Farm Services and Large Animals

We believe that farmers deserve vets that are 100% up to date and committed to farm animal medicine. In order to offer the level of service that we believe in, all of our nine vet farm team work exclusively with large animals. Two of our team hold the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Certificate in Cattle Health and Production.

Bishopton Veterinary Group has provided a continuous service for the local farming community for over 50 years. During this time both agricultural and veterinary science has made huge advances and as farming has changed we have always prided ourselves on being at the forefront of change.

Traditional emergency services are a fundamental part of our 24 hours a day service. Outside of practice opening hours we always have a minimum of two dedicated farm vets on call.

We advocate 'prevention rather than cure' and work with our farm clients to manage and prevent disease rather than rely on reacting to them.

We offer the following key services:

Dairy Herd Health Scheme

  • Fertility Management (wireless ultrasound scanners)
  • Mastitis and Milk Quality Control
  • Herd Health Benchmarking
  • Nutritional and metabolic monitoring and advice
  • Herd Health and Management Planning
  • Infectious Disease control and Health Status Accreditation
  • In house mastitis lab
  • Interherd Recording service
  • Discounted medicines

Beef Herd Health Scheme

  • Fertility Management
  • Nutritional monitoring and advice
  • Infectious Disease control and Health Status Accreditation
  • Discounted Medicines

Flock Health Plans

  • Fertility Management
  • Lameness Control
  • Metabolic Profiling

Advanced Cattle Breeding Services

  • Embryo Collection and Transfer
  • Oviduct Patency ('Dye')Testing
  • DIY Artificial Insemination Training
  • Bull Fertility Testing (semen evaluation)
  • Bull semen collection for stud

Ripon Dairy Discussion Group

  • Internationally recognised guest speakers
  • Monthly through the winter

Ripon Agricultural Farmer Training (RAFT)

  • The Herdsman's Certificate
  • DEFRA approved DIY A.I courses

RAFT Herdsman's Certificate