| 81 nzdairy DAIRY SERVICES » Global Veterinary Services A healthy dairy herd is job number one Bernadette Cooney Waikato dairy farmers can count on Global Veterinary Services (GVS) for top-tier veterinary care. With 14 years in business serving farms of all types, GVS’s local team is dedicated to ensuring your dairy herd remains healthy, productive, and efficient. Founded by Dr. Andrew Gore, a veterinarian with 40 years’ experience, and his wife Christine, GVS has grown into a practice of 15 skilled staff members, including six vets, vet nurses, and animal technicians. Operating from their main practice and surgery in Gordonton and a satellite clinic in Whatawhata, GVS offers comprehensive services tailored to the needs of your farm. GVS provides a broad range of routine farm animal services including vaccinations, non-cycling and synchrony cows, pregnancy scanning, heifer teat sealing, disbudding and dry cow therapy. Protecting your herd from common disease, ensuring reproductive efficiency and the prevention and treatment of infection as well as safe, effective removal of horns. GVS is committed to preventing and resolving persistent and common diseases such as facial eczema and udder mastitis. New Zealand’s temperate climate and rainfall contribute to high rates of facial eczema, making prevention crucial. GVS helps farmers understand the climatic and environmental conditions to measure risk accurately. By examining pasture samples under a microscope for “spore counts,” they assess the level of toxins in the pasture that trigger eczema. Proactive management, such as dispensing zinc oxide orally or in supplementary feed or water supplies, in the led up to peak eczema season helps mitigate and manage the risk of more severe consequences says Andrew including skin lesions, weight loss, liver damage, calf abortions and death. For mastitis management, Global Veterinary Services utilise advanced biological and technological tools to test and treat infections. Identifying the bacterial culture through laboratory testing allows for precise antibiotic treatment. “Collected samples from the cow are culture tested in the lab or milk samples are DNA tested to identify bacteria and there are other specific testing machines that use the internet to broadly classify bacteria on farm,” says Andrew. “Each bacterial species has known patterns of behaviour and resistance, so identifying the bacteria helps identify the antibiotic to treat it.” Somatic cell counts of milk samples is another common way to test. “A somatic cell count greater than 150.000 indicates a high probability of infection whereas a somatic count below 70,000 leads to higher quality, sterile milk and less clinical mastitis.” “About 60 percent of our rural work would be the dairy sector, and the remainder across deer, cattle, GVS offers comprehensive services tailored to the needs of your farm. sheep and lifestyle farmers.” Whatever your animal health needs, GVS is a reliable and knowledgeable partner with a commitment to professional development and training through Andrew and Christine’s involvement with the Lincoln Institute of Veterinary Business of New South Wales. Andrew has also been the vet for Hamilton Zoo and has provided his specialist skills in darting to renowned kiwi equestrian figures, the Wilson Sisters of Keeping Up with the Kaimanawas. Call GVS for all your production animal, companion animal and exotic animal health needs and benefit from their extensive experience and personable customer service. Whatawhata & Gordonton 07 210 4562
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