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News - Exciting Equine Veterinary Position Available for a New or Recent Graduate
Tamworth Equine Veterinary Centre is seeking a new or recent graduate with a passion for horses, who wants to make their mark in Australia's most rapidly growing equine area. This is a long term position and is available immediately.
The practice has a very strong reproductive focus during the breeding season, including on-farm stud visits and in-house artificial insemination with both chilled and frozen semen and a large volume of embryo transfer work. Resident and visiting stallions are used for live cover, collection and shipment of chilled semen, and semen freezing. We have a state-of-the-art reproduction & freezing laboratory and are an SBS affiliate lab. Our mobile semen freezing Unit (the first of its kind in Australia) is due to be launched this Autumn. Besides the reproduction work, the centre also operates as a well equipped general & referral equine practice, servicing the medical and surgical needs of the local equine population. The practice has at its disposal ultrasonography, portable digital radiology systems, videoendoscopy, a full surgical suite with gaseous anaesthesia, videoarthroscopy and A grade Hospitalization facilities.
As a junior associate you will be expected to participate in all aspects of the practice, including inpatient care, anaesthesia, some reproductive work and emergency out of hours work. You have the freedom to work up your own cases, but you will also have access to the generous support of two very experienced equine veterinarians. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills as an equine clinician in a friendly, supportive and practical learning environment.
Tamworth is located at the heart of the Quarterhorse breeding industry, but the area attracts many other breeds including Thoroughbreds, Stockhorses, and Standardbreds, amongst a variety of other breeds. With the imminent completion of Australias largest equine show facility Tamworth is the place to be.
The practice itself is located approximately 2km from the central business district on 30 acres of alluvial river flats, with the facilities to assist over 100 horses. If you want to be part of this modern and exciting practice, please direct any enquiries about the position to Dr Stuart Keller senior veterinarian, or for a more informal chat please contact Dr Vicky Marshall. You can view more details about the practice on this website.
Tel: (02) 6766 4333 (8.30am to 5.30pm EST) Fax: (02) 6761 3450
Applications, including your curriculum vitae, can be posted to:
Tamworth Equine Veterinary Centre,
Peppertree Park,
King George V Avenue,
Tamworth,
NSW 2340.
Or you can email your application to Dr Stuart Keller: kelvet@bigpond.com
News - Exciting New Acquisition
The latest acquisition for the practice is the purchase of computerised digital radiography. This advanced technology allows for the on-site production of high resolution radiographs. Whilst a significant amount of the practice’s major radiographic work occurs in-clinic, the purchase of this equipment will allow us to offer a field service for Thoroughbred sale survey films. The digital enhancement of radiographs is of great advantage in elucidating obscure bone disorders and we expect This technology to be a big step forward in our diagnostic capabilities.
New stallions / old stallions – the forthcoming breeding season will see the arrival of some new faces as well as the return of some old ones. We welcome back DUALLY COOL with an attractive breeding bonus for the current season. INSTANT DULCE will join us in November after an early start in Rockhampton. No doubt he will welcome a cooler, less humid climate for the latter part of the season. We are looking forward to the arrival of TELIS AGAIN from America at the beginning of September. He is an exciting stallion with the credentials of having the highest earnings of any Quarterhorse stallion yet imported from the U.S.A. Another stallion causing a stir in the U.S. to "arrive" in Australia is LECTRIC PLAYBOY. He is coming as frozen semen and distribution will be based at TEVC. We anticipate considerable interest in this horse, based on his outstanding performance in the cutting pen back home.
At last the wheels of development are grinding into motion and the building of the new National Equine and Livestock Centre is about to really progress to the movement of some earth. Whilst the initial excitement has cooled, there is no doubt that the progress of this project will be keenly observed by many and as the buildings take shape the excitement will return. We will try and keep abreast of developments and share the evolution of the complex with you, possibly even with photos.