Farm Animal
Originating as a Farm animal practice over sixty years ago when practice founder Tony Murphy started the practice in New Ross, the farm animal side of the practice has continued to develop and modernise in line with developments and advancements in the farming industry.
At Barrowside Veterinary Hospital we deal with Dairy, Suckler, Beef fattening, heifer rearing and sheep farms. Our team of veterinary surgeons is highly experienced in farm animal work, where we deal with sick animals on an individual and herd basis.
As the size of dairy farms in the New Ross region continues to expand, we are providing herd health programs to our clients in areas such as Mastitis ( SCC ANTIBIOTIC SELECTION selective dry cow therapy etc ) fertility (Fixed time AI Late calvers non cycling cows etc )nutrition infectious disease ( TB BVD IBR SALMONELLA NEOSPORA LEPTOSPIROSIS CLOSTRIDIAL JOHNES ETC. )and calf rearing.
We advise our clients on areas such as Milk fever prevention, Grass Tetany prevention, reducing retained afterbirth incidence, vaccination programs. Our Shop carries a full range of all vaccines and wormers used in large animal practice at very competitive prices.
Farm Animal Services
We offer a complete range of ambulatory veterinary services to our farm animal clients, which is available 24/7.
Services include but not limited to;
- Callout to perform all routine and emergency work on farm
- Call out to assist at calving and lambing difficulties
- Call out to sick Cows, calves, cattle, sheep etc
- Sick Calves and Sheep can be brought into the Hospital for treatment.
- On farm testing of calf scours for immediate diagnosis allowing accurate immediate treatment
- Bull Fertility (Breeding Soundness Examination). The Breeding Soundness Examination of the male is essential to achieve maximum reproductive performance and only the use of males proven to be suitable for reproduction allows for the success of the reproductive season on farms. Barrowside Veterinary Hospital has all the equipment to perform a complete andrological examination, which includes; physical examination of bulls, rams and goats, semen collection through electroejaculation, spermogram and reports.
- TB Testing
Large Animal Surgeries
Surgeries we undertake include but not limited to;
- Castrations
- Dehorning
- Cesarean section
- Abdominal surgeries including displaced abomasums left and right, caecal torsions and dilations
- Hernia surgeries
- Damaged and cut teats
- Tumour surgeries
- Lameness to include fixation of patella
- Spastic paresis
- Vasectomies
- Bloat surgeries
- Blood transfusions
- Eye enucleation
- Episiotomy
- Choke
- Rectal or vaginal prolapse correction
- Fracture treatment
- Urinary bladder prolapse
