Thursday, 3 September 2009

XL Vets Charity Bike Ride

Dear all,

You may have seen some details floating about with reference to the XLVets charity bike ride. The idea was for groups of the XLVets to carry the XLVets calf from various points about Britain to the Dairy event (16th / 17th September) by bike whilst raising money for two charities :

1. Farm Africa - a small charity founded in 1985 to help small farmers / herders in Africa grow more food, keep their livestock healthy, make a basic living and manage their natural resources a sustainable way
www.farmafrica.org.uk

2. Royal Agricultural Benevolent fund - providing for the welfare and wellbeing of members of the farming community who are facing need, hardship or distress
www.rabi.org.uk

Basically our group of practices (or representatives from them, in our case Robert Smith!) cycled from Shepton Mallet to the Drove Practice in Wiltshire on the 3rd / 4th / 5th September. We took in two big markets which operate on those days to seize the opportunity to do a quick last minute bit of fund raising.

I have been some what bulled in to helping out and will be Roberts support / van driver and general dogs body (nothing new about that then) and so I am asking you if you would be so kind as to dig deep and possibly donate to what we feel is a good cause and if that's not a good enough reason.....think of me having to see Rob in his cycle shorts!! There now, that is a reason!

You can see the photos
here.

Debbie

Sunday, 6 July 2008

Bluetongue vaccine

The Welsh Assembly has announced that Bluetongue vaccine is scheduled to arrive with vets by Wednesday, 4 June subject to clearance of the vaccine by the Veterinary Medicines Director. See here for the full story.

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Bovine TB

On April 8th, the Welsh Assembly Government has announced its Bovine TB Eradication programme. There is guidance on prevention of transmission and general guidance here

Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Welcome

Welcome to Farmfirstvets’ brand new website. This page will eventually contain useful relevant information. It’s early days at the moment so please bear with us!