Smallholders

Health plans

However large or small your herd or flock we can provide a tailored, annual plan of action with regards to worming, vaccination and review the health status of your animals. This can be a useful time to discuss any issues on farm, review appropriate medicine usage and focus on animal husbandry.
View Smallholders Package details

Husbandry advice

Our vets are happy to advise on all husbandry issues from housing and nutrition to more specific health advice. We provide phone call advice as well as in person visits so however small or large your query, please get in touch.

For more in-depth discussions surrounding husbandry and more, consider a health plan visit, or have a look at our Smallholder Club membership.

Routine surgeries & procedures

We perform many routine surgical procedures including castration, vasectomy and emergency surgery where required. We are happy to disbud goats on farm or in the surgery. We also perform routine surgeries including castration.

24-hour emergency services

All our vets are enthusiastic and dedicated farm vets. We provide our own 24-hour emergency service always with a smile on our faces!

Post-mortem investigation

Our practice firmly believes that appropriately targeted post-mortem investigation can be a very valuable and quite economic tool for informing herd health and farm management decisions.

We have a dedicated post-mortem room at our West Stour branch where we can perform economic sheep/goat, poultry/game bird or cattle youngstock post-mortems. We can also perform post-mortem investigation on smaller animals (sheep/goats/calves) on farm if this is more convenient.

For adult cattle post-mortem investigations, we generally advise that these are carried out either at a fallen stock centre such as SecAnim or at the hunt kennels as a thorough investigation on farm is rarely possible.

All post-mortems should be performed as promptly after death as is practical.

In-house laboratory

Our in-house laboratory offers worm egg and coccidia counts, milk sample culture and somatic cell count testing, haematology, biochemistry and investigation of external parasites.