Dairy cattle services

Murdoch University Veterinary Hospital offers a herd health and management service for dairy producers.

Properties are visited monthly or fortnightly depending on the size of the enterprise and the animal problems identified. A major focus of the service is analysing performance as well as monitoring and controlling.

Services

• Herd nutrition and ration formulation,
• Pasture and feed budgeting,
• Feed quality analysis and interpretation of feed test results,
• Pregnancy diagnosis,
• Herd replacement and calf rearing,
• Mastitis control and monitoring using herd test data,
• Pre-mating bull breeding soundness evaluations which includes the serving capacity test,
• Foot trimming of bulls and cows,
• Analysis of reproductive performance,
• Projected milk production,
• Individual animal medical or surgical treatment (by appointment or referral).

Staff 

• Dr Elizabeth Bramley 
• Dr Reb Rebhan