First Opinion Care
Phoenix Equine provides a full range of first opinion and preventative healthcare services to our equine clients as well as offering more complex procedures & diagnostics. Routine healthcare services which we offer include:
- Vaccinations
- Dentistry
- Passport/microchipping
- Export papers
- Sedation for clipping, travel, dentist etc
- Castrations
- Blood sample and testing*
- Worm egg counts, tapeworm tests, worm risk assessments
We are fully equipped to diagnose and treat all the commonly and less commonly encountered conditions seen in first opinion practice including:
- Laminitis
- Respiratory disease
- Weight loss
- Skin conditions (e.g. sweet itch, sarcoids, ringworm)
- Strangles
- Atypical myopathy (Sycamore poisoning)
- Azoturia
- Colic
- Diarrhoea
- Choke
- Wounds
- Lameness
*Lab samples are tested at a local specialist veterinary laboratory in Newton Abbot (Axiom Veterinary Laboratory).

