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Numnuts®: Introducing Wee Barry for Lambing Season

We’re now into lambing season for 2026 and for farm vets, many of your clients will be thinking about castration and tail docking – and how to stay compliant. This season, MerlinVet is able to support vets and your farming clients.

Numnuts® is the 2-in-1 castration and tail docking device that delivers local anaesthetic and here at MerlinVet UK, Numnuts® is available for vets to sell to farmers.

One of the best ways to engage farmers is to let them handle the kit themselves. So, meet Wee Barry, our purpose-built demo lamb who is available to vet practices who wish to showcase Numnuts® to farmers. It’s ideal to demonstrate at pre-lambing farmer meetings so they can gain confidence in using Numnuts®.

As vets, you have two options for your practice:

Option 1: Buy Wee Barry (£150)

Available to purchase here

Option 2: Buy a Numnuts® Vet Bundle (£796) and get Wee Barry free

Includes:

2x Numnuts® Starter Kits
2x Annual Service Kits
4x Elastrator Ring Packs (500)
Numnuts® detailed guide and farmer flyers

Available to purchase here

Why farmers need Numnuts®:

With increased scrutiny around lamb welfare in Scotland, the Scottish Government has confirmed that farmers in Scotland can legally use Numnuts® for castration and tail docking up to 3 months of age, provided a local anaesthetic is administered.

Numnuts® allows farmers to continue their trusted practices in using rubber rings on lambs between 7 days and 3 months of age whilst meeting welfare expectations and legislative requirements.

The MerlinVet Numnuts® team is here to support you and your clients. We can:

Attend or support pre-lambing farmer meetings
Supply Wee Barry, flyers, and technical information
Assist with on-farm demos once lambing is underway

Email Dougal for more information

Introducing Relyte HA Electrolyte Gel & Relieve Digestive Paste

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From Resolvet, introducing the equine supplements, Relyte HA and Relieve. Created by vets at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, Kentucky from the team that brought you Relyne GI.

Relyte HA Electrolyte Gel

The first ever equine electrolyte supplement with added hyaluronan (HA) and concentrated electrolytes

Relyte HA from Resolvet is a balanced equine electrolyte that replenishes the minerals lost in sweat, provides added calcium, and supports gastrointestinal comfort with the addition of hyaluronan (HA).

Relyte HA comes in an easy to administer dial-a-dose® syringe – contains two doses per tube for adult horse
Each 30ml dose is the equivalent to a half litre of sweat
Apple flavoured for palatability without any sugar – perfect for competition horses
Suitable for all horses, but especially beneficial for horses with a history of gastric ulcers
Relyte HA is the first electrolyte supplement formulated with Hyaluronan
It can be given to foals or adult horses with diarrhoea to replenish electrolytes and support gastrointestinal mucosal tissues
Relyte HA has been thoroughly tested for banned substances and is Clean Sport certified

Find out more and buy here

Relieve Digestive Paste

Relieve by Resolvet restores digestive balance fast with medical grade ultra-purified bentonite clay and L-glutamine in horses.

Relieve contains the only ultra-purified bentonite clay available in veterinary medicine, offering a superior surface area of particle for adsorption. This facilitates a rapid restoration of digestive balance, whilst L-glutamine, an amino acid that optimizes GI mucosal health, ensures horses bounce back from digestive upset.
Relieve utilizes the unique molecular structure of bentonite, and triple-filters it with both hydro and centrifugal forces to remove any non-clay particles. This process produces a bentonite clay that is superior to others, with 100% active ingredients in each gram.
Relieve has a guaranteed analysis of 6400 mg ultra-purified bentonite clay & 2500 mg L-glutamine per 60 ml

Find out more and buy here

MerlinVet: In-Practice Revenue Options

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Discover how to maximise your practice’s revenue through our Health Plans, MerlinVet Pet Shops and MerlinVet Direct

In addition to our core services of being a wholesaler, export business, and veterinary buying group, we are now offering some additional services which can help maximise your practice’s revenue. Expand your practice’s revenue through our:

Online MerlinVet Pet Shops

Frustrated at losing follow-up sales for toothpastes, supplements and other general sale items sold in your practice MerlinVet would like to offer you a FREE solution to this – your own practice-branded digital pet shop, delivered by MerlinVet.

You view the available range of products through our online portal, Talon. Select the products to stock and apply any discounts to the sale price of these products for your customers.
You are then provided with a MerlinVet Pet shop domain name, URL Link and QR code link to a practice-branded site which can be hosted on your practice website/social media pages etc.
Direct your clients to the shop via social media posts, consultations in practice, emails, WhatsApp messages, posters and leaflets or other practice literature (MerlinVet will help with this).
Once a client fills their ‘basket’ and makes their purchases, the products are delivered directly to the client’s address by next day DPD delivery (for orders made before 1pm, see Delivery Terms and Conditions for exclusions).
MerlinVet will then provide a commission payment to the practice for every purchase made through their store! The more sales you make, the bigger the commission payment each month!

Health Plans

For just £29.99 + Vat each month, your practice can have as many unique health plans or treatment plans as required, all created and managed through our tailored portal, Talon.

Benefits include:

No sign-up fees for you or your clients
You choose what YOU want in your plans and how much to charge
Instant alerts for cancellations and failed payments with live reporting on your Talon dashboard
Easy access to support through the Talon message system
Optional home delivery of prescription products
Optional additional discounts on Vet Pet Shop products for your health plan clients.
Add bespoke plans for special clients instantly at no additional cost

Treatment Plans

Treatment plans are like health plans, but for a chronic disease. The client pays a monthly fee in the same way, but the benefits included are for managing the disease.

For example, an osteoarthritis plan might include:

Consult every 3 months
Pain medication (could be sent via MerlinVet home delivery)
Nutritional supplements (could be sent monthly via MerlinVet home delivery)
6-monthly blood tests
Nurse weight clinic

Treatment plans can be a huge relief for clients with pets who are uninsured, but still want to be able to afford the best level of care for their pet.

MerlinVet Direct: Home Delivery

MerlinVet can send out prescription products directly to your clients.

These can be:

Parasiticides as part of a health plan
Chronic meds as part of a treatment plan
One-off or short-term medications

Talon allows vets to complete a digital written prescription with scope for multiple delivery dates, which are then checked and fulfilled by our VMD registered warehouse.

Reports within Talon will remind you when a prescription is due to expire, and provide the option to easily repeat it.

NOTE: MerlinVet will not post cold, controlled or injectable products to clients (the prescription and dosage remain the responsibility of the prescribing vet at all times).