The clinic grounds offers patients two modern operating rooms including recovery boxes, pretraining tracks, lunging hall, more than 70 horseboxes and its own laboratory on an area of around 11,000 m². This means we can provide you with the best possible treatments, examinations and post-operative care.
Our vets, as well as all of our hospital staff, are available for you and your horse round the clock.
We look forward to your visit.
Horses generally have a monocular field of vision, meaning any visual impairments can have serious consequences. Dr Stephan Leser and his team specialise in eye care for horses, and offer an entire spectrum of the most modern diagnosis and treatment methods.
Orthopaedics play a central role in equine medical care. In addition to comprehensive diagnostics, this also includes treatment for lameness, rideability issues, spinal pain and limb misalignments. Dr Jens Körner and his team focus on this area in our hospital.
Respiratory and laryngeal illnesses are very common among horses. Affected animals sometimes suffer from reduced performance or even asphyxiation symptoms.
Dr. Olivier Brandenberger and his team use the latest treatment methods in this area, which are individually tailored to the patients.ts.
In addition to our surgical areas of expertise, we also offer a wide range of routine procedures in the fields of orthopaedic and soft-tissue surgery. Our doctors work with minimally invasive arthroscopic and laparoscopic techniques, and also offer general anaesthetic where possible, so that they can treat your horse more gently.
Veterinary examinations are an important criteria for anyone interested in buying a horse. Our experienced doctors evaluate horses according to professional criteria and document their current condition in detail.
The term ‘colic’ is used to refer to various painful conditions a horse may have. These are often linked to problems with the gastrointestinal tract, but there may also be other causes. Colic often comes on very quickly and can be life-threatening, which means it is critical for detailed examinations to happen without delay.
In addition to our specialisations, Hanse Equine Hospital offers an almost complete range of equine medicine. Our services are carried out by our experienced doctors as either inpatient or outpatient procedures.
Our clinic team is made up of internationally experienced specialists who provide individualised and holistic care for your horse here at Hanse Equine Hospital. Our technicians make up the rest of our highly specialised team, who use their professionalism and modern therapeutic concepts to meet the individual needs of our patients every day.
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Find out more about our veterinarians and staff at the Hanse Equine Hospital.
This year, the Hanse Equine Hospital was a partner and sponsor at the 2024 German Championships in Showjumping & Dressage – at the Longines Balve
Dr Sonja Weiss obtains additional qualification in equine ophthalmology We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr Sonja Weiss has successfully passed the examination
The Hanse Equine Hospital is now using its own computer tomograph, which enables particularly good and fast diagnostics.
Dear horse owners,
The team at the Hanse Equine Hospital in Sittensen is of course available to you for regular and emergency treatment, even in times of the currently rampant coronavirus (COVID-19).
The following security measures apply, which we take in your interest and for the protection of our employees:
1. If possible, please contact us by phone or email first and avoid contacting us in person.
2. Please only come to see us at the Hanse Equine Hospital shortly before the agreed appointment. We strive to make your stay with us as short and pleasant as possible.
3. On arrival, please come to our office individually and with your own FFP2 or surgery mask for registration. Please follow the instructions of our staff. A member of staff or the attending vet will collect your horse for examination.
4. Please understand that we do not shake hands with you due to the recommended precautions. However, please be assured that we are very happy to see you.
5. Please keep a sufficient distance (if possible up to 2 metres) from the attending doctors, our clinic staff and other clients during the examination in our clinic.
6. When arriving and leaving the Hanse Equine Hospital, we ask you to use the disinfectants provided for your hands.
7. Should you yourself or someone in your household
a. complain of respiratory problems, fever, cough or similar, or
b. you or any other person in your household
have been in a so-called SARS-CoV-2 risk area in the past 14 days, or
c. you had contact with a person who tested positive,
then please do not accompany your horse to the Hanse Equine Hospital yourself, but ask another, uninvolved person to present your animal to us.
8. Please come to the Hanse Equine Hospital ALONE, if possible, and do not bring any children or, in particular, elderly or immunosuppressed persons with you.
9. Regular visiting hours are unfortunately not possible at the moment. Please make sure you coordinate your visit date with the Hanse Equine Hospital in advance. This appointment is booked once you confirm and it cannot be changed or moved. Our patients may only be visited by one person per household for a maximum of 30 minutes a day. You may only touch your own horse.
We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
With best regards
Your Hanse Equine Hospital
PS: Further information on COVID-19 can be found on the website of the Robert Koch Institute, among others.