Large Animal Services

CATTLE

Our cattle services to help you improve your herd health and your bottom line.

General (ambulatory) services include: 

· Examination of the sick or injured animal

· Lameness problems

· Down cows

· Medical problems

· Surgical procedures such as eye ablation, third eyelid cancer removals, LDA/RDA, claw amputations, castrations etc

· Calf disbudding

Reproductive services including:

· Ultrasound or manual pregnancy testing. Ageing on the ultrasound is possible between 6-16 weeks of gestation.

· Assisting with calving difficulties, including performing c-sections and fetotomys.

· Assisting with calving issues (Uterine prolapse, milk fever etc). 

· Bull breeding soundness evaluations including semen testing.

· Reproductive health investigations

· Pre-joining Metri-checks

Flock/herd health services including:

· Mortality investigations including post mortems

· Disease outbreak problems

· Pestivirus ear notch testing

· Blood testing

· Supply of and advice on using pain relief for marking

· Parasite control programs, include performing faecal egg counts.

SMALL RUMINANT (sheep & goats)

General (ambulatory) services include:
 
· Examination of the sick or injured sheep or goat

· Lameness problems

· Medical problems

· Surgical procedures

· Disbudding

Reproductive services including:

· Pre-breeding ewe and ram examinations

· Ram semen testing

· Brucellosis testing

· Vasectomies and castrations

· Assisting with birthing difficulties

· Assisting with lambing issues (such as pregnancy toxaemia, uterine prolapse etc). 

· Reproductive health investigations

Flock/herd health services including:

· Mortality investigations including post mortems

· Disease outbreak problems

· Supply of and advice on using pain relief for marking

· Management plans for the orphan lamb

· Parasite (worms, lice and fly) control programs, include performing faecal egg counts. Dr Emily Foss has completed the PARABOSS Sheep parasite advisor course.

EQUINE

Our equine services include:

· Annual health checks and vaccinations (strangles, tetanus)

· Examination of the sick or injured animal including emergencies after hours e.g. colics

· Equine Dentistry with comprehensive oral health and treatment under sedation. Dr Lorna Undy has completed Level 1 in Essentials of Equine dentistry

· Geriatric health checks including bloodwork, dental check and arthritis injections

· Euthanasia

OTHER FARM ANIMALS

We provide veterinary services for all animals great and small.
We also see alpacas, camels, pigs and chickens.

Large Animal Farm Visits/Valley Runs

We travel up the King and Greta Valleys on Tuesdays and Thursdays (Valley Runs).  We charge half price travel on these days (normal travel fee is $2.12/km).

Bookings must be made the day before so we can plan the route and visit times.   

Please call 03 5721 4000 for all enquiries and bookings.