The Carisbrooke Vets Farm

07/06/2026

Busy day at the Open Farm Sunday at Warren Farm , playing with cows, dung beetles, delicious food and LOTS of people

29/05/2026

Another great meeting - lovely to see so many people and a huge thanks to everyone at Warren Farm for making it happen. Special thanks for Liz for doing food and seeming unfazed by the crowds, to James and Becca for such an interesting tour and to everyone who ventured out west!

27/05/2026

Looking forward to our client meeting tomorrow- and open farm Sunday coming up!

14/05/2026

Farm Monthly Meeting - Thursday 28th May
6.30pm
Warren Farm, Alum Bay Road, PO39 0JB STOP PRESS UPDATED!

Liz Osman has very kindly offered to provide light refreshments for any clients attending this meeting, therefore please RSVP by Friday if you'd like to join us next week. Big thanks to Liz and family. Please either reply to this post or email the practice [email protected]

Many thanks to the Osman family for hosting this month's farm visit/ walk. Warren farm is running a calf at foot, Spring calving dairy herd, together with an expanding herd of pedigree Sussex cattle as well as Herdwick and Hebridean sheep.

All milk is pasteurised on the farm and sold either through the shop or through local retail and hospitality businesses.

Please RSVP below or by email to the practice

27/04/2026

With plenty of lambs on the ground - the next thing we are all waiting for is.... the worms!
Nematodirus forescast available on SCOPS suggests that the Isle of Wight has missed the Spring risk period for this parasite - but it's worth keeping an eye on this anyway

https://www.scops.org.uk/forecasts/nematodirus-forecast/

There's also a blowfly risk forecast on NADIS - link below
https://alerts.nadis.org.uk/

Please feel free to contact us to talk through a plan for your animals

The Blowfly watch in conjunction with Elanco predicts the emergence of blowflies based on Met Office Data. This can help to predict risk of clinical cases and help treatment timings.

25/04/2026

22nd May - commercial sheep farmers - our friends at Synergy Farm Health are hosting an event looking at sustainable sheep production and have kindly invited IOW clients to join - it promises to be a great day out. Please let us know if you're interested. Thanks to Emily for the heads up

      Breeding for Sustainability in the Commercial Flock – Centurion Sheep Meeting Friday 22nd May, 10am – 1.30pm To be held at the Smith family’s farm, Belle Vue Farm, Swanage, BH19 2SQ W3W ////cropping.envoy.footsteps Prospect Poll Dorsets has been performance recording their Poll Dorset...

02/04/2026

Huge thank you to Alan and Harold George for hosting last night's meeting - and thanks to the 47 people who joined us - great to see so many people!
We learnt (among other things)
Dairy x calves will finish on a largely forage based diet
Healthy calves and attention to detail make this simple system work
The Flemming family used to own much of East Wight and have a monument above Coppid Hall that comemorates the East Wighters lost in the 1st and 2nd World wars.
We also learnt, on our trip up to the monument, that farmers are a super fit bunch (even the ones who are no longer 18)
Look forward the next one... we will keep you posted

27/03/2026

Great reminder from Black Sheep Farm Health that there's funding to support testing and if necessary, eradication of BVD. Testing annually is already mandatory if you're farm assured. We've been out and about blood testing youngstock before turnout this month. Please give us a call to talk through how the funding works and book a visit

We've already done a large portion of the BVD check tests due this spring- make sure yours is done before turn out!

BVD is recognised as one of the most economically important diseases of cattle; it causes immunosuppression thus increasing prevalence of other diseases, in addition to reproductive problems such as infertility, abortion and birth defects.

The BVD check test requires five animals aged 9-18 months from each management group to be blood sampled for BVD antibody.

The Animal Health & Welfare Pathway (AHWP) for cattle is focused on BVD control, and any keeper with 11 or more cattle is eligible to apply for the funding towards their BVD check test & BVD biosecurity review:

• £905 for BVD –ve herds

• £1601 for BVD +ve herds

This funding can be claimed for multiple herds on one farm, ie autumns and springs. Please speak to Emili or Claire if you need help applying for pathway funding.

27/03/2026

April 1st monthly meeting at Coppid Hall Farm Havenstreet
Come and talk beef finishing, contract rearing calves etc
6pm start with light refreshments afterwards
Huge thanks to Alan and Harold for hosting
Please RSVP if you’re likely to come so we can have an idea of numbers
Thanks !

02/03/2026

Pub Club Update!
Please come and join us for a drink and or dinner at The Chequers on Wednesday this week 4th March
From 6.45pm
Social evening - with a chance to catch up on the DEFRA consultation around castration and tail docking in lambs
Everyone welcome - sheep farmers or not! We were planning to cover farm dogs at this meet - but the consultation process needs to be completed before 9/3 so will cover dogs at the next meeting
Please spread the word - email invite will follow tomorrow

Seeking views on proposed changes to the methods used for lamb castration and tail docking.