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Willows Veterinary Group vet Sam Bowker
was presented with the ‘Dairy Industry Vet
of The Future’ award at the Dairy Show in
Somerset.
Sam was nominated by Cambridge
University, the university he graduated from
earlier this year, for his final year project
which examined how serum total protein
values affect growth rates in pre-weaning
dairy calves.
Sam was one of three vets shortlisted for the
award. All finalists were interviewed by a
panel of vets, farmers and representatives
from the award’s sponsors ForFarmers about
their final-year projects and the challenges
facing the dairy industry. Sam said ‘I was
very pleased and surprised to win this
award and the challenge now is to live
up to the title.’
Dairy Industry Vet of
the future winner
Livestock Matters
readers ask for more
of the same please!
At the end of last year we conducted a
readership survey to find out what you like
and don’t like about Livestock Matters and
to get your suggestions for articles that
you’d like to see in future issues.
The survey generated a lot of good
feedback with many of you requesting
‘more of the same’! There are some great
ideas for subjects that we haven’t yet
covered, so our practices are working
away to get these articles together for
forthcoming issues.
A huge thank you to all of you who took
part and congratulations go to Nigel
Heep a client of Farm First who won the
draw for the hamper.
We’re always looking for new articles for
Livestock Matters, so if you have any
thoughts or ideas, or would like to feature
your story in the magazine please do get
in touch with your XLVets practice.
Nigel Heep, readership survey winner client of
Farm First
Friars Moor Livestock Health hosts
inaugural Dairy Sheep and Goat
Conference
Friars Moor vets organised and ran the first
Dairy Sheep and Goat Conference which
took place on 26th & 27th January 2016
at Congresbury, near Bristol.
The conference was developed for small
ruminant milk producers, vets and the wider
industry – attracting attendees from the UK
and even as far as Sweden and mainland
Europe and Wisconsin. An impressive line-up
of speakers from the UK, Holland and Israel
spoke to the 108 delegates.
The conference was such a success that dates
for 2017 are already agreed – keep a note
of
21st & 22nd February
in your diary for
next year. Please contact the team at Friars
Moor for more information.
Turn to
pages 13-14
for the first of our articles
from the conference.
Delegates at the Friars Moor Conference
The Friars Moor team