We turn up

And if we can't, you hear it by seven in the morning rather than at four in the afternoon. A day you've penned stock for is a day you don't get back.

Mobile livestock services

Clean kit, on the day we said.

Foot trimming, shearing, scanning and handling systems, for farms and for six sheep in a paddock. Our biosecurity protocol is printed on this page so you can hold us to it — and so you can compare it with whoever else is quoting.

The biosecurity protocol Prices per head

Smallholders welcome

There's a minimum callout and small numbers cost more per head. Both are on this page. If that's too steep, ask about a shared visit day with your neighbours.

The biosecurity protocol

Boots and waterproofs — Washed and disinfected between every holding, not at the end of the day
Crates, knives and shears — Cleaned and disinfected between holdings, and blades between animals
The vehicle — Swept out and the tyres washed before we come on to your ground
Where we've been — Tell us to declare it and we will. If we've been somewhere with a problem, you hear it first
Your own rules — Whatever your protocol is, it beats ours. Tell us at the gate
Turning us away — Always fine, at any point, and there's no charge for a visit you stop

None of that is unusual and all of it is skippable when nobody is watching, which is exactly why it's written down. Ask the next contractor who quotes you for theirs.

Trimming is not treatment

What a trim does

Takes the overgrowth off and lets us see the foot properly. On a healthy animal that is often the whole job, and it's the one we're qualified to do.

What needs a vet

Lameness with a named cause needs diagnosis and usually a prescription. We'll tell you what we saw and which foot — we won't quietly trim around a problem.

What you get either way

A written note of every animal we flagged, with tag numbers, the same day. Take it straight to your vet if it says to.

Per head, and the minimum stated

Foot trimming

$3.20 a head

Sheep, over 50 head
Our crate and our race
A written note of anything flagged
Minimum callout $95

Book trimming

Shearing

$3.80 a head

Over 100 head
Wool rolled and packed
Dagging priced separately, honestly
Minimum callout $140

Book shearing

Small flocks

$95 the visit

Up to 25 head of anything
Yes, six sheep in a paddock counts
Ask about sharing a day with neighbours
Same kit, same protocol, same notes

Book a small visit

Small numbers genuinely cost more per head — the travel and the setup are the same whether there are six animals or six hundred. We'd rather print that than quote it as a surprise, and a shared day between three smallholdings is usually the cheaper answer.

What we need from you

Stock penned before we arrive — The single biggest thing. A morning spent gathering is a morning nobody is paid for
Somewhere to wash — A tap and a hard standing. It doesn't have to be smart
Someone who knows the flock — For twenty minutes at the start. Which ones are trouble, which are in lamb
Your tag records — Or nothing at all, and we'll write them down as we go
Your own protocol — At the gate, before we unload. It always takes precedence over ours

★★★★★

“Rang at ten to seven to say the lorry wouldn't start and they'd be a day late. Every other contractor I've used would have let me pen them and find out.”

R. Whitfield

Hill flock, 600 ewes

★★★★★

“They flagged four feet, wrote the tag numbers down, and told me to get the vet rather than book them again. That's why they still do my trimming.”

Sian P.

Smallholding, 30 head

Get a date

Tell us roughly what and roughly how many. We'll come back with a date, a price and what we'd need penned.

Ask for a date

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