About our farm animal services

Student and cow

Regardless of whether you have livestock as pets or are a large-scale commercial farming operation, our Farm Animal team is committed to providing you with the most up-to-date veterinary care and advice.

Our newly renovated barn has the facilities to perform consultations, perform routine and emergent surgeries and hospitalise critically ill patients or those requiring more complex management. We consult on a range of areas from basic health and nutrition, vaccination and parasite control, all the way up to emergency injury, illness and birthing difficulties.

For large-scale beef, dairy cattle and sheep farming operations, we provide advice on the complete management of your stock, including breeding.

We also perform in bull breeding soundness examinations, pregnancy diagnosis in sheep and cattle, artificial breeding of cows and sheep, mastitis surveillance, parasite programme planning, breeder herd health programmes and dairy herd health visits.

Availability

We understand that animals are your livelihood. If you require veterinary assistance at your property, we're available to travel to you during business hours, but currently don't offer an after-hours emergency service for farm animals.

Our team

Lecturer in Farm Animal Medicine

Kevin graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, London, in 2006. He spent his first two years in mixed Practice in Cornwall, England, before returning to the Royal Veterinary College to complete a Clinical Training Scholarship (Senior Internship) in Production Animal Medicine in 2010. After that he worked in private practice in Wales, the South West and South East of England, and India as a Production and Mixed Practice Veterinarian, until moving to Perth in 2015. He worked part time as a Demonstrator at Murdoch University until he became a full time Registrar in Production Animal Heath and Medicine in 2018. In 2023 he became a Lecturer in Production Animal Health at Murdoch University.

Kevin’s particular interests are cow comfort, production animal lameness, emergency farm animal medicine and surgery, and pet farm animal medicine.
The Farm Animal team has a dedicated group of registered veterinary nurses and support staff that are an integral part of the hospital and teaching facility. Our nurses exhibit an expert level of care to their patients and provide support to the veterinary team.