Thrums Vets - Farm

13/01/2025

📢 Job Opportunity: Receptionist at Blairgowrie Surgery 🐾

We’re looking for a warm, friendly, and professional Receptionist to join the team at Thrums Vets’ Blairgowrie Surgery. This role is critical to ensuring our clients and their pets have the best possible experience.

📍 Location: Blairgowrie Surgery
🕒 Hours:
Monday: Day off
Tuesday: 8:15 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:15 AM – 6:30 PM
Thursday: 8:15 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 8:15 AM – 5:00 PM

💼 What You’ll Do:
- Be the first point of contact for clients—both in-person and on the phone.
- Schedule appointments and manage client records using our computer system.
- Provide helpful advice on preventative care and practice policies.
- Assist with stock management, clerical duties, and medication dispensing.
- Collaborate with vets, nurses, and the wider team to ensure smooth operations.

✨ What We’re Looking For:
- Experience in a busy reception environment.
- Excellent customer service and communication skills.
- Ability to remain calm, professional, and empathetic under pressure.
- Computer literacy and numeracy skills.
- Bonus: Knowledge of veterinary terms (but full training will be provided).

🛠 What We Offer:
- Full training and opportunities for professional development.
- A supportive work environment with a great work-life balance.
- Opportunities to attend both in-house and external training courses.

📅 Apply by: 7 February 2025
📧 To apply: Send your CV to Nicola Montgomery – Personnel Manager at [email protected]
🌐 Visit our Website for more information https://thrumsvet.co.uk/careers/

If you’re passionate about working with people and love animals, we’d love to hear from you! 🐶🐱

08/01/2025

Our January Newsletter is out now!

The new year has started with a few lambings as the pedigree flocks get underway. Most of the routine work has now been tidied up with just a few herds remaining for routine Johne's testing. Cattle scanning has been broadly positive but with the usual picture of a few units having an exceptionally g...

07/01/2025

Farmers meeting - calf scour, mycoplasma and more. We’re looking forward to hosting a meeting for our beef farming clients to discuss calf scour and mycoplasma pneumonia. These are currently two diseases that cause major issues for many of our clients, but thankfully there have been recent developments in our ability to control them and we look forward to discussing them with expert keynote speaker Colin Mason from SRUC. The meeting will be held at 7pm on Wednesday the 5th of February at the Strathmore Golf Centre, Alyth. Tea, coffee and cakes. Places will be capped at 50 so please contact the surgery to reserve a spot

27/12/2024

FAS are hosting a very interesting looking workshop on suckler cow nutrition in our area. Click on the link to read more and book!

https://www.fas.scot/events/event/suckler-nutrition-workshop-feeding-for-success/ #:~:text=This%20workshop%20will%20cover%20the,the%20benefits%20of%20metabolic%20profiling.

This workshop will cover the nutritional management of the suckler herd as we approach calving and into lactation, including managing condition, meeting

25/12/2024

Thrums Vets celebrates 75 years of excellence in serving farmers. Discover how they won an unexpected award in this inspiring story from Angus and…

17/12/2024

We spent a fantastic few hours over lunchtime today at ‘s Plough On event bringing together farming folk of retirement age, at Glamis Castle. We were very proud to be asked to sponsor the event, as the work they do for the farming community is invaluable and close to all of our hearts

10/12/2024

We’re delighted to sponsor this very worthwhile event at Glamis Castle next Tuesday. Please spread the word and we look forward to seeing a few of you there

06/12/2024

⭐ O**m pick up and IVF!! ⭐

This is what we were all looking at and are very excited about 🤩 The black circles on the screen are follicles on the cows o***y, little fluid filled structures which contain an egg 🥚 If you watch closely you might be able to see a needle coming from the bottom left to sook the eggs out 💉 These eggs can then be fertilised and grown on until they are little 7 day old embryos which can be frozen and implanted into other cows.

This will be a new service with assistance from Paragon Advanced Breeding, who have been showing us about the equipment and techniques required. The day we filmed this we collected eggs from 6 cows and produced a whopping 53 embryos!!

More information on the process and service will follow shortly. We will be looking to run our next collection day soon! If you are interested or want to learn more in the meantime please contact Andrew/Jennifer at Kirriemuir or email [email protected]

04/12/2024

Our December Newsletter is online now 👇🏻 with news about our new advanced breeding services, trace elements for cows and CCN in lambs, amongst other things!

The past month has seen us still busy with the routine work of preg scanning, Johne's blood sampling and TB testing. In recent weeks we've seen a wee spike of calvings and caesars; as a polite reminder the successful outcome is greatly helped by a clean pen, reliable restraint (calving gate or crush...

02/12/2024

🎄Senior farmers - you are invited🎄 Strathmore Estates are very kindly hosting a “Plough On” Festive Lunch on Dec 17 at Glamis Castle as part of our campaign.
People of retirement age who have worked in agriculture – farmers, farm workers and others – will be treated to a complimentary Christmas lunch as part of the new initiative.
The plan is to hold events, talks and trips so that retirement-age farming folk can enjoy getting out and about and share some fun and memories as well. Pictured are Karen Stewart, RSABI Trainee Trustee, Andrew Brough, Estates Director, Steven Cu***ng and Carol, our CEO.
👉https://More info: www.rsabi.org.uk/senior-farming-folk-in-angus-invited-to-ploughing-on-festive-lunch/
👉To book a free ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1087245613899?aff=oddtdtcreator SAYFC Young Farmers NFU Scotland Women in Agriculture Scotland Angus Farmers Market NFU Mutual Scotland Scottish Women's Rural Institute Scottish Land & Estates

18/11/2024

What’s everyone looking at?? 👀

Andrew and Jennifer have got the glad rags off and are back to work and doing some training for an exciting new service 🧬 🤩

More details to follow, stay tuned!

Paragon Advanced Breeding

11/11/2024

Our November newsletter is out now, featuring an up to date liver fluke forecast, notes on BVD and IBR and news from across the practice, including our win at the Scottish Agriculture Awards

October has continued to be remarkably mild, and whilst most welcome in extending the grazing period, it does come with the hazards of a prolonged parasite season and greater respiratory disease risk for animals already housed. As such it is very important to be absolutely on the ball with worm and....

24/10/2024

WE WON! Absolutely delighted to have received the Animal Health Provider of the Year award at the Scottish Farming awards this evening! 🐑 🐮 The Scottish Farmer well done to all nominees, here’s looking forward to a great night!

30/09/2024

*Animal Health Provider of the Year Finalists!!*

Thrums are delighted to have made the final 3 for this years Scottish Farming Awards in the Animal Health Provider category 🐮 🐑 🎉

Some of the team will be ditching waterproofs and 💩 for something a bit more glam and are looking forwards to the awards ceremony at the end of them month! Should be a great night recognising the best of Scottish Agriculture 🤩

We are nominated alongside some other great companies The Hoof GP and Te Pari Livestock and look forward to meeting them on the night 💪

Photo Credit Rob Haining/The Scottish Farmer

04/09/2024

Our September newsletter is online now, with pneumonia advice, semen sampling tups, Bluetongue and much more!

The continued wet weather has seen a recent late flush of grass for many, as such we've been out to treat a a number of downer cows with staggers or milk fever. Ensure at-risk cows have high mag buckets available, ad lib access to straw will also help reduce the risk by slowing gut transit

05/08/2024

Our August Newsletter is online now, featuring advice on making the most of worm samples, plant poisonings, cobalt deficiency in lambs and details of our next flock club meeting.

July has largely been a quiet one for us on the farm front but with a few cows bridging the gap between spring and autumn calving keeping us on our toes... This has been a good opportunity for getting caught up with herd health plans, just as well as the farm assurance inspectors seem to

19/07/2024

Worm Warning! 🪱 ‼️ In recent days we’ve seen some very high worm egg counts in lambs. This is hardly surprising given the weather conditions this summer. The good news is these counts have been found as routine monitoring prior to signs of ill health. If you’ve not done any bulk counts in lambs recently, now would be a good time. Please give us a shout to discuss. 🐑

16/07/2024

Our July Newsletter is out now. Including advice on lungworm in cattle and weaning lambs.

June and early July have been seasonally quiet for us with the majority of any routine work now completed and stock healthy at grass. Grass growth seems to have been very variable across the area with some reporting plenty of growth, whilst others have run tight with the lack of warmth. A few herds....