Emerson & Watson Equine Veterinary Surgeons

Emerson & Watson Equine Veterinary Surgeons Emerson and Watson is an equine-only, ambulatory veterinary practice, providing 24 hour care for their clients’ horses across the south of England.

23/07/2025

‼️***Foster Mare Available immediately*** ‼️

Due to very sad circumstances one of our clients has a lovely foster mare available.

Please share and contact us on 01344937937

Lulu’s owner, Georgia, called us to report a nasty wound on her mare's leg. Karen arrived to find a severe de-gloving in...
21/02/2025

Lulu’s owner, Georgia, called us to report a nasty wound on her mare's leg. Karen arrived to find a severe de-gloving injury to the left hock, which had exposed bone and caused significant soft tissue damage.

Karen sedated Lulu to carefully clip, clean, and flush the wound, ensuring any debris and foreign material was removed. After thorough assessment, it was deemed necessary to hospitalise Lulu to further investigate the potential of joint infection. Thankfully, the surgical team at the The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) ruled out any serious complications, and Lulu was able to return home after a week of hospital care 🏥

During her recovery, Lulu kept our team busy with regular debridement of devitalised tissue, management of ‘dead space’ (residual void left after tissue is lost or removed) and frequent bandage changes every 2 days.

Once Karen had debrided the last of the dead tissue, the final sutures were removed and the wound made good progress with less discharge and rapid epithelialisation. Georgia took over the final stages of care, cleaning the wound and changing bandages whilst providing our team regular updates 👌

As you can see from the images, Lulu is fully healed now and ready for a busy Spring that Georgia has planned for her. A fantastic outcome given the severity of the original injury, made possible by dedication, diligence and great teamwork from everyone involved.

❗FEI Influenza Vaccine Update❗- All horses competing at FEI events are now required to be registered by their Responsibl...
10/02/2025

❗FEI Influenza Vaccine Update❗

- All horses competing at FEI events are now required to be registered by their Responsible Person (usually athlete competing the horse) on the FEI HorseApp, with all previous influenza vaccines logged on the app.

- Influenza vaccinations must be recorded by the administering vet on both the horses passport 𝐚𝐧𝐝 the FEI HorseApp on the 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 as the vaccine is administered.

- Please have your passports available with the horse for all vaccinations.
https://inside.fei.org/fei/your-role/veterinarians/department-updates?year=

We visited Gracie due to her urinating a little more often than usual and occasionally posing to urinate with no success...
03/02/2025

We visited Gracie due to her urinating a little more often than usual and occasionally posing to urinate with no success. A full health check revealed very little, and her urine appeared normal to the naked eye. Further urinalysis however showed increased red blood cells and high protein levels in the urine🐴.

To investigate further, we put a camera into Gracie’s bladder to assess the area (cystoscopy) and to obtain further samples from the kidneys if necessary. As it happened, the cause of the problem was clear 🔎.

After having her bladder fully drained, administration of local anaesthetic and muscle relaxants, Gracie allowed Izzy and Ricki to manually remove the bladder stone (urolith) using a combination of small fingers and laparoscopic retrieval instruments.

We are pleased that Gracie has made a full recovery and is back to normal exercise🥳.

❗Bladder stones, or uroliths, are uncommon findings in horses❗

They are made primarily from calcium carbonate (chalk) as opposed to uroliths in dogs, cats and humans which are often composed of calcium oxalate (due to their high protein diets).
Horses excrete large amounts of calcium in their urine, as calcium absorption in the body is unlimited - what they eat, they will absorb. It is then up to the kidneys to excrete the surplus calcium which is why horse urine appears so cloudy.
If horses are fed calcium rich diets (large quantities of alfalfa, clover and beet pulp), the excess calcium absorbed will predispose them to cystitis symptoms or uroliths as seen in Gracie.

Increasing acidity in urine can also help prevent calcium deposits and can be achieved with Vitamin C or apple cider vinegar supplementation.

⭐Introducing Izzy⭐Izzy hails from South Yorkshire originally but crossed the Pennines to study veterinary at the Univers...
12/01/2025

⭐Introducing Izzy⭐

Izzy hails from South Yorkshire originally but crossed the Pennines to study veterinary at the University of Liverpool 🎓.

Whilst there she was awarded the prestigious Barrie Edwards Prize for Equine Clinical Studies, awarded to the top performing final year student in equine studies. 👏.

After graduation, Izzy was awarded a Student Travel Bursary to attend a veterinary practice in Durban, South Africa to gain experience of the busy racing scene there 🏇.

Last year, she spent time backpacking across South America for 3 months after she completed an 18 month internship at Three Counties Equine Hospital, rotating around medicine, lameness, surgery and emergency cases.

She joined us in September 2024 after returning from her travels.

In her spare time she likes hiking, swimming and hanging out with her Italian Greyhound, Snook, who can often be seen snoozing in the car on calls with her 🐾.

Izzy has been a fantastic addition to our team!

Skylark sustained a significant injury when she collided with fencing in the field, resulting in a large chest wound. Be...
06/01/2025

Skylark sustained a significant injury when she collided with fencing in the field, resulting in a large chest wound.

Beth sedated her, clipped, cleaned & throughly debrided the wound before suturing the wound closed. For this wound, Beth used a combination of tension relieving absorbable sutures followed by nylon cruciate sutures to align the skin edges🪡.

After 2 weeks of box rest, and careful management from her owner, her sutures were removed and she came back into normal exercise again🏇.

A swift and satisfying outcome despite the nasty looking field injury👌.

Merry Christmas to all our clients! 🎄As always, we will be around to provide urgent and emergency veterinary care throug...
22/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all our clients! 🎄

As always, we will be around to provide urgent and emergency veterinary care throughout the whole of the Christmas period.

Please just call the office phone number 01344 937937 and you will be able to get through to a dedicated member of our veterinary team.

For routine and non-urgent appointments our opening times over Christmas are as follows:

Christmas Eve: 8am-2pm
Christmas Day: CLOSED
Boxing Day: CLOSED
27th December: 8am-5pm
28th & 29th December: CLOSED
30th: 8am-5pm
31st: 8am-3pm
1st January: CLOSED

Thank you for your continued support this year. Have a safe and happy holiday!🎄

🏇 We’re Hiring: Practice Manager 🏇🏻📍 Berkshire | ⏰ Full-Time | 💼 Competitive SalaryWe’re looking for an experienced Prac...
17/12/2024

🏇 We’re Hiring: Practice Manager 🏇🏻
📍 Berkshire | ⏰ Full-Time | 💼 Competitive Salary

We’re looking for an experienced Practice Manager to join our growing team! This is an exciting opportunity to lead, inspire, and help drive the smooth running of our practice. If you’re a proactive leader with strong management and HR skills, we’d love to hear from you.

https://uk.indeed.com/job/veterinary-practice-manager-equine-30ac10ce075ed091

Great to have had the privilege of sponsoring Claudia Gilbert when she raced in the BHS Charity horserace at Newbury rac...
21/11/2024

Great to have had the privilege of sponsoring Claudia Gilbert when she raced in the BHS Charity horserace at Newbury racecourse earlier this month⭐.
Claudia came a very creditable 4th on Outrace trained by Richard Hannon.
Well done Claudia 👏

Harvey has been a long-standing patient of the practice, battling the complex condition of ERU (Equine Recurrent Uveitis...
24/10/2024

Harvey has been a long-standing patient of the practice, battling the complex condition of ERU (Equine Recurrent Uveitis).

Earlier this year, he unfortunately lost the vision in his right eye, although remains pain-free.

Despite this challenge, Harvey and his owner have been out competing through the summer and he’s taken everything in his stride with them set to compete in the National Amateur Championships held at Aintree in a few weeks time ⭐.

What an inspirational partnership👏

Merlin had a swollen eye. Beth stained it and an ulcer was revealed in an area of the eye near the third eyelid. With su...
11/10/2024

Merlin had a swollen eye. Beth stained it and an ulcer was revealed in an area of the eye near the third eyelid. With suspicions of a foreign body Merlin was sedated and a grass seed was located 🌱
After the grass seed was carefully removed, he was prescribed eye drops to help heal his cornea and he's now back to normal!
If you ever have any concerns about your horse’s eye, including abnormal discharge, swelling or a closed eye, it is always best to get it checked as eyes are delicate 👁.

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Unit 5 Cheapside Court
Ascot
SL57RF

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+441344937937

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