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 [...]

The new year has started with a few lambings as the pedigree flocks get underway. Most of the routine work has now been tidied up with just a few herds remaining for routine Johne's testing. [...]

The past month has seen us still busy with the routine work of preg scanning, Johne's blood sampling and TB testing. In recent weeks we've seen a wee spike of calvings and caesars; as a [...]

October has continued to be remarkably mild, and whilst most welcome in extending the grazing period, it does come with the hazards of a prolonged parasite season and greater respiratory disease risk for animals already [...]

The continued wet weather has seen a recent late flush of grass for many, as such we've been out to treat a a number of downer cows with staggers or milk fever. Ensure at-risk cows [...]

July has largely been a quiet one for us on the farm front but with a few cows bridging the gap between spring and autumn calving keeping us on our toes... This has been a [...]

June and early July have been seasonally quiet for us with the majority of any routine work now completed and stock healthy at grass. Grass growth seems to have been very variable across the area [...]