www.swansvet.com

Cattle

Swans Veterinary Services provides an extensive range of products and services for the Beef Producer, from small landholders & hobby farmers up to the largest producers and feedlotters. Our highly equipped vets commonly work within a 400 km practice range and also do runs throughout Western Australia. SVS is the largest cattle practice in the state.

David Swan has serviced the area for 20 years, is a beef producer, a member of the Aust. Cattle vets, past WA representative, an inaugural pregnancy testing & bull testing examiner, past treasurer of the Beef Improvement association, WA member for Cattle Council for exotic disease, and Honorary veterinarian for the Esperance Agricultural Society.

Enoch Bergman completed a post- doctorate internship in cattle production and medicine at Colorado State University in 2003. He is on the national advisory board for Bovine Viral Diarrhea. He won the Australian Cattle Vets scholarship which he has used to further his study of Bovine Viral Diarrhea. He is a popular speaker and regularly speaks all over Australia and occasionally overseas.

Our services include:
Pregnancy Diagnosis	SVS pregnancy tests 50,000 cattle a year. Both David and Enoch are both accredited pregnancy testers with the Australian Cattle Vets Scheme and David is an accredited examiner. SVS were the first vets in Western Australia to introduce ultrasound to their preg testing services. We are capable of using the ultrasound to stage and sex fetuses and can stage fetuses accurately manually. We are adept and experienced at pelvic measurement and it’s interpretation relating to dystocia management.
Artificial Insemination	Full service is offered and we have inseminated up to 2000 cows per year.
Bull Testing	Performed in accordance with the Australian Cattle Vet’s scheme. David has developed capacity testing here in Esperance. We currently semen and/or capacity test most of the local sale bulls and hundreds of commercial bulls for a number of clients.
Corporate Clients	SVS has been the sole veterinary provider to all of the large companies in the district.
Drug Companies	SVS provide consulting and trial work to a range of multi national companies including Pfizer, Virbac, Schering Plough and Bayer.
Obstetrics	A full range of emergency obstetric procedures are conducted for calving difficulties.
Education	SVS is active in vocational training and provides support to the high school farm. We have organized and presented a range of educational producer seminars.
Disease Investigation	Extensive local experience provides prompt accurate diagnosis and resolution of animal health problems.
Production Advice	Provided on a range of preventive animal health issues.
Parasitology	Faecal Analysis service and advice on parasite management.
Insurance Work	Claims and examinations.
BVDV diagnosis & testing	See separate web page.
National agent for Lane Bull testing Equipment	Vet only equipment.
We also provide and cater for the following: Bull reproductive surgery, cancer eye treatment, individual sick animal visitations, lameness treatment, feedlot consultancy, pharmaceutical supply, ambulatory service.