Strangles Awareness Week Podcast
Conversations about the world's most commonly diagnosed infectious disease in horses. Expert insights and real-life experience for horse lovers and professionals as part of Strangles Awareness Week 3 - 9 May in the UK and worldwide. Seven episodes cover experience preventing and managing the disease from award-winning and Olympic Team farriers, expert vets, international horse transporters as well as equestrian event venue and yard managers. Strangles Awareness Week is a collaboration between between the British Horse Society, Intervacc, Keeping Britain’s Horses Healthy, Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Scotland’s Rural College’s Premium Assured Strangles Scheme (PASS), Surveillance of Equine Strangles (SES), The (Dick) Royal School of Veterinary Studies and World Horse Welfare. Podcast production by: @RedwingsHorseSanctuary. Find out more about strangles by visiting redwings.org.uk/strangles or speaking to your veterinary surgeon.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Speak Out on Strangles - Strangles Awareness Week 2024 Special
Hosted by Lydia, Campaigns Manager at Redwings Horse Sanctuary
This episode features a fascinating conversation between Abigail Turnbull (co-owner of Richmond Equestrian Centre) and Jonathan Cleaver (…
Tackling Strangles on Dartmoor
How do you manage a Strangles outbreak in a herd of semi-feral ponies?
In this fascinating podcast we hear from two inspiring individuals as they explain why and how they took a proactive approach to…
Vets Speak Out On Strangles
Everyone knows that vets are absolutely critical to tackling this notorious equine infectious disease but what's it like for vets facing the bug itself and the worried owner? We caught up with two …
Horse Owners Speak Out On Strangles
With so much stigma attached to it, Strangles can be a difficult thing to talk about so we are very lucky to have two horse owners, Angie and Michelle, with us in this episode.
Angie’s three horses we…
Owner of BHS Approved Yard Speaks Out On Strangles
In this conversation we hear from Andrew Stennett, founder of BHS Approved Centre – Grove House Stables as he shares with us all his lived experience of strangles and why it is so important for him t…
International Equestrians Speak Out On Strangles
In this final Strangles Awareness Week podcast conversation, we hear from Dr Lisa Lidbeck, Equine Vet for Sweden’s International Eventing Team and David Honnet who is Show Groom for Olympic TeamGB Go…
Livery Yard Managers Speak Out On Strangles
Do you know a livery yard manager or owner is keeping strangles out of their busy yard? Yard Managers and Owners play an important role in horse owner education and protecting horse health but updati…
Equestrian Event Venue Managers Speak Out On Strangles
Strangles is the last thing a competitor wants to bring home to the yard from a horse show or event so what's it like running a successful venue for horse with the risk of spreading this horrible di…
Horse Transporters Speak Out On Strangles
The most commonly diagnosed infectious disease in horses worldwide travels with our permission - if we let it!
In this episode we speak to leading international horse shipping expert, Chris Burke, Man…
Farriers Speak Out On Strangles
Farriers are not the first equine professional we think of in relation to infectious diseases like Strangles but the disease poses not only a threat to other customers but to their business and reput…