Why Proper Medication Disposal Matters – Protecting Health and the Environment At our practice, we are committed to protecting both animal and human health while minimising our environmental impact. A key part of this is ensuring the safe disposal of […]
Overnight care for farm inpatients. Whilst it is unusual for us to have farm inpatients at the clinic, we have the facilities to care for farm inpatients when needed. Client care is paramount to us, and we have staff on […]
We have a well-stocked and competitively priced farm shop at the Hook Norton surgery supplying POM-VPS products which include sheep and cattle vaccines, wormers and fly control products. Trace element boluses, foot bathing products, lambing and calving consumables, and other […]
We have a fully equipped laboratory onsite at the Hook Norton hospital which allows us to get rapid results from any samples we take out on farm visits. Our qualified nurses are trained to do worm egg, coccidian, fluke and […]
The continuous analysis of farm performance is important to ensure the current and future productivity and profitability are on target. We can use your record/medicine books alongside programs such as VetImpress, Interherd Plus and TotalVet to help us do this. […]
Hook Norton Veterinary Group is proud to have been a member of XLVets since 2005. XLVets is a community of independently-owned, progressive veterinary practices that work together to achieve the highest standards of veterinary care. Members of XLVets work collaboratively […]
The jobs surrounding both beef and dairy cattle are never-ending, TB testing, worming, fly control – the list goes on! We can offer you a little extra help, in the form a cattle handling systems that is available for hire. […]
XLVets | Independent Veterinary Care at Hook Norton Veterinary Group At Hook Norton Veterinary Group, we’re proud to be one of the founder members of XLVets – a community of independently owned veterinary practices working together to provide exceptional veterinary […]
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We pride ourselves on the preventative and reactive health work we carry out for all of our dairy enterprises. We have several different methods of milk production in the practice ranging from spring calving grass-based producers to large intensive units, […]
Infectious disease investigation and control is something we are passionate about preventing and controlling on-farm for all species. The practice is a proud member of XLvets which means we run several campaigns including BVD check tag, Grassroots Ewe Nutrition, Make […]
We have a team of dedicated farm-only vets available to provide a full range of farm animal medicine and surgery services on a daily basis. The vet’s diaries are well scheduled each day but often don’t go to plan due […]
Farm health performance reviews are tailored to the individual farm and cover vaccination protocols, medicine use on-farm and annual performance targets. The aim is for the continuous improvement of each enterprise. We endeavour to make sure all of our farms […]
Most of our dairy clients choose to have a routine dairy fertility visit once a fortnight with a designated vet, and another vet as backup. If the farms are organised, it is the most cost-effective way of examining many animals […]
In many respects, the bull or ram is the most important animal on the farm, being responsible for 50% of the genetic makeup of each annual calf or lamb crop, making fertility testing a crucial aspect of your farm. It […]
A post mortem is an important tool to help investigate the death of livestock and aids in preventing any further losses. We can carry out post-mortems (PMs) on-farm for cattle and in our PM room at the Hook Norton surgery […]
We actively encourage sustainable parasite control on our farms and can produce specific control plans to suit the individual farm system. It is vital that we use wormers strategically and sensibly in the future to reduce the chance of resistance […]
The team of farm vets and our dedicated Approved Tuberculin Testers (ATTS) continue to provide all of the TB testing for our clients. As you may already be aware TB has spread throughout the area and we have many farms […]
