Delaware Farm Vets

Delaware Farm Vets Farm vets providing farm and dairy veterinary services in Somerset, Wiltshire & Dorset

Have you had heifers grazing this summer? Now is the time to start thinking about doing pre-housing worm egg counts. Usi...
26/09/2025

Have you had heifers grazing this summer?

Now is the time to start thinking about doing pre-housing worm egg counts. Using the Ovacyte machine for worm egg counts pre-housing helps you target treatments precisely- saving money and boosting herd performance 🪱 💩

Bring 5-10 samples to the practice in separate gloves and we can get these run for same day results. Swipe to the last photo to see how not to bring them in!!!

Next week, we will be at the Dairy Show! Come and find us on Stand 147 in the Edmund Rack Pavilion for chats, cheese and...
25/09/2025

Next week, we will be at the Dairy Show! Come and find us on Stand 147 in the Edmund Rack Pavilion for chats, cheese and plenty of new merchandise 👀
There is also an opportunity to win a place on our First Aid for Feet course 🐮

Big thank you to all our cheese producers who have donated products for the show this year! We can’t wait for you to try them all

Join Abi H for our Smallholder Prebreeding meeting on 7th October. It will cover everything necessary to ensure your flo...
23/09/2025

Join Abi H for our Smallholder Prebreeding meeting on 7th October. It will cover everything necessary to ensure your flock is healthy and prepared for the upcoming breeding season. There will be a practical element to the session with some sheep to try out body condition scoring and general health checks before breeding. Contact the practice to sign up! 🐑

Last night we had a successful Johnes evening! Big thank you to Karen Bond from for giving a really insightful talk and...
18/09/2025

Last night we had a successful Johnes evening! Big thank you to Karen Bond from for giving a really insightful talk and answering all of our questions. Thanks also to for providing sponsorship for the food

As AHDB Calf Week comes to an end, we are launching the new Delaware Vets Calf Discussion Group! It is a year long progr...
18/09/2025

As AHDB Calf Week comes to an end, we are launching the new Delaware Vets Calf Discussion Group! It is a year long programme for anyone involved in calf rearing, including 6 farm walks, access to exclusive deals and a calf rearing WhatsApp group. We aim to promote proactive approaches and practical techniques which you can carry out on farm to produce robust calves. There is also the opportunity to discuss tips and challenges with other calf rearers. If you are interested, give the practice a call to discuss signing up!

Today, Sinead and Abi were out with our Bristol final year students Indi and Hannah doing some calf health investigation...
16/09/2025

Today, Sinead and Abi were out with our Bristol final year students Indi and Hannah doing some calf health investigations. As part of this, they did some ImmunIGYs IgG testing to see whether the calves had adequate passive transfer of immunity through colostrum. Monitoring IgGs in calves is important to quantify our colostrum management protocols and ensure that what we are doing is achieving the results to produce robust calves

If you are interested in any of our calf health services, give the practice a ring to speak to one of our vets

Colostrum is really important to give calves the best start to life. Calves are born with no immune protection making th...
12/09/2025

Colostrum is really important to give calves the best start to life. Calves are born with no immune protection making them extremely vulnerable to infections. By having a good colostrum protocol, you can ensure that calves are provided with the protection and nutrients they need.

5 Qs of Colostrum:

🤠Quality: 50g/L IgG, can be measured using a Brix refractometer (>22% Brix)
🤠Quantity: first feed of 3L followed by a similar sized feed after 12 hours
🤠Quickly: within 2 hours of birth for optimal absorption of antibodies
🤠sQueaky clean: keeping equipment and hands clean when harvesting, storing and feeding colostrum
🤠Quantify: regularly measuring IgGs using ImmunIGY sampling

A good colostrum protocol is one of the best investments in calf health, welfare and future productivity. If you’d like to discuss your colostrum protocol further, give us a ring and one of our vets can come up with a protocol tailored to your farm 🐮👍🏻😉

As iodine prices are increasing, we are offering an alternative: NoBACZ Navel. Calves who have untreated navels at birth...
11/09/2025

As iodine prices are increasing, we are offering an alternative: NoBACZ Navel.
Calves who have untreated navels at birth are 2.5-3 times more likely to suffer infection so therefore navel care is really important.

The impact of navel infections is not just a welfare concern, it has economic impacts as well:
🤠 Increased vet costs
🤠 Increased time spent treating sick calves
🤠 Decreased growth rates
🤠 Increased mortality rates

NoBACZ navel is quick drying, as shown by the photos in our post, and contains a lick deterrent to stop navel sucking. It can be dipped for use in navels or sprayed if you apply it when ear tagging. Studies have shown a 21% decrease in mortality compared to iodine use in lambs, so definitely a product to consider! If you are interested, contact the practice today and we can advise you further

Kicking off AHDB Calf Week with a calving! Abi C went to see a cow who was struggling to calve. She diagnosed it with a ...
10/09/2025

Kicking off AHDB Calf Week with a calving! Abi C went to see a cow who was struggling to calve. She diagnosed it with a uterine torsion and after rolling the cow to correct it delivered live twins- a brilliant result!

Calf Week is running from 10th-18th September with a focus on breeding and genetics, calf resting and maximising potential in the supply chain. We will be posting lots of calf related content over the next week so keep your eyes peeled for more 👀🐄

Abi spotted some more Delaware bucket hats out and about on her visits this morning. Here we have farmers George and Izz...
20/08/2025

Abi spotted some more Delaware bucket hats out and about on her visits this morning. Here we have farmers George and Izzy sporting the hats next to their cows!

Last week, Petra went out to one of our farms and saw their longhorn bull calf who was 18 days premature. Safe to say he...
19/08/2025

Last week, Petra went out to one of our farms and saw their longhorn bull calf who was 18 days premature. Safe to say he’s a firm favourite and has been named Herbert! Here he is, pictured next to aspiring farmer Robin 🐮🤠

Join us in September for our Johnes meeting- we have speakers from Alta and NMR coming to talk about the new Phase 3 of ...
15/08/2025

Join us in September for our Johnes meeting- we have speakers from Alta and NMR coming to talk about the new Phase 3 of the National Johnes Management Plan and how colostrum can play a part in Johnes management.

Food will be provided and you will also get a discount on your next Johnes Action Plan for attending. Email or ring the practice to book onto the meeting 🐮

Address

Torbay Road
Castle Cary
BA77DT

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm
Saturday 8:30am - 12:30pm

Telephone

+441963350307

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