DAIRY HERD VET
South Moor Vets has been providing veterinary services to the local farming community for longer than we can remember! As an independent practice, we continue to invest in our farm department, and have every intention of doing so for years to come.
We have an experienced and enthusiastic team of mixed practice and farm vets across our four branches – some of whom have advanced certificates in farm production and medicine – who enjoy getting involved in all aspects of veterinary livestock work with a range of species.
- Fertility Routines
- Infectious Disease control/prevention
- Rumen Health Scoring
- Body condition scoring
- Ration Formulation advice
- Mastitis
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- Herd Health Planning
- Dairy Health Club
- Young Stock Services
- Pregnancy Diagnosis
- Fertility management
- Semen/Bull Testing
- Nutrients, Therapeutic Foot Trimming
- Vaccination advice, Parasite control
- Faecal Egg count
- Statutory TB Testing
- KPI Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Lameness Scoring
- Building Design/Parlour Routine
- Disbudding/Dehorning
- Calving
Dairy Health Club
Our Dairy Health Club aims to help you improve your farm system and the way you use us.
For £50 + VAT per month you receive the following benefits:
- VaDia discount: test and analyse your milking habits and udder health with this small, lightweight instrument
- Quarterly topical on farm meetings: topical discussions to ensure you get the most out of our vets
- Vet tech time: quarterly mobility and body condition scoring, and young stock health monitoring with a vet tech
- Free sampling: for pre and post calving bloods, to help you keep your costs down
What else is included?
- Quarterly preventative medicine planning meetings
- Free journey to farm (unless out of hours)
- Discounted disbuds
- Free faecal egg counts
- Discounts on initial courses of new vaccine protocols
- WhatsApp chat with your nominated vet
To find out more email farm@southmoorvets.co.uk or give us a ring on 01803 900181.
Fertility Routines
Many of our dairy clients opt to have routine fertility visits. This is timed to fit easily around the daily working of the farm, and is usually soon after morning milking, at a pre-arranged time of day and day of the week. One vet is designated as the vet primarily responsible for the routine, and another as back-up.
There is no visit fee for routine fertility visits (as long as they are pre-booked) and time is charged at our hourly rate.
Benefits of routine fertility visits:
- Reduce your calving index
- Diagnose cystic and non-cycling cows
- Diagnose and treat uterine infection early to get cows back in calf sooner
- Synchronise groups of heifers or cows
Routines also provide an opportunity to discuss herd health on farm. This enables monitoring of production targets and prevention of potential problems, for example:
- Quarterly bulk milk screening for infectious disease
- Blood sampling for disease control and/or nutritional profiling
- Mastitis/cell count monitoring and investigation
- Youngstock health work
Which animals should be seen by the vet on a routine?
- PCC – Post calving checks, cows post 21 days calved. Early detection and treatment gives te best chance of cows returning to fertility.
- PD – Pregnancy diagnosis – all cows that have been served 30 days. Empty cows cost about £3 per day due to reduced yield.
- NSB – Not seen bulling –not been served by 65d
- Remember that the bull is 50% of your fertility – it is advisable to have regular fertility testing carried out on all stock bulls
Please contact the practice to book your series of routine fertility visits.
Infectious Disease Control/prevention
We offer a comprehensive range of services tailored to safeguard herds against diseases such as BVD, Leptospirosis, Johnes, IBR and Neospora.
This includes the BVD Stamp it out scheme which is a free scheme for all farmers with breeding herds meaning you get access to free testing, free vet time and 2 free vet visits!
We also have vets who are trained BCVA Johnes Veterinary Advisers.
We can arrange testing at a time to suit you at competitive prices and then provide expert knowledge and planning to manage infectious diseases on your farm.
If you have any queries with regard to infectious disease surveillance or proactive health planning please contact us at the practice.
