Lisnafillan Farm Vets

22/04/2025

FLECTRON TAGS 🪰

As we approach turnout, fly season is upon us! Flectron tags are effective up to 5 months providing season long control! One tag is usually suffice and application is simple🐮

17/04/2025

15/04/2025

⚠️ Important information! ⚠️

13/04/2025

Ruminant Vet required for independent farm practice

Due to an expanding case load we are a looking for a 6th dedicated farm vet to join our young team.

Located in Co.Antrim the practice is only 30 mins away from the coast and Belfast city. With Belfast international airport a 25 minute drive away also.

Currently the practice has a 75%dairy 25%sheep and beef split, with a good variety of pedigree and commercial units. Due to the progressive nature of our work regular herd health and fertility visits alongside in-depth disease investigations play an integral role in our day to day work, applicants must be eager to complete this type of preventative work to a high standard to help support our friendly and forward thinking farmers improve their overall herd health. All emergency work and TB testing is shared equally.

CPD is funded and any area of expertise or advanced certifications will be encouraged and supported.

The practice offers clarifide genomic testing, interherd plus analysis and total vet.

4 Easi-scanners, fertility testing equipment, rice pelvimeter.

Opa Scanner with combi clamp. Flock health club with regular farmer meetings.

In house calf scour testing and Ovacyte machine.

RCVS and VDS membership paid.

AVSPNI membership paid and one other publication of applicants choice.

Milage payments or Company Van

38 days holidays

1 in 5 ooh rota with time off in lieu of weekend on call.

Around the clock support.

Competitive salary/package DOE available.

Contact Laura on 07398484408 or Sam on 07523077170 for further info or to arrange an informal meet or email [email protected] to upload a CV.

10/04/2025

⚠️ NEMATODIRUS UPDATE ⚠️

06/04/2025

27/03/2025

A big shout out to our vet Jess who has been nominated for Young Vet of the year .
Very well deserved! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

25/03/2025

Pet lamb rearing is a big discussion point.
Pet Lambs can be a lot of work for little return.
One of our vets likes a cold ad-lib system, and has found it to rear lambs well and with profit.

What have we used?
➡️Hiko mini suckler system
➡️Large bucket - we find this Trouw Nutrition Ireland Reviva bucket perfect
➡️Smaller buckets for milk
➡️ Lamlac milk powder
➡️ Farming Focus Ireland Precision Microbes
➡️Milton spray. Tubing and buckets are cleaned with baby sterilising fluid.

Why cold ad-lib feeding?
➡️Lambs don't gorge and just drink to their requirements, they can feed regularly, just like they would naturally.
➡️Milk replenished once or twice daily depending on the amount on the feeder - it takes minimal time!

Top tips
➡️ HYGIENE: clean buckets and tubing with baby sterilising fluid such as Milton
➡️HYGIENE: wipe the plate and teats clean and then respray to allow the specified contact time to kill off bacteria and virus, for spray this is 5 minutes.
➡️feed milk powder as per the recommendations on the bag, make sure you use a milk suitable for a cold ad-lib system.
➡️using a gut stabiliser like Precision Microbes that has pre and post biotics, helps to reduce and prevent gut upsets and scour.

24/03/2025

A few of our vets have been trailing nobacZ and are impressed so far. Navels certainly dry up quickly. It is recommended that you use it on the navel as soon as possible afterbirth.
Ear tagging is also a major source of joint ill infection and it is now advised to spray tag needles prior to tagging.

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22/03/2025

12/03/2025

We are now on instagram....give us a follow
https://www.instagram.com/lisnafillanfarmvets/

20/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended last nights flock health club meeting! A great night was had discussing all things pre-lambing. A special thanks must go to William and his flock for hosting us🐑

Please contact us with any flock health queries you may have, we are happy to help!

12/02/2025

ONE WEEK TO GO! 🐑

🐑 Our first flock health club meeting of the year is coming up! 🐑

Full details below🤩

To join our flock health club, give the office a call on 07791146060.

06/02/2025

Colostrum is vital! Please see below for the key points to successful colostrum feeding 🍼

01/02/2025

It's Febu-dairy! 🐄