Whilst artificial insemination is nothing new in the world of cattle breeding, something that is new for us as a practice, is our all-in-one synchronisation and AI service.  We have developed this service to allow [...]

January has seen the continuation of much routine work out and about - still catching up with a few TB tests and health scheme blood samples. Calving has started for some with the accompanying calvings [...]

Metabolic Profiling has been a long established preventative management tool in the dairy world and increasingly in sheep too. However, in recent years we have been employing this in suckler herds with great success. In [...]

December has been a very busy month for us still wrapping up the last of the routine PDing and Johne's blood testing. PD results have tended to be pretty good with the odd disappointment. This [...]

  September continued where August left off with an abundance of wet grass, associated staggers risk and an abundance of parasitic challenges! Lungworm continues to bubble up and cause disease, even where there is no [...]

At the time of writing we are looking at the first decent week of weather in some time, which will no doubt come with some relief - getting on with anything has been tricky. We [...]

Thrums Flock Health Club is changing, find out how below. At Thrums we have run a Flock Health Club successfully for over five years, and hopefully we have achieved what we set out to do - bringing like minded [...]

The good weather throughout much of the first part of June has meant that most folk are well up to date with silage and field work. For us that meant it has been a somewhat [...]

Whilst we would normally expect to see lungworm problems in cattle in the late summer and autumn, now is the time to start thinking about a prevention strategy to ensure it doesn’t affect your stock [...]

You will be delighted to hear that the farm department at Thrums Vets has finally entered the age of email and going forward, over the next few months we will be phasing out the old [...]