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We’re pet lovers. Highly trained, vastly experienced and fully devoted to caring for your special family member in our vet clinics.

Farms

Farming is what we live for. We’re specialists in production animals and lead the industry in knowledge & experience.

Equine

With some of the best known and most experienced Equine vets in Southland, we’ll make sure your horse is in the very best of health.

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Are your boys up to the job?

We don’t need to tell you how tough this year has been! The season’s constant fight against some pretty terrible weather has taken its toll on farmers and stock alike.  Now that we are finallyRead more

Working dogs in the hot summer months

The summer brings some heavy workloads on farms and high energy requirements for farm working dogs. Feed them a high fat, high protein diet to reduce musculoskeletal injuries and increaseRead more

Weighing it up across the south

Weighing allows you to be more accurate with weaning and drenching, plus it helps you better understand how your animals are tracking at crucial stages of their development. Replacement calves areRead more

Scanning season swiftly approaching

In cows, the best time to age a pregnancy accurately is between 42 and 90 days after mating. For this reason, we usually recommend two scanning sessions: A first scan in January to age the earliesRead more

Udder basics

With the bad weather this spring, the lambing season has been particularly hard in many aspects; including farmers experiencing more cases of mastitis than usual.   Mastitis occurs as bacteriaRead more

Grazing new grass paddocks

New grass paddocks offer great feed quality and low parasite burden – a recipe for great lamb growth! However, they also have the potential to make any drench resistance really bad, because if youRead more

Watch out for flystrike this season!

Warm and wet weather provides the perfect conditions for blowflies - and we've had a lot of rain!   Early protection not only protects your flock, but also gives you peace of mind over the holidayRead more

A tail to tell? Tail scoring study results

The problem is, even though docking has been banned since 2005, damaged tails - where the damage breaks the connections between the vertebrae - are now one of the most common cattle welfare-relatedRead more

Caring for pets over the holidays

The Christmas holidays are fast approaching. If you are heading away, now is a good time to start thinking about what plans you need to make for your pets.   Will you leave them at home and getRead more

Signs your horse may have gastric ulcers

Gastric ulcers have become more widely recognised in performance horses, as well as in racehorses, in the last 10 - 15 years.  Previously, horses with ulcers were expected to look run down, perhapsRead more

Preventing lameness

As we all know, lame cows are time-draining, costly and a welfare issue. So what measures can be put in place to try and prevent a high number of lameness cases?Read more

Observing cow health with tech

Spring is the period of biggest change for cows, so we see more health alerts corresponding with changes in rumination and activity. These alerts can be due to many different disease processes, such Read more

We are a member of XLVets, who represent the most progressive and innovative practices in New Zealand. Our aim is to progress rural veterinary services.

Welfarm is a country wide initiative developed by XLVets in conjunction with Fonterra to measure annual welfare and productivity.

 

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