Here you will find our most recent News posts relating to Livestock Health.
Please see also:
- the Friars Moor Monthly Farm Newsletter – please contact us to subscribe.
- the XL Vets farm newsletter Livestock Matters – you can read or download the latest issue and many back issues.
- (Note: for Courses & Events, see our calendar of forthcoming livestock health events)
- Vet Viewpoint – diary housing September 15, 2020
Six key areas to improve your dairy housing environment.
An article by Alice Miller of Friars Moor Livestock Health, published in the XL Vets Farm newsletter (based on a previous article in Farmers Weekly):
Vet Viewpoint: Focus on these six key areas to improve your dairy housing environment, by Alice Miller
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Meet the team > Farm ... - Lameness in Beef Cattle September 9, 2020
Please have a read of this article on lameness in beef herds. Recent research shows that the prevalence of lameness on most UK beef herds is underestimated, with barriers to treatment including lack of suitable facilities. Contact our Vet Tech and Foot Trimming team via the office (01258 472314) to book in an appointment to ... - Blood sampling offer for ewes June 24, 2020
We hope you had a successful lambing period, however if you experienced problems with >2% of the flock barren or aborted, weak lambs or uneven size lambs born it is not too late to investigate.
MSD subsidised blood sampling of up to 8 ewes for Toxoplasmosis and Enzootic abortion is available until 30th June.
***** Call 01258 ... - IT’S COMPETITION TIME! June 12, 2020
The team at Friars Moor Livestock Health are calling for all children to learn about farming and where their food comes from. We would like children to make posters showing how the food they eat is produced. When you have finished your poster, please take a picture or scan and sent it by email to: ... - Farm Drug collections – June 1 2020 June 2, 2020
From the 1st June, Friars Moor are reopening its branches for farm drug collections at Blandford, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton. We have had to make some alterations to the way we work. Opening hours will be 8.30-5. In the short term the door will remain locked. Please ring the branch number to order your drugs ...
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