Thrums Vets - Farm

26/05/2026

Spring Beef Meeting 🌱

All beef clients are invited to an evening meeting to review calving, present out new Beef Club and chat through any other topical matters - all very informal.

Food and refreshments provided - 7pm Tuesday 2nd June - Strathmore Golf Centre - Alyth. All welcome but please call the practice or speak to one of our vets to book your place

09/01/2026

First embryo calf!! 🧬 🐮

This is the first calf produced start to finish by our advanced breeding team! We produced embryos from his mother at the end of 2024, implanted in March 25 and now he has safely arrived and is thriving well 💪

“Attaboy” completes the process that we’ve been working towards for the past 2 years and it’s great to see the work we’ve put in, and the trust our clients have shown in us, come to fruition. Here’s hoping he’s the first of many!

For any advanced breeding enquiries please contact Andrew or Jennifer at Kirriemuir surgery, we’ll be looking to arrange our next embryo collection day shortly 🙌

19/11/2025

We’re all setup and ready to go at AgriScot today! Chilly day but the urns hot so come and have a chat and a cuppy ☕️ 🐮

17/11/2025

We’re getting things ready for our first attendance at Agriscot this Wednesday! We’ll be joined by some of the friendly team from Paragon Advanced Breeding to discuss all things Cattle Advanced Breeding 🐮 🧬 We’ll be at stand 154 in the Central Hall so if you’re heading down please pop in to have a chat

14/11/2025

Our November newsletter is out now with our news, info on liver fluke, Johnes and sheep scab

November has started very mild and damp and we're finding it highly unorthodox sweating through our PD and blood sampling sessions rather than fighting the frost in our toes! These routine jobs are getting well underway and early scanning results are coming out broadly favourable with cows and bulls...

15/10/2025

Our October Newsletter is out now with our latest news, info on liver fluke, acorn poisoning and preventing winter pneumonia in lambs

The first of the winter storms has come and gone without too much drama and the weather again seems set fair. That said, for many thoughts are now turning to housing for cattle and tupping for sheep. As with all aspects of life a bit of forward planning goes a long way and strategic planning

15/09/2025

Our September Newsletter is out now with info on Tup fertility, avoiding the big risks this sale season and getting ahead with calf pneumonia

With harvest completed in record times for most, the livestock work is picking up again. A few adopters of early scanning have had spring calving herds scanned with good results so far. Early PDing gives us the best chance to accurately age foetuses, pick up any twins and crucially, get cull cows aw...

11/09/2025

Lungworm - Live worms found just 2 weeks after pour on application 🐮🪱🫣

This video shows how tricky lungworm can be to control, and even in appropriately treated groups, high pasture challenge can still result in disease, poor weight gain, secondary pneumonia and even death 👎 difficult to say whether drug was overwhelmed in this case or that these are truly resistant worms but we will be working to implement a new control strategy with this client

12/08/2025

Our August Newsletter is online now with lots of parasite information in 🐄 and 🐑!

As we write harvest for many is well underway. Whilst the weather has been favourable for this, yields are down due to protracted dry weather earlier in the summer. The impacts of this are being felt across the livestock sectors also, with many grazers chasing grass. This far north we are buffered f...