Birds, Insights & Education, Vermate
We recently sat down with Gary, our pigeon specialist in Gauteng, to chat about his experience in the racing pigeon industry and the role Vermate has played over the years. Gary has been involved in pigeon racing since 1988 and has worked with Vermate for close to 10...
Sarcoids & Skin Conditions, Thermal Mud, Vermate
I shudder to think what the future of this poor girl would have looked like The mare in these images is called Arabella, she was rescued in March last year. We took over her care six weeks later and had her admitted to Vetscape for the surgical removal of multiple...
Sarcoids & Skin Conditions, Thermal Mud, Vermate
Some stories stay with you because they remind you why hope is worth holding onto. Adriani Jones walked a long and emotional road with a horse no one believed could be saved, and what happened next changed both their lives forever. A couple of years ago, we had a...
Colic & Digestive Issues, Vermate
I’m about to tell you a story of a serious colic incident on my brother and sister-in-law’s thoroughbred stud farm, down the south coast of Natal. They had asked me to oversee their stud farm while they went up to Johannesburg for the national sales to sell one of...
Sarcoids & Skin Conditions, Thermal Mud
This summer, I started treatment for my 15-year-old Tinker gelding. Unfortunately, he has quite large sarcoids. The summer was pure horror—the daily battle against fly eggs and maggots. Every minute, I was afraid that flies would be on the sarcoid again. I came across...
Insights & Education, Thermal Mud, Vermate
Tannie Petro is die soort persoon wat jou tuis laat voel die oomblik as jy met haar begin gesels. Haar warm persoonlikheid haar diepe omgee vir haar medemens en haar passie vir haar diere is die aspekte wat mens onmiddelik aangryp. Vandag boer sy en haar man met...
