Bucks County Equine LLC

03/13/2026

We have some good luck to share with you this Friday the 13th!
Social media has been buzzing with people sharing photos of their Thoroughbreds as babies thanks to the new ID My Thoroughbred app from The Jockey Club. And we are here for it! But did you know that you can still get your hands on these pictures, even if your horse was born before the microchip mandate in 2017?

-Go to The Jockey Club’s website and click “Visit the Registry” in the upper right hand corner
-Sign up for a free account and then click “Microchips lookup, Request & Reporting”
-Enter your horse’s microchip number and implant date
-Download the ID My Thoroughbred app and enter your horse’s microchip number
-Enjoy the cutest pictures you will ever see!!

If your horse does not have a microchip yet, give us a call and we can get one implanted so you don’t miss out!

Our office manager Kim did this and found pictures of her 2002 model, Clifford! We’d love to see your horses too!

02/23/2026

02/17/2026

We are very excited to add dentistry to our list of services provided to our clients 🦷🧰

Oral exams are essential to maintaining a horse’s overall health — and we now have the equipment to have your horse feeling their best!🐴

Dr. Nicole has had a strong interest in dentistry since starting her career, and is thrilled to add this service to BCE! In her spare time, she travels to veterinarians in the area that have decades of experience in dentistry to continue refining her skills.

Call Dr Nicole or the office to schedule your dentals today!🎉

01/12/2026

Our email address has been updated! Please send any and all future communication to: [email protected].
Text messages to the office have also been restored!

01/09/2026

It has come to our attention that a fraudulent email has been sent to a number of our clients asking to submit a proposal. This is not from our office. Please DO NOT click any attachments or links. We are working quickly to resolve the issue!

10/20/2025

Join us in giving a warm welcome to the new veterinarian on our team, Dr. Nicole Mundy! 🦄🩺

Dr. Nicole started her journey at BCE when she was 12 years old. Dr. David performed colic surgery on her 4 month old miniature horse, Oreo. Since then, she has been determined to become an equine veterinarian and has been shadowing Dr. David in the summers. Growing up in NE Philly, she started her academic career in State College at Penn State earning her B.S. in Animal Science and then earned her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Long Island University’s Lewyt College of Veterinary Medicine.

Over the past year, Dr. Nicole has been in equine hospitals across the country learning from a variety of equine specalists in KY, CO, SC, and NY. She officially joined the BCE team in June and has been riding with Dr. David to meet clients and advance her knowledge in lameness. She is eager to continue to become a well rounded practitioner, but has a particular interest in dentistry and lameness.

“BCE has felt like home to me for years, so it has been extremely rewarding to officially join the team. I am excited to continue meeting clients and to welcome new ones, and most importantly to help your horse feel and look their best!” - Dr. Nicole

Keep an eye out for our dentistry services that will be returning soon!! 🦷

07/13/2025

The Bucks County Equine family enjoyed celebrating Kim’s wedding this weekend! Our office manager/vet assistant/wonder woman 💪🏼 Striker was the best ring bearer in town.
A huge congratulations and lots of love for the happy couple 💘

Kim will be out of the office for the next two weeks — if you need anything, please text or email our new associate Dr. Nicole.

215-499-1738
[email protected]

12/11/2024

A great reminder with these wild weather swings. Don’t walk your colics without veterinary input! You wouldn’t want to go for a walk with a bad stomach ache, and neither does your horse!

*** COLIC MYTH - IT’S ESSENTIAL TO WALK ANY HORSE SHOWING SIGNS OF COLIC ***

I’ve unfortunately seen 5 colics in the past two weeks, so I thought I’d start some colic posts again.

I think one of the main myths surrounding colic, is that you must walk them, even if they don’t want to walk. There are definitely some types of colic when movement is good/essential for the horse, but there are equally many occasions when it’s actually detrimental to keep the horse moving.

Before knowing whether or not you need to keep your horse moving, you need your vet to diagnose what is causing your horse to colic. If your horse has a classic “twisted gut” then no amount of movement will help. In fact, forcing horses to walk if they’ve got intestinal torsion will result in extreme pain. If surgery is an option, then continuing to walk a horse with intestinal torsion (twisted gut) will also wear him out, and potentially cause even more damage to the gut itself, reducing the odds of surgery being a success.

My general rule of thumb for any colicking horse is to allow them to do what they want to do whilst waiting for the vet. If they are standing quietly, then that’s perfect. If they are down in the field then I do normally advise getting them up and to somewhere easily accessible for the vet. If they are thrashing about in a stable and could hurt themselves, then getting them out and into the safety of a lunge pen or arena is a good idea, as long as you don’t risk injuring yourself. If they want to march around, then let them walk. It’s a complete myth that a horse rolling around will result in him twisting his intestine; we’d obviously be seeing hundreds of colic cases daily if this were true.

To conclude, walking a horse with colic MAY be advisable, but you need your vet to diagnose the cause of the colic first. If your horse is reluctant to walk, then definitely don’t force them to move.

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from Bucks County Equine! Our office will be closed today and tomorrow. If you have an emergency, the on call doctor can be reached at 609-397-0078

10/31/2024

Carrots are more than just yummy snacks! 🥕

As silly as it sounds, the "carrot test" can be used to help diagnose tooth aches in our equine companions.

Equine odontoclastic tooth resorption and hypercementosis (EORTH) is a dental condition that affects the incisors of middle-aged horses and older. As the name suggests, it acts by both resorbing the teeth and then producing large amounts of cementum (a hard substance that anchors the teeth into place).

Clinical signs such as difficulty chewing, teeth discoloration and painful gums are highly suspicious for this disease, but you can also offer your horse a carrot to assess how comfortable they are biting down. If it seems painful for them while biting the carrot, they could have EORTH!

Your veterinarian can do an oral examination and take dental radiographs to confirm the diagnosis. This is a progressive disease so there is no cure, but there are management strategies that can improve their comfort.

If you are concerned that your horse may have EORTH or is experiencing oral pain, contact your veterinarian so that they may further evaluate and suggest treatment options.

Thank you to the Horse Owner Education Committee for providing this information.