Large Animal Veterinary Services
At Acorn Veterinary Clinic, we have 3 dedicated large animal vets working out of our livestock vet clinic in Kildorrery. We have been treating the farm animals and dairy herds of North Cork for over 50 years, and during that time have developed a range of specialist expertise and special interests including mastitis, nutrition, herd health and fertility. We offer a comprehensive 24/7, 365 days on call service to our clients, meaning a vet is only ever a phone call away. You can reach our on call vet by calling 022 25193. We encourage the use of appointments for planned work to maximise the efficient use of both farmers and vets time.
General Services
We offer a complete range of standard ambulatory services.
TB testing
Callout to perform all routine and emergency work on farm
Call out to assist at calving problems
Call out to sick animals on farm
Call out to perform routine work on farm
Castration
Fertility work, including scanning
Farm visits for herd health and blood testing for disease diagnosis
Abortion diagnosis
Caesarean sections
LDA’s, RDA’s, caecal dilations and calf hernias
Dairy Herd Care
Bio-Security
We advise on the control, prevention, and eradication of all cattle diseases such as:
BVD
IBR
Johnes
T.B.
Leptospirosis
Neosporosis
Crypyosporosis
Coccidiosis
Calf scours
Tailored advice such as “What to test that new stock bull for” before he arrives
Advice on re-stocking and farm expansion to avoid importing disease onto your farm
Disease free status testing and certification
Lab diagnosis to give fully tailored parasitic control programs
Fertility advice
Mastitis Control Programme
Comprehensive advice on all matters pertaining to mastitis and milk quality
Antibiotic sensitivity testing to guide lactating and dry cow intra-mammary tube therapy selection
High somatic cell count
Herd approach to diagnosis, prevention and control of problems
Record analysis
Farm visits and continual monitoring
Machine testing
Milking routine and technique advice
Advice on control of contagious and environmental mastitis
Advice on re-stocking and farm expansion to avoid importing disease onto the farm
Advice on teat and teat skin health
Antibiotic sensitivity testing to guide lactating and dry cow intra-mammary tube therapy selection
Cow Health
Herd Health Disease Prevention. We can help you with any of the common herd problems which make your farm day more difficult costing time and money.
Milk Fever prevention
Grass Tetany prevention
Calf Health programmes
Nutrition advice for the milking cow: to decrease ketosis, to decrease LDA’s, to increase fertility and to manage the transition period from dry to milking to optimise cow and farm performance
Vaccination Advice
Diagnosis of problems and tailored control programmes to suit each farm unit
Contacts:
Fermoy Road, Kildorrery, Co. Cork
Tel: 022 25193
Fax: 022 25194
acornkdy@gmail.com
Office hours:
Monday to Friday: 9.30am – 5.30pm
Saturday: Seasonal
Emergency Information:
We provide emergency services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A veterinarian can be reached 24 hours a day.
We have a vet on call after normal business hours including weekends and holidays.
Please CALL US at: 022 43862
or 022 25193