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Sheep and Deer

If you're farming sheep or deer, growth rates, animal health and fertility will be on your list of essentials for ongoing farm success and profitability. Talk to us about customised approaches that will do the business on your farm.

Sheep and Deer

Faster FEC with Parasight

Our latest Parasight technology makes it easier and faster than ever to get real information from your farm to make the right drenching decisions.

Trace Elements - Sheep & Beef

"The sheep and cattle are just not doing good, even though they seem to be getting plenty of feed- they must be deficient in something!”

Clostridial Disease in Sheep

Clostridial diseases almost always result in death and may often involve a significant number of animals in a sheep flock.

Worms in Sheep

The effects of worms are likely to be most severe and of greatest long-term significance in the first year of life.

Barber’s Pole in Sheep

The Barber’s Pole worm has some features that make it different from other sheep worms and explain why the worm can be a major problem at certain times during the year. These features mean the Barber’s Pole worm should be regarded as a sheep disease condition in its own right.

Flystrike (Myiasis)

The 4 species of fly which cause flystrike in NZ are attracted to the moist smelly areas on the fleece. The most common attractants are dags and urine stains in the breech areas and along the back above the shoulders where wool can stay wet for sometime after rain.

Sheep & Beef Reproduction Services

When it comes to reproduction cattle/sheep services the farm vets at VetEnt are experts. Current reproduction in cattle and sheep is monitored; poor reproductive performance is identified; a management plan is created to improve reproductive performance in the future.

Ryegrass Staggers

Ryegrass staggers is a nervous disease affecting sheep, cattle, horses, and deer after they have grazed endophyte-affected ryegrass dominant pastures under close grazing conditions.

Pink Eye in Sheep

A very common condition affecting sheep characterized by severe inflammation of one or both eyes. The condition is caused by infection of the eye by infective agents Chlamydia and/or Mycoplasma conjunctivae.species with secondary bacterial infection.

Salmonella in Sheep

(Enteric disease in sheep) A bacterial disease of the intestines which usually occurs as an outbreak involving large numbers.

Footrot in Sheep

Footrot in sheep is a very complex disease. It is an infection which causes major changes to the hoof resulting in lameness and loss of production. It is a very painful condition and has the potential to become an animal welfare issue.

Campylobacter in Sheep

Campylobacter (Campylobacter fetus fetus) is one of the most common causes of contagious abortion in sheep. However, 30% of Campylobacter isolates from sheep abortions were diagnosed as species other than C. fetus fetus, the majority of these other species is Campylobacter jejuni.

Lice in Sheep

Lice are external parasites that can live on most animals. They are very host specific so can only breed on their own hosts. Sheep lice breed only on sheep and complete their entire life cycle on the animal. They usually spread by direct contact between sheep.

Liver Fluke (Fascioliasis)

Liver fluke can infect sheep, cattle, horses, pigs, goats, alpacas, deer, and a range of wild animals including wallabies and rabbits. Humans can also be infected by eating watercress from creeks in fluke-infested country.

Toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii) is one of the most common causes of contagious abortion in sheep. Toxoplasmosis is so common that it is a case of when an abortion outbreak will occur -not if.

Find us

Veterinary Enterprises Group Limited, PO Box 83, Te Awamutu, Waikato 3840, New Zealand

Contact us

info@vetent.co.nz