Amethi Vets, Helston (2025)

27/03/2025

Over the last five months, Alex and I have been grown rather fond of a Friesian steer, called Buddy!

Following a rather nasty injury, he was unable to urinate! We were faced with the decision of either putting him to sleep, or to try something a little bit radicle! Not only a surgery to relocate his urethra but also a major necrotic wound to contend with! I think we all thought we were crazy but he was a model patient so no one had the heart to give up on it.

It was amazing to see how well he is doing this week and how far he has come!

11/03/2025

📣 Bluetongue Meeting 📣

We will be holding a Bluetongue meeting on Monday 17th March, 7pm at the Helston Rugby Club to discuss the virus, the current situation, whether you should be considering vaccination and the requirements to do so.

The meeting is £10 a head to include a pint, pasty, and chance to work through a bespoke vaccination decision making tool. It is open and relevant to all farmers, including those with goats and camelids.

Contact us now to book your place!

13/02/2025

🚨Pneumonia Alert🚨

We have had multiple farms reporting deaths due to pneumonia this week despite prompt extensive treatment with both antibiotics and anti-inflammatories ! These animals weren’t the ‘poor doer’s’ or the small ones in the group, they have been brilliant animals, hit by viral pneumonia and rapid death.

Upon post mortem, as seen below, we are seeing catestrophic damage to the lungs. Even those that make it through these outbreaks will have lasting damage affecting their growth rates for finishing or their future viability when entering a milking herd!

With so many causes of pneumonia it is essential to determine your causal agent via nasopharyngeal swabbing, so we can determine, treat and prevent any further deaths! It may be environmental, bacterial or viral with each one needing a different treatment plan!

03/02/2025

🐑 Free online sheep talk 🐑

Later this month Selekt are hosting a Free farmers talk to get you prepared for lambing. The talk will be covering oral fluid therapy as well as twin lamb disease and hypocalcaemia.

They will also be launching their new twin lamb drench re-ewe-venate!

Register now, So ewe don’t miss out 🤣

08/01/2025

🐑 Flock Health Club now live! 🐑

Our Flock Health club has now launched with lots of exciting meetings and plans for the coming months.

We want to welcome all those who have already signed up. You will receive a welcome pack including options for meetings and a plan for the year in the coming days so keep an eye out! We will also be in contact to get you booked in for your bespoke Flock health plan.
If that's not enough remember if you have signed up, your are now eligible for UNLIMITED f***l egg counts.

It's not to late to join our Flock health club, open to all, with many benefits, all for £20 (ex vat) a month. If interested contact us on 07729677555 and have a chat with Alex.

20/12/2024

🎉Last night team Amethi celebrated their first ever official Christmas party🎉

….and with that we would like to wish all our clients a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year! We will remain to be available throughout the entire Christmas period for you all, dropping to an emergency service for only Christmas, boxing and new years day!

We are so unbelievably greatful for the continued support from each and everyone of you. We couldn’t do it without you, and are astonished by how we have grown over 2024.

Thank you to you all!! We look forward to sharing all the exciting projects we have planned for 2025, so keep an eye out!

09/12/2024

🐑🐑Amazing turn out for our first ever flock health club meeting tonight! Thank you to all who attended and a massive thank you to Matthew from Hipra for talking and sponsoring the meeting!🐑🐑

If you haven’t already, it’s not too late to sign up to our flock health club, open to all and official launching in January with full schedule to be announced soon! For more information contact Alex.

10/11/2024

A bit of a different morning for us at Amethi today. After receiving a call this morning regarding a heifer that had fallen off the cliff a rescue mission went in full swing to get her back up safely!

She was a bit spooked after her fall and no one was able to get close to her. So, we recruited the help of Chris Gardener and his dart gun to heavily sedate the cow, allowing Mullion and Tolvaddon fire crews to hoist her back up the cliff to safety!

Once back to safe ground, there was chance to give her a full check over and remarkably she only has a few scuffs and bruises!

It was a slow recovery but she is now, very wobbly, but back on her feet! Great efforts from all for saving the now named “Chloe the cliff cow!”

Also special thank you to Kynance Cove Cafe for the generous cake! It definately kept us going on the trek down the cliff!

(Videos attached below)

24/10/2024

🎉 Happy 1st birthday Amethi Vets 🎉

Thank you to each and everyone of you for all your amazing support over the last 12 months. It has flown by and we could not have done it without our wonderful clients. We could never have imagined being where we are now 12 months ago!

Let’s bring on the next 12 months and see what it has in store for us!

We are hoping to throw a first birthday party / Christmas party in the next few weeks to thank you all for your support and for entrusting us with all your animals so watch this space!!

23/10/2024

🐑🐑 Ewe Mastitis meeting and launch of our NEW Flock Health club 🐑🐑

We would like to invite all sheep farmers, big or small to our first ever Flock health club meeting on Monday 9th December at 7pm at Helston Rugby Club.

Hipra will be joining us to discuss Ewe mastitis and how to minimise the effects within your flock.

It’s also a brilliant opportunity to meet our new vet Alex, as she will be heading our Flock health club, starting in the new year.

If interested in this FREE meeting, please contact us to book your Pasty!

22/10/2024

Proud to sponsor this amazing show! Good luck to all that have entered this year and we look forward to seeing lots of familiar faces. It’s sure to be a fantastic day!

Remember the show is Saturday 9th November at Franchis Farm.

18/10/2024

🪱The wet weather this year has meant that we’ve been seeing more cases of parasites than usual.🪱

In particular Haemonchus Contortus, The Barber’s Pole Worm, seems to be prevalent. This worm sucks blood from the sheep, with one worm removing up to 0.05ml/day. Female worms also produce very high quantities of eggs 5000-15000 per day, meaning numbers can build up and cause disease very quickly.

Signs of Haemonchus are pale gums and eyelids, weakness and collapse. Diarrhoea is usually only seen if there is also infection with other worm types. In more chronic infections you may see a “bottle-jaw” type swelling along with failure to thrive and weight loss.

Regular worm egg counts can help to pick up Haemonchus before it starts to cause disease, along with weighing lambs and monitoring their condition.

Haemonchus is very prone to developing resistance against wormers so it is important to check that your wormer is working properly with post-drench worm egg counts.

☎️ Give us a call to discuss anything about worming and we’ll help come up with the best plan for your farm.

16/09/2024

🐔🦆 Reminder for Bird keepers 🐔🦆

Bird keepers must register by 1 October 2024.

Complete the online registration: www.gov.uk/poultry-registration

02/09/2024

Further cases of BTV3 has been confirmed in Norfolk and Suffolk in both cattle and sheep.

Due to evidence of local transmission, the existing TCZ has been revoked and a Restricted Zone has been put in place around the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Keepers of cattle, sheep, camelids and other ruminants must remain vigilant and follow the restrictions on animal and germinal product movements that apply.

Check the Bluetongue interactive map: https://defra.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=514ec88edec74575958d860f0196d2ea and GOV.UK to see what steps you must take to prevent and control the disease: https://www.gov.uk/bluetongue.

30/08/2024

Last night Team Amethi said both thank you and fairwell to Saffron as she is now getting ready to head back to her final year at University.

She has been an invaluable member of the team over the last 6 months, and we will miss her dearly!

We wish you the best of luck, and make sure you remember to pop by to visit us with some of your lovely cake 👍.

16/08/2024

Many of you may remember Bert, the cheeky goat who was rather poorly earlier this year….

Unfortunately Bert couldn’t stay out of trouble, a silly climbing decision left him with a broken leg.

After 6 weeks in a cast and on bed rest, several complications and set backs, it was wonderful to receive this video of Bert getting his groove back on four legs. Picture of avert showing off his fancy pink wrapped cast added in the comments!

I think that’s now enough mischief for one goat Bert!

08/08/2024

is here 🚜🌱🌿

Farmers Guardian sponsored by Morrisons is showcasing a wonderful 24 hours to celebrate British food and farming and all those who have a role to play in delivering produce from field to fork.

Let’s show off all your hard work and see your best farming photo’s. we have attached a few of our own to get you started.

06/08/2024

🎉 Happy Birthday Anthony 🎉

We would like to take the opportunity to wish Anthony Penrose a happy birthday. We hope you have a lovely day with Trishie and the family.

It also marks 6 months since Anthony started working with Amethi so it seemed appropriate to do a first day and recently taken photo comparison from a very cold, wet TB testing day. As you can see, he is still very much enjoying being part of the team 😜😂.

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