Farm Vet Dr Sherike van der Merwe

Farm Vet Dr Sherike van der Merwe Herd Health and Reproduction 🐄🐏🐎
Equine veterinarian 🩺
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Heifer Tech Dungarees
Kimberley 🇿🇦

Mobile veterinary service in the Free State and Northern Cape. We aid farmers with remote veterinary care, sustainable herd health plans, disease surveillance protocols, and a fully equipped ambulance for equine and farm animal emergencies

Things I’ve operated on in the last two weeks as a large animal vet: 🐂🐎• Preputial prolapse in a bull — surgical repair ...
14/06/2026

Things I’ve operated on in the last two weeks as a large animal vet: 🐂🐎

• Preputial prolapse in a bull — surgical repair to reduce swelling, trauma, and restore normal function.
• Caslick’s procedure in mares — performed to improve vulvar conformation and reduce uterine contamination.
• Equine squamous cell carcinoma — surgical removal of early cancerous lesions for better long-term prognosis.
• Chronic traumatic lip mass in a mare — excision of an early proliferative lesion caused by repeated irritation.

I wish I took pre-, intra-, and post-op photos all the time — but when you’re putting a 1 ton animal under anaesthesia, taking photos are usually the last thing on your mind. Most days your focus is simply: keep them alive, keep them stable, and get them standing safely again.

Large animal practice is never boring 😅🫰🏼

LINK IN BIO 🐏🐄 🚜 What started as a small dream between farm calls, muddy boots, and too many blood tubes shoved into ran...
12/06/2026

LINK IN BIO 🐏🐄 🚜

What started as a small dream between farm calls, muddy boots, and too many blood tubes shoved into random pockets… turned into workwear that actually works.

Join the cult.
Upgrade your workwear.

Heifer Tech Dungarees are now officially available in MEN’S sizes.

Designed by a large animal vet for vets, farmers, horse girls, stockmen, and anyone who actually works hard.

✔ Perfected in real field conditions
✔ Pockets exactly where you need them
✔ Blood tube pockets
✔ Ultrasound machine pockets
✔ Comfortable enough to survive 1000 pregnancy diagnoses
✔ Flexible enough to fold like a pretzel during a calving
✔ Tough enough for blood, mud, diesel, sweat, lucerne, and chaos
✔ South African made 🇿🇦
✔ Ships worldwide

Built in cattle kraals, lambing camps, horse boxes, feedlots, and on the back of a dusty bakkie somewhere between “just quickly” and absolute disaster.

Because workwear should work as hard as you do.

Workwear. Tested daily. Blood and tears come standard. These boots could write textbooks for new grad vets 🩺Heifer Tech ...
09/06/2026

Workwear. Tested daily. Blood and tears come standard. These boots could write textbooks for new grad vets 🩺

Heifer Tech Workwear back in stock 12 June 2026.
Join the cult. You know you want to 😉

Ek d**k elke gesprek rondom elke boer se tafel bevat deesdae dieselfde woorde: bek-en-klouseer…oral.Vir die laaste jaar ...
09/06/2026

Ek d**k elke gesprek rondom elke boer se tafel bevat deesdae dieselfde woorde: bek-en-klouseer…oral.

Vir die laaste jaar voel dit asof hierdie siekte ons landbou- en veeartseny bedryf heeltemal oorgeneem het. Die Noord-Kaap was lank stil en skoon, en toe tref dit ons ook — en dit tref bitter hard.

Ons plase lê ver uitmekaar. Ons diere loop nie sommer tussen mekaar nie. En tog versprei hierdie siekte soos ’n veldbrand.

Ek het met my eie oë gesien wat dit aan ’n kudde doen. Koeie wat lê. Kloue wat afval. Kalwers wat op ’n streep vrek. Tongvelle wat mens aftrek. Laatnag oproepe. Medisyne. Stress. Moedeloosheid.
Maar meer as dit — ek het gesien wat dit aan ’n boer doen.

Want ja, daar is veeartsrekeninge. Ja, daar is verliese. Maar die ergste is daardie gevoel van: “My land het my in die steek gelaat.” Dat iets só groot buite jou beheer lê, al werk jy hoe hard, al probeer jy hoe mooi boer.

Ek d**k spesifiek aan een plaas wat bitter swaar getref is. Die koeie was ongelooflik siek. Maar die boervrou het dag en nag by haar diere gesit. Sy het behandel, opgepas, gevoer, gewag, gebid. Sy het alles gedoen wat sy kon. En op die ou einde het hulle verbasend min verliese gehad — omdat iemand só mooi na haar diere gekyk het.

Twee maande ná die uitbraak het ons dragtigheidsondersoeke gaan doen. En natuurlik het ons die ergste verwag. Die diere was siek. Hulle was geënt. Hulle was onder geweldige stres.
Maar weet julle wat?
Dit was van die beste dragtigheidsyfers wat ons nog ooit op daardie plaas gekry het.

En dit het my net weer herinner: ons as mense d**k ons moet alles self dra. Ons laat vrees oorneem. Ons probeer beheer neem oor goed wat eintlik buite ons hande lê. Maar die Here bring jou nooit tot op ’n plek net om jou daar te los nie.
Hy sien jou deur.
En soms sien mens dit die duidelikste in ’n plek waar jy dit die minste verwag — tussen siek diere, seer kloue, stres en uitputting.

Want ná al daardie chaos was die koeie nog steeds dragtig. Nog steeds aan die lewe. Nog steeds ’n teken van hoop.
En dan besef mens net weer hoe groot die Here se genade werklik is.

Vir elkeen wat vandag moedeloos voel: in my beroep het ek die Here se hand al soveel keer gesien. Ek wil jou net herinner — Hy sal jou nooit tot op ’n plek bring net om jou daar te los nie.

Al voel dit soms so.
Al slaan die paniek oor.
Al voel die las te groot.

Want as ons eendag terugkyk, besef ons dikwels: ons was eintlik maar klein-gelowig teenoor ’n God wat ons nog nooit laat val het nie.

06/06/2026

A few weeks ago we asked our followers to give us challenges for our dungarees… and you guys understood the assignment 😂

So for the week before launch, we’re posting a different challenge every day 💥
Today’s challenge: “Can you gym in it?” 🙄

FYI — we don’t gym, we CROSSFIT 😭

And yes… they are squat-proof, bar muscle-up proof, handstand-walk proof and chaos-on-a-farm-proof 😂

Challenge accepted.
Challenge smashed.

All challenges have already been sent in 👀
If we picked yours, DM us to claim your prize 🫡

05/06/2026

One of the biggest lies I told myself as a young veterinarian was that experience would eventually make me less nervous.

It doesn’t.

You become more skilled. More knowledgeable. More capable.
But your nervous system doesn’t always know the difference between being held at gunpoint and passing a stomach tube on a R2.4 million mare while the owner stands next to you asking, “Are you sure it’s in the right place?”
All it knows is that the stakes are high.

Veterinary medicine is different from most other medical professions. The patient’s family isn’t waiting in a reception area.
They’re standing right next to you.
Watching you give the anaesthetic.
Watching you suture.
Watching you operate.
Listening to every word you say. All the words that come out when you are frustrated 😂

Even routine procedures can feel overwhelming sometimes. A bull prolapse repair may be routine on paper, but it’s still a thousand-kilogram animal under anaesthesia with an owner watching your every move.

After eight years in practice, I still get VERY nervous.
And maybe that’s not a bad thing.
Because nervousness isn’t always a sign that you don’t know what you’re doing.
Sometimes it’s a sign that you understand exactly how much responsibility you’re carrying.

And if you’re a veterinary student or a young veterinarian, never think you’re failing because you’re nervous.
The nerves don’t magically disappear with experience.
One of the best lessons an older veterinarian ever taught me was this: experience doesn’t mean you stop making mistakes. It means you recognize them sooner.

As a young vet, you often only realize a mistake after you’ve made it.
As you gain experience, you start recognizing it while it’s happening.
That little voice becomes louder.
Your judgment becomes sharper.
And that’s how you grow.

So keep going.
The nerves stay.
But so does the experience😉

As a little girl I had a book called “A to Z: Aardvark to Zebra,” and I used to dream about animals I’d probably never e...
04/06/2026

As a little girl I had a book called “A to Z: Aardvark to Zebra,” and I used to dream about animals I’d probably never even see one day.
Now, somehow, I’ve been lucky enough to even treat both — and literally everything in between. Life passes so quickly, and I think we forget that someday these ordinary days will have been our life. I’ll never stop being grateful for every prayer, every closed door, and every bit of grace that led me here ❤️‍🩹

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