Preventative Care
Farm Animal Preventative Care
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Infectious disease screening
We offer a comprehensive infection disease screening service – usually through taking blood samples for antibodies. Working in partnership with external laboratory companies, we are able to screen for several diseases including:
- Maedi Visna (MV)
- Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD)
- Johnes
- Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA)
- Cushings
- Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR)
- Leptospirosis
- Neospora
Herd and Flock Health Plans
Herd health planning is used to continuously improve animal health and welfare on your farm. We provide a proactive approach including help with nutrition, parasite control and vaccinations, managing lameness and mastitis, infectious disease testing and eradication and routine preventative health procedures.
Herd health planning involves evaluation of your herd or flock, with clinical observations of your animals and their environment and regular and systematic analysis of farm data.
An annual review of your herd or flock should be completed with your vet. The herd health plan also helps farmers demonstrate that their husbandry and welfare meet nationally agreed levels of best practice for Red Tractor.
Mastitis Control Plan, rapid in-house mastitis testing and Dynamic Milking Machine testing
Mastitis in dairy cows, as you well know, can be very frustrating and have a big impact on cow welfare as well as productivity and profitability. We can carry out an in depth investigation as part of the Mastitis Control Plan where we look at your milk recording data and/or mastitis records as well as doing an on farm assessment to see where we can target adjustments to have the biggest impact on reducing mastitis incidence on your farm. The plan generated and mastitis issues can then be reviewed and adjusted going forward.
We also offer rapid in-house mastitis testing to gather more information to help build up a picture of the farm specific problem to improve treatment and prevention advice success. Results are emailed to you within 24hours of the sample arriving at the Ruthin practice.
The milking machine itself can be part of a mastitis problem if not functioning properly and we are pleased to announce that we can also now offer dynamic milking machine testing to investigate this.
There is also funding available up to 70% through farming connect towards this type of work.
Healthy feet services
Our hoof health service can help farmers to reduce the number of lame cows on their farms by identifying and applying the right management techniques. We offer the following services:
1. Mobility Scoring and Data Collection
We can mobility score your cows according to your milk buyer. We have a team of RoMS accredited scorers able to come to and assess your dairy herd’s mobility with the aim to improve mobility within the UK. Please contact us to book your visit.
2. Cattle Hoof Care
We can visit you at agreed intervals, ensuring that the hoof health of your animals remains at top form. We use an upright Cattle Crush KVK new generation to ensure cow safety and comfort.
Our highly experienced vet with 13 years of experience in the lameness field is able to advise on cow lameness in different situations, choosing the best trim method for your environment. Our colleagues are able to perform Ducth method or White line Atlas. We are also able to perform various digit surgeries where needed.
3. Health feet
Healthy Feet is a structured programme, aimed to help dairy farmers make important progress towards diagnosing the problems, devising an action plan, and developing the skills necessary for long-term lameness control. Our Mobility Mentor can help you to reduce the lameness in your heard visiting your farm with regular intervals collecting and analysis data, (mobility score, standing time, cow flow, management, floors,beds, trucks, foot trimming method, foot bath)meeting with a nutritionist, farm manager ect.
TB Testing
We can provide full herd TB testing and aim to perform your tests competently and professionally. We are also happy to provide any other veterinary services during the TB test, such as blood sampling, pregnancy diagnosis or castration and dehorning. Please book in with the office in plenty of time from your test dates and we will always try to accommodate your requested testing dates and times.
Contact Wern Vets
You can contact Wern Vets by heading to our contact page or go to our vet location page and find your local vets.