Production Animal Health Centre

What is the PAHC?

Planned to open in late 2011, the Production Animal Health Centre at Roseworthy Campus will provide outstanding production animal veterinary services to the surrounding community along with referral services to the veterinary profession. The Centre will also operate as a world-class teaching facility for the University’s veterinary students. The PAHC will encompass a mobile clinic, a production animal referral clinic and four species based consultancies, servicing production animals such as beef cattle, sheep, goats, alpacas, llama, pigs, poultry, fish, crustaceans and molluscs.

Services:

• Individual, group and herd level diagnostics and interventions
• Herd health planning and population medicine

Mobile Clinic

Based at a dedicated centre within Roseworthy Campus, the mobile clinic will feature two fully equipped vehicles that will provide mobile veterinary services to production animals in the surrounding area. The mobile clinic will also provide the University’s students with supervised ‘first opinion’ experience.

Production Animal Clinic

The Production Animal Clinic will provide short stay accommodation and facilities that will give owners of high value referral cattle, sheep, alpacas and llamas access to detailed investigations, treatments and aftercare. The Clinic will also serve as a teaching environment where veterinary students can learn more sophisticated techniques in farm animal practice and observe the progression of disease and recovery in production animals.

The Consultancies

Each Consultancy will be led by a dedicated veterinary specialist and will provide expert support for the livestock industry along with working role models and experience for veterinary students.

• Pigs
• Sheep
• Aquaculture
• Poultry