Large Animals

Our Mission Statement

To provide high levels of specialist farm veterinary medicine to the farmers of Mid Ulster.

To have a dedicated team of farm vets working in partnership with farmers to improve
welfare and production of their stock and thus improve overall profitability.

Glenshane Vets' Farm Animal Services aim to work pro-actively on farm animal care with a focus on Preventative Herd Health and Fertility Management alongside our efficient Out of Hours Veterinary Service.

Glenshane Veterinary Clinics cover Mid Ulster from Plumbridge to Garvagh, Maghera to Kilrea, Portglenone to Toome, Rasharkin to Bellaghy, Dungiven to Draperstown. We pride ourselves on traditional service values but with a modern approach to complement the needs of today's farmers. We have an experienced team of farm vets with expertise in the dairy, beef, sheep, farm pets and the pig sector.

Our Farm Vets provide a range of quality services, tailored to your needs. This, together with our very competitive medicine list, enables us to work with farmers to help make them more efficient and profitable.

Cattle - Dairy - Beef

Export Certification of live animals
Pregnancy diagnosis with battery operated ultrasound scanner
Foot trimming in foot trimming crush at our Maghera branch
Mastitis Lab and Consultancy
Routine blood sampling for BVD, Leptospirosis, IBR & Johne's
Sick Calf Management: Scour/Respiratory and Ill Thrift
BVD eradication scheme
Herd Health and Fertility planning with VetImpress Software
AFBI Lab work: Abortion/Ill Thrift/Respiratory profiles
Tuberculin testing, Brucellosis testing
Post mortem and sampling
Red Tractor and Farm Quality Assured visits
Routine & Emergency surgery: Calving, Cesarean, calfbed prolaps or torsion, LDA/RDA repair, explorative laparotomy, vasectomy, claw removal, dehorning, castrating, tracheotomy

Sheep - Goats

Ram fertility service with semen evaluation post electro-ejaculation
Routine Dung Sampling In-House with worm and fluke advice
Routine blood sampling for Enzootic Abortion, Toxoplasmosis and Johne's
Flock Health and Fertility planning with VetImpress software
Disbudding and Castrating of goat kids under general anaesthetic
Export Certification of live animals
Routine & Emergency surgery: Lambing, Cesarean Sections, reed and lamb bed treatments, Vasectomy, claw removal