Farm Animals

We are committed to providing a first class service to our farm animal clients and their animals. Most work is arranged by appointment, while we also provide a year round, 24 hour emergency service. We are continuely investing in our farm animal service, this year we have purchased a cattle pelvimetry device and bull electroejaculator to enable us to help maximise the fertility of your cattle herd.

This is some of what we offer:

• Farm health planning to maximise productivity and welfare. We are approved mentors for the Farming Connect scheme in Wales – a scheme which provides subsidised business mentoring to Welsh farmers.
• Vets readily available to give advice over the phone, whenever it’s required.
• Prompt, friendly and efficient service from both our vets and practice staff
• Competitively priced medicines
• Transparent charging structure for clinical work
• Practice laboratory for worm egg counts, blood testing and disease screening
• Surgeries in Hay and Peterchurch for convenient collection of drugs
• Regular farmer meetings, run by both practice staff and external speakers
• Hospitalisation for sick calves and facilities for lambing ewes
  

If you are interested in joining our practice please give us a call. One of the partners will be happy to fix a time to come and chat about how we can help your business to thrive.

 

Fertility services

In addition to standard pregnancy diagnosis we are also able to investigate sub-fertility, lack of return to oestrus and pregnancy related disease. Synchronisation programmes for cows can be tailored to your management system. We are also able to perform bull breeding soundness examinations.

Nutrition

Should you have concerns about the performance of your stock we are able to carry out nutritional investigations. We combine our local knowledge with that of specialist laboratories and nutritionists to get to the bottom of any problems encountered on our clients’ farms.

The Lambing Shed

We now use the excellent facilities at Leam Lodge, Cusop for lambing ewes and some other farm animal procedures.

Please click here for directions

Emergencies

There are always two vets on-call, meaning we are able to provide prompt and efficient service whatever the hour. The practice telephone number is diverted to a partner at home out-of-hours, meaning whoever answers the phone will be able to provide instant advice and get a vet to you quickly.

Lifelong learning

All our vets attend continuing professional development (CPD) regularly. The courses vary from training on specific topics (e.g. mastitis control) to conferences discussing a range of issues.

Between us, the vets are members of the following professional organisations:

• British Cattle Veterinary Association
• British Equine Veterinary Association
• British Small Animal Veterinary Association
• British Veterinary Camelid Society
• British Veterinary Association
• Pig Veterinary Society
• Goat Veterinary Society
• Sheep Veterinary Society

Each vet has their own field of interest (you can get an idea from our mini C.V.s on the 'Meet the Team' page of the website), in their if you have something weird and wonderful for us to see then let the receptionist know and we’ll do our best to direct you to the right person.