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Animal Health Support for

Sustainable Livestock Farming

 
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Joan Lloyd Consulting offers animal health support services for sustainable livestock farming.

With 37 years in the animal health industry, I bring broad livestock health experience and networks, creative thinking and passion for the health and welfare of animals to all of my work.

 

About Me

My core belief is that when we use animals for our benefit, we have a moral responsibility to ensure they are healthy and well-cared for.

Since establishing my consulting business in 2008, I have developed a reputation for providing well-thought-out animal health support to the livestock industries.

The health and wellbeing of my clients’ animals are important to me, as is my clients’ trust in the advice I provide. I pride myself on providing a high quality, professional service backed by my years of experience and expertise.

Services I Provide

Consulting

I have 15+ years’ consulting experience providing animal health and welfare science support services and technical advice in veterinary infectious diseases and control options, including infectious disease molecular and immunological testing and food safety. I have experience setting up and managing veterinary infectious disease diagnostic laboratories.

My clients have included the pharmaceutical industry, government, the agricultural research and development corporations, veterinarians, and farmers.

The advice I have provided to my clients includes national and farm level disease control programs; food safety aspects of farm animal diseases, including risk assessment and antimicrobial stewardship; best practice for common farm animal husbandry practices; and the efficacy and safety of veterinary drugs.

My consulting services include small ruminant (sheep and goat) disease investigations, supported by my in-house laboratory. I offer a range of diagnostic tests, some of which were developed through my research.

Mentoring, Training & Presentations

My broad mentoring and training experience includes teaching and training veterinary students, veterinary nursing students, farm industry personnel, abattoir personnel and veterinarians.

I have delivered numerous presentations at scientific conferences, workshops, field days and online.

I recently developed and delivered training in Emergency Animal Disease Response to the Australian Red Meat Processing Industry. The online training modules for the training are now available on the Australian Meat Processor Corporation website.

I am delivering a series of field day and workshop presentations on best practice animal husbandry, animal health plans and infectious diseases of cattle, sheep and goats.

Read about my recent presentation on best practice tail docking for transitioning to a non-mulesed sheep enterprise.

Research & Writing

I have 30 years experience conducting and managing research projects and programs on an extensive range of infectious diseases of farm animals, including viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases.

Other research projects have included analgesia for common sheep husbandry procedures and development of nonsurgical alternatives.

I can help you design and implement your next animal health or welfare research project.

I am skilled at managing complex research projects across multiple organizations and can help you manage large, multi-faceted research programs across several research institutions.

I can also help prepare technical publications, from content through to design.

My publication record includes twenty-one papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including eight as first author, as well as numerous lay technical publications including husbandry practices guides, magazine articles and factsheets.

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