Millcroft Farm

19/11/2024

🍺 COCKERMOUTH BEER FESTIVAL! 🍺

We invite our farm clients to join us at Cockermouth Beer Festival on Thursday 28th November 2024, 7pm onwards at the Kirkgate Centre.

☎️ Please contact the Farm Team on 01900 826666 to reserve your free ticket!

19/11/2024

We Stand With British Farmers 🇬🇧

06/11/2024

LOSSES TO THE FELL

We are holding a Tick Borne Disease meeting on Tuesday 26th November 2024, 7pm at Braithwaite Institute, CA12 5RY

https://w3w.co/fell.cackling.cape

To book your place click the link below ⬇️

bit.ly/fellticks

You can also contact the Farmer Network direct on 01768 868615 or email
[email protected]

05/11/2024

Millcroft Vets are looking to recruit a Farm Team Receptionist.

If you have a good knowledge of the farming community, excellent communication skills and an ability to multitask, this could be the role for you!

Visit the Millcroft Vets website for more information about the role and how to apply. 🐑🐄

https://www.millcroftvets.co.uk/careers/farm-team-receptionist

31/10/2024

Are you aged 18-40 and looking to develop a farming business idea? Why not join us next Wednesday to hear from James Hadwin and learn more about our programme of workshops coming up?
💡 BOOK ONLINE NOW AT https://bit.ly/NextGen6Nov 💡

14/10/2024

06/10/2024

As expected, there's lots of interest in Tuesday's online Bluetongue webinar. Have you booked your place to hear the latest information?
Book online at https://bit.ly/bluetongue8Oct
☎ 01768 868615
⌨ [email protected]

04/10/2024

Today is World Animal Day 🌍

03/10/2024

There’s lots of Farmer Network events taking place over the next few weeks 🗓️
For further info & to book please contact The Farmer Network direct

02/10/2024

🏊‍♂️ Have ewe got the strongest swimmers in Cumbria? 🐏

⚠️ Did you know upto 30% of Tups can be subfertile, this can lead to a increase in the number of barren ewes & a drawn out lambing time.

🔴 We can give your Tup a full MOT from teeth to testicles to ensure he’s fit to perform (AND YES SIZE REALLY DOES MATTER!) 💪

🔴 it’s quick & easy and can be carried out at the practice or on farm with larger groups at a discounted rate.

☎️ Call the farm team to book in or for more
info

⭐️ Check out the video below to see an
example of what we are looking at.

01/10/2024

We have an exciting new logo to mark 25 years 🌟

Our new logo represents the independent business that we are, our love of the animals under our care and our unique location.
Whilst we are celebrating 25 years, Millcroft Vets has roots of independent practice that stretch back over 100 years. Our heritage derives from six small practices, and it is 25 years since we came together as “Millcroft Vets”.

🥎New logo but same friendly veterinary team 👍

We are really excited about our new logo and want to reassure our clients that everything else within the practice remains the same. We are proudly owned by the Directors, all of whom are Members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and are vets working to care for your pets and farms, 24 hours a day, as part of the Millcroft Vets team.

We want to thank our loyal clients for your continued support which enables us to remain proudly independent.

17/09/2024

Did you know that the legislation is changing with regards to keeping poultry and other captive birds?

New rules have come in to force for bird owners to help protect them and other birds around them from Avian Influenza (bird flu).
By 1st October, you need to register your birds (including pet birds) with APHA if:

*You allow your bird to have access outdoors (including in their cage, to be exercised, trained, or taken to bird gatherings or shows),
*your birds are housed outdoors (e.g. in aviaries or coops)
*you have more than 50 birds at any time of year whether they are housed indoors or outdoors.

This applies to ALL pet birds including poultry, parrots, canaries, finches, budgies, birds of prey, pigeons etc.

For more information or to register, visit: http://www.gov.uk/.../register-as-a-keeper-of-less-than...

or if you have more than 50 birds visit: http://www.gov.uk/.../poultry-including-game-birds...

Please note - you do not need to register an exempt bird to visit a veterinary practice.

16/08/2024

Farm for the Future Programme - Want to know more?
Come along to our FINAL Welcome Meeting:
🌟Tuesday 27th August, Flimby Sports & Social Club, CA15 8QG🌟

Please book:
📌online at https://bit.ly/FfFFlimby
📌email: [email protected]
📌call 01768 868615.

09/08/2024

⚠️ HAEMONCHUS WARNING - WE HAVE SEEN MULTIPLE CASES OVER THE LAST WEEK ⚠️

🪱 Haemonchus Contortus also known as the Barber’s pole worm is an abomasal blood sucking worm that affects ruminants

☀️☔️The recent weather has provided perfect conditions for larvae to develop on pasture, this combined with it’s short 20 day life cycle and symptoms of an infection not presenting until around day 14/15 allows for infection to build very quickly resulting in acute disease

🥚 Adult females produce 5,000 - 10,000 eggs per day

🩸 Adult worms have the ability to remove large quantities of blood 👿

🔴 Symptoms of an infection are:
➡️ Poor body condition
➡️ Lethargy
➡️ Weakness
➡️ ‘Bottle jaw’
➡️ Anemia - the pink conjunctivae of the
bottom eyelid turning pale/white 👁️
➡️ Sudden death

☎️ HOW CAN WE HELP?
✅ We can test muck samples in house
With a QUICK turnaround 🔬
✅ We can diagnose via post mortem
✅ We can advise on treatment options
& are competitive on pricing so
please contact the farm team to
discuss further 📞

08/08/2024

🥤 Do these belong to you? They were left in our tent at Cockermouth Show on Saturday.

01/08/2024

🎪 It’s Cockermouth Show this Saturday! Please join us at the Millcroft tent for refreshments 🍺 🥂 and a craic! It’s an extra special one this year as we are celebrating 25 years of Millcroft! 🥳

We look forward to seeing you there 🙂

01/08/2024

Want to hear the latest SFI 2024 information? Be sure to book yourself a place at this workshop in a couple of weeks time - https://bit.ly/SFIGosforth.