Alnorthumbria Farm Vets

25/09/2025

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity- places limited so book quickly if you are interested! 🐄

24/09/2025

September always brings the annual Sheep Veterinary Society conference, this year attended by Pam in Llandrindod Wells. There were 2 days of lectures on sheep nutrition, interesting cases and the most recent research work, plus an afternoon visit to the Elan Valley. As well as hearing about the management of these upland farms that rely heavily on the use of common land, the 70-strong group of vets visited the farm where Gethin Lewis lives and set the 8 hour sheep shearing new British record this summer.

13/09/2025

Congratulations to Ian and co - great achievement.

Kelso - Friday 12th September 2025

Winner of the Trevor Simpson Trophy 🏆 for the best run of 5 or more shearling rams consigned in Ring 17
Judged by Mr Edward Peart, Woodcroft
Awarded to G Smith & Sons, West Bolton

12/09/2025

Three local vet practices working together to give the best service to all our clients and get those samples to the lab on time 💪

We hope everyone had a successful day at Kelso 🐑

12/09/2025

Today is the day and the sun is out. Good luck to all our clients selling tups today. Matthew and Pam will be there once they get through the queues! Kelso Ram Sale

02/09/2025

AHDB are holding an event at Acklington Mart next weekend- take a look! 🥩

From breeding decisions to butchery, this hands-on roadshow will help you unlock the value hidden in every animal

26/08/2025

Congratulations Meg from all of us at Alnorthumbria! 🏆

The winners of the very first Glendale Show Herd Competition have been revealed! 🏆👇

25/08/2025

We were proud to have provided Vet cover for Glendale show again this year and the farm team had a great day out on our stand. Thank you to everyone involved and hope you all enjoyed the sunshine! ☀️ 🐑 🐄

22/08/2025

We're attending Glendale Show this bank holiday Monday, please pop on the stand and say hello!

13/08/2025

All 15 of our farm practices are continuing to offer subsidised Bovine Antibody tests this year to assess farm colostrum protocols.

Calves are born without antibodies, key to protection from disease. They must receive enough colostrum at the start of life to supply them with vital antibodies - called passive transfer (PT). Correct colostrum delivery has long-term impacts on production. Calves with good PT scores grew 10% faster and used 46% less antibiotic over their lifetime.

The ImmunIGY test detects antibody levels in calves up to 42 days, where previous tests have only been 7. The simple test takes blood samples via a lancet and results are run in practice using a lateral flow device for a rapid result.

An investigation into the cause of failure of PT are then run by our practices for each farm, looking at nutrition, feed space, housing conditions and dystocia. Our vets then aim to improve PT in future calving seasons by identifying higher risk individuals and discussing management changes.

This will support our farmers productivity, and reduce the risk and incidence of neonatal disease, time and labour treating sick calves, antibiotic treatments, and related lifelong productivity impacts.

Great work by our farm team for the work you are doing to support our farm clients!



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08/08/2025

Henrietta featuring in ‘s Farm24 video. Yearly health plans are so important to ensure we continue to work towards helping farmers keep their animals as happy and healthy as possible 🐄

We are loving seeing the posts today highlighting the vital work our farmers do and are proud to play our part in it 🧑‍🌾