultrasound, endoscopy, gastroscopy, blood analysing equipment, fully equipped laboratory, gas anaesthetic.

We are passionate about your horses safety and care so have specifically designed crushes, nonslip flooring, intensive care boxes, stable facilities, sand yards, irrigated paddocks, stallion yards and mare and foal facilities to allow us to treat and house your horse in the safest and most appropriate way.

Emergency Care

We provide a 24 hour per day 365 day per year Emergency service. In the event of an emergency the “duty veterinarian” will be able to discuss any worries and can provide prompt veterinary attention to your home. If your horse has a more serious condition it can be quickly admitted to the hospital for more intensive care or surgery. If you live beyond our travel zone we are able to assist you afterhours in an emergency by seeing your horse at the hospital.

Neonatology

At Murray Veterinary services our veterinarians and nurses are able to provide care for foals with a wide variety of problems. Our team members are all highly skilled and this allows us to care for compromised foals that require an intense level of professional intervention. We have designed our hospital facilities to allow us to manage and care for foals with a wide variety of problems including neonatal maladjustment syndrome (“Dummy foals”), prematurity, septicaemia, diarrhoea, limb deformities, septic arthritis, umbilical abscess, hernias and a multitude of other problems that foals will encounter in the first few months of life.

Early intervention results in better outcome for foals so at Murray Veterinary Services we are able to provide on farm post foaling examinations for your foals and mares. The foal will be assessed for overall health and condition as well as taking a blood sample to measure IgG levels and ensure that passive transfer of immunity has occurred adequately from mare to foal.

Farrier Care

We have two Master farriers who routinely visit the hospital and consult on cases, which allows us to provide care for complicated podiatry cases.

Pre Purchase Examinations

Pre purchase examinations are designed to protect you when you are contemplating buying a new horse whether it is a child’s pony or a valuable performance horse.

We recommend a 5 stage pre purchase examination and as members of the Australian Equine Veterinary Association we follow the EVA guidelines when undertaking the examination.

This includes the following stages:

    1. General clinical examination including eyes, hearts, lungs, mouth feet and conformation.
    2. Examination of gait, walking and trotting in hand on a hard surface in a straight line. Hoof testers will be applied, the horse examined turning and backing and flexion tests done.
    3. Observation under saddle or on the lunge. The horse may be ridden or lunged at the trot or canter for at least 15 to 20 minutes.
    4. The cool down phase
    5. Final trot up and gait examination walking and trotting in hand on the hard surface in a straight line lunging on a hard surface and repetition of flexion tests.

Extra tests can be performed as part of the examination if requested by the purchaser to give a more detailed clinical impression of the horse. This may include digital x-ray, upper airway endoscopy, ultrasound or drug testing.

We encourage the purchaser to discuss their requirements with our veterinarians prior to undertaking the pre purchase examination. This allows the Veterinarian to have a good understanding of your intentions for the Horses use.

It is also important to remember that when our veterinarians is undertaking a pre purchase examination we are acting on behalf of the purchaser and therefore can only discuss any findings of the examination with them or a person they authorise.

To perform a pre purchase examination our veterinarians require the following facilities;

      • Flat smooth hard area for trot ups
      • Safe area to exercise or lunge the horse
      • A stable or similar area where lights can be dimmed

If these facilities are not available at the property then the PPE can be undertaken at our hospital.