Family farms

Family farms services

Our Farm Animal team is dedicated to handling your animals with the highest standards of expert veterinary care.  

We provide care for dairy herds, beef cattle, sheep, goats, small-scale pigs, backyard poultry and camelids, large scale, small scale, or pet farm animals. We offer a full and comprehensive range of farm animal veterinary services including: 

• Basic health and nutrition assessments  
• Disease testing, surveillance and control  
• Biosecurity and quarantine protocols 
• Farm skills training including hoof trimming, AI and injection technique
• Technical meetings on various farm animal topics including lameness, mastitis and nutrition
• Vaccination planning and administration
• Faecal worm egg counts and parasite control programs
• Hoof trimming and lame cow treatments
• Calf disbudding and castration 
• Bull and ram pre-purchase and pre-breeding testing
• Health, welfare and productivity investigations or reviews 
• Emergency services during working hours (8am-4pm) for farms within 90 minutes of the hospital e.g. emergency euthanasia, livestock with injuries, sickness or dystocia (birthing complications).

Specialist reproductive services

Our specialist reproduction services encompass a comprehensive range of procedures for various species, including but not limited to cattle and sheep. These services include sample collection, semen analysis with sperm morphological assessment, and semen preparation for artificial insemination and freezing. We also offer Ovum Pickup (OPU), embryo flushing and transfer in cattle and sheep. In addition, our team conducts clinical assessments of breeding potential, with AI and embryo transfer.

We have a newly renovated barn equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for a range of farm animals needing complex management, including surgical or emergency procedures, which can’t be managed on farm.