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August 2022 Bank Holiday Royal Mail Postal Strikes
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August 2022 Bank Holiday Royal Mail Postal Strikes

Royal Mail Postal Strikes

The promise of a bank holiday weekend is ahead and the lab will be closed on Monday 29th August. Sadly, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have also planned strike action on 26 and 31 August and the 8 and 9 September 2022, which involves Royal Mail postal workers who collect, sort and deliver parcels and mail.  We would advise to avoid putting samples in the post in the periods just before theses dates incase samples get caught up in this disruption and delayed.

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Feeding to Support Natural Immune Resilience
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Feeding to Support Natural Immune Resilience

With Clare MacLeod MSc RNutr

Nutrition plays an important role in supporting our horse’s own ability to resist infection and disease – be that from parasites, viruses, bacteria or other pathogens. A healthy natural immunity reduces the need for intervention with wormers and other chemicals. This in turn has many benefits to your horse, the environment, and your pocket! Westgate Labs and Independent Equine Nutritionist Clare MacLeod MSc RNutr discuss feeding horses to help them achieve optimum health.

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Survive the Summer Heat & Prize Bundle
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Survive the Summer Heat & Prize Bundle

Watch our Facebook Live with Equilibrium Products

Temperatures are set to rocket in the UK this weekend with some areas forecast to make 34 °C! We had a very timely chat this week with Laura Szuca from Equilibrium Products on a Facebook Live to talk all things summer horse health including the lowdown on the latest research on cooling horses.

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SURVIVING SUMMER COMPETITION
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SURVIVING SUMMER COMPETITION

NOW CLOSED

COMPETITION HAS CLOSED Ease in to summer and enjoy your horse time more with a chance to win these fab prizes! We're delighted to be teaming up with Equilibrium products to bring one lucky winner this 'Surviving Summer' Bundle, worth £280 for your horse.

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Poo Picking for Parasites
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Poo Picking for Parasites

but what about the dung beetles?

To poo pick for parasite infection or to preserve habitat for dung beetles, it’s a tricky conundrum! The two can seem counter intuitive at the outset. On one hand poo picking is the best way to break the lifecycle of parasites on the pasture without having to rely on chemicals. But fresh dung is also essential for our dung beetles. So how do we get the balance right?

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Summer Parasite Control 2022
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Summer Parasite Control 2022

Plan for the season ahead

🌻 For a healthy adult horse we usually recommend thinking about parasite control as a seasonal thing. So as we head into June and the transition to Summer, Hurrah! it's a good time to consider our plan for the season ahead. ✅ Worm egg count every 8-12 weeks ⚠️ If you tapeworm tested or gave Equest Pramox in the winter it's time to do an EquiSal Tapeworm test. ✅ Look out for bots, pinworm and ticks ✅ Control flies and other insects

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Jubilee Bank Holiday Opening & Testing Days 2022
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Jubilee Bank Holiday Opening & Testing Days 2022

Opening & Testing Days 2022

If you're sending samples soon, be aware of potential post disruption due to the two Jubilee bank holidays. Please try and send your samples no later than Monday 30th May to ensure you receive your results. We're open and testing every day there's a post delivery, so everything will still be tested and reported back to you on the day that we receive them.

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Tails From Behind The Tests
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Tails From Behind The Tests

NEW! Live Series on Facebook

We love to meet the horses whose samples we test. This Bank Holiday weekend sees the launch of a new series of short video lives where we catch up with a few of our favourites to find out a bit more about them and how their owners approach this important aspect of horse health.

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Climate Change - Some Like it Hot!
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Climate Change - Some Like it Hot!

Some Like it Hot!

Climate change is already having visible effects on the world. The earth is warming, rainfall patterns are changing, and sea levels are rising. According to the Met Office it’s estimated that within the next 50 years our winters in the UK will become between 1 and 4.5°C warmer and up to 30% wetter.1 This has the potential to impact horse health in all sorts of ways we may not have considered, one of those being parasite control. Worms thrive in mild, wet weather so incremental temperature increases, particularly in winter, are going to bring increased parasite challenges to our horses.

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