Animal Health Support for Sustainable Livestock Farming
Consulting
I have 15+ years’ consulting experience providing animal health and welfare science support services and advice in livestock infectious diseases and control options, including infectious disease molecular and immunological testing and food safety.
My clients have included the pharmaceutical industry, government, the agricultural research and development corporations, veterinarians, and farmers.
I help my clients improve the health and well being of their animals.
My consulting services include
Livestock infectious disease testing, including:
molecular and immunological testing for pneumonia pathogens in cattle, sheep and goats
molecular and bacteriological testing for arthritis pathogens in sheep and goats
molecular and immunological testing for mastitis pathogens in sheep and goats
molecular and immunological testing for abortion pathogens in sheep and goats
molecular, immunological and parasitological testing for diarrhea pathogens in cattle, sheep and goats.
Livestock disease investigations, with a focus on small ruminant (sheep and goat) infectious disease diagnosis, management, control and treatment.
Advice on best practice for common farm animal husbandry procedures.
Advice on food safety aspects of farm animal diseases, including risk assessment and antibiotic stewardship.
National farm animal disease control programs.
Small Ruminant Disease Investigations
Looking for help with a disease issue in your sheep or goats? I can help.
The farm animal disease investigations I provide are primarily focused on small ruminant infectious disease diagnosis, and control and treatment plans.
With 37+ years’ as a veterinarian, I bring veterinary expertise, broad farm animal experience, creative thinking and passion for the health and welfare of animals to all my work.
I provide telephone consultations and property/farm visits across south eastern Australia (New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia).
In Australia, disease investigations are supported by my in-house laboratory. I offer a range of diagnostic tests, some of which have been developed through my research.
Mentoring, Training & Presentations
My broad mentoring, training and presenting experience includes mentoring 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 am highly skilled at presenting complex information in a way that makes it easy for others to understand.
Training can be delivered in-house, at your business or online.
My mentoring, training & presentations services include:
Mentoring farm animal industry personnel
Training in infectious diseases of farm animals to farmers, advisors and veterinarians
Presentations to conferences, field days and other events.
Research & Writing
I have managed and conducted research on an extensive range of infectious diseases of farm animals, including bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases.
Other research projects have included analgesia for common sheep husbandry procedures and development of nonsurgical alternatives.
I am skilled at managing complex research projects across multiple organizations .
My research & writing services include:
Scientific literature reviews
Research study protocol development and design
Research study implementation and monitoring
Management of complex research projects across multiple organizations
Research project and program review for the Rural Research & Development Corporations
Development of publications from concept to content to design.
Why work with me?
I have 37+ years’ experience in the animal health industry. I bring broad animal health experience and networks, creative thinking and passion for the health and welfare of animals to all of my work.
As well as my veterinary degree, which I received ‘With Distinction’, I have formal postgraduate training in veterinary pathology, infectious disease and immunology (Master degree and PhD). I am highly experienced in farm animal infectious disease diagnosis, treatment and control.
My training is international. I completed my veterinary training in Canada and my postgraduate training in Australia. During my PhD I was awarded a British Council Postgraduate Bursary for study at Moredun Research Institute in Scotland, an institute renowned for research on infectious diseases of farmed livestock.
I have managed and conducted research on an extensive range of infectious diseases of farm animals:
Viral diseases of sheep and goats, including orf virus (scabby mouth virus, contagious pustular dermatitis), ovine parainfluenza-3 virus and ovine respiratory syncytial virus.
Bacterial diseases, including Johne’s disease, bacterial pneumonia of sheep and goats, and bacterial joint infections in lambs.
Parasitic disease of cattle, sheep, and goats, including intestinal roundworms, liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) and sheep flystrike (myasis) control.
I have also managed and conducted research on analgesia for common sheep husbandry procedures and provided the veterinary support that underpinned the first-ever registration of a non-steroidal inflammatory drug for use in sheep in three markets simultaneously (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand).
I am skilled at managing complex research project across multiple organizations, for example universities and contract research providers. I have extensive experience managing and reviewing research programs for the Australian agricultural research and development corporations.
My broad education and training experience includes teaching and training veterinary students, veterinary nursing students, farm industry personnel, abattoir personnel and veterinarians. I am highly skilled at presenting complex information in a way that makes it easy for others to understand.
I pride myself on providing a high quality, professional service backed by my high levels of experience and expertise. I only take on the number of clients I can professionally manage myself – when you work with Joan Lloyd Consulting, you are working with me, and never passed around from person to person or allocated to a more junior staff member.