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Consultation description – Opens 12th January  Closes 9th March 2026 Castration and tail docking of lambs are commonly carried out…

In short, NFU opinion poll concludes There is strong evidence that supports retaining the use of rubber rings to ensure…

Andrew Glenn was about to be filmed by the This Farming Life crew for next year’s series, when he ordered ClipFitter for the…

Glenkilrie is a hill farm in Perthshire, Scotland, known for its livestock and Farm Shop, Glenkilrie Larder. .The farm has…

My notes after the meeting with farmer and crofter clients of  Kenny Lang held in the Rural Community Centre at…

Our new Hybrid Mini Fitter became “Overall Winner” of AgriScot25’s Innovation award – aimed at enticing new entrants to come…

Page 27 describes QMS’s acknowledgement of ClipFitter for Lamb Castration and Tail-Docking in Scotland for ALL lambs up to 3…

AHDB include ClipFitter in their web pages on Lamb Castration Admittedly we are on ‘page 2‘, but nevertheless delighted to…

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has granted Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) £139,500 towards the purchase of ClipFitter devices, clips and…

Read Osla Jamwal-Fraser’s realistic report on the first season of HIE’s subsidised roll out of our welfare-first technology – ClipFitter….

Lawrence Martin and I visited Shetland for the second time this year, to demonstrate ClipFitter on much older lambs, and…

ScotGov have included us in their new Future Farming Investment Scheme, opening in July and closing in August 2025. Mairi…

ScotGov have initiated a subsidised roll out of ClipFitter to Highland & Island Crofters and farmers. I was up, supported…

We introduced students from SRUC Barony Campus to ClipFitter. Staff and students discovered the ways they preferred to work with…

Jane Cooper, of Orkney Boreray’s has reported very positively on her own use of ClipFitter, and her recommendations, as follows…

So long as we are taking 2 steps forward and only half a step back, we are making progress !…

Brian Edgar, Whitton Farm, Morebattle, (first time user 2025) and 8 weeks after fitting clips to older lambs using a…

The Results are IN and ClipFitter Pay-Back seems very likely. Sandy Storrar, Rossie Farm, Auchtermuchty, Fife painstakingly recorded each of…

We were invited to the Black Isle to record a demonstration of ClipFitter for the Farm Advisory Service by SAC…

Worth noting is that in placing the clip axially along the line of the lamb’s spine – in what we…

In 2024 McCaskie Farm Supplies recommended ClipFitter on their website. They say.. In a groundbreaking demonstration for McCaskie Sales Representatives,…

We had an excellent meeting at Duncan and Ashley MacGregor’s Burnhead Farm near Kilsyth, Glasgow, Scotland today. The sales team…

Vet’s Experiences of Tail Docking, Castration, Disbudding &/Or Dehorning? Instigated by Prof Cathy Dwyer and Dr Kenny Rutherford, SRUC are…

Thanks to supporters in NZ, in particular Dr B. Helen Beattie, CAWI and MD of VAWA (Veterinarians for Animal Welfare…

ScotGov are taking the lead again by publishing (27th Spec 2023) the conclusions of a study by the Animal Welfare…

Will, of Cowley Hill Farm in Staffordshire is a youthful and enthusiastic Farmer, keen to let others experience the joys…

At the Royal Welsh 2023 we continued to be asked about calf castration. The rules are similar to sheep so…

Professor Vince Molony and I were delighted to receive our award from the Royal Highland Agricultural Society’s President Ian Duncan-Millar….

We are appearing in the NSA Marquee behind the main stand and look forward to seeing as many of this…

Cammy Wilson (aka TheSheepGame) is a popular social and mainstream media personality. He visited our stand in Wales and enthused…

ClipFitter & Numnuts were featured in a session on day 2 of the SVS conference in Penrith, as viable options…

NFU Scotland organised a most interesting farm visit to David & Claire MacTaggart’s farm in Bonchester Bridge. We were one…

Baby LambClip Now almost as small as a human baby umbilical cord clamp, this baby lamb clip will suit younger…

It’s worth mentioning our materials too – particularly those used for our LambClips. It has already been used for plastic…

Callum and Duncan Hume, with their capable assistant Scott, took to fitting LambClips with apparent ease. Click the photo to…

Tailing worked well at the end of a shute, the normal position for that process, but castration appears to be…

After a year away from farms because of the corona virus, and a major fire at Offbeat Engineering our technical…

As very quick and clear evidence of the benefits of our ClampEASY system, the lamb arriving has just had two…

We have been developing this alternative to ‘ringing’ since March 2019 We have massively de-skilled, and modernised the well known…

The young Engineering Design Team that worked with Alec Mitchell and myself to design several of my most successful products…

Roxan Developments Ltd of Selkirk, Scotland, which was owned by Brian Eadie and his wife, was sold in October 2016…