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We offer a committed and modern approach to farm animal medicine delivered by our team of dedicated farm animal veterinary surgeons.
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At Bishopton we offer a committed and modern approach to farm animal medicine delivered by our team of dedicated farm animal veterinary surgeons. We provide a forward thinking approach to health, welfare and production in herds and flocks of any size. Our team provides a 24 hour responsive service throughout North Yorkshire and our consultancy services can cater for those further afield. Vets oper

ate daily from our Ripon, York and Northallerton surgeries with further medicine collection points at Easingwold and Pateley Bridge. Our veterinary service is complemented by a range of services including advanced breeding, nutritional advice, vet tech services, foot trimming service and farmer training. We offer a range of animal health products alongside fully stocked farm dispensaries at all of our branches. Our FOC weekly drug delivery service provides you with peace of mind that access to medicines when you need them will not be a problem. We are committed to providing a dedicated and forward thinking service to our clients based on a herd/flock level preventative approach backed up by emergency cover that you can rely on.

01/09/2025

🐑This week it is Love Lamb Week in association with the and

We're proud to support UK sheep farmers. 🐑

31/08/2025

Join us at Park House Farm, home of the renowned Upsall Polled Pedigree Shorthorn herd, to discuss how to achieve optimal bull fertility and learn how artificial insemination - and an investment in genetics - can improve the productivity of your herd. To Book, call 01765 602396.

30/08/2025

Are you accessing the funding available to you? If you have more than 21 sheep or 11 cattle, you should be taking advantage of the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway. Working with a vet, we can help you identify the areas in which you you could be awarded assistance.

For further information or to book a visit, contact our Farm Desk on 01765 602396 or visit our website https://www.bishoptonvets.co.uk/DB/news-farm/animal-health-and-welfare-pathway

28/08/2025

27/08/2025

🚜🐄 Cattle vets & farmers – we need your views!
The University of Glasgow is running a project on automated lameness detection in cattle 🐮.
Our sister company, RAFT Solutions Ltd, is looking to understand current practices, challenges, and openness to new technologies.
💡 If you’re a farmer or vet working with cattle, please take 5 minutes to complete our short survey:
👉https://bit.ly/45UeoRk
Your input will help shape the future of lameness management in livestock farming.
Please share with others who may be interested – thank you! 🙏

25/08/2025

🐂Beef Discussion Group, Farm Walk & BBQ!

Join our vets at Park House Farm, home of the renowned Upsall Polled Pedigree Shorthorn herd, to discuss how to achieve optimal bull fertility, and learn how artificial insemination - and an investment in genetics - can improve the productivity of your herd. With guest speakers.

Thursday 4th September, 6.30pm
Park House Farm
Upsall
Thirsk
YO7 2NU

By kind permission of the Turton family and Maureen and George McCulloch.

To Book, call Farm Desk on 01765 602396. Please let us know any dietary requirements.

23/08/2025

Peckish? We've done the breakfast rush and provided bacon sandwiches for everyone showing at Wensleydale Agricultural Show! We'll get the BBQ going again at lunch, so if you're a client, pop over and grab a burger. To all those showing good luck- we hope everyone has a great day.

22/08/2025

Join our vet, from the comfort of your own home to take this online course, designed to make you feel comfortable with the handling, storage and administering of medicines to your flock or herd.
Understand the following classes of medicine, what they do and when to use them:
Vaccine
Antibiotic
Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAID)
Anthelmintics

Understand how an active health plan ensures effective product use. Safe and effective administration of medicines.

Comply with medicines legislation and farm assurance requirements. You will find this course on the approved list of Red Tractor courses.

To book, call our Farm Desk on 01765 602396.

20/08/2025

🐑ARE YOU USING TEASER TUPS?

What is a Teaser Ram?

A teaser ram is a vasectomised ram (surgically sterilised) used to stimulate ewes to cycle earlier or more in sync before the breeding season.
They cannot get ewes in lamb, but still produce normal levels of testosterone and show full mating behaviour.

Why Use a Teaser Ram?
• Bring ewes into season earlier – useful for out-of-season lambing.
• Synchronise oestrus – makes tupping and therefore the lambing period more compact.
• Increase conception rates – ewes are cycling before fertile rams are introduced.
• Detect silent heats – useful for AI or embryo transfer programs.

Management of Teaser Rams
• Vasectomy: Done by a vet, ideally at least 8 weeks before use to allow recovery, healing and that all fertile s***m has been expelled.
This is a simple operation done under a short general anaesthetic to remove a short section of both vas deferens. Cross bred rams often make good teasers due to hybrid vigour. Mature fit males make better teasers, but the procedure can be performed on ram lambs for the next breeding season.
• Identification: Clearly mark or ear tag as a teaser to avoid accidental use for breeding.
• Ratio: 1 teaser ram to 50-100 ewes.
• Condition: Keep in good BCS (3.5–4), sound feet, teeth and free from disease as you would a normal breeding tup. Monitor carefully for loss of condition – provide good grazing or supplementary feed during use.
• Longevity: A well-managed teaser can be used for several years.

Keep ewes separate from all rams (sight, sound, smell) for at least 4 -6 weeks beforehand.

Teasers need to go in 2 weeks before the real rams, i.e. 5 ½ months before you would like to start lambing.

Leave the teasers in a maximum of 14 days with the ewes. Take out and put in fertile rams. (When the fertile tups are put in, use a ram: ewe ratio of 1:25-30)
Ewes will first have a silent heat within 2-4 days, then 17-26 days later ewes will have a true heat where fertile rams will catch most first cycle. Any missed will cycle again 17 days later.

If you'd like to vasectomise a tup or would like further advice on tightening your breeding season, call our Farm Desk on ☎️01765 602396 or talk to your vet.

19/08/2025

Last Tuesday we were joined by calf-rearing clients for an on-farm discussion about shed and pen design. The Hugills very kindly let us look at their systems and housing and Fitz and Ed talked about how we can maximise welfare for our calves. A highlight was incredible burgers from - thank you! Thanks to everyone who came along and all those who helped make it happen 🙂.

18/08/2025

If you're headed to Wensleydale Show next Saturday 23rd August, and you're lucky enough to look younger than 25, please remember to bring ID. This year there has been a crack down on underage drinking and whilst as ever, we will be providing our clients with refreshments (and a BBQ!), we do need to satisfy the police that we have checked you are over 18. So! Don't forget your ID, and we'll see you there 👍🙂
(PS, please don't shoot the messenger 🙏)

15/08/2025

🐄We do have places available on next week's DIY AI course - so if you'd like to learn how to safely inseminate your herd, call our Farm Desk on 01765 602396.

Address

Bishopton Veterinary Group
Ripon
HG42QR

Telephone

01765602396

Website

http://www.bishoptonvets.co.uk/farm/

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Committed to long term partnerships supporting British livestock farming.

Delivered by our team of dedicated farm animal veterinary surgeons, Bishopton Veterinary Group offer a forward thinking approach to health, welfare and production in herds and flocks of any size.

Our team of farm animal vets provide a 24 hour response service throughout North Yorkshire and our consultancy services cater for clients further afield. We have large animal practices in Ripon, York and Northallerton, with medicine collection points in Easingwold and Pateley Bridge.

Our veterinary service is complemented by a range of services including advanced breeding, nutritional advice, foot trimming service and farmer training.