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X L V E T S N E W S
On
7th and 8th September
, XLVets attended the Dairy Event and Livestock Show. For the first time, the
event was held at the NEC in Birmingham - a new venue to represent the changing and progressive
nature of UK agriculture. The event was a fantastic success - 16,000 farmers attended the show, a rise
of 10% on the previous year.
Dairy Event & Livestock Show 2010
As part of the FarmSkills training programme
for farmers, visitors to the XLVets stand were
offered the opportunity to learn a new skill by
taking part in one of the 'mini-bite' FarmSkills
challenges, each led by vets from the XLVets
member practices. The three challenges
comprised; the correct procedure for tubing
an udder with a teat sealant, determining
colostrum quality and importance of feeding
good quality colostrum to calves and safe
injection techniques using the Sterimatic
system. For everyone who completed a
challenge there was a free XLVets FarmSkills
t-shirt or cool bag - and the chance to win
a day's training with FarmSkills.
XLVets was also represented in the Farm Health
Planning lectures, where Kat Bazeley (Synergy),
Richard Knight (Westmorland), Chris Price
(Drove) and Phil Alcock (Bishopton) each
delivered a short seminar on youngstock health.
The XLVets FarmSkills stand at this year's Dairy
Event was a huge success, this was confirmed
with the stand being awarded the coveted
Prince Philip Award - an award presented for
the most practical, relevant and best-presented
technical demonstration/exhibit at the
Dairy Event.
A huge
thank you
must go to the
many XLVets members who helped out
on the stand over the two days and
helped make the stand such a success
and extremely popular with the visitors
attending the event.
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LIVESTOCK MATTERS
WORKING
TOGETHER
FOR A HEALTHIER FUTURE...
XLVets FarmSkills wins Prince Philip Award