Waikato Equine’s site in Cambridge offers a ‘state of the art’ facility.  It boasts secure, yarded grazing areas, a purpose built multi-directional loading ramp suitable for back and side loaders, 16 stables including a dedicated mare and foal box and isolation unit.  Safe indoor examination areas including four treatment rooms, a standing surgery with easy-loading stocks and a mare and foal crush, two lunging surfaces, concrete trot up areas and a large fully-equipped modern surgical theatre with twin padded recovery suites.   All this encompasses a sand arena used for ridden examinations of your horse.

Our surgical suite has a Haico’s Telgete II padded, mobile, hydraulic operating table strategically purchased from Finland as it is a favourite amongst equine surgeons around the world, and an equine specific anaesthetic ventilator to help ensure that surgical cases are offered the highest quality of comfort and care throughout surgery and anaesthesia.

Dr Greg Quinn (BVSc, Cert ES, Dip ECVS Registered Specialist in Equine Surgery) is always looking to improve WEVC’s surgical service, his special interests and expertise are in minimally invasive surgical techniques (arthroscopy and laparoscopy), airway and sinus surgery, wound management and specialist dental surgery. Greg has introduced many first’s for WEVC’s clinic and also for Equine Surgery in New Zealand, such as: performing standing fracture repairs and arthroscopies in selected cases, and newer laparoscopic procedures such as nephrosplenic space closures.

Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre has also invested in a surgical Diode Laser for performing selected standing airway and dermatologic tumour surgeries. Keeping up with new procedures and innovations is paramount to our clinic and Greg helps to achieve this through the annual attendance of International Equine Surgical Conferences in Europe.