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.

Podcasting since 2021 • 10 episodes

Strangles Awareness Week Podcast

Latest Episodes

Speak Out on Strangles - Strangles Awareness Week 2024 Special

Hosted by Lydia, Campaigns Manager at Redwings Horse SanctuaryThis episode features a fascinating conversation between Abigail Turnbull (co-owner of Richmond Equestrian Centre) and Jonathan Cleaver (co-owner of Ivesley Equestrian). Abiga...

March 28, 2024 • 35:54

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 clearing the disease from a grou...

April 08, 2022 • 42:04

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 special horse vets to tell us more ...

May 06, 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 5 • 43:06

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 were infected after she purchased a Shet...

May 05, 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 1 • 44:55

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 impo...

May 04, 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 8 • 18:18

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