Clevedale Farm Vets

15/10/2026

📣 Congratulations to Ian Ford who is the winner of this years VetPartners Farm Health Champion award. 🎉

Ian takes a proactive approach to flock health, disease prevention and responsible livestock sales. 🐑

Our Clinical Director Dawn Bowness was delighted to be able to present Ian with his award.

VetPartners sustainable farming awards celebrate farmers working in partnership with their vets to make a real difference to animal health and environment

See the full story here ⬇

https://www.vetpartners.co.uk/news/north-yorkshire-sheep-farm-wins-vetpartners-farm-health-award/

11/08/2026

🐑WE'RE AT DANBY SHOW🐮

We're back at Danby show again this year!

Come and find us at our stand for some delicious home made bakes made by our wonderful colleagues and a good catch up.

Whether your a client, friend, local farmer or just visiting the show, make sure you come over and say hello.

We look forward to seeing you there.

As always all donations go directly to The Farming Community Network which is an a amazing charity that we support each year. Please check them out to see what they do and the help they offer to people in the farming community.

08/08/2026

**Bluetongue vaccination**

Due to the devastating outbreak in southern parts of the country, nationally the demand for vaccine is currently outstripping supply. If you are wanting to source vaccine, please contact the office as soon as possible next week so we have an idea of how much we need to try and secure as it becomes available. If you have a small number of animals to vaccinate, please let us know as we may be able to run vaccine days to split bottles to reduce wastage and cost.

The situation is not slowing down and the official APHA map is likely to be around 2 weeks behind due to backlog of testing - hundreds of suspect cases are being reported weekly by vets in other parts of the country.

Please look out for an email bulletin early next week with further information and advice.

02/08/2026

Reports from colleagues in southern counties of England are worrying - cases of Bluetongue are really taking off, with increased prevalence and severity compared to last year. Reports of mortality in triple figures in sheep flocks are not out of the ordinary and severe production loss in cattle herds.

A reminder of signs to look out for:
- unexplained deaths
- unwell sheep with nasal discharge
- drooling in cattle or sheep
- swollen or crusted muzzles or lips
- lameness with swelling above the hoof
- abortions and stillbirths

Bluetongue is a notifiable disease so suspicion must be reported.

Vaccination is the only way to protect stock against Blutongue and reduce the losses, please discuss with a farm vet.

09/07/2026

📢 Our Upleatham branch will be closing slightly earlier this Saturday only (11th July).

🕐 Closing time: 1:00pm (instead of our usual 1:45pm)

If you have an emergency after 1:00pm, please call our usual practice number. Your call will be automatically redirected as usual to our call handlers and subsequently the farm team.

Thank you for your understanding, and we'll be back to our normal Saturday opening hours next weekend.

07/07/2026

Pippa finished off her morning farm calls with a refreshing milkshake from the vending machine at Dobson’s of Lythe on its opening day. We would like to wish the Dobson family every success with their new venture.
The chocolate was good - what flavour is your favourite?

28/06/2026

An exciting prospect for some lucky farms, have a read and consider applying if you’re looking to explore how you can make your land work smarter, not harder, but aren’t sure where to start…

Could your farm be one of three chosen for a programme worth over £10,000 in support?

Be the Change is coming to the North York Moors National Park, it’s an 18-month, coaching journey designed to help farmers build more resilient, profitable and regenerative businesses.

The programme offers one-to-one coaching, soil and grazing mentoring, ecology health checks, subsidised testing, peer learning, and access to specialist expertise, all tailored to your farm. Funded by FiPL (Farming in Protected Landscapes) and led by farm systems consultant Liz Genever and EmpowerAg founder Amy Hughes.

We're looking for farms where most income comes from farming and where there's a genuine appetite for change; whether that's improving soils, reducing inputs, encouraging biodiversity, or simply figuring out what comes next.

Applications close Friday 17 July at 5pm. All the details of how to apply can be found in our latest blog post, link in the comments.

15/06/2026

☀🌦Sunshine + rain = increasing possibility of worm challenge

Compared to last summer we are seeing higher worm burdens in grazing lambs. The warm weather means worms complete their lifecycle quicker and rain/moisture helps break up faecal pellets allowing worm larvae to escape and climb up the herbage ready to be eaten by grazing animals.

Do you know which worm treatments are effective when on your farm?
Why not access the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway funding to investigate this further? A wormer treatment check will help you build knowledge about which products are performing best in your flock.

The clock is ticking as this funding is due to end on 19th June 2027

Speak to one of our knowledgeable farm vets for further guidance about how to apply and the testing requirements

📞01287 623802

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farmers-how-to-apply-for-funding-to-improve-animal-health-and-welfare

03/06/2026

Even on a grey rainy June day, what better “office” could we wish for?

As the dust settles on a busy Spring, now is a great time to review and reflect on this year’s calving/lambing period. Government Animal Health and Welfare funding can be used, give us a call and the vets can guide you to access this.

22/05/2026

What have we learnt from Challenge Sheep??

As many of you know, Dawn has been involved as a facilitator in AHDB’s 7 year long Challenge Sheep project which drew to a close last autumn.

With tens of thousands of data points collected we now have some exciting trends coming out of the project. Please join us to discuss what we have learnt and how this might be applicable to your flock.

Please use the below link to book your place.

https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/P1ZlC1YVAswOA09TLfMUV71M9?domain=ahdb.org.uk