Dairy
Over the last 15 years dairy farming has grown significantly in Hawkes Bay. Vet Services has been a part of that growth with increases in the number of vets to service our dairy clients and an increase in the specialist learning in critical areas of dairy in New Zealand such as Nutrition, Reproduction, Lameness and Mastitis.Services offered include:
Nutrition:
Nutrition Consultancy
Ration balancing using our programme CPM dairy
Supplement analysis.
Transition cow diets.
Mineral profiling with blood testing and on farm liver biopsies.
Macro and trace mineral advice.
Reproduction:
Reproduction management plans.
Analysis of your herds reproductive performance.
Oestrus sychronisation and intervention programmes.
Pregnancy scanning with ageing and identification of twins.
Artificial insemination and embryo transfer.
Bull and semen evaluations and semen collecting/freezing.
Staff training on reproduction.
Lameness:
Identify risk factors on your farm.
Epidemic lameness investigations.
Treat clinical lameness.
Staff training on treating clinical lameness and lameness incidence reduction in you herd.
Mastitis:
Grade busting service
Investigate somatic cell count and clinical mastitis problems in your herd.
Mastitis incidence annual review at your annual dry cow therapy consultation.
Staff training with regards to milking management, teat spraying, mastitis recognition and treatment, reducing the incidence of mastitis in your herd.