The Massey University Equine Veterinary Clinic is a teaching clinic on the university's Turitea campus in Palmerston North, where veterinary students work alongside the clinic's vets on horse patients. Care is by appointment or by referral from a vet, and emergency appointments are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on +64 6 350 5328, option 2 for emergencies. Services include routine healthcare such as vaccinations, CT scanning for limbs and heads, standing and dynamic endoscopy, and soft tissue surgery for conditions such as colic and tie backs.
Dentistry and castration are taught at the clinic, and the clinic says it is subsidised for this, which can make these procedures more affordable. Open castrations are performed by final-year students under a surgeon's supervision. The clinic also offers a primary ambulatory service to its local area, and it asks callers to check whether they are inside that area. Two resident teaching horses, Buller and Star, live in the stables. For a horse owner in the Manawatū, the clinic brings specialist surgery and diagnostic imaging together with a university teaching setting.