News
April 2012
February 2012
WE ARE MOVING TO SUMMERLEAZE ON MONDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2012.
January 2012
Watch this space for details of our moving date!
December 2011
The plans for our new farm department
Please click here for a more detailed view.
October 2011
On behalf of Jenny and Richard we would like to announce the arrival of Reggie James . Born 5th October 2011. 
Mother and Son are doing Well.
August 2011
The Honiton Show
Thank you to everyone who visited us at Honiton show where we had a free tombola, great prizes and some big slices of homemade cake, as well as plenty of cold beer.
We will be back next year on the same site.
Inside our trailer
Our Moodoku Winners Mr James and his daughter Kerry
Coombefield Hospitality!
In the trailer - Screen showing our updated website, surrounded by photos of staff and their pets. Our future plans for the farm animal side were on display as well.
We introduced our new bull fertility service.
The free cow tombola (in the shape of a cardboard box with a cow painted on it).
Thanks for visiting us. It was great to see so many people at our stand.
See you next year!
Winner
Congratulations to Mr & Mrs James
Who have won the Two Tickets to Honiton show.
We also awarded a ticket each to Lynn Archibold and Robert Pearse whose artistic abilities amazed us.
Mrs L Archibold
Mr R Pearse
Staff Changes
July 2011
Fran Newman has joined our Farm department this month, her interests are in general farm animal medicine and surgery. We welcome her to Coombefield.
Jan 2011
After nearly 2 ½ years, Matt Burge is leaving the Coombefield team early January for a practice closer to home and friends. Matt is a world class dinghy sailor who, understandably, is choosing to move closer to Weymouth and Portland Harbour in order to pursue his passion. He is a sad loss to us and we’ll miss his commitment, knowledge and humour. We wish Matt all the best in his veterinary career and success on the racing circuit.
Calving workshop - when to pull?
Nov 2010
After the shock of having a blind fold on and a kicking calf in front of them the young(ish) farmers practised recognising front and back legs and placing calving ropes around the head. This then lead to a discussion about when to pull and how to position the calves and the cow during calving. After pasties and cups of tea, calf and heifer management followed. Did you know that 40% of heifers fail to reach having a second calf? Hopefully the importance of a good calving and subsequent management of the calves became more evident after the two hour workshop. We hope everyone found it useful and a big thank you to the Rowe family at Higher Uphay for letting us hold the workshop and using their very newly born calf for the practical.
Practice re-structuring
Sept 2010
From 4th October we are splitting the practice in two, which will create a dedicated team of six farm vets able to provide the services required by the modern farm.
New vet
Sept 2010
Farm Vet Lucy Morgan joined the team in early September. Lucy graduated 8 years ago and has devoted most of her career to working with farm animals. With family in Stockland, she already has a reasonable knowledge of the area and so has hit the ground running.
