Axe Valley Large Animal Vets

04/04/2025

We’ll be back at North Somerset Agricultural Show on May 5th ☀️

👩‍⚕️🐴 Meet Axe Valley Large Animal Vets at the North Somerset Show! 🐄🐑

A warm welcome Axe Valley Large Animal Vets to this year’s North Somerset Show! As a local, independently owned practice, they are dedicated to serving farmers, smallholders, and horse owners across the community.

Their team of experienced vets is passionate about proactive and preventative large animal care, helping to improve animal health, welfare, and farm efficiency. Whether you’re a seasoned farmer or new to animal care, stop by their stand to chat with the team and learn how they can support you and your animals.

📅 Join us on Monday, 5th May 2025 and meet the team in person!

04/04/2025

A first for vet Ellie today. This nanny goat wasn’t eating properly and was found to be missing a molar. This had caused overgrowth of the surrounding teeth, which had been cutting into her tongue! She underwent sedation (under the watchful eye of inquisitive kids!) to have a dental and will hopefully be feeling better soon!

02/04/2025

A massive thanks to everyone who attended our Pneumonia Prevention talk with Andy Adler last night! We hope it was an informative evening. Remember subsidised pneumonia pathogen testing is available thanks to Zoetis and this includes free of charge mycoplasma testing on blood and milk samples - get in touch if you’d like to know what bugs are on your farm 🦠🐄

31/03/2025

TOMORROW! It’s easy to forget about pneumonia when the sun is shining, but it’s an all year round issue and prevention is key! ☀️🐮

April Fools Day is for laughs, but calf pneumonia is no joke.
Join us on Tuesday 1st April when Andy Adler will be discussing pneumonia prevention. Andy has a wealth of experience, having worked as a farm vet for many years, before moving to consultancy work with a focus on sustainability. Zoetis will be introducing their new mycoplasma vaccine, Protivity, too!
7.30pm, at the practice, as always food and drink provided! 🐮

27/03/2025

April Fools Day is for laughs, but calf pneumonia is no joke.
Join us on Tuesday 1st April when Andy Adler will be discussing pneumonia prevention. Andy has a wealth of experience, having worked as a farm vet for many years, before moving to consultancy work with a focus on sustainability. Zoetis will be introducing their new mycoplasma vaccine, Protivity, too!
7.30pm, at the practice, as always food and drink provided! 🐮

25/03/2025

Our vet tech Holly carried out the first of our “Smallholder Vaccination Days” for vaccination against Bluetongue today, sharing a 50 dose bottle between 5 different clients 🐄 🐑 🐐 🦙
If you have less than 50 animals and don’t want to buy a whole bottle, but are keen for vaccination, please get in touch so we can sort logistics!

20/03/2025

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who attended our Bluetongue meeting last night. With over 50 people in attendance we definitely broke a record! A second huge thank you goes to Mick Millar from the University of Bristol for really elevating our talk.
🐄 If you want to order vaccines they are ready to collect so just give us a call.
🐑 If you have any questions that weren’t answered also just get in touch, or discuss with your vet.
🐐 If you weren’t able to attend we have supplementary information that can be emailed.
🦙 We’ve already had some interest in smallholder vaccination days, please get in touch if you have less than 50 animals and are interested in this so we can work on logistics!
Thanks again!

17/03/2025

✨ Some updates for our Bluetongue meeting on Wednesday! ✨
🐮 NEW LOCATION - Due to demand we’ll be hosting the meeting at a different unit, still on Wi******er Farm. We’ll have someone at the gate to help direct you!
🐑 ADDITIONAL SPEAKER - Mick Millar from Langford’s Post Mortem service will be joining us to discuss the latest from the APHA and their surveillance!
Arrival from 7.30pm. Relevant for sheep, cattle, goat and camelid keepers!

14/03/2025

🗣️ SMALLHOLDERS 🗣️
***UPDATE***
Thanks everyone for your enquiries and interest - this is all sorted now! We do have a limited supply of both Heptavac-P and Ovivac-P in bottles of 50 doses in stock, if required.

We have a client who has a 100ml bottle (50 doses) of Heptavac P and only needs half. They’re keen to share this if someone is in need. If you have less than 25 ewes or lambs you’d like to vaccinate please get in touch by messenger or email and we can help you liaise with our client.

13/03/2025

4 bulls fertility tested today!
✅ Breed with confidence
✅ Sell with certainty
Set price per bull, takes 30-60 minutes and we need access to power 🐮

08/03/2025

This International Women’s Day saw the British Veterinary Association celebrate Mary Brancker, the first female president of the BVA. In their dedication they recount Mary’s first solo farm visit, which saw the farmer invite a crowd of sceptical onlookers to watch her treat a cow.
Thankfully, times have changed. But vets like Mary paved the way for vets like us, to thrive as an all female team of farm vets

05/03/2025

Worried about Bluetongue? Wondering what’s the current situation? Should you be vaccinating?
Join vets Becky and Ellie on Wednesday 19th March at 7.30pm, who will be helping to answer these questions and more.
This is primarily relevant for sheep and cattle owners, but goats and camelids can be infected too.
Please RSVP by calling or emailing the practice so we have an idea on numbers 🐄🐑🐐🦙

28/02/2025

Did you know you can bring your animals to us and save on a visit charge? Like these lambs that came to say hi this week! 🐑🥰
This is a cost-effective option for our smaller patients - please bear their fitness to travel in mind when considering this option!

26/02/2025

Spreading of Bestico Biowasps, or Friendly Flies as they’re better known, will start up again soon!
Friendly flies are parasitic wasps that interrupt the fly lifecycle, in turn preventing problems like New Forest Eye and reducing the need for chemicals.
They’re suitable for the fight against biting and nuisance flies that bother cattle and horses, unfortunately they don’t prevent blowfly strike.
If you’d like some more information please get in touch 🪰🐮🐎

19/02/2025

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Lungworm meeting last night. A massive thanks to Paul and Ceri from MSD for delivering an informative talk!
If you’d like to know more about lungworm or the logistics of vaccination do please get in touch. If you’re interested in vaccination but worried about practical help this is something our Vet Tech could assist with 🪱 🐮

17/02/2025

Don’t forget this is tomorrow night!

You're invited to our next in-house meeting!
MSD are joining us to discuss all things lungworm 🐮
🪱 The economic losses from lungworm for a dairy herd is conservatively estimated at £140 per adult cow, with a lost milk production averaging 4kg/cow/day
🪱 In beef cattle conception rates can be lowered and barren rates increased if breeding corresponds with an outbreak. Loss of condition and milk production will lead to reduced DLWG in growing calves - losses can average £50-100 per head
Now is the time to get ahead!
Join us on Tuesday 18th February at 7pm, at the practice. Lots of yummy food and drink will be provided, as always!

15/02/2025

A huge thank you to everyone that came along to our Lambing Event earlier today 🐑 We hope it was fun and informative! A massive thanks to the Stamp family for hosting too! Well done to Rachael who won our essentials giveaway, she successfully guessed the number of rings in the bottle (it was 316!)

14/02/2025

It's not too late to RSVP to our lambing event!
This is a rough plan for the day, each station will be about 10-15 minutes of chat, combined with lots of opportunities to chat to our vets and MSD one-on-one, see some lambs and enjoy lots of lovely food and drink! 🐑