Severn Edge Farm Vets

25/04/2025

Goodbye Ina!

Today marks Ina’s last day with us here at Severn Edge Farm. Ina has been a stalwart of the TB Crew at the practice and is such fun to have about.

We wish her all the best with everything, and a huge thank you from us and all the clients.

23/04/2025

🔵🔵👅We are getting asked more and more… so here is the latest. 🔵🔵👅

BULTAVO 3™ is a new vaccine that protects cattle and sheep against bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV-3). BULTAVO 3™ is the first BTV-3 vaccine that prevents clinical signs and mortality. This is the vaccine that we will be stocking and supplying at Severn Edge Farm.
🔵It is a a POM- V Vaccine therefore needs to be prescribed by a vet.
🔵It comes in 50 dose bottles and is a live vaccine so once opened needs using.
🔵We are seeing a huge increase in demand, and currently supply does not meet demand so we are compiling data of what doses people will need so we can continue to chase our allocation.

Please speak to the team ASAP and pop your name down on the list. We are expecting stock early May time. If in doubt please call, 01746 713 911, or pop in to speak to a vet today.

16/04/2025

⚠️All fixed ⚠️
Back to usual service

Thank you 🐏🐄

10/04/2025

🔵We are starting to get asked more and more about Blue Tongue Vaccination, the team at Severn Edge Farm are more than happy to chat to you about protecting your herd or flock.
🔵We do also have some limited vaccines in stock now as well.

The three key messages are:
1. Assess your risk: vets and farmers working together to evaluate the risk to BTV-3 on farms by using our vaccination calculators and decision-making tool.

2. Protect your business: safeguard businesses from restrictions by managing all identified risks that can be controlled on livestock holdings.

3. Defend your stock: vaccinate the right animals for BTV-3 to reduce clinical signs.

To find out more give us a bell, or have a look at Battle Bluetongue campaign - Ruminant Health & Welfare https://ruminanthw.org.uk/bluetongue-virus/ which we think is a great resource!

07/04/2025

🐏🫦🐑 What Are the Signs of ORF? 🐏🐑👄
ORF commonly affects the lips, mouth, and surrounding skin but can also affect the feet (coronary band).
It occurs most commonly in young lambs, but occasionally can affect older sheep causing lesions on the teats and udder of nursing ewes. The virus causes sores to form, which encrust before scabbing over and then falling off. The underlying skin heals without scarring. This cycle takes approximately 4-5 weeks. Lambs lose condition as they are reluctant to feed and it is too painful for ewes with teat lesions to feed suckling lambs. Those with foot lesions will be lame. Skin sores may become infected by opportunistic bacteria, causing secondary infection (eg. strawberry footrot).

Prevention & Management ORF by Vaccinating with Scabigard®

Key PointsScabigard®
🐑vaccine should only be used in flocks where ORF virus infection has been confirmed
🐏Lambs can be vaccinated at any age from birth prior to the period of infection risk
🐑 Pregnant ewes should be vaccinated 7-8 weeks prior to lambing
🐏Do not vaccinate ewes < 7 weeks prior to lambing
🐑Do. not vaccinate during wet weather conditions

FiIND OUT MORE... https://www2.zoetis.co.uk/products-solutions/sheep/orf

04/04/2025

🌸 Happy Friday!🌸

It was always going to be a Good Friday when you get to bring a lamb home with you!

Welcome to the team Elmo!

02/04/2025

‼️Update‼️

We have had a clients update regarding the eye surgery on this heifer.

“Just to say a massive thank you to both Megan and Holly, the heifers eye is now fully healed she looks absolutely fantastic. They have done an amazing job!”

We know our girls are good, but it’s always lovely to hear that our clients think so too!

We hope you’re all handling silly season well! 🤪
Remember any worries our phones are open 24/7

📞01746713911

30/03/2025

Got to love a silly Spring season!! 🌸🌸🌸🐑🐑🐄🐄

A huge thank 'ewe' to our farm teams!

Our farm teams have been working around the clock. It’s the busiest time of the year with UK farms at the height of the lambing and calving season.

Thank you to each and every one of our farm colleagues for the work that you are doing at the moment to support our clients and their animals.

You are providing an incredible service to the livestock industry. And you are doing amazing work.

We hope that you all manage to get some rest at this exceptionally busy time of year.



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24/03/2025

🌾🌸🪻What a weekend our Super Tropper Meg Burgess completed:🌸🪻🌾
7 CALVINGS 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄
5 LAMBINGS 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
Some bloated steers🐂
And one sick calf 🐄

Oh and the British Alpaca Show as well!

A serious heroic effort and back on it today. Well done Megan!

24/03/2025

🪱 Nematodirus 🪱

With this fantastic weather turn out time has come! This is a good time to start thinking about Nematodirus and protecting your lambs against it!

🌱 At 6 weeks of age lambs start to nibble at the grass, which makes them at risk of picking up Nematodirus eggs.

🚫 Nematodirus is a nasty disease in lambs, which can stunt growth and increase mortality rates on your farm.

☀️ Keeping an eye on the Nematodirus forecast on the SCOPS website is key to understanding the risk in your area.

👩🏼‍💻Visit SCOPS.org.uk for more information, or give our vets a call on 01746713911.

Thank you!

15/03/2025

‼️We are experiencing phone issues at Severn Edge Farm, if you are unable to get through them please call the on call vets directly:
Pete
Holly
Susan

Or Shirley will be on the admin mobile as well from 8:30am: 07779 877113‼️

14/03/2025

And so we welcome Jess Broom!🎉

What will her role be? ATT

Jess joined the team in March 2025 and will be working as an ATT alongside Jon and Ella. Jess lives in Staffordshire with her Labrador Fern. She has loved all things cows since completing an access course at Rodbaston in animal care. Since then she has worked at a 700 strong dairy farm, Pickstock Abbatoir as a lairage operative and now is ready to step into her new role as an ATT for Severn Edge Farm Vets.

We know that Jess is going to excel in her role with us at Severn Edge and we look forward to watching her come along on her new journey!

Make sure to give her a wave when you see her out and about in the van! 🐄🐄

11/03/2025

🐷APHA pathway update🐷

Please take a moment to read through the latest updates for the Animal pathway.

Should you have any questions please give us a call on 📞- 01746713911

Thank you🐄🐑