A dairy-only veterinary practice on Longburn Rongotea Road, just outside Palmerston North, that looks after herds rather than pets. The practice treats the herd as the patient, with the aim of improving herd health and performance and lowering animal health costs.
It offers emergency calls, such as calving assistance, dislocated hips, sickness, trauma and disease outbreaks, and it runs preventive herd health plans covering vaccinations, drenching, trace mineral testing and supplementation. It also gives advice and consultations.
The team has five vets with more than 80 years of experience between them, one full-time and three part-time vet technicians, and a support crew who handle the office, the accounts and the deliveries. The practice has specialist skills in udder health (accredited mastitis vets), reproduction (InCalf advisers), nutrition (certified body condition scoring assessors), biosecurity, animal welfare and calf rearing.
The practice has recently put out a spring reminder on the rules for managing bobby calves, and it is pressing the wider One Health message on antimicrobial resistance.
The practice is at 2001A Longburn Rongotea Road, Palmerston North. Our pick in the Manawatū for a dairy farm that needs a vet who works across the whole herd, not just one animal.