Newsletters

Welcome to our newsletter where we share some exciting news about becoming a franchise of Downland.  This further expands our commitment to clients through access to a premium product range (wormers, fly treatments, agricultural sundries etc..) and better buying power. We also have an interesting line up of articles on cattle leptospirosis vaccine changes, straw pens, feeding close to calving, lungworm and increased money available for the health and welfare pathway. 

Warmest of welcomes to our first newsletter of 2026. Please make a brew and have a read. Wishing all our clients a very happy new year.

Thr festive season is upon on us so please grab a brew and a mince pie and have a read.  From Beth's Christmas Crossword to Jim's Christmas shopping tips, with some eductional articles in between! Wishing you all a good festive season and thank you for your support in 2025.

This month we focus very much on cattle and the issues that come at housing.  Also back by popular demand we have a save the date for our Charity Christmas Quiz!  

Please have a read through our October Newsletter - Interesting articles, Westmorland Show, diary dates and please register interest for future courses so we know what to arrange and offer. 

Time for a brew and a read of our newsletter for this month.  Please come and see us at the Westmorland Show for a brew and catch up. 

Every silver lining has a cloud (to quote Jim), some articles in here on problems with warm, wet weather, grass and parasites. Not to mention midges and the threat of blue tongue disease. 

As we make it to half way through the year, our newsletter brings a range of artices, including our guest write, Tommy the Vet with a review of our meeting at Pye's, High Farm. We also have wedding bells! 

As the end of May brings rain, we bring to you our latest newsletter. Please pay special attention to diary dates where we share details of two meetings coming up in June. 

Welcome to our May newsletter which contains some good news about the future of the practice and some topical articles, notably Blue Tongue. 

Welcome to our April newsletter, lots of articles of interest on lambing and calf health. Don't miss diary dates with details of our Bluetongue meeting and the date of our next Medicine course. 

Spring is around the corner as we head in to March. Please make a brew and have a scroll through our newsletter. Remember to add our new whatsapp order line to your contacts.

Welcome to our February newsletter where we have articles on TB, calf Scour, sheep scab and Jim outlines the new prescribing guidlelines.

Here we go, a new calendar year begins. Happy New Year to everyone, please have a read of our first newsletter of 2025. 

The Christmas edition is here, complete with the annual Christmas Crossword from Beth Thornton. More topical articles including details of a new cattle vaccine for cryptosporidium. Wishing all our clients the very best for the festive season.

Hello November and welcome to this months edition.  We have topical articles as always along with some introductions from our new vets, Fraser and Alex. Don't miss details of our coach trip to Agriscot this month. 

This month Mark shares his thoughts on bugs that should live further south, Sol talks Blue Tongue and poisioning, Hannah recaps the takeaway messages from our last Healthy Heifer Meeting and urges everyone to make use of the Animal Health & Welfare Pathway. 

Included in this edition is information around the latest product supply issues, these currently being Kexxtone Bolus and Enzootic Abortion vaccines. We also have an introduction to Vet Beth Griffiths who has also wrote about her favourite subject, lameness plus lots of other interesting topics.

Welcome to our August newsletter where we cover several things from lameness to teaser tups. Amy Townley gives an account of her year on placement with the Vet Techs which is well worth a read. Also look out for meeting dates and details of our next Healthy Heifer Club event. 

Here is your summer time read from the practice, Jim updates us on the ever changing medicine availabilty, Rebekah sums up the benefits of herbal leys from our recent Sheep Club meeting and Mary talks sheep muck and egg counts. Sol reports from our vet trip (aka school trip) to SRUC vet lab in Dumfries last month. 

In the June edition we welcome two new reception staff members, we have articles on problems that come with the warmer weather and announce the date of our next Sheep Club Meeting.

Topical articles for spring included in this month's edition along with the grand announcement of our Staff Beef cooking contest that we held at the end of last month, to celebrate the wonderful product that is British Beef. #greatbritishbeefweek

The weather seems to be a common theme in our April newsletter with April downpours not showers being on the menu so far. Don't miss diary dates where we are hosting another CPR course and building up to the J36 NBA Beef Expo on Saturday April 27th 2024

A creativity packed addition of our newsletter as we show case the art work from our half term art competition, plus a poem from Mary about Vet Teching! All alongside some good vet advice on copper poisoning, biological fly control and vaccinating badgers for TB.  

Welcome to our February Newsletter with articles timely for lambing, a Schmallenberg update and dates for your diary including a client TB meeting with our neigbouring practices on Feb 19th on badger vaccination as a a control tool. Not forgetting the launch of our half term art competition!!

Welcome to 2024 and our first newsletter of the year! Wishing you all the best for the year head from all the team here. 

The festive season is up on us!! Please have a go at Rebekah's christmas crossword for a chance to win some chocolate. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone.

As the year rolls on we reach November already, please have a read of our articles this month.

Welcome to October, please have a read of our latest newsletter!

As Jim rightly says in his introduction, as we enter September it looks like finally the rain may be giving us a break! Just as those school doors open again.  Please have a read of our September articles and please join us in welcoming our new staff members, featured here on the last page.

Summer holidays are here, but we are still waiting for the weather to go with them!!  Please have a read of or August Newsletter.

Time to put the kettle and have a read though our articles for July. Details of our next dairy client meeting included.

Make yourself a brew and have a read of our June newsletter! Please see articles on our recent Animal Health and Welfare Pathway meetings, suckler herd fertility and shed improvements for the summer months - cubicles this time.

Welcome to our May newsletter, lots of food for thought, please don't miss our diary dates with details of our Animal Health and Welfare Pathway information meetings.

Welcome to our April newsletter which contains some more interesting articles from our team. Don't miss our report from the calf meeting we held last month.

Spring is nearly here and so is our March Newsletter.   We have news from the practice as some of or senior vets take on associate roles to help develop the practice further. As lambing is in full swing don't miss a couple of articles on colostrum and mastitis and a report from our lameness meeting last month.  Most importantly we announce the winners of our Half Term Art Competition!

Spring is just around the corner, we hope! Good luck to everyone who is lambing.  Our Feb newsletter includes turnout issues such as lungworm, lambing topics and details of our Autumn art competition. 

Happy New Year and all the best for 2023.  Our first newsletter of 2023 includes articles on fluke, cold calves, calving gates, our RABI fund raising quiz and some diary dates.

As the end of another year fast approaches, we wish you all a very merry Christmas. In this months newsletter we hear about our Halal meeting that we hosted with AHDB last month, ticks, handling systems, a new scour vaccine and don't forget to enter Beth's Christmas Quiz for a chance to win some chocolate!

This month read about the current local hot topic which is TB, closely followed by CODD in sheep.  We also hear from Lauren our local RABI representative and details of our postponed charity christmas quiz are confirmed. 

The cooler air and browning of the leaves confirms that Autumn is progressing nicely. This month we have several articles and information on events, we also announce the competition winners from the Westmorland Show!

With sheep sales in full swing we have quarantine advice from Beth, teat dip information from Jim, details about our heifer scheme and free trial from vet tech Hannah and vet Hannah talks about Red Water in cattle and the increasing tick risk with warming climate.

Welcome to our August newsletter, included this months are articles about our recent sheep club trip, rat poison, wormer advice from our SQP's, cow feet and our 2022 show list!

Jumping into July we hear about the broken mixer wagon blade that Fin retrieved from a cows stomach, a report from our suckler fertility meeting and information on CCN.

As we move into summer we bring you articles on the challenges this brings in terms of parasites and staggers. We also hope to see you at our various meetings and courses this month!

Welcome to our March newsletter which brings us articles on calf and lamb recovery,  in lamb sheep pushing puddings out, what and why we need to record at lambing time and heat detection in cattle.  Don't miss the results of last months guess the baby competition!

This month we start with a topical article on lambing without the safety net of Spectam Scour Halt followed by our suckler cow to do list, a report on the levels of leptospirosis in local suckler herd and some top tips from our vets who ran our calf meeting on pneumonia in December. Enjoy!

Happy New Year and welcome to our first newsletter of 2022! Wishing you all the best for a more normal year.

The festive season us upon, pick up a mince pie with your copy and have a read.  Make sure you take part in our Christmas Crossword!

This month our vets have written articles on three topical diseases for November, Johnes, fluke and pasteurella, and we share our news about the up and coming launch of our Vet Tech Service!

As we enter October with an abrupt turn in the weather, our thoughts turn to housing and winter. In this issue we have a calf health special as Charlotte reports on a recent meeting we held with Jamie Robertson, a youngstock and building specialist, we have some articles of sheep interest and dates for your diary.

Welcome to our August newsletter, have a read about topical subjects such as heat stress and "super" horse flies, calving gates and the all important tup MOT's as we begin to plan next years lamb crop.

This month our vets have written some interesting articles on cattle mastitis vaccines, preparing for the fluke season and cattle red water. Hear about the results from our aborted/ barren ewe blood testing and exciting news of our new collection point at Tynedale Greenodd! 

Welcome to our June newsletter where we hope for a warmer grass growing month, discuss a couple of timely cattle diseases, the livestock trade and find out more about our Sheep Club.

This month read about early treatment of nuisance flies to reduce populations later in summer, being on guard in this area with TB, the cattle lameness cost calculator, sheep scab and we have another staff member baby photo for you to have a guess at?? Also several events and dates for your diary for May. 

Happy Easter and welcome to our April newsletter which has had a bit of a refresh and new look. Read about topical health issues, performance of farm fridges, meet our new vet, diary dates for meetings and have a go at guessing which staff member the baby photo is of??  

This month we have a couple of timely lambing topics along with a suckler cow to do list from Jim. Also as we come out of our peak calf pneumonia season, why we should look back at last winters problems now to avoid wading into the same issues next year and we share our winner of our home schooling photo competition.

As we move into the busiest period of the year with lambing time gaining momentum we discuss sheep mastitis, how to reduce antibiotic use in watery mouth prevention, colostrum replacers, scratching lambs correctly for orf and why coughing cattle at grass last back end may be a distant memory but now is the time to prevent with Huskvac.

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2021 where we review our recent zoom mastitis meeting and revisit pneumonia as we reach its favourite time of year. Also including horses, fridges and old cows!

This month we look at IBR and what the incidence of this and other infectious diseases is like in our area following our recent bulk milk survey. Dates for your diary include an online Red Tractor approved medicine course and details of small holder events. Calf scour caused by crypto is also a hot topic at this time of year as bugs build up in sheds and don't forget to have a go at Beth's Christmas crossword for a chance to win some chocolate!

Dermatitis in both sheep and cattle, leptospirosis and its threat to us and our cows are included this month along with some staff news and dates for your diary.

This month we talk about herd health plans and how to get the best from them, salmonella and the most common sheep killer at this time of year, pasteurella. Also hear about our directors bake off challenge for MacMillan where you'll see Jim and Mark not in their usual attire!

As Autumn closes in we speak of calf lung health, umbilical hernias, and two things we'd never thought we'd see, a client telling us we save him money and us entering the world of virtual meetings! 

August brings us sheep, feet and ram MOT's as we get ready for the tupping season.