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Teaser Tups for Sale at Dalehead

04 July 2024

Some of our newer vets spent an excellent CPD day at Dalehead in Settle with vets Andrew, Karen and Ian. The theory session covered all elements of controlling the breeding season in sheep, which was followed by a practical session vasectomising several tups that belong to Andrew. All attendees rated the day highly and apparently lunch was exceptional!
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"School Trip" to the SRUC Dumfries

12 June 2024

All of our practices send off samples to "the lab" and speak to "the lab" so it was great to actually have a visit there and meet the team behind the scenes. Colin Mason arranged a PM room session and a lab session to look at latest trends in parasitology and abortion sampling. The day was rounded of with a curry in Dumfries, courtesy of Claire from MSD.
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Lungworm control - a radical change in approach is needed.

13 March 2024

Neighbouring practices Dalehead Veterinary Group and Farm Gate Vets teamed up for a joint farmer meeting on lungworm and general cattle worm control to ultilise the expertise of Colin Mason from the SRUC Dumfries. Cattle wormer resistance is a train coming down the track and we must act now was the main message. Reliance on relatively cheap pour on wormers has become widespread and we need to re think our approach through tools such as faecal testing and vaccination for lungworm. Beef roll and chips were enjoyed by all at Bentham Golf Club.
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24 hours with Zoetis!

21 February 2024

Making good use of Iain McCormick and Rob Smith from Zoetis, we organised a trip for them which started with an evening debate at Shap Wells hotel, for new grads, old grads and all those in between. The topic being "Which antibiotic"? The following morning started on farm with training for vets and vet techs on teat sealing and taking milk samples.
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Learning from the Poultry Industry

09 January 2024

In January we held a series of client meetings and a vet CPD night which were hosted by Boehringer Ingelheim with their Poultry Specialist Jen Lock and Cattle Vet Kath Aplin. The poultry industry has dramatically reduced antibiotic use through strict hygiene and biosecurity protocols. The same principles can be applied to calf sheds. At the vet CPD we went into more detail on appropriate uses for disinfectants and detergents.
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Dispelling Myths and Exploring the Halal market

18 October 2023

This was a completely different topic for us but considering our high density of sheep clients, it was really good to understand more about this sector, which accounts for over 70% of the British Lamb Market. Dr Awal Fuseini from AHDB talked about how the vast majority of UK Halal slaughter is now stunned and how in the future there is potential for export. Alex Ashworth from MSD spoke about sheep lameness and the Happy Feet Happy Sheep Campaign.
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Always a pleasure to host the Taurus Mastitis CPD events.

20 September 2023

At Farm Gate Vets near Kendal we have taken great pleasure in hosting the QMMS Taurus CPD events which are attended by vets from all across our region, from both member practices and non members. Providing a Northwest base that is handy to the M6 saves lots of travelling to Somerset for this excellent CPD.
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Vet Tech Collaboration with Kate

19 September 2023

Vet techs from across our practices meet on a regular basis to share ideas and generally chew the fat! In September we had a lovely meal and a discussion around the cost of BRD with Kate and Bryan from Ceva Animal Health.
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The Quick Respiratory Postmortem and Sampling Techniques

30 August 2023

Hosted by Dalehead at Settle a very informative afternoon was spent with Hipra. Investigating potenial causes of death, and ruling out certain causes is essential to bulild a picture of health in the herd.
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Training day with Emma from Bestico

13 July 2023

In July a team of vets and vet techs spent a day with Emma Pattison from Bestico, training on how parasitic mites, wasps and flies can help control pest fly populations on farm. This biological method means reliance on traditional chemical methods can be reduced.
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Liverpool Vet School Careers Fair

01 June 2023

A great day was had by all at Liverpool University Vet Student Careers fair in May. A very well organised event and a great opportunity to speak to future vets about their aspirations and career paths.
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Robotics for Vets CPD

02 February 2023

Elanco and Lely hosted a Vet CPD day on farm near Gisburn, run by vet Mike Steele who provides services for Co-op farms, Processors, Retailers and Animal Health Companies.
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QMMS Taurus Mastitis CPD hosted by Farm Vet Network

07 December 2022

Farm Vet Network were pleased to host a QMMS Taurus Mastitis CPD event – Getting Started with Mastitis control at our Farm Gate Kendal Practice, where we were joined by tutor Al Manning. 16 vets attended from a mixture of member and non member practices. Feedback was good with both experienced and new vets taking lots of practical tips away. We plan to host more Taurus events in 2023, please see our events page.
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Dairy Cow Nutrition with Emma Redfern

19 November 2022

Dr Emma Redfern is an independent dairy nutritionist from Stafford who has worked on several farms in our area. We had a good turn out of vets for this event held at Dalehead’s farm building at Settle who picked up some sound advice from Emma on dealing with nutritional problems on our client’s farms.
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Vet Tech CPD on Calf Scour and Hygiene

08 November 2022

Our dream team of vet techs from across the practices attended this half day training, a mixture of classroom and on farm with Boehringer Vet, Kath Alpin. As well as being a good training and information gathering event, our vet techs benefit from sharing ideas to take back to their own practices.
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Post Mortem Vet CPD day with Ben Strugnell

22 June 2022

Vets thoroughly enjoyed a training day with Ben Strugnell for Farm Post Mortems, despite the unfavourable heat a practical session took place in on of our local fallen stock yard followed by a classroom session back at Dalehead, Settle. Ben also joined us for follow up on farm events.
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Mastitis - Tube Choice and Vaccines

24 May 2022

Based around a nice pub meal, kindly sponsored by Zoetis and Hipra, vets attending had a good discussion with Colin Penny on mastitis tube choice, taking into account an on farm survey that was carried out with clients on this subject. We also heard from Hipra vet Alistair Couper on best practice and on which farms we should be using vaccines.
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