At AIOHRD Farm Animal Practice we are dedicated to farm animal health, welfare and production.
We take a proactive approach; monitoring, anticipating, tackling and preventing problems infectious disease can have, such as lameness, suboptimal fertility, mastitis and nutritional problems, as early as possible. We are committed to building long-term partnerships with our clients, working as a team towards healthy animals and profitable farms, finding practical solutions together that really make a difference.
We aim to reduce the reliance of our herds on antimicrobials by making sure that robust control programmes are in place; implemented, monitored and shown to be effective. Our dedication to excellence in herd and flock health management is equalled by our commitment to providing the highest standards of individual animal care; all day, every day.
Contract Service Packages
Are available on a per cow per year basis. These popular packages are bespoke - targeted to the needs and requirements of your herd and represent excellent value for money.
The emphasis is on providing a high-quality clinical veterinary and health planning service in addition to competitive medicines prices. Examples are shown below:
- Fertility Package – Including periodical routine fertility visits, herd health planning and regular performance analysis and review.
- Lameness Package – Including implementation of the DairyCo Healthy Feet Programme, lame cow treatments, quarterly mobility scoring and analysis and a lameness consultancy and advice service.
- Clinical Mastitis and Cell Counting Package – Including mastitis consultancy and advice, implementation and maintenance of the DairyCo Mastitis Control Plan, bacteriology and the optional somatic cell counting service in conjunction with quality management system (QMMS).
- Nutrition Package – Including nutritional consultancy and advice, ration assessment, metabolic profiling and body condition scoring and analysis.
Heard Health planning
We believe that herd health planning should be more than just an annual box ticking exercise to satisfy farm assurance requirements. It describes the dynamic cycle of on-going monitoring, action planning, implementing change and reviewing its impact that underpins the proactive involvement of vets on farms, working in partnership with farmers to improve the health, welfare and productivity of their herds and flocks.
The key is to anticipate and identify problems at an early stage so that they can be prevented. This is the ethos of the practice and we believe the future of farm animal veterinary work.
For this to happen, regular veterinary involvement and continuous monitoring are essential, when the dynamics of dairy herds can change rapidly with potentially long reaching impact.
Nutrition
Sound nutritional management underpins all aspects of dairy herd management and essential for optimising fertility, maximising production and maintaining health. We are regularly involved in the management of feeding programmes in our dairy herds, working closely in partnership with dairy nutritionists.
We are happy to troubleshoot nutritional problems, alongside contributing to routine monitoring through forage evaluation and ration assessment, body condition scoring, metabolic profiling and milk constituent analysis.
Clinical Case
We pride ourselves on providing an excellent clinical service whether you need a routine visit or need to call on our 24 hour emergency cover.
We have state of the art laboratory and diagnostic facilities on site, allowing us to get to the bottom of cases rapidly and enabling cost-effective decision making on treatments.
Fertility
Good fertility underpins profitable dairy farming. Against a national backdrop of falling pregnancy and submission (heat detection) rates, our herds continue to buck the trend.
