Tethera Vets

23/01/2025

Come along to Appleby Golf Club next Thursday evening to our calf health and pneumonia talk, kindly organised by The Cumbria Farmer Network.

🐮 Calf health is key 🐮
Join us on 30th January when Sophie Drake from Tethera Vets will cover a range of calf health issues.
Let us know if you're coming - text "CALF" to 07714 187034 or book online at https://bit.ly/Calf30Jan

02/01/2025

🐑 Lambing Course 2025 🐑

Monday 3rd February
Lambing course at the practice 11am to 2pm

Practical session including a lambing simulator, stomach tubing, injection techniques for medicines, glucose for hypothermic lambs and treatment of entropion.

Theory session including nutrition and management of the ewe at lambing and treating common ailments in ewes and lambs with appropriate antibiotic selection and use.

If you have started lambing and have any deceased lambs which you would be happy to donate please contact the practice.

Open to all ages and levels of experience.
Lunch provided, £30 plus vat.

18/12/2024

🎅🎄Christmas office opening hours 🎄🎅

Christmas Eve: 8am to 5pm
Christmas Day: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
Friday 27th: 8am to 6pm
Saturday 28th: 9am to 1pm
Sunday 29th: 10am to 11am
Monday 30th: 8am to 6pm
New Years Eve: 8am to 5pm
New Years Day: Closed
As usual, we are available for emergency work 24/7.

Thankyou for your continued support. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

10/12/2024

🎄🎄🎉Join us for Tethera's Christmas get together 🎉🎄🎄
Monday 16th December, 7pm at Appleby Golf Club. Kindly sponsored by MSD, who will also be talking about Cryptosporidiosis and Sensehub health monitoring. Food will be provided and we will have a festive quiz. Please contact the office on 017683 51819 to book your place!

20/11/2024

Don’t forget we have our beef and sheep farmer meeting in conjunction with AHDB this Monday 25th November Sanford arms- dinner provided please ring the practice to book your place
For more info on farm bench follow the link below

https://ahdb.org.uk/farmbench

19/11/2024

Tethera vets is proud to work with farmers - it’s at the heart of what we do. Today we stand in solidarity with them as they protest at Westminster. For those reading this who are not connected to the farming industry, the budget announced earlier this month threatens to be the straw that breaks the camels back. As an example, in the last year the number of dairy farms in the UK declined by 5.8% (source- https://ahdb.org.uk/dairy/GB-producer-numbers). As a nation we have to decide If we want to continue to produce food in the UK and if we do then we have to find ways to work with and support our farmers.

14/11/2024

Beef or sheep farmer meeting announcement
Sandford arms
Monday 25th November
6.30pm
Food provided
Kindly sponsored by AHDB and Zoetis

We are thrilled to have teamed up with AHDB to be able to host an introductory meeting about farmbench AHDBs free benchmarking service available to beef and sheep farmers.
This meeting is a chance to find out about how farmbench might be able to help in the challenging times ahead. There is no obligation to sign up after the meeting so we hope folk will use it as an opportunity to come and have some food and find out more- open to all beef and or sheep farmers please ring the practice to book your place
01768351819

31/10/2024

**Milksure course** Wednesday 13th November, 11am at the practice, lunch included, £50. Milksure is a training course designed to reduce the risk of medicine residues in milk, as well as discussing antibiotic resistance and good medicine stewardship.
Please contact the practice to book your place.

28/09/2024

Today's the day! All of us at Tethera would like to wish Ruth and Alexander a very happy wedding day and we wish you all the very best for your future together.

26/09/2024

* Sunday 29th September *

Please be aware Reception will be closed for medicine collection on this day.

As always we will be operating our 24/7 emergency service.

Thankyou

11/09/2024

With the unavailability of enzootic abortion vaccine for sheep this year, we are following the guidelines issued to us by the sheep vet society as outlined below. Please contact the practice for advice regarding your own individual flock and situation and it is essential to contact us in the first instance of any abortions or problems.

Toxovax is still available and unaffected.

Summary of the sheep vet guidelines

- when faced with an aborting ewe it is important to isolate from the rest of the flock and that samples are taken to diagnose the abortion agent

- ⁠it is not appropriate to use prophylactic antibiotics to control abortion- the use of antibiotics must be targeted and used in late pregnancy only in the face of an outbreak or in a group where a confirmed diagnosis has been made in the preceding year.

For flocks that are regularly vaccinated against enzootic abortion there will be a small cohort of unvaccinated replacements but the risk to them is low if the remainder of the flock is protected. They should be marked and vaccinated next year when they are not pregnant.

For flocks that are at high risk of disease there are a couple of options

- there is an inactivated vaccine (inmeva) two doses are required with the second at least three weeks before tupping and a further booster is required within a year

- ⁠unvaccinated ewes at high risk with confirmed diagnosis can have a single injection of oxytetracycline between day 96 and 126 of pregnancy.

10/09/2024

Thankyou to everyone who popped in for a chat at the local shows recently, it was lovely to see you all 🙂

Well done to our competition winners listed below. Please call in the practice to claim your prize!

Match the pet to the vet:
Kevin Sowerby
Chris Ellis
Isla Armstrong

Guess the number of cows in the farmer:
Aidy Wills

Guess the number of celebrations in the bottle:
Rebecca Barker

02/09/2024

Want to know more about the SFI options for your farm?
Book your place to join us at The Tufton Arms, Appleby - https://bit.ly/SFIAppleby19Sep

29/08/2024

This was us all ready for Crosby Ravensworth Show this morning! Thankyou for coming to see us if you popped in. We go again on Saturday at Dufton Show. If you are going make sure you call in to say hello 😃

08/08/2024

All set up ready to welcome you to Appleby Show today. Please call in to see us!

20/05/2024

Nematodirus Alert!

If you have lambs old enough to be grazing, using ground used by ewes and lambs last year, Nematodirus could have a significant impact on your flock leading to diarrhoea, stunted growth and mortality.

The immature larvae cause the damage so we treat based on risk rather than egg counts for this worm, as very few eggs will be produced when the Nematodirus larvae are causing damage. Using forecasts from SCOPS and field grazing histories we can decide if treatment for the group is needed. White wormer is recommended when risk is high, for all lambs in the group, risk factors include:

• Scops forecast map (https://www.scops.org.uk/forecasts/nematodirus-forecast/)
• Cold weather followed by 10 days of warmer weather (>10oC.)
• Lambs old enough to be eating grass.
• Lambs under stress e.g. pet lambs, triplets on ewes.
• Lambs grazed on the same field the year before.

Please get in touch with the practice if you would like to discuss further on 017683 51819.

01/05/2024

Orf in Sheep – late availability of Scabigard® vaccine.
With challenges in the supply of Orf vaccine for the last two years some farms with a history of Orf may have missed vaccination. As the virus can persist for years on infected farms it’s wise to vaccinate at risk lambs if possible. Speak to your vet about latest Scabigard® availability and for more information about controlling Orf go to https://www2.zoetis.co.uk/content/_assets/PDF/MM_22119_Scabigard_A5_leaflet_PAGE_PRINT_83B6PF.pdf.