Farm Animal Reproduction and Ambulatory Services (FARAS)

Farm Animal Ambulatory

About Our Service

Students and professor on farm call

The Farm Animal Ambulatory Service provides on-farm care and consultations to local producers and clients in central Alabama and west Georgia within a 70-mile radius of the teaching hospital through individual animal medicine, reproduction and surgery, as well as herd-level disease investigation. Services include herd work and other routine animal care procedures, such as breeding soundness evaluations (BSE), pregnancy diagnosis, castrations, lameness evaluation and vaccinations.

The service provides on-location care to farm animals — beef and dairy cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and camelids. It also offers on-farm and phone consultations to clients and referring veterinarians. In addition, the service has the ability to transport a portable cattle squeeze chute system and a portable hoof trimming chute to farms to efficiently and economically assist producers and pet owners in working cattle.

We offer 24-hour emergency care on the farm for patients located within 35 miles of the veterinary teaching hospital, as well as in-hospital care at the J.T. Vaughan Large Animal Teaching Hospital.

The Ambulatory Service is composed of faculty who are board-certified specialists in Theriogenology or Internal Medicine. Resident veterinarians who are training to become specialists in internal medicine also work on the service, providing after-hours, weekend and holiday emergency care 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

Clients with emergencies outside of the 35-mile area who are unable to transport patients to the veterinary teaching hospital are encouraged to seek other transportation options — for-hire animal transporters or family and neighbors with the necessary equipment. Contact information for for-hire animal transporters is available upon request at (334) 844-4490.

A program of the Auburn University J.T. Vaughan Large Animal Teaching Hospital, our mission is to provide exceptional medical care to animals and clinical, hands-on education to senior-level veterinary students. For more information, contact our ambulatory representative during business hours at (334) 844-6679. For after-hours emergencies, please contact our main office at (334) 844-4490.

What We Do

  • Evaluation of sick or injured animals through scheduled or emergency farm visits
  • Herd and individual health care including health management, vaccination, parasite control, diagnostics, biosecurity and nutrition
  • Reproductive services including but not limited to pregnancy diagnosis, artificial insemination, bull breeding soundness examination, and embryo transfer are available

Meet the Team

Farm Theriogenology (Reproduction Services)

About the Service

The Theriogenology (animal reproduction) Service offers individual animal treatment, herd health consultations, and reproductive management and planning for all farm animal species (beef and dairy cattle, goats, sheep, swine, and camelids). Board certified clinicians, residents, technicians and senior veterinary students work together to provide the best quality of care available to our patients and clients.

The service is equipped for routine diagnostic procedures and therapeutic treatment of food and fiber animals. The college maintains state-of-the-art facilities suitable for beef and dairy cattle, small ruminants, camelids, and swine.

What We Do

The Theriogenology Service offers routine breeding soundness evaluations and test breeding of bulls, breeding soundness evaluations of cows/heifers, pregnancy diagnosis, fetal sexing, embryo collection and transfer, and other advanced reproductive technologies. Additionally, the college offers management of obstetrical cases including expertise in the management of high-risk pregnancies and difficult births (dystocias).

Management of cattle with breeding injuries, including restorative surgery for breeding injuries in males and females, is also available. Farm visits allow our clinicians, residents, and students the opportunity to evaluate herds and aid in design and implementation of health maintenance programs. These programs evaluate nutrition, vaccination protocols, biosecurity, and reproductive management in order to improve reproductive efficiency and production for our clients.

Meet the Team

Veterinary Support Staff

  • Taylor Arnette