Our Farm Vets
We have a very experienced and progressive team of farm vets, with several holding further qualifications, including certificates in cattle medicine and diplomas in bovine reproduction. Each of us have particular areas of interest, creating a complementary team, providing the highest level of care and consultancy to our clients. You can read more about our vets below.
Our Farm Animal Vet Locations
Services
Alongside routine care, we offer a full embryo collection and transfer service, including in vitro production and bull breeding soundness exams. Clients benefit from working closely with a dedicated vet, backed by strong team collaboration.
We run regular client meetings, farmer discussion groups and FarmSkills training through XL Vets, covering many key areas and catering for all levels of experience, often leading to LANTRA qualifications. You can find upcoming events here.
Our Vet Techs offer a broad range of services. Details can be found here.
Our other vet services are below
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Nutrition
With feed representing one of your biggest input costs, if not the biggest, a watchful, unbiased eye, will make a measurable improvement to your bottom line. We provide a genuinely independent assessment of your feeding system, where we consider a tailor made service based solely around your farm and livestock, to be vital.
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Fertility
Good reproductive performance is the key to profitable farming - most of our dairy clients have routine fertility visits. Irrespective of your farming system, be it high or low yielding, seasonal or all-year-round calving, we work with our clients to help them meet their short and long-term goals.
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Mastitis Control
We offer a service aimed not only at treatment of mastitis, but also control and prevention. With the right advice and planning, many of the causes of and predispositions to mastitis can be resolved; leading to greatly reduced costs and increased production.
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Lameness Control
We aim not only to provide preventative and lame cow treatment to individual animals, but also to maximise cow comfort at the herd level, through regular mobility scoring, assessment of environment and housing, hock lesion assessment and providing foot bathing and routine trimming protocols.
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Young Stock Management
We provide a service that will ensure optimal health and growth rates, where rearing cattle for maximum profit margins is the aim. We run small group courses to provide extra insight into both pre-weaning and post-weaning calf management, whilst maintaining services on an individual farm basis.
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Bull Breeding Soundness Examination
Bulls can become sub-fertile at any time during their breeding life. We recommend for all breeding bulls to be tested annually 4-6 weeks before the start of the breeding season.
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Sheep
As well as the usual lambings, sick sheep and post mortems, we offer flock health plans, annual reviews, lameness and abortion investigations, worm and fluke control plans, ram fertility testing and quarantine advice when buying stock.
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