Farm Animal Practice Langford Vets University of Bristol

16/10/2026

Introducing Chicken Nuggets: A Beginner's Guide to Keeping Healthy Hens 🐔

New to chicken ownership or thinking of taking some on? Already have a flock and want to feel more confident spotting the signs of a sick hen?

Our brand-new Chicken Nuggets webinar series is designed to help you improve the day-to-day health and welfare of your hens. Across three engaging online lunch-and-learn sessions, vet Jemma Hooper will guide you through housing options, nutritional management and first aid for chickens, helping you build the knowledge and confidence to keep a healthy, happy flock.

📅 Webinar dates:
🐣 Introduction to Chicken Housing – 5 November 2026
🌾 Chicken Nutrition and Preventative Healthcare – 18 November 2026
⛑️ Chicken First Aid and Recognising Illness – 2 December 2026

💷 £8.49 per session or £20 for all three webinars

✅ Ideal for new and aspiring chicken keepers
✅ Practical advice from an experienced vet
✅ Attend one webinar or the full series

🔗 Book your place: https://www.langfordvets.co.uk/events/chicken-nuggets-a-beginners-guide-to-keeping-healthy-hens/

15/10/2026

🕯️ Wave of Light 2026 🕯️

At Langford Vets, we recognise that pregnancy and baby loss can affect colleagues, clients, friends and family, often in ways that are not visible. Over the past year, we have been working to raise awareness of pregnancy loss and develop a dedicated Pregnancy Loss Policy to ensure that anyone affected receives support, understanding and compassion when they need it most.

This evening, we will be joining the Wave of Light and taking a moment to remember all those babies gone too soon. 🤍

13/10/2026

The Power of Transparency: What Vets and Owners Really Think. Have your say here.

05/10/2026

Thinking about getting your pet pig spayed? 🐷

Join our vet Andrea Turner over your lunch break to learn more about the potential health and welfare benefits of spaying, what the procedure involves, and its limitations and costs.

📅 12 November | 🕧 12:30–13:30 | 💻 Online
🎟️ Free to attend

Find out more and book here: https://www.langfordvets.co.uk/events/should-i-get-my-pet-pig-spayed/

02/10/2026

Planning for lambing next spring? Don’t leave ram fertility to chance 🐑

There are concerns that some rams may experience reduced fertility or infertility for up to four months following bluetongue infection. If your flock has been affected, testing your rams ahead of breeding can help identify potential fertility problems before tupping begins.

Some cases of bluetongue can be mild, even in unvaccinated sheep, so infection may have gone unnoticed.

If your rams aren’t in with the ewes yet, it’s still not too late to get them checked!

✅ Test ahead of the breeding season
✅ Identify potential fertility issues early
✅ Give your flock the best chance of a successful lambing season

🔬 Ram fertility testing: £40 per ram at the practice
Discount available when testing more than two rams.

📞 Speak to us about ram fertility testing on 01934 852 650

29/09/2026

It’s not just Vets performing surgery - sometimes the admin staff have to perform life saving procedures too!

Having turned off the power to induce general anaesthesia, Di performed a full paper jam-ectomy! We are pleased to report the printer (and Di!) went on to make a full recovery!

25/09/2026

Join Our People Team
Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives on providing practical, commercially focused employee relations advice while also supporting recruitment and talent attraction?

We're looking for an HR Advisor - Employee Relations & Recruitment to join our friendly and busy HR team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting managers across a diverse veterinary organisation, managing complex employee relations matters, and helping to attract and retain exceptional people.

Find out more and apply

Langford Vets - HR Advisor - Employee Relations and Recruitment

21/09/2026

Over the last couple of months, we have seen a big increase in Bluetongue activity in the South West. Particularly around the Exmoor area, however we have now seen confirmed positive cases in North Somerset. It is still a legal requirement for any suspected cases of Bluetongue to be reported to the APHA as it is a notifiable disease. Testing of up to 3 animals per holding is still being subsidised by the APHA in cases of suspected Bluetongue where required.

We have seen some good uptake of the vaccine in our area, and we are continuing to recommend vaccination of your livestock if you have not already done so. If you would like to discuss this further, please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss with one of our vets and order your vaccine.

In preparation for next season, if you are planning on vaccinating get in contact so we can begin to make arrangements for anticipated vaccine stock.

17/09/2026

Meet Annie - a golden gurnsey goat who swelled up like Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! 🫐

Over several days Annie’s abdomen swelled and appeared severely pregnant despite no contact with the billy. She became lethargic and struggled to urinate.

We decided to ultrasound scan her and found a very large, dilated uterus filled in fluid. This was no virgin conception, but a pseudo or false pregnancy which is known to happen in unbred goats. It can also be known as “cloudburst” due to the appearance on the scan. ☁️

We are pleased that with treatment Annie passed all the fluid and is looking much more her normal size. Swipe to see her before and after!

She could go on to be bred and have successful pregnancies in the future!

07/09/2026

We have taken the decision to postpone our "Pain in the Bottom Line" event which was due to take place tomorrow.

If you had signed up to this event you should already have received an email notification.

Watch this space for a new date to be announced soon.