Youngstock – Web Course

Learn how to best manage your youngstock, dairy or beef through an interactive tutored web-based course that is delivered digitally. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ  

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CowSignals – Web Course

Learn how to apply CowSignals principles through an interactive tutored web-based course that is delivered digitally. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Mobility Scoring – Web Course

Learn how to mobility score on cows, through an interactive tutored web-based course that is delivered digitally. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Lambing Techniques

Are you an experienced shepherd that need a refresher, or a flock-keeper who is just starting, or a college student? Well then, this course is for you! Our training groups are small, aiming to maximise your learning experience. Learn primarily through practical tuition and some video demonstrations. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Sheep Scanning

Knowing whether your ewes are pregnant and how many lambs they are carrying is important to reduce twin lamb disease, devise an appropriate feed plan and minimise culling losses. Would you like to practice external transdermal ultrasound scanning for your flock? Look no further as this course is for you! Our training groups aim to maximise your learning experience. Learn primarily through practical tuition and some video demonstrations. The course content is:

• Understand the principles and applications of ultrasound scanning
• Review key performance points of ultrasound applications
• Familiarise yourselves with the operation of the scanner
• Practice ultrasound scanning on farm
• Pregnancy diagnosis and identification of single, twins, triplets and quads

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CowSignals

Learn how to apply CowSignals principles through a combination of practical tuition and video demonstrations. We cover the whole of the UK and Ireland, with venues near you. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Youngstock

Learn how to best manage your youngtock, dairy or beef through a combination of practical tuition and video demonstrations. We cover the whole of the UK and Ireland, with venues near you. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Better Livestock Handling

Learn about livestock behaviour and develop safer and more profitable approaches when working with your stock. Our Better Livestock Handling for Increased Profitability course is farm and classroom based and involves a maximum of 10 delegates. The sessions will look at:

• Why good cattle handling matters
• Main issues and factors resulting in accidents
• Benefits of good cattle handling
• Animal senses
• Moving livestock efficiently
• Design of handling facilities

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Advanced Hoofcare

Would you like to master more than one cattle hoof trimming techniques, while broadening your knowledge on lameness and mobility? This course will teach you the White Line Atlas and 5-Step foot trimming methods, making you versatile when trimming your clients’ cattle. Apply the most suited technique depending on the management and environment the cows are kept in, resulting in improved hoofcare. Our Advanced Hoofcare course is farm and classroom based and involves a maximum of 4 delegates and will help you develop your confidence to better manage and understand foot trimming from an individual cow to the herd level. By the end of the course, you would have become skilled at two foot trimming methods and cultivated your own farm strategies to assess what your herds’ hoof health status is. You shall be able to benchmark numerous herds and compare their lameness performance. You shall gain vital experience in evaluating the most suitable environment that either technique can be applied. The course's key fundamentals will also cover understanding the bio markers and critical control points in the claws and cow’s foot that are required to allow a unified bio-mechanical profile of the foot. The course will also review the anatomy of the foot, as well as aspects of the environment and genetics that predispose in lameness. Review health and safety principles relating to foot trimming that create a secure setting for the hoofcare professional and the cow. Finally improve your assessment of hoof conditions and base your curative approach on the latest research. Develop a Vision, Skills, Incentives, Resources and an Action Plan in order to tackle your clients’ hoofcare issues. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Veterinary Medicines – Web Course

Learn how to use veterinary medicines responsibly and safely, through an interactive tutored web-based course that is delivered digitally. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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DIY AI

If you are looking to improve your herds-person skills and add cattle DIY artificial insemination to your repertoire, our course will help you get there safely and efficiently. Genetic improvement of a cattle herd can have profound benefits on productivity, welfare and farm income. Being able to apply artificial insemination on your own cattle can help you save time and money, as well as speed up your herd’s genetic improvement. Our highly experienced instructors will help you master the skills needed to practice artificial insemination in cattle safely and with confidence. You shall gain vital experience dealing with inseminating first time heifers to adult cows. New inseminators will gain the basic skills required to apply the technique safely and efficiently. Contact Us Courses FAQ  

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Veterinary Medicines

Learn how to use veterinary medicines responsibly and safely, through a practical and interactive course. We cover the whole of the UK and Ireland, with venues near you. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Mobility Scoring

Practice mobility scoring on cows. Learn through a combination of practical tuition and video demonstrations. We cover the whole of the UK and Ireland, with venues near you. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ

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Basic Hoofcare

Are training groups of six or more delegates not what you are looking for? Our courses run with a maximum of 4 delegates per course guaranteeing your knowledge transfer and your mastering of the hoof trimming technique. By the end of a very educational and enjoyable day, you shall know your stabiliser from your stress claw and be able to balance a healthy foot 50:50 or an ulcerated one 60:40. We cover the whole of the UK and Ireland, with venues near you. Your course will be delivered by not simply a teacher, but by a Masterclass Trainer who has nearly 30 years’ experience as a vet, foot trimmer and a CowSignals Master trainer. Contact Us Courses FAQ  

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