Vetlife Farming

18/01/2025

🦌Getting Hinds and Stags Ready for Mating🦌

As the breeding season approaches, ensuring your herd is in peak condition is essential for successful mating and maximising the reproductive outcome and growing offspring well.

Read Vet Ben Finlayson great article on preparing for mating 👇

Are your stags ready for mating? Find out why premating checks for both hinds and stags will pay off by leading to better reproductive outcomes.

01/01/2025

🎉 Happy New Year from Vetlife! 🎉

We look forward to another year of supporting our wonderful production animal clients. Your trust and support mean the world to us, and we can't wait to continue serving you in the year ahead.

Wishing you all a prosperous, joyful, and healthy New Year! 🌟✨

24/12/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas from Vetlife! 🎄

An enormous, heartfelt 💝 THANK YOU to all our wonderful clients, colleagues, and supporters - we couldn't do what we do without you!

Wishing you all a relaxing break with your friends and family this festive season. Should you need us, please call your local Vetlife clinic for emergency support on the public holidays when we are closed.

https://hubs.la/Q02_HSpq0

Stay safe and enjoy the holidays! 🎅✨

21/12/2024

**UPDATE: sad to report that he has been found deceased - possibly hit by car. Thank you to everyone who shared and at least his owners can put him to rest**

Sharing on behalf:

Missing huntaway from Millers Flat Central Otago - please keep an eye out for him.
He’s a special dog from Lloyd Smith breeding given to us as a gift from Lloyd
If you could share that would be amazing
Call Angus Ross if anything turns up
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19/12/2024

🎄 Holiday Closure Notice 🎄

Just a reminder that our teams will be enjoying a well-deserved break and our clinics will be closed on the public holidays.

Help is just a phone call away should you need it - simply call your nearest clinic to be put through to our emergency after-hours service.

https://hubs.la/Q02_HSBw0

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season! 🎅✨

17/12/2024

🌅Beautiful morning on farm with Vet Tech Peter💛

13/12/2024

🐏Ram Palpations🐏

Ram fertility is an important part of maximising your flock's potential. Ram palpations allow a physical assessment of the ram's testicles for a good predictor of fertility. We check size, firmness and assess for any lumps or bumps potentially caused by B. Ovis. We can reject any rams with obvious testicular issues and blood sample any that show symptoms of B. Ovis.

We will also visually assess the rams for lameness and check their body condition to pick up any other issues that may impact fertility.

Alongside the ram runs we offer working dog health checks and vaccinations, and we often tie in vasectomies too as it allows the teasers good recovery time before the work begins. Strong, young rams are the best choice for teasers.

Our ram runs have already started - this gives plenty of time for treatment of lame rams or replacements to be sourced, contact your local Vetlife Clinic today to get booked in.

10/12/2024

👉DualForce Offer

📌FREE adjustable 15ml Prodigy drench gun with every 2X10L purchased.
🔈ACVM A012062

*While stocks last*

05/12/2024

Vetlife are watching with interest the bird flu outbreak in Otago and there doesn’t appear any major cause for alarm. The bird flu virus H7N6 found in Otago is not the H5N1 that has caused problems overseas in cattle and humans. H5N1 is likely to be first detected in wild birds, MPI are actively sampling wild bird populations to ensure early detection.

Important Link Below:

Find out about the risk to livestock, how to prepare your farm, and the signs of bird flu.

01/12/2024

All dogs on farms where sheep graze must be dosed regularly with tapeworm treatments.

01/12/2024

Maeve had the pleasure of meeting Lawrence at the RDA. 🐎
He's incredibly knowledgeable and fascinated by international culture, accents, and geography. The RDA invited Maeve to share a cúpla focal (a few words) with him! 🍀

27/11/2024

🌟 Did You Know? 🌟

While around 100 cases of Leptospirosis are reported in New Zealand each year, the actual number of infections is estimated to be 40 to 50 times higher! 🦠 This zoonotic disease often affects those in close contact with animals, such as farmers. Stay informed and take precautions to protect yourself! 🐄👩‍🌾

23/11/2024

🌿 Creating Better Fawning Environments for Healthier Fawns 🌿

Did you know that peri-natal and post-natal mortality can account for about 8% of fawn losses? The environment where hinds give birth plays a crucial role in fawn survival. Here are some tips to create a safer and more supportive fawning environment:
1. Maintain Low Stocking Rates: Keep hind stocking rates below 8 per hectare to reduce competition and stress.
2. Provide Suitable Cover: Use rougher paddocks with good ground cover to offer shade, security, and protection from the weather.
3. Create Fawning Sites: Designate unmowed or ungrazed strips or areas in paddocks as fawning sites and hide-outs.
4. Minimize Disturbances: Reduce outside disturbances to ensure a calm environment for hinds and their fawns.

By implementing these strategies, we can help ensure that more fawns survive and thrive. 🦌

22/11/2024

🐴 Horse Worming 🐴

Vetlife Murrays Veterinarian Kim Becker-Fifield has some important advice on horse worming, read below:

"A good rule of thumb is to worm at the time when the temperature has consistently been above 10 degrees Celsius (Spring) for three days, or consistently lower than 10 degrees Celsius (autumn) for three days– so the turn of the seasons. This varies depending on region”

19/11/2024

Vetlife is once again pleased to be sponsoring the Canterbury/North Otago section of the 🐄Dairy Industry Awards – our best wishes go to all competitors. Enjoy the ride! 🌊

15/11/2024

Forgetting to worm your dogs?🐕
Don't worry, we have you covered!

You can join our DogTrax programme. Our DogTrax programme makes it easier for you to keep on top of worming your dogs.

DogTrax will post your monthly dosing medication for your dogs, you just need to let us know your details, saving you the trip to your local clinic!

See the link below to sign up today 👐
https://hubs.la/Q02XRR3D0

12/11/2024

☀️Nuisance Flies☀️
Read Matt Peters latest article on combating Nuisance Flies this summer.
Link Below 👇
https://hubs.la/Q02XQ0y-0

11/11/2024

🐴Meet the Team🐴

We are pleased to introduce Kim Becker-Fifield, experienced equine veterinarian, to Vetlife Murrays. Kim will be familiar to many horse owners in the Mosgiel area as she has worked here for five years. Please get in touch on 03 489 5540 for all your equine needs.