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Animal Health & Welfare Pathway
The Animal Health and Welfare Review is now open to all eligible keepers and offers an excellent opportunity to understand the disease challenges on your farm and to offer advice and support for your business. Funding is now available for a vet visit to offer bespoke health and welfare advice and to carry out some […]
Post movement testing from August 2023
Post movement testing in the Edge Area from August 2023 New rules will come into effect on 1st August 2023 requiring cattle moving from the higher TB incidence areas of England and from Wales into the annual surveillance area of England (which includes Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire) to undergo post movement testing. This will include cattle […]
Benchmarking for Beef & Lamb Farmers
With rises in feed, fertiliser, and fuel costs, knowing your cost of production and how your farm enterprises compare with industry is now more important than ever. AHDB Beef and Lamb can help with their Farmbench project! What is involved? An AHDB Regional Knowledge Exchange Manager will visit the farm, collect the information required for […]
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.
