Asante Veterinary Consultants

18/12/2025

We have an in house vet shop🐕‍🦺🐩🐕🐕🦮🐾🦴🐶🐈🐈‍⬛🐱🐂🐄🐏🐑🐐🐖🐓❣️

📍Kgotso street and Mabizela Street, Skosana section, Katlehong.
📍 224 Rondebult Rd, Libradene Boksburg
📞📲 +27 79 652 0264

12/12/2025

Palafilaria infection Treated successfully🩺💉💊🐂🐄🐏🐑🐐🐖🐓

Let’s help you minimise unnecessary deaths and lack or decreased productivity.

Our approach is more of a proactive rather than a reactive approach. We strongly believe in prevention being better than cure.

Regards

27/11/2025

Bluetongue Disease 🩺💉💊🐏🐑🐐

Blue tongue disease is a viral disease in sheep, spread by biting midges, that causes fever, excessive salivation, swelling of the lips, tongue, and face, and lameness due to painful hooves.

While the name comes from the potential blue discoloration of the tongue, this is not always present and the disease's damage to blood vessels is the underlying cause of its symptoms, which can also include reproductive issues, nasal discharge, and weight loss.

There is no specific treatment for the virus, so control focuses on managing symptoms and preventing spread through vaccination and midge control.

26/11/2025

Growth and Expansion Through Collaboration and Partnerships 🩺💉💊🐂🐄🐏🐑🐐🐓🐖
Agri Skills Transfer has officially become one of our newest partners as we continue expanding our footprint and strengthening our impact on both current and future generations of farmers — especially those in the livestock sector.

Partnerships like these empower us to share essential skills, practical knowledge, and industry expertise. By doing so, we are not only supporting today’s farmers but also building a long-lasting legacy that will shape the future of agriculture.

Stay tuned — more exciting collaborations and partnerships are on the horizon.

26/11/2025

Asante Veterinary Consultants

Asante Veterinary Consultants hereby invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for a HWSETA Funded Internship in our clinic and consultancy for the period 01 January – 31 December 2026 (12 months).

Core Description of Duties

Basic animal care
Interact, socialise, and handle animals to ensure content, well-adjusted and cared for animals
Clinical assistance to Veterinarians
Conduct relevant observations and examinations of animals
Therapy and care of animals ensuring good animal health and wellbeing
The collection of specimens, including, but not limited to, blood, blood smears, skin scrapings, urine specimens and faecal samples necessary for laboratory analysis
Basic laboratory procedures (including sample management, blood smear analysis, etc.) to assist with diagnosis
Accurate and correct movement of animals
Record and handle raw data to ensure accurate and consistent information.

Interested Applicants Should Meet The Following Requirements:

Minimum Qualification and Requirements

National Diploma in
Animal Health

Applicants must be unemployed, must have never been part of other internships and
Applicants must be SAVC registered

Skills and Competencies

Computer literate
Proficiency in English
Good interpersonal skills
Good communication skills
Administrative skills and attention to detail
Driver’s license

Stipend (salary) per month R6,000.00

Closing Date: 01 December 2025

Please Take Note Of The Following Recruitment Process:

Online or on site Interviews: Selected applicants must be available for either an Online or on site interview on the 5th of December 2025.

Successful Candidates will be notified shortly after the interviews have been conducted.w

25/11/2025

25/11/2025

Asante Veterinary Consultants - Katlehong Vet Shop & Pet Clinic 🩺💉💊🐕‍🦺🦮🐩🐕🐈🐈‍⬛🐂🐄🐐🐖🐓

It is an honor for us to make this kind of a difference in this Katlehong community through our pet care and livestock vet services and products.

We are looking forward to welcoming you too❣️

📍Kgotso and Mabizela street, Sekhosana Section, Katlehong
📞📱 +27 79 652 0264

25/11/2025

Please note ‼️

Due to unforeseen circumstances we had to postpone our seminar, Please be on the lookout for new dates.

Regards
Asante Veterinary Consultants (Management)

20/11/2025

Liver fluke, or fasciolosis❗️

Liver fluke, or fasciolosis, is a significant parasitic disease in sheep caused primarily by the flatworm Fasciola hepatica. The parasite's life cycle involves a specific type of mud snail (Galba truncatula) as an intermediate host, meaning the disease is prevalent in wet, marshy, or poorly drained pastures where these snails thrive.

Symptoms and Disease Forms

- Acute fasciolosis: Occurs after a massive, short-term intake of metacercariae, usually in late summer to autumn. Immature flukes cause extensive damage and internal bleeding as they migrate through the liver tissue, often resulting in sudden death without obvious prior symptoms.
- Subacute fasciolosis: Results from a smaller, but still significant, intake of metacercariae over a longer period. Signs include rapid weight loss, weakness, severe depression, and anemia, with death possible after several weeks.

- Chronic fasciolosis: The most common form, typically seen in late winter and spring, caused by a prolonged intake of low numbers of metacercariae. Adult flukes in the bile ducts feed on blood, leading to progressive weight loss (ill-thrift), poor fleece quality, anemia (pale gums/eyes), and a characteristic fluid accumulation under the jaw called "bottle jaw" (submandibular edema).

Control and Treatment

An integrated management approach combines strategic treatment with grazing management to break the fluke lifecycle:

- Treatment with flukicides: Different drugs target different life stages of the fluke.

- Triclabendazole is unique as the only active ingredient effective against all stages, including the early immature stage that causes acute disease. Resistance to flukicides, especially triclabendazole, is a growing concern, so veterinary advice should be sought for a targeted treatment plan and to confirm efficacy.

- Pasture management: Minimizing snail habitats by improving drainage or fencing off high-risk, wet, or marshy areas is key.

- Grazing strategies: Avoid grazing sheep on high-risk pastures, especially during peak challenge periods (late summer/autumn).

19/11/2025

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18/11/2025

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13/11/2025