Mission

Small Ruminant Veterinary Consulting’s mission is to improve the health and welfare of small ruminants (sheep, goats and camelids) through education.

SRVC aims to provide veterinarian to veterinarian consulting for individual animal cases and herd/flock control and management plans.

SRVC also delivers producer education with an emphasis on creating a healthy herd or flock through basic management advice and developing relationships with the producers’ local veterinarians.

About Dr. Pippa

Dr. Pippa Gibbons was born and raised in the east of England on a mixed arable, beef and sheep farm. She graduated from the University of Reading with a BSc in Agriculture in 2005 and from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 2008. She completed a rotating farm animal internship at the RVC which solidified her love of internal food animal medicine. She completed a large animal internal medicine residency at Texas A&M University in 2012. Following becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, she was on faculty in clinical roles at Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Lincoln Memorial University. She has a post graduate Diploma in Veterinary Education. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Food Animal Medicine and Surgery at Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo, Texas. SRVC was started in 2023 to develop veterinary consulting for small ruminants. Together with her husband, Dr. Pippa has a 3 year old son and 6 year old daughter, and a myriad of animals including a small Boer goat herd, chickens, a calf, a pot belly pig and horses. Dr. Pippa grew up in the show industry and also consults on cattle, sheep and goat show animal cases.

She currently is the AVMA Alternate Delegate for the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners and serve on the Membership Committee of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, organizes the education symposium at the AABP Conference, and is on the student education committee of the AASRP and the Continuing Education Committee of the Academy of Veterinary Education (AVE).