Animal Health
StockCARE® incorporates a preventive animal health programme with a focus on helping you understand and manage diseases that may be affecting the livestock on your farm.
Each farm has its own comprehensive annual Management Plan which includes a preventive animal health plan. The plan is reviewed each year in conjunction with your StockCARE® Veterinarian.
During the first year, the programme will conduct a comprehensive investigation of the animal health status of your farm by initiating:
- A review of the critical indicators of disease - body condition, growth rates, death rates and reproductive performance
- A review of previously identified disease problems and diagnostic tests of existing conditions
- Monitoring parasitism levels and basing treatments on the results of the tests combined with other factors monitored by the programme
- Tests to determine the trace element status of the different livestock classes
- A rigorously conducted investigation of a representative sample of lambs that die within 48 hours of birth
- A carefully planned vaccination, parasite control and animal health programme aimed at disease prevention
- Minimisation of the unsubstantiated use of mineral supplements, antibiotics, pesticides, hormones and fertility drugs
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