The Moovet - Summerhill Vet Clinic

13/05/2026

There was one word I used to hate in my job as a vet, and that is the word ‘multifactorial’.

10/11/2025

🐄 We’re hiring!
Large Animal Vet – Summerhill Vets, Nenagh, Co. Tipp

We’re a busy mixed practice with:
👩‍⚕️ 6 large animal vets (mostly dairy)
🐶 3 companion animal vets
💉 3 RVNs + 4 admin staff

We’re looking for a Large Animal Vet to join our progressive, herd health–focused team.
➡️ Full-time (flexible for the right person)
➡️ 1-in-6 rota, day off in lieu + incentivised on-call
➡️ CPD funded & encouraged
➡️ VDS + pension included
➡️ Van provided / expenses paid
➡️ Accommodation available
➡️ Salary negotiable

We’re a positive, supportive team who love what we do and we’re big on herd health, learning, and teamwork 🧠🐄

👉 Check us out at www.summerhillvets.ie or see what we’re about here on Insta & Facebook.

📩 Interested? Drop me an email - [email protected]

13/07/2025

“Evidence based medicine” 🧐
A progressive herd, not worm dosed for the past 3 years started coughing 5 weeks ago.
The easy option would have been to just dose them, but the farmer (and us, the vets) weren’t happy to dose without some evidence. So we did some lung washes, which revealed no worms. 🧐
We waited a week or two, but the coughing didn’t go away, so we did some more lung washed and sent away some samples. Negative on virus PCR and no lungworm.
Still coughing but no real effect on milk yield or overall health.
So, we tried something different. showed off her skills when she scoped 3 of the coughing cows. Have a look at the videos - it’s so cool to see the larynx then all the way down the trachea of a cow as far as the bifurcation to both lungs 😎😎
There was no sign of any lungworm - which at least told us that our BAL technique is good. There was lots of irritation and gunk in there so we took some more samples for bacterial PCR. Hopefully we’ll have an answer next week.
In days gone by, we would have dosed these cows twice by now. I can see more collaboration in the future with to use evidence based medicine for herd health issues.

10/04/2025

🐮If there was ever a reason to get your bulls fully checked over, this is it 🤢
This pedigree Hereford bull wasn’t thriving as well his buddies who all passed their Breeding Soundness Exams with flying colours. 💪
It was soon obvious what his issue was - A hair ring on his p***s 🤮 The poor fella must have been in constant pain.
The hair ring was very delicately removed and I think he was even walking better immediately afterwards.

25/02/2025

Aoife was feeling the cold today so, along with her jacket, she borrowed Ruby for some hugs to get warmed up. ♨️♨️
Ruby was in for her annual check up and vaccines. 🩼
We have a helpful reminder system that will send you a txt when your furry friend is due a vaccine or a worm treatment. Be sure to mention this the next time you are in to see us, so we can make sure your pet stays healthy and up to date with their medications 😊👍

25/01/2025

Calf stomach tubes.
A newborn calf needs up to 4 liters of good quality colostrum immediately after birth. 💪(Quality, Quantity, Quickly )
But, different stomach tubes have different capacities. The one on the left (trusti Tuber) holds 4 liters whereas the one on the right (that many farmers have hanging in the dairy) only holds 2.5liters. It’s closer to 2 really because the zip is usually broken on the top 🙈
Get a decent stomach tube for colostrum feeding to ensure each calf gets enough beestings 👍

10/01/2025

12/11/2024

As I sit down to write this week’s column, I realise that I’m in super form. It’s been a great week in general, but particularly in our vet practice.