Belle Vue Vets - Farm

04/06/2026

Something a little bit different for us this morning, disbudding and castrating these beautiful Dwarf Zebu’s ❤️ Blossom & Sonny

02/06/2026

🐄 Calf Health Meetings 🐄

🔷 We’re excited to be launching a series of Calf Heath Meetings, designed to support farmers and stock keepers in giving calves the best possible start !🚀

🦠First session: Hygiene at Wolsty Hall, Kindly hosted by the Sharp
family!

🧼 Good hygiene is one of the most important factors in keeping calves healthy, preventing disease and improving growth and performance. This session will cover practical on farm tips you can put into practice straight away.

🔍Focusing on Pen hygiene, feeding equipment, buckets, environmental swabbing, cleaning methods and appropriate disinfectants.

🗣️ Talks by our vets Kathryn and Rebecca, thanks to Boehringer for sponsoring these meetings !

🗓️ Monday 29th June
📍 Wolsty Hall, Silloth, CA7 4LW
🕰️ 10-12pm
🍔 Lunch included
🧍 Everyone welcome !!
📞 Contact the practice for a place !

27/05/2026

🦟 BLUETONGUE UPDATE 🦟

Bluetongue is now firmly established in the UK, with 339 confirmed cases of BTV-3 AND BTV-8 in England and Wales in the 2025/2026 season. On May 1st, there was a confirmed case in Cumbria following a stillborn calf with brain deformities. Cases from across the country are seeing calves with neurological signs, born blind, and/or facial deformities.

4 cases of BTV-8 have been confirmed in the south of England. Worryingly, there have been 7 cases in England of BTV-3 AND BTV-8.

💉VACCINATION💉

As per last year, Bultavo-3 (BTV-3 only) is in good supply, and those vaccinated last year require a single booster. A primary vaccine course is one dose for sheep, and 2 doses for cows. There is a vaccine for BTV-8 (Syvazul), but in lower supply so forward planning is essential. THERE IS NO CROSS PROTECTION FOR EITHER VACCINE.
There is a vaccine decision making tools online.

Any questions, give us a call! 📞

22/05/2026

☀️ May Bank Holliday Opening Times ☀️

Please see poster below 👇

20/05/2026

Congratulations to Wigton Young Farmers Club on hosting this year’s Northern District Field Day! 🎉🌾

It was a huge success — organised to perfection and a truly fabulous day enjoyed by all 👏✨

It was an honour to support you all!

Well done to everyone involved! 🙌🚜

15/05/2026

15/05/2026

🔷This year we are proud sponsors of the Northern District of Young Farmers Field day 🔷

🔷Good luck to all young farmers clubs competing tomorrow ! 🏅

See poster below for details , pop along and you may see some of us knocking around ! 😁

15/05/2026

🧑‍🌾 Next Generation Farmers 🧑‍🌾

📍 New House Farm CA13 9UU
🕰️ 7pm
🗓️ Monday 18th May
🍕 Food included

🌱Come along to New House Farm to hear about “Our Farming Journeys”
With speakers including Vet Tech/ATT Jemima !

👂 Hear all about her business venture along side farming life at Snittlegarth

📞 To book a place please phone the Farmer Network on the number provided on the poster

13/05/2026

‘Farmers we need you’ 🐑

🐑 ‘ I am a PhD student looking at the impact of grazing strategies on lamb productivity, parasite control, and pasture quality.’

🌱’The survey takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete, and participants can also opt in to become one of our focus farms, where we will conduct faecal worm egg counts and fresh grass nutritional analysis.’

Please read the poster and use the link below 👇

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/moredungroup/pasture-management-and-grazing-strategies-on-uk-farms

06/05/2026

🐄 Managing , Motivating and Retaining farm staff 🐄

🗓️Tuesday 28th April

🔷 Last Tuesday night some of our farmers, joined by some of our staff enjoyed an insightful conversation about managing, motivating and retaining staff.

🐄 Special thanks to Nollaig Heffernan our speaker and Karl from AHDB for making this happen and Greenhill hotel for providing grub!

🔷 Thanks to all everyone who attended our meeting, I think we can all agree that we had a lot of useful take home tips !