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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.

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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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Twenty years of Swede Safari

Some 20 years ago, when I was a fresh-faced new-grad vet, Mark came to a few of us with the words: “I’ve got an idea you could help me with…” There have been times I’ve regretted sayingRead more

Plan ahead for post-weaning growth

Now is a good time to think about weaning. I do realise that it's only September, but there are some things you can be thinking about now that will benefit post-weaning growth rates for your lambs.Read more

Saving lambs with dextrose

Lambs born to well-fed ewes with a body condition score of 3 or more will have good reserves of brown fat. This provides readily available energy to fuel a newborn lamb before it absorbs milk.Read more

The effects of ewe wastage

I recently had a look at a study done on three large farms in the North Island, which showed 90% of hoggets left the flock from ewe wastage! That is, only 10% make it through to be cast for age.Read more

Meet the vet herd: Ruby

If you’re around the Clutha area, have you met our new large animal vet Ruby? She joined our South Otago team at the start of the year from Australia. With the launch of our new clinic in Milton inRead more

Practical mineral solutions backed by evidence-based advice

Achieving optimal performance and health from your stock requires more than simply giving some minerals. Understanding what nutrients your animals need, how they should be delivered to be effective,Read more

Nipping it in the bud

With calving season getting underway, it’s time to start thinking about one of the key jobs for your spring calendar: disbudding. While it may not be everyone’s favourite task, doing it early andRead more

Managing springtime stress

While we are a resilient bunch down south, it’s important to remember to look after yourself, as well as your cows, ewes and newborns. You can’t do it all, and you certainly can’t do it withoutRead more

Pre-lamb drench use

Times have changed, and we know our advice has also changed… we get that, but we are seeing farmers understand why this is the case, and it is leading to some great shifts in farm systems to favourRead more

“It just dropped dead!”

With activities such as disbudding and tailing around the corner and stock prices looking positive, it’s worth having a quick refresher on the topic.Read more

Spotting sleepy sickness

This metabolic disorder, also known as pregnancy toxaemia, is most common in multiple-bearing ewes during the last few weeks of pregnancy, when their energy demands are at their highest. It canRead more

Two decades of dedication

Georgette (also known fondly as ‘George’ or ‘G’) came to Southland from the Netherlands, after a stint in south Taranaki. She was looking at a few jobs down here, and I remember ringing herRead more

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

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