Thrums Vets - Farm

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...

06/08/2025

A stunning location for a wee bit of cow pedicuring this afternoon!

16/07/2025

Abortion Vaccinations. 🐑 💉
It may seem early to be thinking about planning for lambing next year, but it’s critical to get vaccinations planned for Enzootic and Toxoplasma now. As we know from experience supply of these vaccines can be tricky, but both are available for order just now. To discuss vaccine requirements and ordering please give us a call.

01/07/2025

Our July Newsletter is out now with team update, bluetongue, worming lambs and blackleg in cattle

July sees us step into our quieter time of year with most of the routine work complete and bulls out for most. We continued to deal with a lot of individual cases of lameness - mostly in bulls who have gone out for a few weeks and then gone down with a foot problem. The

18/06/2025

We had a fantastic evening last night, with a big turnout out to discuss all things Bluetongue (and Schmallenberg). Many thanks to Fiona from for some excellent insight. If you’re still unsure about vaccination in your herd or flock please give us a call to discuss

14/06/2025

🌧️ Rain or shine, we're at the Alyth Show! ☔️🎪
Come visit us and try your luck in our tombola – some great prizes to be won! 🎉

The weather won’t stop the fun – pop by and say hello! 😄

13/06/2025

Our June Newsletter is out now with info on Bluetongue, Enzootic Abortion in ewes and beef cattle lameness. Click the link for more and please let us know if you don’t currently receive the newsletters straight to your inbox but would like to!

At long last a bit of rain has arrived! The warm, dry spring has been superb for turning out lambs and calves but pressure has now already started to be put on grass reserves for many. Careful planning will now be required to avoid buying in feed this winter if possible. These more extreme weather

10/06/2025

Bluetongue Meeting 📆 With rising concerns about the spread of Bluetongue, we are looking forward to hosting a meeting to discuss the disease (and Schmallenberg) how to spot it, the effects it may have and vaccination options. The meeting will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 17th of June at the Red House, Coupar Angus. To RSVP please call one of the branches or let one of our vets know.

12/03/2025

Our March Newsletter is out now with help and advice for the imminent lambing and calving period!

Over the past week or so things have really ramped up in the practice with the emergency spring work, we've been busy calving and caesaring with a few of these calls coming into the practice every day now. We've also had a large number of pr*****ed calf-beds with one or two places reporting more tha...