Drove Farm Vets

13/03/2025

🛑 New Dates available - book now to avoid disappointment due to limited availability!

☎️ Call the office on 01793 501499

12/03/2025

🛑 Meeting is now Full! Please contact the office if still interested as we can put another meeting together once we have enough interest Date TBC

🛑 All Client Meeting - Please call to secure your place ! 2 people per farm limited spaces left 01793501499

10/03/2025

🛑 Cow signals 1 day training Course

We are extremely pleased to welcome Cow Signals Master Trainer Andrew Jones from Chewin the Cud Dairy and Beef Nutrition for a day of practical on-farm Cow Signals training.

Would you like to better understand what your cows are telling you about their environment? Might you have Owneritis? If the answer is yes, then come and see what Cow Signals training is all about.

Date: Wednesday 19th March
Time: 10am-4pm
Cost: £125 + VAT
Location: Stowell Farms, Pewsey, SN9 5NJ

☎️ Please call the office on 01793 501499

10/03/2025

🛑 All Client Meeting - Please call to secure your place ! 2 people per farm limited spaces left 01793501499

06/03/2025

🛑 The Animal Health and Welfare Pathway review has now been expanded to include an endemic disease follow-up with new funding available. Farmers can apply now for both the AHWP & the endemic diseases follow-up for more than one species.

The endemic disease follow-up:
Is a second type of funded vet visit & a great opportunity to access testing and bespoke advice
Available to sheep, pig, beef and dairy cattle farmers
To be eligible you must first have completed the Annual Review within 10 months

What could you get:
£923 for pigs
£639 for sheep
£215 for cattle with no BVD (beef and dairy)
£837 for beef cattle where BVD is present in the herd
£1,714 for dairy cattle where BVD is present in the herd

These payments will be in addition to the funding farmers receive for doing the animal health and welfare review. To claim this new funding, you will need to have the animal health and welfare review first.

🛑 For more information or to arrange a visit please contact the Farm Office on 01793 501499.

04/03/2025

🛑 All Client Meeting - Please call to secure your place ! 2 people per farm as limited spaces available 01793501499

14/02/2025

14/02/2025

🛑 Thanks to Jon & Hannah from MSD for delivering our first sheep club meeting of 2025, focusing on tackling sheep lameness at the flock level.

Accurate recording of cases is key in identifying the true level of lameness within any flock, whilst also highlighting any “high risk” periods, for both ewes & lambs.

Utilising the ‘five point plan’ is an effective way to reduce flock lameness levels, increase productivity & welfare, and reduce the total amount of antibiotics used to treat the known infectious causes, including foot rot & CODD.

If you would like to discuss how best to approach reducing lameness in your flock, ☎️ please call us on 01793 501499.

14/02/2025

🛑 Monday, we hosted our DEW Club evening meeting for our dairy clients, and we would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended. We were thrilled to welcome Andy Alder from Zoetis, who, alongside our own Alex, delivered an informative and engaging presentation on Mycoplasma bovis, focusing particularly on detection and vaccination strategies.

During the meeting, we also introduced Protivity, the first modified-live vaccine for Mycoplasma bovis, which provides early protection to calves from as young as 6 weeks. This vaccine not only helps reduce lung lesions and clinical signs, but it also minimizes the need for antibiotic usage.
Additionally, subsidized on-farm serology screening for bulk milk and calf blood samples to aid in the detection of M. bovis was offered. If you would like more information, please don't hesitate to reach out to one of our vets.

Our DEW Club membership offers dairy clients regular evening meetings, farm walks and monthly reports. If you are interested in the DEW Club or any of the services provided by Drove Farm Vets, ☎️ please call the Farm Office on 01793 501499.

29/01/2025

🛑 First time lambing? New staff members? Need a refresher? Or just a unique gift!

Join us on Wednesday 26th February at 09:45am for our annual lambing course. This is a perfect opportunity to either refresh your knowledge or to gain more confidence ahead of the lambing season.

The course will take place in the morning at our practice in Badbury (see advert for exact location). It will cost £75 ex VAT.

We will start off with a theory session where we will cover the following topics: peri-parturient diseases of the ewe, stages of labour, lambing dystocia and when to intervene, care of the newborn lamb and other useful topics such as vaccinations, parasites etc. This will be followed by a practical session with our lambing simulators and opportunities to practice castrating/tail docking and passing stomach tubes for colostrum.

Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided!

☎️ For more information or to book your place please call the Farm Office on 01793 501 499. Or reply to this email.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

29/01/2025

🛑 MEETING INVITE

Please arrive from 7.30pm where a hot buffet will be served ahead of a discussion and quiz (with prizes!) on the subject of:

What if you could reduce losses due to Mycoplasma bovis respiratory disease?
Introducing Protivity: the first modified-live vaccine for Mycoplasma bovis

☎️ Please call the office on 01793 501 499 to book your place

29/01/2025

🛑 Drove Farm Vets Sheep Club meeting: From Symptoms to Solutions: Managing lameness in sheep.

We would like to invite you to our first sheep discussion meeting of 2025!
Lameness is very damaging for the sheep industry, with huge impacts on welfare and productivity. In Great Britain, the estimated cost from footrot alone is between £20-80 million each year. We are pleased to welcome Jon Mayer from MSD to discuss overcoming the common obstacles in tackling flock lameness issues.

We will be discussing :

Lesion identification
Making use of accurate data recording
Appropriate & effective treatments
Perceived barriers to tackling lameness at the flock level
The five point plan
Footvax vaccination and implementation

Date: 10th February
Time: 6.30pm
Location: Roves Farm, SN6 7QG

Non-members Welcome at £20 per farm. Dinner and refreshments will be provided.

☎️ If you would like to confirm your place call the Farm Office 01793 501 499

27/01/2025

🛑 BTV-3 OUTBREAK: Seasonally vector low period reached - certain restrictions eased.

Due to lower temperatures and reduced midge activity the risk of new infection and onward transmission due to vector activity is now very low. As a result of the reduction in risk, certain restrictions are being eased from Tuesday 21 January including removing the following:
The requirement for post-movement
testing of animals.
The use of insecticide on vehicles.
The requirement to send animals
from the Restricted Zone to
designated abattoirs.

As a precautionary measure, the Restricted Zone currently in place across affected regions will remain.
All animals moving out of the Restricted Zone will still require a pre-movement test unless going direct to slaughter or to a dedicated slaughter market.

There is free testing available when moving animals from the RZ. Vaccines are available and they will reduce clinical signs, but they will not prevent infection. BTV is a notifiable disease. Please remain vigilant and monitor livestock frequently for clinical signs. If you suspect Bluetongue you must report it immediately by calling the Defra Rural Services Helpline on 03000 200 301.

☎️If you would like to know more about vaccination, please call us to speak with one of our vets (Farm Office 01793 501499).

More information can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ bluetongue-information-and-guidance-for-livestock-keepers ,- leaflets,-videos-and-posters https://ruminanthw.org.

23/01/2025

21/01/2025

🛑 Is your Veterinary Attestation due for renewal?

VAN numbers expire every 12 months, so please be sure to check your expire date and book your renewal in advance to avoid any last-minute rush.

Since December 2023, non-assured UK livestock farmers are required to provide a veterinary attestation number for their products to be eligible for export to the EU (some portions of most UK carcasses are exported to the EU). The purpose of the vet attestation visit is to verify the absence of notifiable disease and provide general advice on farm biosecurity. Farmers and vets must keep a copy of this declaration for their records and write the VAN on FCI/movement documents accompanying animals to the abattoir or market.

The vet attestation does not need to be the sole purpose of the visit and can be combine with other visits, like the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway.

For more information or to arrange a visit please contact the Farm Office on 01793 501499.