Animal Health Services

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Animal Health Services Rotorua

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Animal Health Services is a veterinary practice focused on the production animals, servicing the wider Rotorua region. Our vets are farm animal vets only, meaning that you are always working with a vet who is an expert in farm animals - regardless of whether you need us inside or outside of office hours.

The practice is owned and operated by three senior vets - Robin Hopkirk, David Butler and Andrew Twiddy - who have 55 years of local veterinary experience between them. They are joined and assisted by Jed Johnson BVSc, and Jim Houlton BVSc.

This business struture gives the practice stability, a commitment to service and a minimal turnover of vets. These factors combine to mean your farm is getting a better service all the time.

The Animal Health Services approach is to focus on production animals within a tight geographical area allowing us to provide an extremely high level of service and continuity of care.

We work along side our farmers to get to know their businesses, sharing common goals of risk management and profit enhancement.

Our role is to provide you with professional business advice and support, as well as an emergency service.

Although our focus is production animals, we also provide a small animal service in conjunction with Central City Vets, Rotorua. In the same way that we focus on our area of expertise, we leave small animal care to the experts at Central City Vets. We co-ordinate your care and billing.

Services - Animal Health Services provides the full range of long-term and emergency production animal health care, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

Our comprehensive list of services includes:

Dairy -

* Dated pregnancy testing using portable (battery powered) scanners

* Fertility and Synchronisation programmes
*Metrichecking
* Mastitis monitoring service with qualified machine tester available

* Grade busting service

* Dry cow and Teatseal insertion service

* A calf de-budding service that is quick, painless and self-sufficient

* Bull Fertility testing

* Dairy young stock monitoring service, including weighing, trace element supplementation, vaccination & drench programmes, mating and feed budgeting.

* Three of our five vets are trained in-calf advisers, which enables us to investigate and quantify ever area that affects your six-week in calf and empty rates. We show you where the problems lie, how much it's costing you and how best to deal with the problems.

* We have a HEALTHY HOOF adviser to investigate lameness issues on dairy farms. A whole-farm approach is employed to find where the problems are coming from and how to fix them.

* Farm staff training seminars throughout the year. Subjects covered include Spring First Aid, Heat Detection, Non-Cyclers, Lameness, and Mastitis Management.

Deer -

* Dated Pregnancy Testing

* Deer AI and ET programmes.

* TB Testing

* Velvetting service and Velveting assessment.

Sheep & Beef -

* Dated Pregnancy Testing

* Fertility and Synchronisation programmes

* Ram soundness, Brucella testing and vasectomies.

* HGP insertion service for beef steers

* Drench resistance testing (FECRT)

* Bull fertility testing

* Drench Programmes

Lifestyle Blocks -

* Assistance, advice and support

All -

* Trace Element testing and supplementation schemes

* Feed budgeting and nutritional advice

* Vaccination schemes inc. Leptosure

* Herd/Flock Health plans

* Spore counting service for Facial Eczema

* We also hold regular dairy, sheep & beef, and deer evening seminars. These meetings give our farmers a chance to hear from the experts in their area of farming.