Farm Vet Dr Sherike van der Merwe

Farm Vet Dr Sherike van der Merwe Herd Health and Reproduction 🐄🐏🐎
Equine veterinarian 🩺
Emergency call outs
Heifer Tech Dungarees
Kimberley 🇿🇦

Mobile veterinary service in the Free State and Northern Cape. We aid farmers with remote veterinary care, sustainable herd health plans, disease surveillance protocols, and a fully equipped ambulance for equine and farm animal emergencies

06/06/2026

A few weeks ago we asked our followers to give us challenges for our dungarees… and you guys understood the assignment 😂

So for the week before launch, we’re posting a different challenge every day 💥
Today’s challenge: “Can you gym in it?” 🙄

FYI — we don’t gym, we CROSSFIT 😭

And yes… they are squat-proof, bar muscle-up proof, handstand-walk proof and chaos-on-a-farm-proof 😂

Challenge accepted.
Challenge smashed.

All challenges have already been sent in 👀
If we picked yours, DM us to claim your prize 🫡

05/06/2026

One of the biggest lies I told myself as a young veterinarian was that experience would eventually make me less nervous.

It doesn’t.

You become more skilled. More knowledgeable. More capable.
But your nervous system doesn’t always know the difference between being held at gunpoint and passing a stomach tube on a R2.4 million mare while the owner stands next to you asking, “Are you sure it’s in the right place?”
All it knows is that the stakes are high.

Veterinary medicine is different from most other medical professions. The patient’s family isn’t waiting in a reception area.
They’re standing right next to you.
Watching you give the anaesthetic.
Watching you suture.
Watching you operate.
Listening to every word you say. All the words that come out when you are frustrated 😂

Even routine procedures can feel overwhelming sometimes. A bull prolapse repair may be routine on paper, but it’s still a thousand-kilogram animal under anaesthesia with an owner watching your every move.

After eight years in practice, I still get VERY nervous.
And maybe that’s not a bad thing.
Because nervousness isn’t always a sign that you don’t know what you’re doing.
Sometimes it’s a sign that you understand exactly how much responsibility you’re carrying.

And if you’re a veterinary student or a young veterinarian, never think you’re failing because you’re nervous.
The nerves don’t magically disappear with experience.
One of the best lessons an older veterinarian ever taught me was this: experience doesn’t mean you stop making mistakes. It means you recognize them sooner.

As a young vet, you often only realize a mistake after you’ve made it.
As you gain experience, you start recognizing it while it’s happening.
That little voice becomes louder.
Your judgment becomes sharper.
And that’s how you grow.

So keep going.
The nerves stay.
But so does the experience😉

As a little girl I had a book called “A to Z: Aardvark to Zebra,” and I used to dream about animals I’d probably never e...
04/06/2026

As a little girl I had a book called “A to Z: Aardvark to Zebra,” and I used to dream about animals I’d probably never even see one day.
Now, somehow, I’ve been lucky enough to even treat both — and literally everything in between. Life passes so quickly, and I think we forget that someday these ordinary days will have been our life. I’ll never stop being grateful for every prayer, every closed door, and every bit of grace that led me here ❤️‍🩹

it’s only 2 days into June 🤌🏼😅🐄🐂🩺running 🤟🏼
02/06/2026

it’s only 2 days into June 🤌🏼😅🐄🐂🩺
running 🤟🏼

Friendly reminder that your veterinarian is just a human too😅The social media posts are the highlights.The real job is l...
01/06/2026

Friendly reminder that your veterinarian is just a human too😅

The social media posts are the highlights.
The real job is long days, emergencies, muddy boots, missed lunches, difficult decisions, paperwork, heartbreak, and still finding the strength to laugh somewhere in between.

We make it look fun because sometimes that’s how we survive it.

It ain’t always glamorous.
But it sure as hell ain’t boring 😂🤌🏼

27/05/2026

Just a vet girl 💅🏼

OUR DUNGAREES ARE SOLD OUT. 🤯🔥But guess what…NEW ONES ARE DROPPING IN 2 WEEKS.And yes… MEN’S SIZES FIRST this time. 👀We ...
25/05/2026

OUR DUNGAREES ARE SOLD OUT. 🤯🔥

But guess what…

NEW ONES ARE DROPPING IN 2 WEEKS.
And yes… MEN’S SIZES FIRST this time. 👀

We made a few upgrades:
• Double stitching
• Better durability
• Small detail changes
• Same reliable feel
• NO price increase… unlike the diesel in this country every second Tuesday. ⛽😂

Bigger. Better. Tougher.

Get ready for some seriously cool launch content, specials on the way, and a whole new level of workwear.
🐄🐑🫏🐎🦙
Upgrade your workwear.
Join the cult. 🤝

South Africa just got a whole new generation of workwear. 🇿🇦

Address

Noord Kaap Lewendehawe Kompleks, 6 Landbou Road
Kimberley
8301

Telephone

+27733916559

Website

https://farmvetdrsvdm.co.za/product/heifer-tech-wor

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