Buckingham Equine Vets

Reminder that application closing date for this position is this Friday ☺️

A position has become available within Buckingham Equine Vets to join our reception team.
The role would suit someone with or without equine veterinary practice experience keen to support all vet activities. The job would be office based, located at our main clinic in Wicken. Responsibilities would include telephone handling, client communication, vet diary planning, other administrative roles, and sometimes initiating veterinary action as rapidly as possible. Basic computer skills and equine knowledge are essential.
As part of the reception team you have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the equine community – often being the first port of call for owners.
Working hours: 8.00am to 5pm, 5 days a week Monday to Friday. 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays.
In-house training would be given to the successful candidate in all aspects of the role so no prior experience is required. A desire to work in a close-knit friendly team is important.
For further information about the position please contact our Practice Manager, Maxine Phillips, at the clinic (tel: 01908 560789). Applicants should email their covering letter and CV to Maxine ([email protected]). Closing date for applications: Friday 26th April 2024.

A position has become available within Buckingham Equine Vets to join our reception team.
The role would suit someone with or without equine veterinary practice experience keen to support all vet activities. The job would be office based, located at our main clinic in Wicken. Responsibilities would include telephone handling, client communication, vet diary planning, other administrative roles, and sometimes initiating veterinary action as rapidly as possible. Basic computer skills and equine knowledge are essential.
As part of the reception team you have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the equine community – often being the first port of call for owners.
Working hours: 8.00am to 5pm, 5 days a week Monday to Friday. 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays.
In-house training would be given to the successful candidate in all aspects of the role so no prior experience is required. A desire to work in a close-knit friendly team is important.
For further information about the position please contact our Practice Manager, Maxine Phillips, at the clinic (tel: 01908 560789). Applicants should email their covering letter and CV to Maxine ([email protected]). Closing date for applications: Friday 26th April 2024.

⭐️⭐️⭐️Please ensure that you have our main office number in your contacts 01908 560789
currently the other numbers are ringing engaged and we are definitely here 😊⭐️⭐️⭐️

Many thanks to everyone who attended our virtual client evening last week titled ‘Dealing with Worms’ in horses. We’ve had some great feedback about it. For anyone who missed it but would still like to learn more on the subject, please use the following link to a recording of the talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSO_pD_82bo

Join us this Wednesday evening online for a talk by one of the country’s leading veterinary parasitologists on how best to worm you horse. Professor Matthews will discuss how best to worm your horse and the new tests available for worm monitoring. The talk is in partnership with XLVets. Register you interest here: https://bit.ly/DealingWithWorms

Join us this Wednesday evening online for a talk by one of the country’s leading veterinary parasitologists on how best to worm you horse. Professor Matthews will discuss how best to worm your horse and the new tests available for worm monitoring. The talk is in partnership with XLVets. Register you interest here: https://bit.ly/DealingWithWorms

Today wonderful Wizz came to see us - not sure the vet really believed us when we said Wizz was waiting in reception

We welcome the registration of new clients in our area. Simply call the clinic or go online to our website and complete the ‘New client registration form’ located at the top right of the homepage or the following link. We look forward to you joining our close-knit community. https://buckinghamequinevets.com/new-client-registration-form/

“Love Your Horse”
Our 2024 Worming Packages are now available. Again this year we are including a package for those of you who are keen to avoid wormers altogether. Please take a look at our website for more information - https://buckinghamequinevets.com/offers-and-savings/
To order your Worming Package please call the clinic to arrange collection from the clinic or one of our branches. We can also post them out at an additional postage fee 🐴

Apologies we have phone issues at the moment - we are diverted to our emergency number on 01908560789 - we hope this will be rectified asap

We would like to say a huge well done to Debbie Spears who has been nominated for “Practice Support Staff Of The Year” 👏🏻 and also we would like to wish her a very happy 60th birthday for last week, I think we can all agree with the banner behind her desk that states she is more fun than 3 twenty year olds!! 🤩

What’s better than 1 donkey?….4 donkeys 😍
Thank you Clare for these pictures of your donkeys with Jess out on her round, they are making us feel very festive! 🫏🎄❄️

We look forward to seeing many of our clients at RB Equestrian tonight for this talk. Jess and Alice will be presenting to help horse owners understand the issue of poor performance. If you are not attending sadly places are now full. For those who wil lbe there, we hope you'll enjoy the evening!

Our Evening Talks are back! 🐴🤩

On Thursday the 9th of November, we have got some amazing presentations from three guest speakers talking about Getting the Best Out of Your Horse!

It will start from 6:30pm at our store just outside of Milton Keynes & there will be a chance of some late night shopping before and during the breaks.

This event is FREE but we only have a limited amount of spaces, so if you would like one or two places please email: [email protected] and we will confirm your spot.

We are super excited for this talk and can’t wait to learn lots from our experienced speakers 🐴💚

Due to staff sickness we sadly are going to have to postpone our Macmillan Coffee morning that was due to be held on Tuesday 24th Oct.
We are sorry to have to let people down at short notice but keep your eyes peeled for our new date! ☕🍰

Wow what an episode! 📺
We really enjoyed helping out the fake or fortune team. We would like to say a huge thank you to them for the opportunity to help with this exciting episode 🎨🖼️ we hope everyone enjoyed it!

Look out for Buckingham Equine Vets on TV tonight. On BBC 1’s Fake or Fortune they are trying to discover if a mysterious canvas covered in white paint is hiding a lost painting by a famous artist… with the assistance of our diagnostic skills! Find out more at 8pm tonight 🍿📺

Don’t forget we have our Macmillan Coffee Morning happening next Tuesday 24th October. Please phone us on 01908560789 to let us know if you’ll be joining us or pop a comment below 👇

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: 📅
Tuesday 24th October from 10.30am
Come join us at the clinic for a hot drink and cake 🍰☕ to help us raise some money for a great cause. In conjunction with MacMillan Cancer Support we are hosting a coffee morning and invite all clients and friends of BEV to come along and even consider putting their baking to the test. Kids are welcome and we’ll have some fun activities for them including biscuit decorating 🍪🎨 Please let us know if you would like attend by replying below or calling us at the clinic 🐴❤️

We are now accepting October worm egg counts 🐴💩 Please drop them at the Wicken office Monday - Thursday between 8am and 3pm. If you are dropping them off at the Launton or Maulden drop box please phone the office on 01908560789 to organise a day and time. Thank you!

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: 📅
Tuesday 24th October from 10.30am
Come join us at the clinic for a hot drink and cake 🍰☕ to help us raise some money for a great cause. In conjunction with MacMillan Cancer Support we are hosting a coffee morning and invite all clients and friends of BEV to come along and even consider putting their baking to the test. Kids are welcome and we’ll have some fun activities for them including biscuit decorating 🍪🎨 Please let us know if you would like attend by replying below or calling us at the clinic 🐴❤️

We are excited to report that over the next few days we shall be updating our computer management system. This will allow us to better support our growing practice and make our quality of service even better. Unfortunately, this may mean there are a few teething problems along the way as we transition to the new system - please bear with us!
If we could ask that all routine telephone calls to the clinic, that can wait, are delayed until next week when we are fully set up to receive them. Anyone wishing to make a payment might find it easier online, e.g. via BACS or through our website payment service. Requests for emergency visits day and night will be unaffected and please do call if required. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may briefly cause but we’re sure this will be of huge benefit to the care we are able to provide in the future. Thank you.

Welcome to our newest member of our team, Lily! ☺️ As one of our technicians she will be supporting the vets both at the clinic and on the yards. She is a keen show jumper, competing most weekends, on her 15 year old ISH Daisy 🦄 As well as backing and producing young horses! Great to have you onboard Lily 🤩🤩

🎟️ 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄 🎟️

🐴 FWC lady, Ride to freedom team member and veterinary specialist Emily, has organised a fantastic webinar discussing all things equine performance, all in aid of Forces Wives Challenge.
🐴 We would love you to join us on the 16th of May 2023, for what is sure to be an interesting and informative evening.

To sign up, please visit:
https://tinyurl.com/FWCvettalk

With thanks to our webinar sponsors:

Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons
Bova Specials UK Ltd
Dengie Horse Feeds
VetPD - Veterinary Professional Development

We are delighted to report that we have been re-accredited by our governing body, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, as an approved Equine Practice. This is our third accreditation in 12 years and highlights our continued efforts in providing the best service we can for our staff, our clients and the horses under our care. Thank you to all the team for their hard work in achieving this accolade and our clients for their fantastic support during this time.

Visiting the vet? Look for the logo! This short video for animal owners explains how our veterinary practice accreditation scheme can help to give you peace of mind by aiming to promote and main...

Alice and Sophie had a great day teaching the Bryerley Springs pony club a week or so ago!

The topics they covered were -
🐴 hoof abscesses/poulticing the hoof
🐴 body condition score
🐴 anatomy
🐴 listening to the heart
🐴 when to call a vet

Thank you to the pony club for organising, hopefully we will see some of you as vets in the future! 👨‍⚕️🧑‍⚕️

A position has become available within the Buckingham Equine Vets team for a full-time trainee equine technician.
The role would suit someone with equine experience keen to develop their interest in horse care. Responsibilities would include assisting with veterinary procedures, animal handling, drug ordering, laboratory analysis, and stable management.
In-house training would be given to the successful candidate in all aspects of the role so no prior experience in equine nursing or animal care is necessary. A desire to work in a close knit friendly team and an interest in veterinary work is essential.
Applicants must be 18+
For further information about the position please contact our Office Manager, Debbie Spears, at the Clinic (tel: 01908 560789). To apply please send/email a letter and CV if possible to Debbie ([email protected]). Closing date for applications: Friday 24th March 2023.

Be prepared for photo overload (all permissions given) - Brilliant day with our budding junior vets -everyone joined in (including the parents 😁)
Very interactive sessions- wow we have some clever children and if just one of you becomes an equine vet in the future then our job is done

Tomorrow we hold our first ever junior crafty pony day - for those budding equine vets. Over subscribed so apologies for those we couldn’t fit in however it seems to be a very popular concept so let’s see how tomorrow goes 🤦‍♀️😂
If you are attending and are in any doubt about which session you are in please email - [email protected] or call the office at 0845
We’ve been busy preparing

Christmas has arrived at the BEV office! 🎄✨🌛🎅🏻🤶🏻🎁

When your horse mixes with others from outside his usual social circle, such as at a competition. it's a prime opportunity for disease to be passed on. Not only is he at risk of catching a disease, but there's also the chance that he may pass one on, too.

Vet Philip Ivens from Buckingham Equine Vets shares the signs and symptoms you should be checking for before taking your horse to a competition or other equine gathering. If he's showing any of these, don't travel him and make sure to contact your vet.

Find out everything that's happening in Equine Health Week, plus catch up on all the content at the end of each day and download printable resources, via our website 👉 https://bit.ly/Eq

We have seen two confirmed cases of atypical myopathy so far this year. Fortunately both horses received veterinary care very quickly, were referred to hospital and are recovering well.
This info sheet gives you an idea of risk factors and what to look out for at this time of year.