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Drs Mark & Janet Buckerfield, equine practice, Southern Tasmania
Hobart Equine Vets
The horses come first

Drs Mark & Janet Buckerfield · Southern Tasmania.The vets who remember the horse, not just the file.

A two-vet equine practice for the Hobart region. We've been looking after horses across Southern Tasmania for a long time, and most of the horses we see this year are the ones we saw last year. We love them too — and that's not a marketing line.

Call 0438 761 156 What we do
Hours
8 am-5.30 pm, Monday-Friday
After hours
Emergency service only
Area
Southern Tasmania
Horses grazing in a Southern Tasmanian valley
A horse walking up, late afternoon.
On a call
somewhere quiet
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The work

Whatever your horse needs, in plain English.

Four practice areas, the way an owner would describe them. If yours isn't on the list, ring us — we'll either handle it or know who should.

i.

Routine & preventive

Annual vaccinations, dental work, worming advice, hoof and skin checks, microchipping, and the soundness exam your insurer or buyer might want. The everyday work that keeps a horse easy to live with.

ii.

Athletic & lameness

Pre-purchase exams for the next horse, sport-horse work-ups, lameness investigation, hock and stifle joint care, kissing spine assessment, gait analysis. For the horses being asked to do a job — whatever the job.

iii.

Reproduction & foals

Broodmare scanning, AI and embryo work, foaling cover, foal IgG checks, first vaccinations, the awkward weaning conversations. From the planning stage right through to the foal becoming a yearling.

iv.

Chiropractic & acupuncture

The complementary work that gets a sore back into a different sort of state. Properly trained, properly evidenced. Not magic, not snake oil — just one more tool in the kit, used when it makes sense for the horse.

Something more involved — colic, a wound, a respiratory case, an emergency? Ring the practice. The phone gets answered.

Equine veterinary care in a stable
Comprehensive care

Routine & preventive.

The everyday work that keeps a horse easy to live with: vaccinations, teeth, worming advice, health checks and sensible planning.

Equine vets examining a horse in a stable
Athletic work

Athletic & lameness.

For horses being asked to do a job, from the next pony club weekend through to sport-horse work-ups and performance questions.

Equine dentistry work
Dentistry

Good work, done properly.

Dental care, chiropractic and acupuncture are strongest when they are practical, measured and chosen for the horse in front of you.

Horses we look after

From paddock pony to brood mare and back again.

We're an equine practice. That means we look after horses — all of them, whatever the job, whatever the age.

Horses grazing in a Tasmanian paddock
On the road across Southern Tasmania

"The horse comes first, the owner is treated like family, and the bill is what was talked about beforehand."

Mark and Janet have been doing equine veterinary work between them for longer than most of the horses we see have been alive. They've delivered foals at three in the morning in paddocks across the Coal River Valley and the Derwent, talked owners through the hardest decisions about an old favourite, and seen the same stallion's daughters become broodmares with daughters of their own.

We're not a chain. We're not in a hurry to grow into one. We're at our best when we can do good work for a manageable number of horses, and that's what we'd like to keep doing.

The phone gets answered. The float is loaded the way it needs to be. The horse comes first.

0 – 1
The foal, and the yearling — IgG, first vaccinations, first dental, the long road to being a horse you can ride
2 – 5
The pony club partner — vaccinations on time, worming sorted, soundness before the bigger ribbon weekend
5 – 15
The sport horse — eventing, dressage, showjumping, pre-purchase, lameness and joint care
15 – 25
The broodmare — scanning, AI, embryo work, foaling and the longest threads of the practice
25 +
The old fellow — Cushings, dental wear, weight management and the hard end-of-life conversations done well
The vets

Two vets your horse walks up to, on call across Southern Tasmania.

You don't want a stranger out at the place. You want someone the horse already knows, who knows the property, and who knows that the answer isn't always the most expensive thing on the form.

Richmond and Coal River Valley landscape
Southern Tasmania
Dr Mark Buckerfield
Equine veterinarian · Principal
Three decades of equine work in Southern Tasmania. Special interest in reproduction, lameness, and the kind of dentistry that takes a power tool, a sedated horse and time enough to do it properly.
Horses in a Tasmanian paddock
Field and stable
Dr Janet Buckerfield
Equine veterinarian · Principal
Equally at home foaling at 3am or running the chiropractic and acupuncture work that's become a real part of the practice. Calm with nervous horses and with nervous owners.
In our clients' words

A few of the people we look after, on the record.

Names withheld at clients' preference.

Coal River Valley landscape
Three horses

"Mark and Janet have been our vets for fourteen years and three horses. They've stitched up the kids' first pony, talked us through losing the old fellow, and brought a foal of ours into the world at 2am in March. Wouldn't dream of calling anyone else."

Coal River Valley client, three horses

Equine dental examination
Broodmare and foal

"Janet is the only vet our mare doesn't dance for. She walks in calm, the horse stays calm, and the job gets done properly. That counts for a lot when your horse is a worrier."

Derwent Valley client, broodmare and foal

Horses in a Tasmanian paddock
The old favourite

"They know the horse, they know us, and they don't make a hard day harder than it needs to be. That is worth more than people realise."

Southern Tasmanian client, senior horse

Get in touch

Horse needs a vet? Ring us.

Routine work, urgent work, or just a question about something you've noticed — the phone gets answered in business hours, and there's an after-hours line for an emergency.

Call 0438 761 156 Send a note
Phone
0438 761 156
Email
office@
hobartequinevets.com.au
Hours
Mon–Fri · 8am to 5.30pm
Emergency cover after hours
Service area
Greater Hobart, Derwent & Coal River Valleys, the Channel & Huon