CVS Farm Vets

30/10/2026

Friday Feels!

Well done to the team Cheshire Farm Vets with two outstanding clinical achievements to toast the weekend with 🍾

Across our Farm Division we encourage all our colleagues to take on further learning challenges, from SQP qualifications, Maths GCSEs to European Diplomas- we are behind you all the way!

🍾 Cheshire Farm Vets Celebrate! 🍾

Congratulations to our Clinical Director, Jenny Marmion on passing her Masters in Bovine Reproduction with flying colours and to Senior Vet, Angelica Mazzone for achieving her certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice.

A HUGE well done to both of you. You have worked incredibly hard towards these achievements alongside your normal working days. We are proud of you both and inspired by the hard work and commitment needed to acheive this. You truly are super women!! ♥️

30/10/2026

🚨 Sudden Lamb Deaths This Autumn? Don't Overlook Pasteurellosis 🚨

SRUC Veterinary Services are highlighting that systemic pasteurellosis is a common cause of death in weaned lambs between September and December, with some outbreaks causing significant losses. Lambs are often found dead with little or no warning signs beforehand. [sruc.ac.uk]

⚠️ Key risk factors include:

✅ Weaning stress
✅ Handling and transport
✅ Mixing groups of lambs
✅ Moving onto fresh grazing
✅ Sudden changes to cold, wet weather
✅ Underlying challenges such as worms, fluke, tick-borne fever or trace element deficiencies [sruc.ac.uk]

Recent warm, wet autumn conditions can increase parasite burdens and disease pressure, potentially contributing to more outbreaks. [sruc.ac.uk]

🛡️ Protect your flock by:
• Reviewing vaccination protocols with your vet
• Minimising stress around handling and weaning
• Monitoring worm and fluke burdens
• Ensuring nutrition and trace element status are adequate
• Investigating unexplained deaths promptly through post-mortem examination [fas.scot], [sruc.ac.uk]

Early prevention is key. If you're seeing unexpected lamb losses this autumn, speak to your veterinary team for advice and support.

21/10/2026

So very proud of Stephen one of the Advanced Breeding team Castle Farm Vets. Rusty is a brilliant piece of engineering and a fantastic sum for a great cause. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

What started as a project to keep a farmer occupied while recovering from heart problems has helped raise an incredible £40,000 for charity. 🐂❤️

Former British Charolais Cattle Society president Steve Nesbitt created 'Rusty', a life-sized bull made entirely from welded metal chains, after being forced to step back from day-to-day farming.

After a summer touring agricultural shows and livestock markets, Rusty sold for 27,000gns at Stirling Bull Sales, helping take the fundraising total to about £40,000 for the British Heart Foundation and the MND Association.

Read the story behind Rusty: https://ow.ly/q6bG50ZZi1T

British Charolais Cattle Society

16/10/2026

A final post to celebrate World Vet Tech Week with British & Irish Veterinary Technicians Association - BIVTA

As a group of passionate farm vet practices we are always looking at ways to offer more to our clients. We know how tough it is out there at the moment, many of the CVS Farm team also have their own stock, or are involved in the family farm.

The true value of a Vet Tech is more than just a Vet Tech we want to offer our clients more that just a routine, more than just a health plan. By using our team of Vet Techs we are able to support our clients collecting data, watching cattle movement, marking sheep. We know that on farm there is endless data, but by using techs we have a way of collecting data and collaborating with our farmers to get the information that they want.

🐂🐄🐑🐖 More than just a routine. 🐂🐄🐑🐖

15/10/2026

Continuing on looking at a snippet of the services that our Farm Vet Tech's offer....

❄️ Freeze Branding ❄️
During World Vet Tech Week British & Irish Veterinary Technicians Association - BIVTA we are keen to showcase just a few of the skills that our great techs have!

We have a number of practices that are trained and able to Freeze Brand on farm. Freeze Branding is a common identification method that is used in dairy farms. As a division CVS Farm are keen to support all our clients, both clinically and also with tasks on the farm. By offering these additional services to our clients farmers are able to work with a team they know and trust.

Continue to follow us this week to find out about additional on farm services that our team offers.

14/10/2026

What else do our # do?

🐛🐄🐑This week we are putting Vet Techs at the spot light at the centre of our attention. At CVS we encourage all our techs to also undergo their SQP training. This allows them to advise and prescribe a number of preventatives on farm- such as wormers and fly treatments.

To get accurate information and be able to give the best advice our Techs & SQPs will ask farmers for faecal samples so that we are able to use our in house lab equipment to run accurate tests to give us accurate results. 🐛🐄🐑

If you would like to find out more about the tests we do in practice- contact us today

British & Irish Veterinary Technicians Association - BIVTA

13/10/2026

🐄🐄Our Vet Techs do a huge amount of work with calves, from sampling to disbudding, weighing, and colostrum testing. Our techs offer many additional services to farmers. Having healthy, fit calves is vital to their development and productivity in later life, and catching poor performance, early signs of illness, or general under-the-weather stock is key to this.🐄🐄

are able to work with our clients on scheduled weekly and monthly visits or simply as an ad hoc requirement. By knowing the signs early, we are able to work with farmers to ensure that we can make changes prior to the problems becoming too much!

Supporting our Vet Techs through World Vet Tech Week with British & Irish Veterinary Technicians Association - BIVTA

12/10/2026

We are proud to be involved in World Vet Tech week with British & Irish Veterinary Technicians Association - BIVTA.
At CVS Farm we value our team of vet techs every day from cleaning kit, to disbudding calves we would not be the division we are! 🐑🐄🐐

12/10/2026

Supporting World Vet Tech Week with - British & Irish Veterinary Technicians Association - BIVTA

At CVS Farm, our practices are all supported by Farm Vet Techs who are able to offer services to clients on farm, support our clinical teams, and many are SQPs who can prescribe a number of farm treatments.

By using Vet Techs, we are able to offer our clients that extra pair of hands at a time of need, or the ability to gain more data from stock.

Over the coming week, our practices will be sharing firsthand experiences of the life of a Vet Tech and what they get up to day-to-day - from sampling FEC to disbudding calves.

Want to find out more? Speak to your local practice today. 🐂🐄🐑🐖

24/09/2026

Another busy week for the team with a number of practices joining at National Sheep Association Tup Sale at Builth.
As always some great sheep on sale and we did well to persuade the team to not spend their money.

We have to remind clients more than ever this is the year to test. We are seeing a lot of sub fertile rams at the moment, which is one of the key side effects of BTV. We cannot stress enough the importance pre tupping to get new stock checked as you may otherwise be disappointed with performance!

Recent data in the Farmers Guardian outlines:
Semen Analysis Failures: Of the rams that underwent semen collection and microscopic analysis, only 52% passed. The remaining 48% produced poor-quality semen, rendering them entirely unsuitable for breeding at the time of testing.

Speak to your local practice today