Manor Farm Vets

19/03/2025

Due to changes to Red Tractor protocols earlier this year, all farms must have at least one staff member with a valid medicines course certificate dated within the last 5 years.

A lot of courses were run in 2019 and therefore its worth checking if yours is out of date.

We will be running this course on the 31st of March.
Please call the office to be put on the list.

All attendees will be given a certificate to put into your Health Plan.

For those dairy farms who have an in date Milk Sure certificate this will qualify you for red tractor and you don’t need to attend.

08/03/2025

It’s estimated that women make up 32% of the British agricultural work force. 👩‍🌾

This figure grows year on year but still doesn’t really reflect the value of women in farming.

Wether you’re up milking, lambing, feeding, on the tractor, making sure the paperwork is in order, managing the business, making sure the staff are fed or looking after the family so the farm can keep running - it wouldn’t happen 365 days of the year without you.

We’re incredibly lucky to work with some truly inspiring women on farm at MFV.


💪👩‍🌾🌸

22/02/2025

A Nearly-almost-spring is coming double whammy 🐑🐮💙

A calf trying to come out through a prolapse and another sheep caesarean.

31/01/2025

A message from Matt 💙

This is the fundraising page of an overweight middle aged man with one pectoral, who hates push-ups. I imagine I'll hate them more by the 31st January.

I’m going to be doing the 100 Push-Ups a Day Challenge this month to help raise money for Cancer Research UK: almost all of the push-ups performed will be ugly, most will be easily criticised, all will hurt my man-boobs. I might even treat you all to a video or timelapse of my pain here and there too.

Please give generously.

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/matthews-giving-page-3235

28/01/2025

This time next week, if you’re concerned about Bluetongue please let the office know and come along!

Bluetongue - be prepared!

Meeting: Eccleshall community centre, 4th February, 7pm. Please call the practice to confirm numbers for catering.

We will discuss

🔵 Signs of Bluetongue
🔵 How it spreads
🔵 How vaccination can play a role on farm

We were lucky in 2024, Bluetongue arrived late in the season and didn’t quite make its way too far west to us.
However, there is a good chance that the virus will survive in the UK overwinter and the prediction is that Bluetongue in 2025 will have a more significant impact.

24/01/2025

Twin caesarean 💙🐑
Spring is coming… slowly 🤞

20/01/2025

The Cheshire Badger Vaccination Programme have arranged a meeting this Thursday.

The expert speakers will explain how the eradicated TB from Gatcombe farm as seen on the BBC documentary ‘Brian May, the Farmers, Badgers and Me’

Please call or email Elaine to reserve a space.

17/01/2025

This week we met Dexter again, who was one of MFVs very first patients.
He was born with severely contracted tendons of both his back legs. We performed a bilateral tenotomy of his superficial and deep digital tendons, and after a lot of aftercare he’s never looked back!

💙🐮

16/01/2025

Bluetongue - be prepared!

Meeting: Eccleshall community centre, 4th February, 7pm. Please call the practice to confirm numbers for catering.

We will discuss

🔵 Signs of Bluetongue
🔵 How it spreads
🔵 How vaccination can play a role on farm

We were lucky in 2024, Bluetongue arrived late in the season and didn’t quite make its way too far west to us.
However, there is a good chance that the virus will survive in the UK overwinter and the prediction is that Bluetongue in 2025 will have a more significant impact.

16/01/2025

Adam has contributed to the sheep bulletin for NWF discussing the importance of vaccination 🐑

The NWF Sheep Bulletin Edition 6 is now LIVE! 🙌🐑📚

Postal copies will be mailed out next week, in the meantime, head over to the NWF website to read online 👇
🔗 https://ow.ly/xIul50UH7bi

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12/01/2025

And we’re off - lambing 2025 🐑❄️

A combination of an earlier prolapse and ring womb meant delivery took care and patience, but it’s worth it for healthy ewe and lambs ❤️

09/01/2025

For those of you rearing calves crypto, rotavrius and E. coli are all causes for concern.
Calf scour can be a hugely expensive and emotional problem to deal with and can lead to significant calf losses.

Hygiene will always be the number one factor for reducing calf disease but vaccinations can also help to reduce pathogen load on farm.

06/01/2025

Successful Sundays 🐮❤️

08/12/2024

Dairy cows need more water per kg than any other mammal 🧊

Contaminated water troughs can reduce intakes and therefore milk yield (milk is 87% water). A cows sense of smell is 8 times better than a humans so any spoilage from feed, mould or muck can really put them off.

Good water trough management:
Emptied and cleaned regularly ✅
Edge of the trough 75-85cm from the floor ✅
Fill rate of at least 10L per min ✅
Positioned not to obstruct cow flow ✅

30/11/2024

Thank you 💙

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our first MFV Christmas party last night. It was amazing to see so many of you and catch up. You all absolutely deserved a break for one evening!
We can’t express how grateful we are for all of your support in the last six months, same time again next year?

(Maybe next year you’ll make a dent in the beer…)

Thank you again to Gez’s Cafe for feeding us, Eccleshall Young Farmers for manning the bar, Meg at Country Celebrations for the balloon arch and Stone Cold Sober...ish for entertaining us!

28/11/2024

You always know there’s something wrong with a cow when she’s the last one through the parlour…

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24/11/2024

Thank you to everyone who came out in the snow for our meeting discussing heamonchus, Barbervax (the heamonchus vaccine) and worm burdens in sheep.

An especially big thank you to Alasdair for coming to present to us down from Scotland in the bad weather! And to for catering!

For anyone who is interested in using the Barbervax vaccine, or who wasn’t able to attend the meeting and would like more information please give the practice a call and speak to Adam.