Castle Farm Vets

27/08/2024

❗️❗️Reminder ❗️❗️

🐷Our meeting for pet pig owners is fast approaching.🐷

Give us a call to let us know you're coming if you haven't already done so.

Lots of exciting topics covered 🐷

📞 01833695695

23/08/2024

Hope you all have a lovely bank holiday weekend!

13/08/2024

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Our Darlington office will be open tonight If you're heading to DFAM's Ewetopia sale.

12/08/2024

🐖 🐷 ATTENTION 🐷🐖

Very excited to announce we will be holding a meeting for pet pig owners and perspective owners.

07/08/2024

Last night Olivia drove down to speak to farm keen vet students at the University of Nottingham. She talked about on call farm emergencies from a new graduate perspective. Students enjoyed hearing how to manage the less than ideal situations and Olivia enjoyed reminiscing about her first year as a vet. 🐄🐑

06/08/2024

In England & Wales, all bird keepers must register by 1 October 24.

By registering you will help manage potential avian disease outbreaks & limit any spread.

If you have a CPH and already registered, you do not need to re-register.

England & Wales: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/register-as-a-keeper-of-less-than-50-poultry-or-other-captive-birds

01/08/2024

Our Barnard Castle phones are currently down. We are working on fixing the issue. Please call our Darlington office on 01325 790713 with any queries.
Thanks

25/07/2024

We have had a goose brought in to the practice, found in Tudhoe. If you think it belongs to you please contact the practice on 01833695695. Proof of ownership will be required.

24/07/2024

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The Blowfly strike risk remains high across the area.
Give the practice a call to discuss your requirements and learn what you can do to protect your stock.

📞 Barnard Castle 01833 695695
📞 Darlington 01325 790713
📞 Malton 01653 531151
📞 Selby 01757 826099

⚠️🪰 ⚠️ 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗙𝗟𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗘 ⚠️🪰⚠️

The risk remains high across the UK, and the increasing temperatures this week and continued rainfall make very favourable conditions for blow fly egg development

Development into maggots and skin damage will occur quickly, so be vigilant.

🔗 See updates and report cases here, bit.ly/3UEPShu



Elanco Farm Animal Health UK

22/07/2024

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On Friday Laura gave us some fantastic news that she has passed her CertAVP (Sheep) qualification, Laura has worked hard to achieve this and we are delighted for her.

Well Done Laura! 👏🥳

17/07/2024

Fantastic day had by all and lots learnt 🐖 🐷

Today Daisy and Pam attended a day of pig related CPD in Barnard Castle. In the morning they refreshed their knowledge on vaccinations, worming, farrowing, artificial insemination and common pig diseases with some interesting lectures. In the afternoon they took part in a practical session focusing on post mortems, euthanasia, blood sampling and catheter placement. Thank you to for organising a very informative day 🐷 🐽 🐖

13/07/2024

28/06/2024

It's your last chance to take advantage of funding from DEFRA to get personalised support for you and your farm business!
We're already working with 140 farming families and it's now you're last opportunity to sign up before the funding ends.

The first meeting for this last round is on Tuesday 2nd July, we'll have details of the NEW and Updated SFI and CS options, plus guest speaker Sam Stables.
It's the ideal opportunity to make sure both you and your business's health are tip-top!

You can sign up to be part of the programme at : https://www.royalcountrysidefund.org.uk/how-we-help/family-farm-businesses/defra-future-farming/

20/06/2024

DFAM now have a temporary telephone number in place- 01325 794967

14/06/2024

Our vet techs are highly skilled and take great pride in what they do, give the practice a call to discuss how they may be able to help with your herd or flock.

12/06/2024

Get on top of lameness in your flock with the aid of Footvax, available in practice now.

11/06/2024

Super busy week last week for the team at Castle Farm Vets.

Olivia went to visit a primary school to talk to the some of the younger classes about being a vet, the children had a great afternoon and Olivia was flooded with thank you letters saying what they had learnt from her - Well done Olivia! ⭐️⭐️

We had an open Flock Health Club meeting 🐑 usually our FHC meetings are for members only however, last week we opened up to non-members, the meeting included a post mortem demonstration and talk from Ben Strugnell of Farm Post Mortems and was a great success.

Make sure you follow our page to keep an eye out for future meetings and events.

06/06/2024

🌟🌟Happening tonight, give us a call to register!🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟 ATTENTION 🌟🌟🌟

Exciting meeting approaching fast!

Not something to be missed, see below for details!

05/06/2024

Have you seen us a Scotsheep? If not pop over and say Hi!

04/06/2024

Set up and ready for Scotsheep - See you tomorrow!!

04/06/2024

Olivia and Lucy have been out doing knock down disbudding and castrating today. Some wagyu companies require sedating for castrating and disbudding. This allows a stress free procedure for the calves as well as allowing us to get on a bit quicker. They did 120 today! 💪🏻🤩🌟

03/06/2024

This Thursday - Sign up now !!

🌟🌟🌟 ATTENTION 🌟🌟🌟

Exciting meeting approaching fast!

Not something to be missed, see below for details!

29/05/2024

Today Lucy went to disbud a miniature Hereford calf which was successfully born after being AI’d by our vet Desiree! A lovely, healthy heifer calf. 💪🏻🐄

24/05/2024

Some very useful advice from Elanco Farm Animal Health UK

Did you know we can perform worm egg counts in practice at Barnard Castle and have results ready in as little at 20mins.

Call the practice on 01833 695695 to discuss how this can benefit your farm.

During the grazing season, performing faecal egg counts (FEC) every three to four weeks is recommended to accurately highlight worm burdens and therefore help you keep on top of worm control.

What are the benefits of frequent testing?
🪱 Avoids treating for worms when there isn’t a problem, reducing risk of resistance build-up
🪱 Reduces cost of unnecessary treatment
🪱 Allows potential problems to be nipped in the bud