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The practice is split 75% large animal and
25% small animal with both sectors continuing
to show healthy growth over the last few
years. This expansion has been built on a
proactive approach to farm animal medicine.
We have three vets providing a wide range
of services to our farm clients: Ed Hewitt, Alan
Walker and Eilidh Sellars. We are a young
and enthusiastic team and firmly believe that
the future of our practice has to be built
around sustainable, profitable agriculture
in our area. This can only be achieved by
building on our successes and remaining
an effective contributor to the farm
management team.
As a practice we realise that the transfer of
information to farmers is vital. To this end
our practice meetings have varied in the past
from formal talks, to a more relaxed format
of workshops. We have also been involved
in speaking at producer group meetings
which involved DairyCo, First Milk and
Graham's Dairies. These meetings have
proved very successful in that they involve
farmers who have a common goal of efficient
profitable dairy farming.
We are proud to be a ‘country practice’
and feel we are an integral part of our local
community, speaking to local groups when
asked and supporting the many local
agricultural shows within the area.
We share the same vision as XLVets and
together we will strive to provide the level
of service and expertise our clients deserve.
Website: www.armourvetcentre.co.uk
We are a mixed practice based in Ayrshire in the South West of Scotland.
The area we cover continues to be one of the prominent dairy areas in
Scotland, therefore our core business is in the dairy sector. We also have
a good mix of pedigree/commercial beef and sheep work.
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Armour Veterinary Centre,
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Our team of Directors consists of:
Colin Lindsay
- Former Pet Plan Vet of the
Year, member of BCVA Council, chair of
Medicines group
Barbara Lindsay
- Senior Companion Animal
Clinician
Kevin Beattie
- Certificate holder in Cattle
Health and Production
Pauline Graham
- Practice Manager and
VPMA Council
David McCrea
- Production Animal clinician
Assisted by eight young enthusiastic veterinary
surgeons with a wide range of skills as
diverse as internal medicine, orthopaedics,
acupuncture, equine dentistry, hydrotherapy
and diagnostic imaging. Primarily we are a
mixed Veterinary Practice offering the full
range of services all good veterinary practices
offer. The Capontree Brand offers high levels
of clinical excellence and accepts nothing
less. The clients expect this high quality of
service and this is why we deal with some
of the best Dairy, Beef and Sheep Units
and pet owners in the county and possibly
the country.
We service 350 farms of which 76 are
dairies and the rest are mixed beef and
sheep units. Our farm clients represent the
whole spectrum of rural clients, from 1,000
cow intensive dairy units demanding intensive
and ongoing veterinary input, to 3,000 acre
hill farms and very traditional family run units.
We believe in the importance of proactive
herd/flock health planning and implementing
the measure, manage and monitor mantra.
We also believe that client education is
a must and run foot trimming courses, AI
courses and hold regular Farmers Meetings.
On the companion animal side we work from
two purpose built premises (Tier 2 RCVS PSS),
and a branch surgery. The services offered
span the whole spectrum from primary
opinion cases to more advanced services
such as endoscopy, digital radiography,
and colour flow doppler, orthopaedics, TTOs.
We provide a compassionate approach
backed up with a great nursing staff.
We are delighted to become members of
XLVets for a variety of reasons; we are
impressed with the initiatives undertaken by
XLVets such as the FarmSkills courses. The
motivation, enthusiasm and brand value are
all excellent. These qualities and achievements
are similar to the goals we have set ourselves
at Capontree. We believe by joining a group
of like minded practices we will be able to
share in knowledge and provide added drive
and enthusiasm in promoting animal health
and the control of the key economic diseases
which hinder modern farming.
Visit our web site at
www.capontree.vets.co.uk
Capontree Vets are a dedicated team of highly motivated professionals
offering a compassionate and proactive service to all types of animals in
North Cumbria/Northumberland and South West Scotland.
Capontree Veterinary Centre,
Cumbria