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Pets

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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We don’t provide jobs. We provide a home for the skilled, the passionate, the aspiring and the forward thinking. This is a home for those who want a sense of belonging, to be part of a community and a culture committed to science and smiles. It’s a good place. It’s home.

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Latest news

Data helps us see it, advice helps us fix it

We all know that the first few weeks after calving can set the tone for the whole season. Cows that transition well go on to milk strongly and are better positioned to reach reproductive targets.Read more

Staff focus: Vets from across the ditch

Farmers around the world talk about the New Zealand dairy industry being the best, in terms of feed efficiency, pasture utilisation, and quality of production. Interestingly, it also has a dairy cow Read more

Careful with pets and Christmas treats

Christmas treats are something we all look forward to, but for our furry friends, some of these can be extremely toxic, so it is important to keep them out of reach. If you have a pet with a penchantRead 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

Cardiac calf case

Please note, this article contains links to graphic medical photographs of a calf's heart taken during post-mortem examination.Read more

Benchmarking pre-mating cycling rates in herds with wearables

In the lead up to mating this year, we took a look at how cycling rates were tracking on some of our farms in Southland and South Otago that are using wearable technology.  These graphs show theRead more

Assisted calvings stats

With calving now over for another year, let's look at the numbers! This season (2025-26), between July and November, we were called out to assist with a total 624 calvings. Of these, 612 were forRead more

Managing parasites in calves

Once calves start eating grass and consuming less milk or meal, they’ll also start picking up parasites – and this will begin to impact them. Traditionally, drenches have been our go-to tool forRead more

Sid the working dog

On the day he was brought in, his owner noticed he was trying to cock his leg to urinate but wasn’t having much success. Despite this, Sid had still been pulling his weight on the farm and wasRead more

Parasite monitoring

Monitoring is a key feature of an effective Parasite Management Plan.  The most accessible monitoring option is faecal egg counting (FEC). We’re running more and more tests here in ourRead more

Brucella ovis and accreditation for rams

Brucella ovis is an infectious bacterial disease that primarily affects the genital tract of rams. It spreads via infected semen (for example, ram-ewe-ram transmission) and can occasionally causeRead more

A vet's lesson in vaccination

As a newly graduated vet, after a few years working in the UK, I wanted to spread my wings and explore the world. That journey eventually brought me to New Zealand - but my first port of call was aRead 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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