For this year’s Strangles Awareness Week, please encourage as many clients as possible to take the SAW Temp Check Challenge. By monitoring their horse’s rectal temperature every day between 2nd to 8th May and uploading readings onto the digital Temp Checker, owners will have the average calculated automatically so they’re aware of what’s normal for their own horse, and – just as importantly - what isn’t. We know that fever is one of the first signs of a diseas

Following the detection of contagious equine metritis (CEM) in a stallion in Gloucestershire, reported by the international collating centre (Interim Report Feb 2022 #03 (04.02.22)), a veterinary surgeon on the list of BEVA approved veterinary surgeons in the management of CEM (GB) is now assisting in the management of this case. The 'CEM list' consists of colleagues across the country who have demonstrated that they are experienced in the diagnosis and management of CEM and who have app