Equine Matters - Winter 2018

This issue of Equine Matters finds me writing my welcome on board a train home from a Continuing Professional Development course in the Midlands. As vets, we are required to undertake a significant number of hours of further learning each year to allow us to remain practising. Although this may be a requirement, updating our knowledge and skills to offer the best care possible to you and your horses is also a cornerstone of XLVets Equine. I very much hope that via Equine Matters we can also help to keep you, as horse owners, up to date with the ever-changing face of equine veterinary care. With that in mind, we have a variety of topics in this edition, including an update on PPID (formerly known as Cushing’s disease) - it’s not all old ponies with teddy-bear coats we are talking about here either, and some very thought-provoking information about equine genetic diseases that you may not have ever considered before. And finally, we wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a happy, healthy 2019.