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Gentle, quiet, compassionate veterinary care and behaviour service. Dr Verena and Dr Nicola Jolly. Call 01425 600080

www.nfev.co.ukWe bring our expertise and modern, portable equipment to you, delivering the high quality service you would expect of a clinic-based practice, without the associated costs. This also allows you the opportunity to be fully involved with the diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care of your horse, pony or donkey in the comfort of his/her own home.Both vets are highly experienced, post-graduate certificate holders. Verena is also recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as an Advanced Practitioner in Equine Practice.We provide our own 24/7 emergency service, 365 days a year, giving you the peace of mind that no matter what time of day or night, your horse will be attended by an Advanced Practitioner in Equine Practice.

03/09/2026

Recovered after his seizure.. This little TJ pony, now 28, has been a treasured part of our family for 25 years. There are some things that are so rare in horses that we may never in a career see them, or maybe only see them once. TJ had a full body seizure yesterday, it was the first prolonged and serious seizure I have seen, after nearly 20 years as an equine vet. The seizure started about 5 minutes after I had finished a fairly minor surgery that had been uneventful. It came in waves of increasing and decreasing intensity over a period of 10-15 minutes until I was able to control it with drugs and help his body to relax. I am delighted to say he seems to have made a full recovery with no long lasting effects, and avoided any serious injury, and all people were kept safe. An enormous thanks to Sonia the equine medicine specialist at Endells for being on the end of the phone and providing me with immediate drug doses to protect his brain and settle his body, and advising on ongoing management. The lovely pony will be maintained on high doses of anti-inflammatories for his brain, as well as aspirin in case it was a clot formed during surgery that triggered the event. So far all is going well and I hope my sister and I will have many many more years with this most wonderful pony.

12/04/2026

Sorted

14/03/2026

Little Bea five months on after being hit by a car on the forest 🥰🥰🥰

27/12/2025

Today I spotted two horses in Kenya! First ones I’ve seen since arriving here a week ago. So I went back to go and admire them and got chatting to their owner who turned out to be a fellow veterinary surgeon Dr Chris! We had a lovely chat and he showed me the inside of his vet-van. Discovered there are only 50 horse-owners in me whole of Kenya, each with about 60 horses. Dr Chris qualified about the same time as me, he mainly works in nutrition now but he gives advice to and younger vets on the phone often for free.
We also met a little group of children who seemed fascinated to meet us walking around fields near them, and were delighted that er shared my Oreo biscuits with them.
It is such a humbling experience to spend Xmas here. Tiny children walking along the roads tending their goats with such enormous responsibility. Some of the children I met on Xmas/Boxing day I’d ask about their day and if they had 🎁 presents.. they say no but the people here, young and old, all seem so laid back and content with their lives. It is inspirational.

21/12/2025

Today was the second day of safari in the Maasai Mara of Kenya. 25+ different species of animal seen and about 160 different birds! Holiday of a lifetime

01/11/2025

DO HORSES EVER MIND THE SIGHT OF BLOOD?… this was one of the best questions I’ve ever been asked, after I injected a horse this week! I’m happy to confirm that no, I have never seen a horse faint at the sight of blood!!!

It was a very thought provoking question though.. pondering why humans do but animals don’t seem to have an instinctive reaction to the sight of blood.

Interestingly, even a lot of vets and surgeons have that averse reaction, I’ve seen it discussed numerous times on vet forums etc when young vets/students find themselves feeling faint and nauseous in surgery and think they aren’t going to be able to do the job.

I think something must change in the brain when as a surgeon you are the one operating. I have never felt the slightest bit faint or averse to surgery when DOING, surgery, but as a student I would always feel faint on the first day in small animal clinics WATCHING surgery.

And as someone who is definitely not squeamish it is curious that seeing survival sites can still cause that reaction. But that animals don’t seem to react that way. Perhaps it isn’t entirely instinctive, maybe there is an intellectual component 🤔.

Interested to hear anyone’s thoughts before I go away and try to find out what actually causes this!

And thanks for the thought provoking question this week 😂

29/10/2025

🥂 Today was a wonderful celebratory day marking one year since I bought back sole ownership of New Forest Equine Vets. Without any question it has been the happiest year of my career (closely in competition with my time in Australia!) and a dream come true to be able to develop a practice completely in line with all of my values and beliefs. You, my clients make it such a lovely practice - I can’t imagine ever having a nicer clientele to support in the care of your horses. So I celebrated with a lovely day off (thanks to Endells who are an invaluable service providing referral services, and cover that along with the invaluable services from Equicall make it possible for me to work as a sole practitioner). And what did I do with my special day…dogs, horses, dogs, horses…
Started the day by taking my Parsnip and her delightful borrowed social/emotional support friend the tiny miniature show horse JB for a walk. Followed by a run and river dip with Dinky (previously known as Polar). Dropped off the Dinks for a day out entertaining and playing football with her ‘dad’, our beloved Wayne in Oxford who gives me so much strength and enthusiasm for life every day running the practice. Incredible lunch at plant-based cafe Nutmeg and Thyme in Oxfordshire with the best and most inspirational mum and sister I could wish for, then on to the Unicorn Trust for an afternoon watching Emma Massingale train her spectacular horses. Now heading back to Oxfordshire for dinner and the Dinks before arriving back for a full day of visits tomorrow. An enormous thank you also goes to Lindsey for her absolute dedication and loyalty to the practice. She is such a wonderful colleague, you could not wish for a more supportive and cheerful as well as skilled and altogether lovely person to work with. She keeps everything running smoothly allowing me to focus almost all of my time on caring for horses. Here’s to another year as New Forest Equine Vets heads into its 10th year. 🥂

17/10/2025

ACORN TOXICITY: Last week was a devastating one. Three gorgeous welsh mares that I had scanned in-foal a month or two earlier lost their lives following acorn ingestion. This post is intended to raise awareness of the risks as the condition is not well understood. These horses had been on the same field for 5 weeks, there was no obvious change in weather conditions but overnight, two mares succumbed and were found dead in the field in the morning. One mare was quiet in herself. I attended immediately and found her to be rapidly deteriorating. Eve (excellent final year vet student) administered activated charcoal via a stomach tube while I arranged her immediate referral to Endells for intensive care in hospital. In spite of aggressive and prompt treatment, and an encouraging initial response, this mare tragically had to be euthanised that night. The mares had diarrhoea, with haemorrhage evident on re**al, and acorn husks were present in the droppings. Acorn toxicity is diagnosed by exclusion of other causes of death as there is no way to specifically diagnose it. A post mortem examination did not find any other cause of death. Our thoughts are with the owners and grooms who cared for these horses. And we encourage taking any actions possible to limit ingestion of acorns, even if historically there have been no problems in the horses/on the land as this desperately sad case serves to remind us that it is unpredictable, and not a fully understood condition, but that the risk is real, and death occurs very rapidly after ingestion with treatment typically being unsuccessful.

16/10/2025

3 year old Bea was hit by a car last week and found non-weight bearing on the right front leg by a dog walker, a day or so after the accident. She has featured a lot in local news/social media. Her most serious injury is a fracture of the elbow, but she also sustained wounds and bruising from the trauma. She is on box rest, likely for 4 months, with a splint for the first month to keep her knee extended which helps her to weight bear on the leg. We also have to monitor her carefully for laminitis as she will be overloading the ininjured front leg. The fracture involves the joint and therefore sadly puts her at risk of early onset osteoarthritis. She has been an excellent patient to treat, so calm and compliant and these things help her prognosis as she is likely to tolerate box rest well. Her devoted family are ensuring an enriched life for her while she is so physically confined, bringing her hazel branches, toys and different things to forage on. We will be changing the bandage/splint each week until we repeat X-rays at 4 weeks to assess fracture healing. While I splinted her leg, or excellent final year vet student Eve cleaned, debrided and flushed the wound on her chest to assist their healing.

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