Farm News & Advice
Read on for a host of news and advice on farm animal health conditions, preventative care, updated government legislation, and more.
In the stories below you’ll also find seasonal tips & information on how to keep your animals healthy. If you’d like us to email you whenever we update the news then simply…
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Division of farm accounts
In order to support the farming industry in its mission to show how antibiotics are used across sectors and how their use is reducing, we will be creating different worksheets within farm accounts for different enterprises. This will only impact those farms with multiple species (e.g farms with cattle and sheep). Farms will still only […]
AHDB Medicine Hub
We are encouraging as many of our clients to sign up to the AHDB Medicine Hub to help record their farm antibiotic use data. We believe the UK is a low level antibiotic user and we now need to prove it by sharing our data with the industry. When you sign up to the Medicine […]
Targeting Neonatal Lamb Treatments
In preparation for the start of the new lambing season, we are reminding our shepherds that neonatal lamb antibiotic treatments should be used responsibly. Products such as Spectam, or the alternatives Parofor and Bimamix, should never be given from the start of lambing as disease risk should be at its lowest. The majority of lambs […]
November 2022 Client Evening Highlights
Our November talk was a greatest hits compilation of many of the topics we deal with as vets on a regular basis but never really warrant a whole talk by themselves! The highlights for those who couldn’t attend are as follows! Bad Eyes: Most infectious eye conditions in cattle and sheep respond to antibiotics and […]
Seeing Trigger Warnings in Towcester farm news? Here’s why
We recognise that some of our news may include content that could trigger a negative response for some; learn how we are tackling this at Towcester Farm Vets.
Towcester Farm Vets praise HM Queen Elizabeth II’s passion for animal conservation
We look back at HM Queen Elizabeth’s long-standing passion and interest in farming, agriculture & conservation, and her love of animals
Vasectomy Season 2022!
Teasers should be in with ewes for 2 weeks before the ram takes over, so an 8-week lead time is necessary.
Best foot forward – cattle lameness
Entire books and conference schedules are devoted to foot care in dairy cattle and, quite rightly, when the industry is running at an estimated 1 in 5 lame milkers. However, our sucklers, finishers and bulls get less attention than they deserve.
Ouch! – Pain relief on the farm
When we’re on the farm we often identify animals that are in pain by changes in their behaviour such as reduced food intakes, lameness, isolation from the group, tooth grinding, depression and/or increased respiratory rate or effort.
Last call for ‘Teaser Ram’ Vasectomies
Using vasectomised “teaser” rams is widely recognised as the best way to kick start cycling activity in a group of ewes at the same time. This will make sure their ovaries are raring to go when tups are introduced to the field.
