About us

ABOUT US



John performing a caesarian section on a goat	John Matthews BSc, BVMS, MRCVS I have been a partner in Clarendon House Veterinary Centre, Chelmsford, Essex since 1985, working mainly with small animals, but also seeing a lot of goats in a professional capacity. As I am presently Honorary Veterinary Surgeon for both the British Goat Society and the Harness Goat Society, and Senior Vice-President of the Goat Veterinary Society, I talk to a number of veterinary surgeons and goat owners, not just in the UK but in many other parts of the world as well, regarding goat health problems.
Apart from being actively involved with our own goats here at home, I am also the author of "Diseases of the Goat" (published in both English and Spanish) and I am currently working on the 3rd edition. I am also co-author of "All About Goats".

Hilary Matthews OND (Ag), NCA (Ag)
I first became interested in goats when we moved to Essex some 25 years ago and I was no longer able to be involved on a day to day basis with dairy cows (there is very little livestock farming now in this part of the country). This interest has now developed into far more than a hobby and for some years now I have been both a licenced judge and licenced inseminator for the British Goat Society as well as serving on the governing body of the society, until recently, for some 13 years.
I have also attended and passed the judges' training seminar run by the American Dairy Goat Association which enabled me to judge in both America and Canada.
John and I show our goats extensively and wins include the Supreme Dairy Goat Champion at the Royal Show and breeding both the goats who won the Interbreed Pairs Competion at the National Breed Show in 2005. It was at the Royal Show in 1992 where I also won the Duke of Edinburgh Trophy for the Best Stockperson in the Show.

Hilary at home with the goats

I have produced two videos on Goat Keeping, which are still available worldwide and I have contributed to Alan Mowlem’s Practical Goat keeping book. For some while I wrote a regular monthly column for the Smallholder magazine on goat keeping and over the years I have contributed articles to both UK and American goat magazines . In my spare time (sic) I work with John in our veterinary practice!


We are both avid West Ham United fans and live on a smallholding some 35 miles north east of London with our dairy goats, one heifer calf, two cats and one very boisterous Airedale Terrier.	Hutch