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Mastering Medicines Course: With Amy Smyth BVetMed MRCVS

One of the Red Tractor standards recommends that at least one member of staff has undertaken training on a veterinary- run course.

Animal Health and Welfare Pathway (AHWP)

This is government funding made available to farmers to help to support you to improve the health and welfare of your livestock

Calf Health Week - Calf pneumonia

Respiratory disease in calves can be an expensive and time consuming problem. Disease in suckled or reared beef calves can increase...

Colostrum - The 4 Qs

Quality The concentration of antibodies (ideally >50g/l) can vary between heifers and cows so it is important that we measure the...

Calf Tracker

Improve your calf health and growth potential with Calf Tracker The Penbode Farm Vets VetTech service is now well established and many...

GB Calf Health Week - Calf Scour

Calf scour is a common problem seen in both beef and dairy herds. A recent survey found that in the last 12 months 82% of cattle farms...

GB Calf Health Week - Housing

Prevention of pneumonia in calves The costliest problem in young stock rearing will be pneumonia on almost all farms, so many factors...

Join our Flock Health Club

Annual Membership Benefits Flock Health Plan and Annual Review Specifically tailored for your flock by your dedicated sheep vet Red...

Stress Free Cattle Handling

By Andy Stokes BVSc CertAVP (Cattle) MRCVS Andy Stokes looks at elements of stockmanship, awareness of cow’s body language and cow...

Preventing neospora

With the advent of the Easter holidays comes the potential for an increase in visitors walking with their dogs on your land. Not just...

Join the march ... against sheep lameness

Here's the slidedeck presented by Liz Cresswell of MSD at the Penbode Farm Vets Flock Health Club sheep lameness meeting. If you have any...

Pinpoint your sheep lameness management weaknesses

MSD have produced a complete flock assessment toolk which can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your sheep lameness control...

Join the March...to stamp out sheep lameness

Sheep flocks often suffer from an increase in lameness during the summer months – hence our adoption of July as Lameness Month to focus...