Farm Care Services

Our vets are happy to attend all sick animal calls.

To order medication from our Cookstown or Dungannon surgeries, please call your local branch, giving us at least 24 hours’ notice to prepare your order.

We can carry out castrations, displaced abdomen and caesarean surgeries and more.

We can carry out faecal worm egg counts, biochemistry, haematology and more onsite.

We can use genomic testing to evaluate your herd’s current genetic base, set objectives, identify the key criteria for maximising genetic progress and plan, implement and monitor a clear testing strategy.

DairyCo Healthy Feet programme, regular mobility scoring, lameness mapping and on-farm risk assessments with a mobility mentor.

We can carry out milk screening, blood sampling and mastitis and cell count investigation, diagnose cystic and non-cycling cows, diagnose and treat infections and synchronise groups.

Advice and troubleshooting on housing, water trough placement and cow tracks. Many of our vets are trained in cow signals, and can help you maximise production and reduce stress.

Locomotion scoring can be used to identify lameness, and evaluates standing and walking back posture by assigning a qualitative score between one and five.

Regular visits to assess your calf rearing and provide advice on everything from colostrum management and disease control to building design and ventilation systems.

A bespoke youngstock management package. We will visit you to weigh-tape calves and collect treatment and mortality data, and then visit to assess calf health and identify issues.

Our team can provide continual udder health monitoring and management, as well as parlour testing.

Mastitis treatment and prevention to maintain good udder health and achieve total bacterial count targets.

Our herd health plans include detailed advice on the day-day-management of beef cattle, the prevention of respiratory diseases, environment management and vaccination programmes.

We offer testing to check for the presence of diseases, such as BVD, IBR, Leptospirosis and Johne’s disease, and can advise on biosecurity to help prevent and control infection.

Advice on nutrition, housing, environment, hypomagnesaemia and mastitis, as well as bull fertility testing and management, AI synchronisation and suckler cow calving management.

Our team can perform bull and ram breeding soundness examinations, which include fertility testing, to give you a comprehensive assessment of semen quality and breeding ability.

To book a sheep consultancy visit or to talk to a farm vet about any problems, please call our Cookstown Surgery on 028867 65765.

Our vets are trained in fertility testing, and offer routine semen testing for rams. We advise that rams are tested six to eight weeks before tupping to identify any problems early.

Individual flock health plans for sheep and goats to help achieve targets, maximise efficiency, control disease, develop treatment protocols and devise effective recording systems.

We recommend quarterly visits, which can include pre-tupping, mid-pregnancy, pre-lambing and post-lambing checks.

Flock lung scanning at our Cookstown branch to identify non-clinical cases of Jaagsiekte (Ovine Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma), as well as advice on how to tackle the problem. For more information, please call our Cookstown surgery on 028867 65765.