ESTABLISHED in 1983 by Professor Tom Buckley to serve the veterinary, laboratory and bloodstock industries, Labstock MicroServices has built up a reputation for being one of the leading suppliers in the bloodstock, livestock and canine markets, specialising in artificial insemination (AI) and embryo transfer.

Owned by Derville Meade, wife of leading National Hunt trainer Noel, and her sister Elaine Monahan, the company are the exclusive distributor for Minitube AL and ET products in Ireland, as well as representing Bionor, Liofilchem, MegaCor Diagnosticks.

Having worked for the company since 2002, Derville studied Equine Science at the University of Limerick as a mature student and bought the company when Buckley retired. Elaine is charged with, among many other things, singlehandedly making the equine nasal swabs which are used in the diagnoses of equine nasopharageal diseases like strangles.

The company provide a next day delivery service and also stock all general veterinary items, as well as the time-saving diagnostic kit EquiChek blood test for horses, which delivers results in less than 10 minutes showing if a horse has an infection or not, or test kits that are used on new-born foals measuring their IgG levels.

Labstock MicroServices supply the main laboratories of Ireland like the Regional Veterinary Laboratories run by the Dept of Agriculture, the Irish Equine Centre and the Equine Diagnostic Laboratory based in Fethard.

All of the company’s products are dispatched from the offices on the grounds at Meade’s Tu Va Stables in the village of Castletown Kilpatrick, Co Meath.

For more information contact info@labstock.ie or call +353 046 905 4932