Ribble Farm Vets

20/09/2025

🔍 Radiograph challenge!
Can you identify the species from this head X-ray? 🦴
Bonus points if you can also spot the pathology hiding in there 👀

Drop your guesses below ⬇️

27/08/2025

🐑🐐🐄🦙 Bluetongue Vaccine Sharing for Smallholders 🐑🐐🐄🦙

Are you a smallholder worried about Bluetongue?
We know that ordering vaccine packs can feel like too much when you’ve only got a small flock or herd.

That’s why Ribble Vets are helping to link up our smallholder clients who would like to share vaccine doses, making it easier and more affordable to protect your animals.

👉 This service is open to owners of sheep, goats, cattle and camelids (including alpacas and llamas).

If you’re interested in joining our vaccination sharing service, please get in touch with the farm team at Ribble Vets and we’ll add you to the list.

📞 Call us on 01772 746393
📧 Email us at [email protected]

Let’s work together to keep our flocks and herds safe from Bluetongue 💙

13/08/2025

We regularly carry out faecal egg counts (FECs) as part of proactive parasite control. This simple and effective test helps us to monitor worm burdens and reduce unnecessary worming which saves money and slows resistance. We identify and count worm eggs using a microscope and this photo shows some of the key culprits. The larger eggs are strongyles which are a common gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep and cattle than can cause issues such as weight loss, diarrhoea, and reduced productivity. The smaller eggs are a protozoan parasite called Coccidia (or cocci) that in high numbers can lead to poor growth and intestinal damage.
Regular testing = targeted treatment = healthier animals!
🐄🐏🔬🌾

18/07/2025

We're delighted to be sponsoring the sheep young handler classes at Royal Lancashire Show this weekend!
Best of luck to all of of clients exhibiting at the show this year! 🐮🐑🐷🐴

17/07/2025

🚜🐄 Experienced Farm Vets You Can Rely On 🐑🐐

At Ribble Vets, we’re proud to support farmers and smallholders across Lancashire with dedicated farm animal veterinary services. Whether it’s routine herd health, fertility work, youngstock management, or emergency out-of-hours care — we’re here when you need us most.

✅ Cattle
✅ Sheep
✅ Goats
✅ Pigs
✅ Camelids (Including vets with a keen camelid medicine interest)
✅ Smallholder & hobby farm support

With a friendly and knowledgeable team, years of on-farm experience, and a real passion for the animals you care for, we’re just a call away.

📞 Get in touch today to find out how we can support your livestock, or to register with us.
📍 Covering: Preston, Fylde, South Ribble, West Lancashire, East Lancashire and Chorley

11/07/2025

Tiffany, Alice and Anya went to do a dental exam on a pygmy goat that was struggling to eat properly and losing weight. We sedated the goat so we could have a proper look in her mouth and found severe malocclusion of two of her molars. These teeth were growing in the wrong direction and causing sores on her tongue and cheek. No wonder eating was uncomfortable! The offending teeth were removed under a general anaesthetic and the goat was given pain relief and antibiotics to recover with, along with plenty of TLC from her owners. 🐐🦷

22/05/2025

Bluetongue Restriction Zone - Lancashire ⚠️

Information about testing/movement licence:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-free-bluetongue-testing-if-youre-in-a-bluetongue-zone

Map:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=514ec88edec74575958d860f0196d2ea

Shows and events:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/bluetongue-guidance-for-shows-and-events-in-england-in-2024

19/11/2024

We support our farmers and all those who have headed down to London today!

No Farmers, No Food 🚫

01/09/2024

08/03/2024

✨ Happy International Women’s Day ✨

Celebrating all the amazing women who do a fantastic job each and every day - from our vets and nurses to the reception and admin staff! 🤩

26/02/2024

‼️🐮🐑JOIN OUR TEAM🐮🐑‼️

A rare and exciting position has become available to join our Farm team as a Vet Tech -

Please contact us for more information or share to anyone who may be interested in this job!

19/12/2023

Great turnout for the annual Farm Christmas Quiz 🎅🏻
Thanks to all that joined us and well done to the winners!