Tweedie and Associates-Horse and Equine Vet Melbourne
01-10-13 - Travel Sickness in the Horse
Travel sickness is a condition that can present after any sort of travelling. The most common time it is seen is after a prolonged period of transport. With spring racing carnival arriving and international competitors landing on our shores they are at the greatest risk of travel sickness, but equally horses travelling from interstate are at risk also.
14-03-13 - Faecal Egg tests for your horse
We can now offer clients an affordable option for faecal egg count in house. This service will allow clients to utilise this often under used test to ensure that their worm management is up to scratch.

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Tweedie and Associates

Servicing the Melbourne Metropolitan, Mornington Penninsula and Yarra Valley areas, Tweedie and Associates is a first opinion ambulatory practice committed to providing a holistic veterinary service encompassing all aspects of performance horse management. We offer professional, ethical and personalized care to a broad spectrum of horses including racing, dressage, jumping, eventing, showing and pony club horses.

Our special interest is the management of the performance horse and we are unique in our commitment to becoming part of the 'team' and helping to ensure the health, wellbeing and success of your horse.

We help our clients achieve competition success by taking a proactive approach to the integration of the veterinary management of their horse with their competition goals. As well as the diagnosis and management of existing injuries, our veterinarians are committed to practicing preventative medicine and are happy to provide our clients with advice specific to the management of the performance horse on topics such as joint care and podiatry.

To enable us to offer our clients the best in point of care diagnostic imaging, our practice has invested in the Eklin digital radiography system and the very latest in portable ultrasonography. Each ambulatory veterinarian is equipped with a top of the range ultrasound machine, endoscope, opthalmoscope and blood lactate monitor. This allows us to offer the highest standard of care to all our patients.

Routine consultations are between the hours of 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday. Emergency cover is provided 24 hours a day.

We are pleased to offer our clients routine consultations and services charged at our standard rates on the first and third Saturday of every month between 9am and 5pm. All fees for Saturday consultations must be paid at the time of the visit. Saturday consultations must be booked by the preceding Thursday of that week.