Production Animal Health Team (PAHT)

Production animals include aquaculture, cattle, sheep, goats, deer, camelids, pigs and poultry.

There are close working relationships with commercial and research farming operations based at the Roseworthy Campus and in the surrounding area.

Teaching

The PAHT is responsible for the teaching of production animal health in the B.Sc (Animal Science), B.Sc (Pre-Veterinary) and post-graduate Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees.

Research

The PAHT members are research active with a focus on animal health and productivity in a number of species, and collaborate with numerous research groups including the HIAP CRC (The pork CRC),  Australia Pork, Poultry CRC, Australian Egg Corp, Pig and Poultry Production Institute, SARDI Livestock Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).

Services

The PAHT is responsible for the Production Animal Health Centre which is based at the Roseworthy Campus. This Centre operates a mobile production animal veterinary service, a referral clinic (due to open in 2012) and consultancy services on request.

Links to the PAHT profiles are given below.

Prof Peter Cockcroft Research focus: Rumen health, colostral immunoglobulins and disease surveillance, clinical informatics.

Prof Kym Abbott Research focus: tbc.

Assoc Prof Roy Kirkwood Research focus: Sow herd management, sow infertility, neonatal piglet health and survival, rational antibiotic usage.

Dr Kapil Chousalkar Research focus Poultry bacterial and viral diseases, Egg production, quality and safety, developmental biology.

Dr James Munro Research focus: Bacteriophage mediated virulence and bacteriophage therapy, impacts of pathogen on naïve host, aquatic health management.

Dr Will van Wettere Research focus: Reproductive physiology and endocrinology, sow reproduction and management, seasonal breeding patterns, neonatal piglet survival.

Dr Jeanette Perry Research focus: Production animal medicine and intensive care, dairy cattle metabolic disease, and mastitis.

Dr Mandi Carr Research focus: beef cattle herd health, management and productivity including financial sustainability and beef cattle intestinal parasites.