November has started very mild and damp and we're finding it highly unorthodox sweating through our PD and blood sampling sessions rather than fighting the frost in our toes! These routine jobs are getting well [...]

The first of the winter storms has come and gone without too much drama and the weather again seems set fair. That said, for many thoughts are now turning to housing for cattle and tupping [...]

With harvest completed in record times for most, the livestock work is picking up again. A few adopters of early scanning have had spring calving herds scanned with good results so far. Early PDing gives [...]

As we write harvest for many is well underway. Whilst the weather has been favourable for this, yields are down due to protracted dry weather earlier in the summer. The impacts of this are being [...]

July sees us step into our quieter time of year with most of the routine work complete and bulls out for most. We continued to deal with a lot of individual cases of lameness - [...]

At long last a bit of rain has arrived! The warm, dry spring has been superb for turning out lambs and calves but pressure has now already started to be put on grass reserves for [...]

The start of May sees us continuing to be blessed by great weather - the countryside is looking superb as we go about our rounds with a patchwork of bright green and yellow fields and [...]

The start of April sees us being very, very busy (of course!) with what feels like half a dozen calls every day to calvings, caesars and prolapses. Anecdotally there seems to be a trend out [...]

Over the past week or so things have really ramped up in the practice with the emergency spring work, we've been busy calving and caesaring with a few of these calls coming into the practice [...]

January has seen us getting stuck into the first lambings of the year, which is always quite exciting! On the cattle front we've seen a few more pneumonia outbreaks which is less exciting, vaccination remains [...]