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
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.
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 healthI 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 toNovember: Fluke in the Ewes, the Housing Dose, Dry Cows and AgriScot
The four jobs we are being asked about at the counter right now, and what we have for each. Updated at the start of every month.
Fluke in the Ewes After Tupping
Flukanide is a rafoxanide drench licensed for liver fluke from the six-to-eight-week immature stage through to adult. It is a different active to triclabendazole, so it gives a fluke plan a second option — and because the fluke picked up at the back end are still growing, which product fits your ewes this month is an SQP’s call, ideally with a dung sample tested at Ayr first.
On the shelf
The Housing Dose
Levacide Injection is a levamisole wormer — the yellow group — for gut worms and lungworm in cattle and sheep, injected rather than drenched. What it does not reach is the larvae that sit dormant in the gut wall over winter, so it is the right housing dose for some groups and the wrong one for others. Our SQPs will ask what the cattle had last time before they hand it over.
On the shelf
Dry Cows: Match the Minerals to the Silage
Scottish grass silage runs high in potassium, and a high-potassium dry cow diet gets in the way of the cow pulling calcium from her own bones the day she calves. Low calcium and high magnesium before calving keep that machinery primed — as a bucket for free access, or a powder in the ration, depending on the system. Why the silage decides it.
On the shelf
AgriScot: Stand 136, Wednesday 18 November
One stand, five partners. Fullwood, JOZ, Urban, Hanskamp and Beyond Innovation join us in the Highland Hall at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, from 9am to 5pm. The Hanskamp FeedStation Mobile makes its Scottish debut, and the Beyond the Grid team are there to talk farm energy. Entry is free — register with AgriScot and come and find us.
On the stand
The products here are on the shelf at Ayr, Kinross, Lanark & Stirling, with qualified SQPs in every store to talk them through. Flukanide, Levacide and Epricert are POM-VPS medicines, so an SQP will ask a few questions about the stock before they are supplied. Find your nearest store.
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.
Stirling
4 Munro Road, Springkerse Industrial Estate, Stirling FK7 7UU
Mon–Fri 8am–5pm
Sat 9am–1pm
Opening times as usual; public holidays can differ, so phone ahead if you are travelling.
Phone 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.
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
The Fullwood Merlin 2+, from the leading Fullwood dealer in Scotland: more than ten years with Fullwood and more than 90 Merlin robots installed. We still service the Merlin 2.
Robotic milking
Cooling & Storage
Liscarroll tanks and silos, sized to the herd, installed and serviced by our own engineers.
Milk cooling
Slurry Robots
JOZ Barn-E and JOZ-Tech. A clean floor is a lameness decision, not a tidiness one.
Slurry robots
Ventilation & Weather
Elta fans and Galebreaker screens, fitted to suit the shed. The cheapest pneumonia treatment is air.
Weather protection
“Robots don’t save you time, but they do allow you to manage your time better.”Alan Smith, Barneighthill Farm, Mauchline
Four Scottish farms, four families, in their own words: Parkend, Gartclush, Grougfoot and Barneighthill.
Questions We Are Asked Most
Where can I buy Downland Dairy Hypochlorite?
At all four McCaskie country stores: Ayr, Kinross, Lanark and Stirling. It is the product we are asked for most at the counter — by dairy farmers, and by plenty of people looking for a drive, slab or path cleaner. Read the label for how to use it on the job you have in mind, never mix it with acid cleaners, and keep it out of drains and watercourses. Phone ahead and we will put it by for you.
Where are McCaskie’s country stores?
Four of them: Ayr (Livestock Auction Market, Whitefordhill, KA6 5JW), Kinross (Orwell Farm, KY13 9HB), Lanark (Unit 8 East Faulds Road, ML11 7SR) and Stirling (4 Munro Road, Springkerse Industrial Estate, FK7 7UU).
When are the stores open?
Ayr and Stirling are open Monday to Friday 8am–5pm, Kinross and Lanark 8.30am–4.30pm, and all four 9am–1pm on Saturday.
Can I buy wormers and other animal medicines from McCaskie?
Yes. Every store has qualified SQPs who can advise on and supply POM-VPS and NFA-VPS medicines, such as wormers and flukicides, and help you choose the right one for your stock.
Who services my milking robot or parlour?
McCaskie Engineering, from Springkerse in Stirling: eight engineers, on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the machinery we install. Ring 01786 474 481.
Can I order online?
Yes. Hundreds of farm and rural products are at www.mccaskie.store, delivered to your door.
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.
AgriScot, Fluke and Wormers: The November Newsletter
Stand 136 at AgriScot with Fullwood, JOZ, Urban, Hanskamp and Beyond Innovation, plus Flukanide for fluke, Levacide Injection for worms and Norbrook’s CattleZen calming pheromone.
Read it
New at McCaskie: Bodens Kiln-Dried Cubicle Bedding
Grade One kiln-dried sawdust by the bale, pallet or bulk load, and why a dry cubicle bed matters from the first night in.
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The 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 itEight Reps, All Qualified SQPs
They come to the farm and walk the stock with you, and the ordering comes at the end of it, if at all. Ring the one who covers your ground — you do not need to go through the office.
- Stirling & PerthshireHarry Bauld07714 522941
- CentralLynn Wilson07714 522951
- FifeWendy Turnbull07714 769218
- Edinburgh & the BordersRoss Nicol07525 126062
- LanarkshireGary Whyte07714 522940
- AyrshireGavin Barrie07714 522952
- AyrshireFraser MacNicol07714 522956
- South West ScotlandElspeth Gibson07525 126061
Trade accounts. Monthly terms, one statement, and a rep who knows the farm. Already an account customer? Your rep can order anything on the site for you.