Westmorland Veterinary Group - Farm Services

13/11/2025

Westmorland farm vets are hiring!
Role: Large Animal Veterinary Surgeon 🐄🐑

​We are looking for an enthusiastic vet to join our farm team. You'll be joining a friendly, supportive practice with loyal clients and the opportunity to shape how our farm services grow from here.
​If you love working with dedicated farmers and being part of a community that truly values what you do, we would really love to hear from you.
​Based in Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale,
​Full or part time hours considered.
​For more information, please email [email protected]

08/09/2025

We are running a free mastitis workshop at Kendal! 🎉

We'd like to invite you all to join us on the 24th as we discuss all things mastitis including discussing how we can reduce the prevalence through things such as parlour testing as well as knowing accurately what the issue at hand is - which is where our AMP lab system comes in!

Speak to one of the vets or phone in to register for the event 📞🐄

30/08/2025

30/07/2025

There has been a confirmed positive case of bluetongue in Cumbria.

Please remain vigilant for signs of the disease - follow this link to some good up to date pictures of what the symptoms look like in both cattle and sheep: https://ahdb.org.uk/clinical-signs-of-bluetongue

If you are in any doubt please contact us and if you are concerned please give us a ring as we can talk you through vaccination options and what you might expect to experience if you do see a case of bluetongue.

25/07/2025

It's quickly rolling around to that time of year again when we think towards tupping! Using a vasectomised or 'teaser' tup can help reduce the length of the lambing period by helping bring ewes into season ahead of putting them with the rams, allowing a tighter period of mating. This involves taking out the part of the tups anatomy that connects the testicles to the p***s. This means that they will still have the hormones of a ram but no ability to get ewes in lamb! 🐑♂️

In order to make sure we have no viable s***m still floating around we want to get our tups vasectomised 60 days before they go in with ewes. They should be healthy animals with no history of issues such as pneumonia etc. They want to go in around 2 weeks before the rams and the ewes need to have been away from the smell and presence of tups for a good month before using a tup, for maximum effect📅

If you would like to have a tup/s vasectomised, please ring in and book - we tend to do these out of our lambing rooms, meaning you can leave the tups to be done with us and collect later in the day 🛻

25/07/2025

We are running another medicines course next Friday at the practice - please let us know if you would like to attend! 💊💉