Cost-effective Vet Tech farm services
Wyvern Farm Vets provide a wide range of expert vet tech services to support our farm clients across Somerset, Wiltshire & Dorset. From routine management to additional tasks, we ensure everything is handled efficiently and on time, helping you stay on top of farm operations and animal health.
Wyvern’s skilled vet tech team works closely with our farm vets, offering a collaborative hands-on approach to preventative herd health.
Equipped with the latest technology and training, we deliver exceptional on-farm services tailored to your needs. Whether it’s weekly, fortnightly, monthly or ad-hoc visits, we will organise to reduce your admin burden.
Vet Tech tasks:
Charged on a per animal basis
NEW: Freezebranding
Offering a reliable service to permanently and clearly identify your cattle. Ideal for easy herd management, suitable for both beef and dairy cattle. Whether you have just a few individuals or need to brand larger groups, we can tailor our service to suit your needs.
NEW: Artificial Insemination during normal working hours e.g. for synchronisation protocols – priced per cow
Charged on a per animal basis including drugs
Vet Tech Standing disbuds – priced per calf
Conventional calf disbuds carried out by our experienced vet tech team. We can handle everything, meaning farm staff can be freed up for other tasks.
Please contact the office to book one of our Farm Vet Technicians, for a one-off visit, or for regular monthly or quarterly visits.
Charged on an hourly rate
Vaccine management: reminders, cold chain appropriate transport, administration.
Protecting your herd starts with a strong vaccination program. Our vet techs handle vaccine planning, administration and record-keeping to ensure your livestock stay healthy and productive.
Mobility & Body Condition Assessment: ROMS accredited Mobility Scoring, Body Condition Scoring, faecal scoring, hygiene scoring.
Regular monitoring of your herd is essential for early detection and management of welfare and productivity issues allowing for prompt treatment, reduction of pain and prevention of long-term damage.
Calf health management: disbudding, weighing (scales or band), health scoring (pneumonia/scour), growth rate monitoring, colostral immunity testing, health tracking & benchmarking.
By supporting calves through the rearing period, we help improve survival rates, detect potential health issues early and enhance herd productivity in the long run.
Clipping service: tails, backs and freezebrands.
Our vet techs can aid with routine tasks to make animal management and hygiene easier.
Surveillance sampling – e.g. BVD/Johne’s/Colostrum.
Sampling farm animals on an individual or group basis to help you keep abreast of current disease or potential issues for your herd/flock.
Parasite control: We offer FREE collection of dung samples, testing in-house with our state-of-the-art WEC machine, allowing rapid turnaround time and accurate, quality-controlled results. We can advise on administration of appropriate treatment after discussion with the vet/SQP.
Free collection of samples for WECs is co-ordinated by our team to give you peace of mind, all you need to do is let us know you want to sign up!
