Synergy Farm Health

07/06/2026

🐄 Foundation Dairy Skills Course – Build Your Dairy Knowledge 🐄

📍 On farm in South Somerset nr Crewkerne
🗓️ 7-week course | Thursdays, 1 -4pm, starting 25th June

New to dairy or looking to broaden your skills? This practical, farm-based course is perfect for farm staff wanting a deeper understanding of all aspects of dairy farming.

🔍 What’s covered:
• Fertility & the annual cycle
• Calving & newborn care
• Calf rearing
• Health conditions & treatments
• Udder health & mastitis control
• Foot health & mobility
• Nutrition & the environment

👩🌾 Ideal for new entrants or those wanting to expand beyond a single area like milking or calf rearing.

💷 £494 + VAT

🎟️ Limited spaces – please book early!

👉 Find out more https://buff.ly/qeD8r6l

03/06/2026

🌿🐄 Join us for Open Farm Sunday – 7th June! 🐄🌿

We’re excited to be supporting Open Farm Sunday this year at two fantastic local farms – and you’re invited!

📍 Dollens Farm, Sydling St Nicholas, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 9PD
Enjoy a brilliant day on an organic dairy farm with:
🚜 Tractor & trailer rides across stunning chalkland SSSI sites
🌄 Beautiful views over the Sydling Valley
🥛 Milking demonstration from 2:00pm
🐄 Meet the team from Arla and Dorset Wildlife Trust
🌱 Learn how farming works hand-in-hand with nature
⏰ Tours running all day (approx. 1 hour), until 4:00pm

PLUS…
📍 Coppet Hill , Denhay Farm, Broadoak, DT6 5NP
A fun-packed day for all ages with:
🐑 Dorset Horn & Portland sheep
🐄 Shetland cattle
🐖 Saddleback pigs, calves & chickens
✂️ Live sheep shearing
🧶 Wool demonstrations – see how fleece becomes products

✨ A fantastic FREE day out for families, and of course current and future farmers!

Come along, get involved, and see where your food comes from — we’d love to see you there!

01/06/2026

🌍🥛 World Milk Day – June 1st 🥛🌍

Today we’re celebrating World Milk Day and recognising the incredible work of our dairy farmers!

From early mornings to late nights, their dedication ensures we have high-quality, nutritious milk on our tables every single day 👩‍🌾🐄

We’re proud to support our dairy farmers not just today, but 365 days of the year—thank you for everything you do for the industry, our rural communities, and future generations.

Let’s raise a glass of milk to them! 🥛💙

30/05/2026

A big thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the farm walk at Prospect Poll Dorsets in Swanage! 🌿🐑

With fantastic insights from guest speakers Janet Roden (Innovis Breeding Sheep), Sam Boon (Signet Breeding Services ), and Synergy vets Charlotte & Emily, attendees gained a valuable look into the Breed for CH4nge project and the role of Poll Dorset sheep within it.

There was plenty to see, and Belted Galloway and Hebridean fans certainly weren’t disappointed either!

Keep an eye out for more updates as we share project results, performance highlights, and how commercial producers can make the most of this work. 👀

Dorset Horn & Poll Dorset Sheep Breeders Association

28/05/2026

🐄 Synergy staff competing at the Bath & West 🐄

This week our vet Keith Cutler is part of the on site veterinary team for the Bath & West Shows at Shepton Mallet, a role he has enjoyed for many years👨‍⚕️🐑

Keith has been keeping us updated and sent us these pics of our colleagues (and their stock) getting ready for the show ring. Dave Phillips, our lead Vet Tech and expert foot trimmer is pictured here with wife Carla and his prize winning Longhorns 🏆🐂

And our popular East Devon ATT Chloe Burrough is taking time out from TB testing to show her Kerry Hill sheep......

Best of luck to Dave and Chloe, and all our clients competing at the show over the next few days!

27/05/2026

☀️Heat Stress Podcast☀️

We are resharing our podcast about heat stress in dairy cows - looking at the implications for cow performance and welfare and why this is a major problem - we have all seen cows struggling over these last few days 🥵 🐄 !

Join our vet Graeme McPherson, and Toby Wonnacott from AW Frampton & Son's Holly Farm nr Dorchester, to hear how the team have made an investment in fans, helping to maintain exceptional milk yield and fertility performance over the summer months ☀️ 🐄

Listen to the full podcast here https://buff.ly/tJuIWfZ 👆

26/05/2026

🐑 Smallholder Club Summer Meeting – Lameness & Footcare 🐑

Join the Synergy Smallholder Team for an informative and practical summer evening focused on lameness and footcare in sheep and goats on smallholdings. Taking place at Synergy Farm Health HQ in Rampisham, this session is ideal for anyone wanting to improve animal health and welfare on their smallholding.

📅 Wednesday 10th June 2026
🕖 7:00pm
📍 Synergy Head Office, Rampisham, Dorset
🥪 Buffet included

✅ Free for Smallholder Club members (up to two people per holding)
✅ Open to non-members for £15 per person (subject to availability)

📌 Booking is essential – secure your place now!

👉 Find out more and book here: https://buff.ly/ndTEzsO

25/05/2026

This bank holiday why not tune in to this Cornish Mutual podcast and listen to our very own Esme Moffett talking to our client Peter Delbridge about disease risk on farms in the SW 🐄🐑🦡🚜☀️!

Great stuff Esme - we are looking forward to the next one!

What are the biggest biosecurity risks facing South West farms right now and what simple habits could help reduce them?

On this week’s Farming Focus™, Synergy Farm Health-Lympstone vet Esme Moffett and Devon sheep farmer Peter Delbridge join host Peter Green to discuss everything from boundaries and quarantine to testing, vaccination and changing day-to-day routines.

Join them for a practical conversation about reducing risk, building awareness and protecting livestock health.

Listen to the full episode now: https://www.cornishmutual.co.uk/news/farming-focus-managing-disease-risk-on-south-west-farms

Synergy Farm Health

23/05/2026

Many congratulations from the Synergy team to our long standing clients Sid and Ann Hollier on winning the beef championship at the 2026 Devon County Show 🐂🏆!

20/05/2026

🐂 Next Beef Meeting – east of our region - Gore Cross Farm 🐂

Join us for our next beef meeting, kindly hosted by the team at Gore Cross Farm on Salisbury Plain. It will be an informative evening focused on herd health, performance, and current on‑farm challenges. It's going to be a great opportunity to gain an insight into an extensive, predominantly outdoor, beef suckler system operating on a large scale on Salisbury Plain. Not to be missed!

Kindly sponsored by Norbrook Laboratories GB

📅 Monday 8 June 2026, 5pm
📍 Gore Cross Farm, West Lavington, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 4NB

✅ Booking essential, light supper included
🔗 Find out more and book your place here:
https://buff.ly/0FD0kuO