Feed, Medicine and Machinery for Scottish Livestock Farms
Four country stores with SQPs on the counter, an engineering department that installs and services your milking system, and hundreds of farm and rural products you can order tonight. Family-run from Stirling since 1957.
- 4 country stores — Ayr, Kinross, Lanark & Stirling
- 8 field reps, every one a qualified SQP
- 24/7 engineers on call, the whole of Scotland
- 1957 Rettie family ownership, three generations
Looking for something we have not listed, or not sure which product you need? Speak to an SQP at your store — that is what they are qualified for.
What Do You Need Today?
Four ways in. Pick the one that matches why you are here.
Something Has Stopped Working
Robot down, cooling off, scraper jammed. Our own engineers are on call 24/7 across the whole of Scotland.
Engineering & call-outMy Stock Needs Treating
Wormers, fluke, vaccines, minerals and trace elements. There are qualified SQPs in every store who can advise and supply.
Animal health & nutritionI Need to Order Something
Hundreds of farm and rural products online, from animal health to workwear. Order any time of the day or night.
Shop onlineI Want to Talk to Someone
Your local store, your field sales rep, or the engineering team at Springkerse. No forms, no queue.
Who to talk toOctober — Tups Out, Fluke Tests and the Cattle Coming In
What we are being asked for at the counter right now. Updated at the start of every month.
The Tups Go Out
Teeth, toes, testicles and tone checked before he goes in with the ewes, the harness fitted a few days early, and crayons graded for the weather — a hard crayon will not mark in a mild October.
TuppingFluke: Test Before You Treat
Bring a fresh dung sample to Ayr and we test it for fluke in store, so the drench goes to the groups that need it. Worm egg counts run at Kinross as well as Ayr.
Faecal testingHousing the Cattle
Fluke, worms and lice are usually sorted as the cattle come in. Which products, and how soon after housing, depends on the active — worth a word with an SQP before the gather, not at the crush.
Cattle housingWhat Those Three Jobs Need
The products behind the work above. All three are on the shelf at Ayr, Kinross, Lanark & Stirling, and every store has qualified SQPs to set them against your own ground before you buy.
Downland Essential Sheep
Tupping ewes. A sustained-release bolus for ewes — cobalt, iodine and selenium, the same measured supply every day, given at a gather before tupping. Essential Sheep+ adds copper, for genuinely low-copper ground only.
Opti-Mol Sheep Natural Energy
Tupping to lambing. A molassed energy bucket with protected fat, Omega-3 fish oil, vitamin E and selenium, for breeding ewes from tupping through to lambing. Formulated for the tups as well.
Downland Triclacert 10%
Housing time. Triclabendazole fluke drench for cattle — the same active as Fasinex 240, and we stock both. Which flukicide suits depends on the stage of fluke and the stock, so it is an SQP’s call.
The Fourth Job Is Air
Pneumonia in housed cattle is usually an air problem before it is a bug problem — and it is the one job here you cannot lift off a shelf.
What a shed needs depends on the shed, so our engineers come out and look at it first. Where the answer is air movement it is usually a belt-driven hanging fan: galvanised housing, stainless steel impeller, sealed-for-life bearings, IP55, rated to 50°C, in five sizes so it suits the building rather than the other way round. The Hydor range we fit is now branded Elta — same fans, new name.
Four Country Stores, and Someone in Each Who Knows the Answer
Phone ahead and we will put it by, or come in and talk it through. Every store has qualified SQPs on the counter.
Ayr
Livestock Auction Market, Whitefordhill, Ayr KA6 5JW
Mon–Fri 8am–5pm · Sat 9am–1pm
01292 262 576
Stirling
4 Munro Road, Springkerse Industrial Estate, Stirling FK7 7UU
Mon–Fri 8am–5pm · Sat 9am–1pm
01786 474 481Phone Ahead and We Will Put It By
Ring your store and we will set it aside for you to collect. Worth doing if you are travelling a distance or you need it on a particular day — it saves arriving to find the last one went out an hour ago. Or order online at mccaskie.store and we will send it out.
A Scottish First, on Our Stand
The Hanskamp FeedStation Mobile — individual concentrate feeding out at grass — makes its Scottish debut with McCaskie on Wednesday 18 November at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston.
We Do Not Just Sell the Machine. We Fit It and We Fix It.
Most agricultural merchants stop at the invoice. McCaskie Engineering designs, installs, commissions and services farm systems from our base at Springkerse in Stirling.
Robotic Milking
Fullwood Merlin². Exclusive Scottish dealer, and the only make of robot we service — because we would rather know one properly.
Milking equipmentSlurry Robots
JOZ Barn-E and JOZ-tech. A clean floor is a lameness decision, not a tidiness one.
SlurryVentilation & Weather
Hydor fans and Galebreaker screens. The cheapest pneumonia treatment is air.
VentilationThe People, Not the Website
Every merchant claims expert advice. Ours have qualifications you can check and names you can ask for.
SQPs on Every Counter
Every one of our field representatives is a qualified SQP, and so are most of the staff behind the counters. Whoever you get is qualified to advise on and supply animal medicines — you are not waiting for the one person who knows.
Animal health
Our Own Dairy Engineers
Fullwood robots and Pearson parlours, installed and serviced by the team that fitted them. On call 24/7, across the whole of Scotland.
Engineering
Field Sales, on Your Farm
Eight representatives across Stirling & Perthshire, Fife, Central, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Edinburgh & the Borders and South West Scotland. They walk the sheds, watch the calves and tell you what they see.
Find your repOpen an Account and Buy the Way Farms Actually Buy
Monthly terms, one statement, and a rep who knows the farm. If you are already an account customer, your rep can order anything on the site for you.
Advice for the Job in Front of You
Written in house and checked by an SQP before it goes out — not bought in from an agency.
Pre-Tupping, Fluke and Wormers: The October Newsletter
Essential Sheep for the ewes, energy buckets from tupping to lambing, faecal testing in store, and the cattle wormers and flukicides for housing.
Read itPre-Tupping Trace Elements: The Job That Shows Up at Scanning
Cobalt, selenium and iodine in the six weeks before the tups go out, and what a shortfall costs you at scanning.
Read itThe Silage You Made in May Decides How Many Cows Go Down in November
Why dry cow minerals have to be matched to the forage analysis, and what happens at calving when they are not.
Read it