Healthy livestock as part of healthy farm ecosystems
Founded in 2022, The Regenerative Vet is a veterinary practice offering a whole farm approach to livestock health and welfare. From landscape design to the drivers of disease pressure on your farm – Claire offers a different way of thinking and understanding your farm as an ecosystem and the huge benefits that diversity and nature can provide for livestock health. As a practising clinical farm vet for the past 11 years, Claire has a deep understanding and knowledge of different livestock systems. Working as far as possible with the most up-to-date research alongside your own observations and understanding of your own business, she will endeavour to find the most suitable options to suit your individual farm context.
Services
Proactive and preventative herd / flock management
Proactive and preventative herd/flock management for long-term business resilience with a focus on health and welfare. This will include identifying ‘Red flags’ or ‘indicators’ of disease and a root cause analysis. To better understand the drivers and dynamics between health and disease in your farming system, we can identify bottlenecks and barriers to change.
Holistic, whole farm consultancy
Understanding that your farm is a unique business, with its own unique context, we will delve into everything from potential grazing management strategies designed to reduce inputs and maximise profit to landscape design for future resilience to both environmental and economic stressors.
Integrated parasite management
From prevention to assessment and treatment options.
Defining your context
To create clear objectives that are aligned with your business and life goals. Understanding what you are aiming to achieve will help focus your management going forward.
One-off consultancy visits
Support for a particular issue or longer-term collaboration is also offered.
A changing physical and economic climate requires resilient farms with resilient livestock and minimal interventions.
Who is the Regenerative Vet?
Claire Whittle BVSc PGCert MRCVS
Claire is a Veterinary consultant and farmer with 11 years of experience as a practising farm vet in and around the South of England, the North West, Midlands and North Wales.
After several years working as a commercial farm vet, Claire became disillusioned with her role as a clinical vet as she felt she was always putting sticking plasters over problems rather than identifying the root cause of disease on farms.
