Penbode Farm Vets

Penbode Farm Vets At Penbode Farm Vets our service to your farm goes beyond the treatment of individual animals.

Our vets deliver a 24/7 service 365 days a year, meaning that we always have you covered. At Penbode Farm Vets we know that our service to your farm goes beyond the treatment of individual animals. That's why your dedicated farm vet will take time to get to know about your business and your livestock, and why we take pride in ensuring we have the latest knowledge in the prevention and cure of dise

ases, the use of which helps to drive your productivity. Whether you run a dairy, beef or sheep farm, or have set up a smallholding, our specialist farm veterinarians are some of the most experienced in Devon and Cornwall, and their knowledge of the local area and farming conditions ensures you will get the best advice to help maintain healthy, productive animals.

🐄🐑🐄 Farm Vet Taster Day 🐑🐄🐑Following the success of last year, we are pleased to announce our Farm Vet Taster Day is bac...
23/04/2025

🐄🐑🐄 Farm Vet Taster Day 🐑🐄🐑

Following the success of last year, we are pleased to announce our Farm Vet Taster Day is back!

It’s difficult for us to accommodate young students for farm vet work experience due to rules and regulations, so in light of this we are delighted to be able to offer a farm vet taster day for those aged between 15 and 18.

This will be a one day taster event to be held at our Holsworthy branch and run by two of our farm vets. Wednesday 30th July, 10am - 3pm.

The day will include a mix of practical and theory sessions. It will give those interested in a career as a farm vet an insight as to what it entails.

There will be no charge for this event. However, places are very limited, we are therefore asking all those interested to apply for a space on the taster day by sending a letter of interest to [email protected]. Applications close on Friday 30th May.

You can't miss the Bude Boys U16's rugby team in their bright pink tour hoodies! We are pleased to hear the team had an ...
20/04/2025

You can't miss the Bude Boys U16's rugby team in their bright pink tour hoodies!

We are pleased to hear the team had an amazing weekend away on tour.

It was our pleasure to sponsor their tour hoodies.

Nematodirosis is the disease which is caused by the Nematodirus worm.Nematodirus battus is very dependent on climatic co...
19/04/2025

Nematodirosis is the disease which is caused by the Nematodirus worm.

Nematodirus battus is very dependent on climatic conditions– a mass hatch occurs on the grass when a period of cold is followed by 10 days of temperatures above 10°C. When a mass hatch coincides with lambs beginning to eat significant amounts of grass, at between 6 – 12 weeks of age, the results can be devastating. A risk forecast based on daily local temperatures from the beginning of January is available through both NADIS and SCOPs. This provides an indication of when peak hatch is likely to occur in a given area and provides an early warning for farmers with lambs grazing high risk pastures that preventative dosing is indicated. Selecting grazing for young lambs early in the season to avoid the same pastures grazed by the previous years’ lamb crop reduces the risk of disease being perpetuated from year to year.

The damage is caused by immature larvae, so no eggs are being produced at this stage. As such, worm egg counts are not a reliable indicator of risk and action must be taken based on estimated risk.

It's Bank Holiday Weekend!We hope your animals stay safe and well this weekend, but if you do need us, we will, of cours...
18/04/2025

It's Bank Holiday Weekend!

We hope your animals stay safe and well this weekend, but if you do need us, we will, of course, be available for any emergencies that may arise.🚨

If you have any concerns, call us on your usual branch number to be connected to our on call vet.

🌷 Happy Easter 🐣

What is Nematodirus? Nematodirus is a gutworm that lives in lambs' stomach and intestines, typically infecting young lam...
17/04/2025

What is Nematodirus?

Nematodirus is a gutworm that lives in lambs' stomach and intestines, typically infecting young lambs in the spring at around 6-12 weeks of age.

If you are concerned you might have Nematodirus in your flock, please call your local branch and a vet will be happy to discuss this with you.

Bank holiday opening hours for Penbode Farm Vets.Friday 18th April 2025: Emergency OnlySaturday 19th April 2025: Normal ...
15/04/2025

Bank holiday opening hours for Penbode Farm Vets.

Friday 18th April 2025: Emergency Only
Saturday 19th April 2025: Normal Saturday Hours
Sunday 20th April 2025: Emergency Only
Monday 21st April 2025: Emergency Only

What a great day we had last Saturday at our annual sponsored match day at Bude Rugby Club.The sun shone, the hog roast ...
11/04/2025

What a great day we had last Saturday at our annual sponsored match day at Bude Rugby Club.

The sun shone, the hog roast was fantastic and we were treated to two fantastic games of rugby, with wins for both the Bude Ladies and Mens teams.

🐑🐄🐐 Vaccine splitting service 🐐🐄🐑Have you thought about vaccinating for Bluetongue?With Bluetongue sweeping across the c...
11/04/2025

🐑🐄🐐 Vaccine splitting service 🐐🐄🐑

Have you thought about vaccinating for Bluetongue?

With Bluetongue sweeping across the country it is becoming ever more important to vaccinate your stock to protect them from disease - particularly sheep for whom the mortality rate is high. The vaccine is an injectable vaccine which can be given to sheep, cattle, goats and alpacas*. For our smallholder clients or those who only have a small number of animals, we are offering a vaccine splitting service. This way you only pay for the doses you need.

We will be opening a bottle of Bluetongue Vaccine on Wednesday 16th April 2025. Doses can either be collected from our Holsworthy branch that day or a vet can come out and administer it for you (charges apply). Once the bottle is opened it must be used within 10 hours so doses must be administered that day.

If you would like to discuss vaccinating your animals or would like to place an order for the vaccine, please give your local branch a call. If you would like to place an order as part of our vaccine splitting service, please order by the Tuesday 15th April 2025.
*off-license in goats and alpacas

🐄🐑Kai will be at Holsworthy Market tomorrow 🐄🐑If you need to pick up drugs from the market hut, please call the office, ...
08/04/2025

🐄🐑Kai will be at Holsworthy Market tomorrow 🐄🐑

If you need to pick up drugs from the market hut, please call the office, and we can arrange this for you.

🐄The Penbode Farm Vets April 2025 Newsletter🐄Click here to download your issue of the April 2025 Penbode Farm Vets Newsl...
04/04/2025

🐄The Penbode Farm Vets April 2025 Newsletter🐄
Click here to download your issue of the April 2025 Penbode Farm Vets Newsletter.
www.penbodevets.co.uk/farm-news

Controlling Orf this SpringWhat are the signs of Orf?ORF commonly affects the lips, mouth, and surrounding skin but can ...
31/03/2025

Controlling Orf this Spring

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 (e.g. strawberry footrot).

Orf Prevention & Management by Vaccinating with Scabigard®

Scabigard® vaccine should only be used in flocks where ORF virus infection has been confirmed, and lambs can be vaccinated at any age from birth prior to the period of infection risk.

If you would like any more information on vaccinating your flock with Scabigard, please contact your local branch and a vet will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

🐑🐄🐐 Vaccine splitting service 🐐🐄🐑Have you thought about vaccinating for Bluetongue?With Bluetongue sweeping across the c...
30/03/2025

🐑🐄🐐 Vaccine splitting service 🐐🐄🐑

Have you thought about vaccinating for Bluetongue?

With Bluetongue sweeping across the country it is becoming ever more important to vaccinate your stock to protect them from disease - particularly sheep for whom the mortality rate is high. The vaccine is an injectable vaccine which can be given to sheep, cattle, goats and alpacas*. For our smallholder clients or those who only have a small number of animals, we are offering a vaccine splitting service. This way you only pay for the doses you need.

We will be opening a bottle of Bluetongue Vaccine on Wednesday 2nd April. Doses can either be collected from our Holsworthy branch that day or a vet can come out and administer it for you (charges apply). Once the bottle is opened it must be used within 10 hours so doses must be administered that day.

If you would like to discuss vaccinating your animals or would like to place an order for the vaccine, please give your local branch a call. If you would like to place an order as part of our vaccine splitting service, please order by the 31st March.

*off-license in goats and alpacas

Thank you to all of you who joined us for our Bluetongue meetings this week. We had over 80 of you join us.The meetings ...
28/03/2025

Thank you to all of you who joined us for our Bluetongue meetings this week. We had over 80 of you join us.

The meetings were led by our Vet Oli, who discussed the current situation, clinical signs in sheep and cattle and what we can do to help minimise the risk, including vaccinating stock.

Thank you to Virbac for your support with the meetings.

If you have any questions or would like to speak to a vet regarding vaccinating your stock, please don't hesitate to give us a call.

Thank you to all at Great Moreton Estate for allowing us to host our most recent beef meeting there last week. We demons...
26/03/2025

Thank you to all at Great Moreton Estate for allowing us to host our most recent beef meeting there last week.

We demonstrated a bull fertility test and discussed the benefits of doing them, as well as a discussion on synching beef herds. We were also joined by Kelly from MSD who delivered a presentation about controlling crypto and their new vaccine Bovilis Cryptium. Thank you to MSD for sponsoring this meeting.

It's not too late to book a space or two for tomorrow's meeting at Week St Mary. To book, please call your local branch ...
25/03/2025

It's not too late to book a space or two for tomorrow's meeting at Week St Mary. To book, please call your local branch or email [email protected]

Our Holsworthy meeting is now fully booked, but we do have spaces for the Week St Mary meeting. If you would like to boo...
21/03/2025

Our Holsworthy meeting is now fully booked, but we do have spaces for the Week St Mary meeting.

If you would like to book a space, please contact your local branch or email [email protected]

We'd love for you all to be able to join us for what promises to be a fantastic day of rugby with TWO matches to enjoy a...
20/03/2025

We'd love for you all to be able to join us for what promises to be a fantastic day of rugby with TWO matches to enjoy and a complementary free drink and hog roast for our clients too.

Arrive from midday, hog roast will be served from 2pm.

To book please call you local branch, we look forward to seeing you all there.

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North Road
Holsworthy
EX226HB

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

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With a team of 22 dedicated Farm Vets, VetTechs and TB Testers across five practices in Devon and Cornwall, you can be sure of consistent high quality care from Penbode Farm Vets...24/7/365.

With access to innovative diagnostic tools and knowledgeable vets with a wealth of local experience, we offer the smallest smallholder to the largest commercial dairy enterprise, the very best veterinary service.

Look out for our regular monthly medicine offers too!