Dairy and Beef
All emergency and routine work undertaken! These include:
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Fertility visits regular farm visits at which breeding cows are examined for post calving disorders, ovarian activity, pregnancy and any required hormonal treatments are done.
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Ultrasound scanning we have 3 completely mobile scanners to perform rectal pregnancy diagnosis and pick up any uterus and ovarian disorders.
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Masititis managment - With portable in-house cellcount testing machine, In house mastitis milk culture facilities and rapid in -milk antibiotic residue tests we offer a comprehenesive and often 'cow-side' mastitis managment service
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We have extensive knowledge of dairy herd managment programmes such as Interherd, CIS, Herd Companion, DairyCo Mastitis Plan.
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Herd Health Planning and Farm Treatment Protocols, farm specific management and guidance plans, also use of MyHealthyHerd programme.
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Feed advice helping to give direction to ration formulations by looking at milk records, metabolic profiling, rumen pH testing, ketone testing and obviously milk production.
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Bull management. We can evaluate bull performance through on farm semen testing, also we can vasectomise a bull to help spot bulling cows.
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Youngstock management advice on building design and housing with respect to pneumonia and calf scours, in house worm egg testing, vaccination protocols.
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Routine TB testing in Wales only. Private testing for export and sale is available to all clients.
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Castrations and dehorning of adult and young stock.
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Foot trimming. The practice has registered Healthy Feet Programme mentor.
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On farm post mortem investigations with backup of local VLA.
Prevention is better than cure!