Ballinger Equine’s reputation for clinical excellence and the highest standard of client service is well established. With a steadily increasing client base, the multi-award-winning practice is further developing its clinical team and recruiting an additional equine ambulatory assistant.Great career opportunity with a friendly, supportive teamBallinger Equine continues to enjoy steady growth and a terrific opportunity...Continue Reading

Katie Branley, Ballinger Equine’s Practice Manager has been nominated for Petplan’s Manager of the Year award, 2020. Everybody at Ballinger Equine is thrilled that Katie’s commitment and professionalism has been recognised and commended by our clients and colleagues.Managing a data driven practiceKatie joined Ballinger Equine in September 2018 and was rapidly promoted to take over...Continue Reading

Worldwide, there are nine identified equine herpes viruses (EHV) with five strains causing disease in the UK horse population. The two most common types are EHV-1 which causes respiratory infection; abortion; neonatal death and neurological disease (Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy or EHM) and EHV-4 which usually only causes low grade respiratory infection but occasionally can cause...Continue Reading

We are thrilled to find ourselves nominated for the Petplan 2020 Practice of the Year award. These annual awards recognise excellence and commitment to client service in the veterinary profession and are voted for by clients and professional colleagues. Petplan Practice of the Year 2020Dr Susanna Ballinger, the practice Veterinary Director is also nominated for...Continue Reading

The Ballinger Equine office at East Barn will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, but our veterinary surgeons will continue to provide uninterrupted comprehensive out-of-hours emergency service throughout the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Uninterrupted, comprehensive 24/7, 365 out-of-hours emergency serviceBallinger Equine veterinary surgeons provide a round-the-clock emergency service....Continue Reading

It’s Black Friday and we’re all looking for the perfect gift to give somebody special this Christmas. Look no further, because Ballinger Equine’s comprehensive equine first-aid kit makes the ideal present for every horse and pony owner.Ideal for tack-room, lorry or 4×4The veterinary specification equine first-aid kit comes in a smart, weather-resistant rucksack which features...Continue Reading

Ballinger Equine has launched its new YouTube channel and premiered an introductory video featuring members of the clinical and management teams and showcasing the practice’s range of services, including equine dentistry and diagnostic imaging.Showing what we do 24/7, 365The 4K video was shot over a carefully planned, intensely busy two and a half days in...Continue Reading

The Ballinger Equine team is thrilled to have won Best Rural Start-up Business and Best Rural Professional Services Business at the prestigious 2019/2020 Rural Business Awards (East) held in partnership with Amazon. An outstanding achievementThe Rural Business Awards – East are sponsored by Openreach and are hotly contested by the best rural enterprises throughout Essex,...Continue Reading

Ballinger Equine is holding an autumn gastroscopy clinic for horse and pony owners who wish to establish whether their animals are suffering with gastric ulceration. The clinic offers a special discounted rate to those participating. Winter is almost upon us, the mornings are already icy and pasture is deteriorating. Turnout typically diminishes with the winter...Continue Reading

It is the time of year again when bonfires are set alight and pyrotechnics are launched into the night sky. Whilst many people enjoy organised displays and back garden sparklers accompanied by hotdogs, burgers and smoky corn-on-the-cob, our horses and ponies find the evening’s proceedings worrying and often terrifying. Horses and ponies run from fireUpcoming...Continue Reading