Penbode Farm Vets

23/08/2024

🐄🐄Bank Holiday🐄🐄
Opening Times

Saturday 24th August 2024: Open as normal
Sunday 25th August 2024: Emergency Only
Monday 26th August 2024: Emergency Only

22/08/2024

It might not quite be the right weather for sunglasses 😎 but don't forget to pop by the Penbode tent to pick up yours.

You have until the 31st August to get your photos posted of you wearing them - be it at the show, at home or even at the beach, for the chance to win a pair of tickets to Exeter Chiefs!!

22/08/2024

The team are set up and raring to go! Come and shelter from the rain and grab your morning cuppa ☕☔

We'll be serving cream teas, Pimm's and cider from 10:30am too!

21/08/2024

We're all set up and ready for what is sure to be a fantastic day at Holsworthy and Stratton Agricultural Show tomorrow.

Pop by our stand and say hello 👋

🐄 Pick up your Penbode Sunglasses for a chance to win 2 tickets to Exeter Chiefs
🐑 Have a drink on us, we'll be serving Pimm's, Cider and hot drinks
🐄 Cream teas from 1030am
🐑 Colouring books for the kids
🐄 The team are looking forward to catching up with you all and hearing what you've all been up to.

21/08/2024

Stratton farm vet Dan Forrester and Dave Rowe from Total Hoof Care will be running a first aid for feet one day course.

We will be covering the following:
When to trim
Identifying lame cows/mobility scoring
Examination of the foot
Identification of major causes of lameness
Equipment and restraint
Preventative trimming and the 5-step method
Treatment of different lesions and application of blocks

After attending the course, candidates will be confident in identifying and dealing with common on farm foot problems.

The cost of the course is £150pp. However, we have secured part funding from the DARTT Devon Agricultural & Rural Training Trust for anyone residing in Devon. For more details or to book your space, please email [email protected] or call your local branch.

20/08/2024

Oli and Jay will be at market tomorrow, do stop and say hi if you see them 🐄🐑

19/08/2024

Who remembers the triplets we shared a few weeks ago? They belong to our clients Nigel and Rachel Skinner.

The triplets are being sold this Wednesday at Holsworthy Market, they will be sold as one lot, with all proceeds going to Devon Air Ambulance.

17/08/2024

It was our pleasure to sponsor Devon's Strongest Hands 2024, who raised £280 for Children's Hospice Southwest.

Here is Edward, one of our Stratton Farm Vets, in action. He had a great day, winning the men's under 120kg class. Well done Edward!

16/08/2024

We are proud to be supporting Ashwater Show tomorrow.

Look out for Amy, who will be attending the show as official show vet, be sure to say hi if you see her.

Good luck to all those showing tomorrow 🏆

15/08/2024

One week to go! We look forward to seeing you at Holsworthy and Stratton Show!

Please pop by the tent for a chat and some refreshments on us.

14/08/2024

We had a great day at Okehampton show last week.

It was great to see so many clients and many of you still enjoyed a glass of Pimm's despite the rain!

Congratulations to our clients, the Rockett family on their Champion win and the Walters family for their Reserve Champion Ayrshire.

14/08/2024

Have you picked up a pair of our sunglasses?

Don't forget to snap a photo of you wearing them to be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to Exeter Chiefs!

🎉WIN two tickets to an Exeter Chiefs Game🎉

How to enter in TWO simple steps:

1. Pick up a pair of our Penbode Sunglasses .😎

2. Share a photo of you wearing your sunglasses and tag any of our pages in your post! 📷 Use

Remember to give us a cheeky follow to see all the fabulous entries and to see who the winner will be! 🐶🐴🐮

The winner will only be notified by us through our page.

**The contest period will run from 29th July 2024 to 31st August 2024 at 11:59pm (BST). We’ll pick a winner at random on Monday 2nd September 2024. Local to the UK only. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook.**

13/08/2024

Thank you to all who joined us on today's youngstock farm walk and discussion.

Today's focus was rearing calves from birth to weaning. We discussed calf nutrition, health, husbandry and we looked at calf housing too, with the chance for those attending to have a go at measuring factors such as wind speed and stocking density.

It's always great to get together with others and discuss and see what other farms are doing. A chance to go back to your own farms and look at what you do well and what you could improve on.

Thank you to Cathy from Virbac for attending and supporting this event and feeding us with the delicious pasties from Hoof to Block Butchery. Also, a thank you to David from Excel Agri for attending and answering questions regarding milk powder and feed.

A huge thank you to David and Sarah and everyone else at Newlands farm for allowing us to hold this event.

Our next farm walk is taking place on Thursday 29th August. This is aimed at the autumn block calvers amongst you with a focus on dry cow management and youngstock. Held at Trillacott Farm by Kind Permission of Richard Sainsbury. Open to all and free to attend, includes a pasty lunch, kindly provided by Zoetis.

13/08/2024

Matilda and Jay will be at Holsworthy Market tomorrow.

You can collect your drugs from our market hut, they can book your next visit or TB Test and Matilda can help you with any veterinary advice.

If you haven't got a pair of our Penbode sunglasses yet, pop by the hut and grab a pair tomorrow 😎

09/08/2024

Free for all to attend, includes a pasty lunch.

This coming Tuesday.

To book your space, please call your local branch.

09/08/2024

Many of our staff have their own animals to tend too, before and after work.

A lot of you will recognise Helen, our longstanding Stratton receptionist, here she is outside of work, with her sheep.

Thank you to you all for joining us for this year's . We are proud to be part of the Devon and Cornwall farming community 🐑🐄🚜.

Shout out to all our farmers, your hard work and dedication is immeasurable, thank you for working around the clock to feed the nation.

09/08/2024

4am – Farmers up and down the country will be waking ready to get ready for another day of farming, as will some of our vets, testers and techs.

Every morning should start with a good cuppa! Here at Penbode, we do our bit for supporting Britain’s dairy farms – in the gallons of milky tea and coffee we drink each day!

09/08/2024

3am – Calves arrive at any time of the day or night. Sometimes cows need assistance in safely delivering their calf. Our farm vets are available 24/7, 365 days a year. Help is never far away when you need it.

09/08/2024

2am – Time doesn’t stop for farming! It might be 2am, but this time of year it isn’t uncommon to find farmers still out in their fields making silage to feed their stock this winter.

Here at Penbode, we try and be as flexible as possible to work around our clients and the other jobs they have on.

09/08/2024

1am – The spring sees one of our busiest times in practice, lambing season always keeps us busy. You’ll find our sheep farmers up and down all night long, checking on their sheep.

08/08/2024

12am - Being a member of our Penbode Vets Farm team isn't always easy, with early starts and late finishes, on calls. hot summers and cold and wet winters - it's a tough job!

It is important that our team are surrounded by great friends, supported and have the chance to unwind outside of work. Team Penbode try to have regular socials, be it a game of rounders on the beach, slip and slide or a good old party – whatever it is, you can guarantee it’ll be fun.

We are fortunate to have a fabulous team here at Penbode, so this is a thank you to the whole team for being you and being a part of our awesome team.

08/08/2024

11pm - We are proud to have partnered with the University of Bristol to help train the next generation of vets.

The University are sending final year vet students down to Penbode for rotation placements, this gives them the opportunity to see real-life practice.

Thank you to all of our clients for being so welcoming and supportive.

08/08/2024

10pm – Our farmers are often working late, you’ll often find them performing night checks to ensure all is well with stock and ensuring no one is having difficulty calving or lambing.

Our team of farm vets are on call 24/7 and just a phone call away if assistance is required.

08/08/2024

9pm – The sun sets on another busy day on the farm. It is great to see so many of the next generation getting involved in farming.

Keep your eye on our newsletter to see when our next young persons’ course is running, so far this year we’ve held a young persons’ lambing course and a farm vet taster day. We’ve also hosted numerous veterinary students on a week or two of their Extra Mural Studies.

Photo Credit to Becky Hale.

08/08/2024

8pm – Here is Vet Tech Jorja with her Hereford cow, Roo.

Our Prime Beef Club is open to all beef farmers to join. The club enables a closer working relationship between vet and beef farmer.

Once joined you will receive:
Four pre-planned visits per year
Annual Red Tractor compliant herd health plan
Annual performance and health review
Annual antibiotic report
Annual infectious disease control plan
15% off farm medicine prices
Named vet for routine work
FREE respiratory vaccine administration
A further 5% off cattle vaccine prices
Four faecal worm egg counts
10% off bull fertility testing
Four group meetings per year
Seasonal beef specific newsletter

08/08/2024

7pm – Penbode Farm Vets hold many farmer facing courses and meetings throughout the year, often including lunch or dinner.

All of our courses and talks are there to help farmers ensure they have healthier and more productive livestock. Such courses and talks cover medicines use, lambing, calving, foot first aid and AI.

Check out our monthly newsletter to see what upcoming courses and events we have:
https://bit.ly/4c7mebs

08/08/2024

6pm – TB Testing is usually an all hands on deck approach, a busy day on the farm. It is a worrying time for farmers, everyone has their fingers crossed for a clear test.

Our great team of Vet's and ATT's will always try their best to help make the test run as smoothly as possible. They are always immensely grateful to those farmers who ply them with food and drink during the day.

With their tests finished, here are two of our TB testers, Ema and Anthony, back in the office to process the paperwork.

Have you heard about our FREE TB advice visits? Usually carried out by your routine vet, they will come out to your farm and make recommendations to reduce the risk of TB infections in your herd.

08/08/2024

5pm – Paperwork is a big part of the job. You’ll often find our vets in the office sorting TB paperwork, writing herd health plans, sending feed prescriptions. The vets are now even pretty good at using the scanner!

08/08/2024

4pm – Disbudding is a common procedure in calves, carried out to make cattle management easier and safer. It destroys the horn producing tissue around the horn bud, preventing horns growing as the calf grows.

Our disbudding service includes sedating the calves to reduce the stress involved and to speed up the process, this is always carried out by a qualified vet. Allowing our VetTechs to process larger groups of calves in a less labour intensive way. We always use long acting anti-inflammatories to keep the calves as happy as possible..

If you would like more information on our disbudding service or other services our vet techs can carry out such as calf tracker, mobility scoring and vaccinations, please call your local branch and a member of the team will be happy to discuss with you.

08/08/2024

3pm – The cows head back to the farm for afternoon milking.

Did you know our Vet Techs can carry out services such as teat scoring, lameness scoring and body condition scoring? During milking is the perfect time for these services.

For more information please contact your local branch.