Preventative &
routine care

By having your horse checked at least once a year, health problems can be detected at an early stage. This helps to keep your horse fit, full of vigour and in top condition.

Preventive and Routine Care

A healthy horse starts with good preventative care. As well as treating illnesses, the focus is on preventing them. By having your horse checked at least once a year, health problems can be detected at an early stage. This helps keep your horse fit, full of vigour and in top condition.

Vaccinations for horses

Vaccination is an important part of routine horse care. It protects your horse against infectious diseases and helps prevent them from spreading within stables and at competitions.

We recommend the following vaccinations:

  • Influenza (equine flu) & tetanus

  • Equine respiratory disease (EHV-1 & EHV-4)

  • Strangles

  • West Nile virus

Depending on your horse and your circumstances, we will draw up a suitable vaccination schedule.

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Deworming & faecal examination

Targeted worming based on faecal analysis is now standard practice in preventive equine healthcare. This is because we are seeing worms becoming resistant to worming treatments with increasing frequency. To ensure these treatments remain effective in the future, it is important to worm only when it is genuinely necessary.

By carrying out faecal tests several times a year, we can determine whether your horse has a worm infection. Based on these results, we decide whether worming is necessary and which treatment is most suitable. This helps you avoid the unnecessary use of medication and contributes to a sustainable approach. We would be happy to advise you on a suitable treatment plan for your horse.

Age and the risks of worm infection

Susceptibility to worm infections varies greatly depending on age. It is therefore important to tailor the worming and faecal examination schedule to your horse’s age, so that you can take targeted and effective action.

  • >Adult horses (< 2 > 4 years)| In most cases, these horses have developed a good natural resistance to worms. For this group, the focus is on regular monitoring via faecal analysis, so that deworming is only carried out when it is genuinely necessary.

  • Foals and young horses (< 2 > 4 years)| Have not yet built up sufficient immunity and are therefore more susceptible to worm infections. It is therefore important to check this group more frequently and to treat them for worms as required.<

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info@dierenkliniekdenham.nl

Daarleseweg 35a
7683 RC Den Ham

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 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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Sunday Closed

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