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The Severn Edge Veterinary Group (and it founding practices Hollybush and The Old Pound) is a long-establisehed mixed veterinary practice with separate farm, equine and small animal departments.
We have a team of six experienced and dedicated farm vets, who provide a rapid response, 24-hour service to farms throughout South Shropshire and parts of Worcestershire, Staffordshire and West Midlands.
Our “large-animal” department covers all farmed species, including:
We aim to provide a modern, up-to-date veterinary service for our farm clients, while at the same time maintaining the personal, caring touch forged over many years.
Our farm vets are available to provide free of charge telephone advice at any time and our out of hours phone answering is staffed by members of the practice.
We provide a wide variety of services to our farm clients as well as the traditional “fire brigade” emergency callouts. These are detailed in the following species sections.
SEVG provides a full investigatory service for diseases encountered in all farm species, using outside laboratories when applicable.
As well as first class veterinary care we provide competitively priced veterinary medicines to give cost effective care to your livestock.
TRAINING
Our vets keep up-to-date on current diseases and best management practices by regularly attending training courses for all the farm species. We can then help implement best practice on the farms we visit.
We regularly provide training meetings for our farm clients on a variety of current and important topics to help you keep on top of the latest developments. These are usually enjoyable social occasions in addition to their educational value.
DAIRY CATTLE.
Routine visits are encouraged to keep on top of regular fertility work (using ultrasound scanners) and other routine procedures.
The Interherd Plus program is used to analyse your herd’s fertility and mastitis and production data allowing us to give advice to maximize your herd’s health and productivity.
We offer practical advice on lameness and have our own mobile Woppa footcare crush for farms when needed.
Farm assurance has been around for a while and we aim to make your Herd Health Plan dynamic and interactive so that it is a useful health and production tool as well as providing assurance to consumers.
Herds are monitored for the main infectious diseases encountered in dairy herds and appropriate preventative plans put in place using vaccines and other management practices.
We have a good working relationship with vets at the Animal Health VLA laboratory in Shrewsbury who provide current advice on disease syndromes as well as lab tests.
Suckler cow management, in particular relating to fertility is crucial. Bull fertility is assessed by vets from Liverpool University to ensure they are fit before the breeding season.
Tight calving patterns are essential to properly manage the suckler herd and maximize calf health. Investigation of possible disease affecting fertility is available as well as management advice. Fertility is monitored by ultrasound scanning.
Calf health is another vital element of work in the beef herd, again disease investigation and management advice is provided..
We provide management advice to fattening units, in particular in relation to prevention of pneumonia including vaccination protocols.
Herdsure is available to diagnose and control the major infectious diseases seen in both beef (and dairy) cows through lab testing.
The lambing season allows our biggest contact with sheep farmers. The proximity of the Veterinary Laboratory at Shrewsbury is particularly useful when investigating the cause of abortion in ewes.
In addition we are able and keen to provide veterinary advice to shepherds through all the seasons to maximize health and productivity. We can formulate flock health plans tailored to your individual needs.
We host a sheep discussion group which provides an interactive forum for exchange of ideas and information, as well as highlighting disease trends.
Management advice is given to herds under our care with appropriate lab back up. The quarterly visits required by the Farm Assured Pig Health Scheme provide an opportunity to assess health and production and to offer advice as required.
We have many small holders and small scale farmers and are pleased to provide basic husbandry advice, as well as treating specific cases.. We treat a variety of species in addition to the main farm species, including llamas, alpacas, goats and a wide variety of bird species.
Our vets see a variety of goats, ranging from the backyard pet, right up to quite a sizeable dairy goat milking enterprise. These endearing animals are very different to sheep and so it is useful to have the Severn Edge vets available with extensive knowledge about this species.
LLAMAS/ALPACAS
These animal are getting more and more popular and so we have ensured that our knowledge and experience of dealing with these unique animals has also increased accordingly. Some of our farm vets are members of the British Veterinary Camelid Association and are happy to offer any advice needed for these animals.
*Llama pictures courtesy of Larden Alpacas
*Pig/Piglet pictures courtesy of Mrs Jones