INFORMATION AND ADVICE
Farm Animal Health
This page has been created to inform and advise all our clients on livestock health issues. Whether you have a small holding or a large commercial enterprise, your knowledge of the health of the livestock will prove crucial to your success.
Any information given on this page is for guidance only and in any event of disease or illness, contact your local Westpoint vet for a firm diagnosis before commencing any treatments.
Profit Improvement Plans
The plan is designed by YOU to target areas of improvement for your individual enterprise whilst remaining affordable. The process will allow a structured approach to improving farm performance, by initially setting targets, achieving them and monitoring the results.
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Sheep Profit Improvement Plan
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Beef Profit Improvement Plan |
Biosecurity
Matt Dobbs has developed a one-page checklist to help livestock buyers reduce the risk of bringing in disease to their existing herd. The checklist operates on a traffic light system with green, amber and red, compassing a range of questions from on-farm biosecurity to current disease status.
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Click here to see the full article at Farmers Guardian.
Click picture opposite to download checklist |
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Westpoint Vet Matt Dobbs talks to Japanese TV about the importance of on farm Biosecurity.
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For further information please contact:-
Your Westpoint Vet
Phone 01306 628086
Government white paper - The future of farm vets
There has been much talk about the future of veterinary provision to farmers and how many veterinary practices are pulling out of farm work all together. Professor Phillip Lowe last week published his government white paper on just this. Westpoint Veterinary Group is held up as an example of farm vets thinking differently about the best and most sustainable way to provide farmers with high quality advice and full 24 hour cover (even in less livestock dense areas).
Click picture to download Farm practice report by Professor Phillip Lowe