The knowledge and experience of our vets will also be able to assist you in every aspect of the game industry, providing veterinary advice starting with laying bird management and egg production throughout rear and onto release. We focus on offering a ‘hands-on,’ approach, providing clients with health care programmes, tailored to their individual needs and requirements. In doing so, we aim to be proactive rather than reactive, providing preventative measures and strategic health planning with regular site visits and routine monitoring where required. We strive to use evidence-based medicine along with the promotion of best management practices. The team are widely experiences in all aspects of the poultry industry, but it is the personal, on-farm service provided to all farms that defines the high standards of St David's Poultry Team.

St David's Poultry Team was founded by Richard Turner and Alan Beynon. With over sixty years' experience between them in poultry and game medicine, they have gathered a wealth of knowledge and continue to develop innovative solutions to help clients achieve better results. The dedicated team of veterinary surgeons consists of 19 poultry and game vets situated across the UK and Ireland. This team undergoes regular training both internally and externally to ensure that we provide the highest standard of care to your birds. They are supported by experienced office, field service, dispensary and laboratory staff.

Whilst head office of St David's Poultry Team is in Devon, we have national coverage with a network of 13 additional regional bases. St David's Poultry Team Ireland was set up in 2009 with the main base situated at Newcastle West. The Irish veterinary services and the poultry supplies shop are led by Director, Liam Walsh. Our Irish practice is the largest poultry practice in the country and we currently look after the majority of the broilers in Ireland. We also have practices based in Dungannon and Ballymena. This coverage has enabled us to provide a local and responsive service, whilst holding a valuable understanding of the UK and Irish poultry and game industry as a whole. Our highly skilled team of office and dispensary staff support the vets to ensure that all needs of our clients are met in a fast and efficient manner.

The office team provides vital administrative back up to include visit organisation, visit reports, health plans and administer the online poultry client system. Our dispensary team are there to receive and ensure the efficient dispatch of any required medication and vaccine. St David's Poultry Supplies offers a range of products including poultry equipment, gut health products, mite and fly control, disinfectants and detergents. Also available is our Poultry Pharm range of nutraceuticals that has been developed specially by our poultry vets. Click here to view the product range.

Meet the Team

Liam Walsh

Practice Manager

After leaving agricultural college, Liam completed a 3 year diploma in Poultry and has worked in all areas of the industry with layers, breeders, broilers and hatcheries before becoming a livestock manager for a poultry integrator. During this time, he also completed a diploma in Business Management. In 2009, Liam set up the Irish company with St David’s Poultry Team which he is a director of and has managed to date. He is also Field Service Manager and heads up the St David's ‘one-stop-poultry-shop’ and provides field services to the Irish poultry industry.

Conor Sheehy

Veterinarian

Conor graduated in 2002 from U.C.D. He is from Limerick and apart from a period spent working with big cats and monkeys in the Bolivian Rainforest, he worked in mixed practice until joining St David's Poultry Team Ireland in 2015. He finds this new poultry focused job has just as much variety as any day in mixed practice.

Rebecca McAllister

Veterinarian

Rebecca qualified from the University of Liverpool in 2012. She became interested in poultry as a student and undertook a research project studying the effects of Infectious Bronchitis on the reproductive tract of laying hens. Following graduation she worked in mixed practice before joining St David’s Poultry Team Ireland in March 2013.

Callum Turner

Veterinarian

After graduating from veterinary school in 2008, Callum worked in a variety of different roles outside of the veterinary field before starting work as a veterinary inspector with the Ministry of Resources and Rural Affairs in Malta. He was responsible for inspections on pig and poultry farms, controls in a rabbit slaughterhouse as well as working on other projects including disposal of animal by-products and was the chairman of the Enzootic Bovine Leukosis Disease Eradication Programme and compensation committees.

After leaving Malta, Callum moved to Ireland and spent two seasons working in corporate governance for a proxy advisory company before working with a pet care financing startup advising on small animal health.

Callum has attended courses on animal welfare at the time of killing in disease control situations and has overseen the culling of numerous poultry farms.

Callum joined St David's Poultry Team in January 2020.

In his spare time, he enjoys walking his pet Yorkshire Terrier named Vladimir and plane spotting.

John Delee

Field Service Advisor

John qualified from Institute of Technology Tralee with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Agricultural Science in October 2019. He started working with St David’s Poultry Team Ireland in February 2020 where he took up the role of a Field Service Advisor, where he will be liaising with farmers. John comes from a farming background comprising of both beef and dairy, where he breeds Purebred Hereford and Angus Cattle.

Patrick Noonan

Store Operator

Patrick started working for St David's in April 2019. His main roles include the organising of collection and distribution of medicines and vaccine for poultry along with assisting the office manager with the rearer vaccination programmes.

Outside of work, he spends most of his time following various sports teams, whose success or failure can be easily known by his mood on the day after they play.

Eileen Lane

Office Manager

After previously working in poultry with Liam for a number of years, Eileen joined St David’s Poultry Ireland in January 2009. Her main responsibilities would include the day to day running of the office and the vets' diaries, all purchase and sales ledgers and rearer vaccination programmes.

Margaret Mullaney

Office Assistant

Maggie started at St David’s Poultry Team Ireland in August 2011. She is currently working part time and is responsible answering phones, dealing with day to day queries and managing the vets' diaries. Maggie also organises the paper work for day old medication.

Joe Kelly

Dispensary Assistant

Joe started working with St David’s Poultry Team Ireland in September 2016. His main roles includes the distribution of medication and vaccines for poultry. He works closely with his colleagues, liaising with the vets and providing them with the onsite medication when required. Outside of St David’s, Joe enjoys baking and doing the odd 10k.

Suzanne Maginess

Office Assistant

Suzanne joined St David’s in August 2017.

She is responsible for the day to day running of the Monaghan Office, liaising with vets, clients and field staff regarding products and prescriptions, for logging all post mortems and bacteriology results onto the system and organising training courses for poultry farmers.

Outside of work, Suzanne enjoys reading, walking and spending time with her family and friends.

Sueanne Haskett

Office Support and Directorate PA Sueanne joined St David’s Poultry Team Ireland in June 2020 after completing a two Year Diploma in Animal Science & Health, Sueanne’s key responsibilities is liasing with clients, working within the Laboratory and dealing with general queries and managing the vets’ and field staffs' diaries, as well as being Liam Walsh’s PA. In Sueanne’s spare time she is constantly upskilling in courses within the Animal World and has recently completed a course in Animal Communication, she also volunteers at her local Animal Shelter and is a motivator with the youth in her community.

St David’s Poultry Team Ireland