For the dog, the cat, and the herd.
A mixed practice covering the Boonah district since 1994. Consulting rooms in town, and a vet in a ute when you need one.
Why the vets on call are always ours.
Most mixed practices sold their out-of-hours cover to a central agency years ago; it is cheaper and it lets the vets sleep. Fern & Field looked at that arrangement and decided against it, because the person who answers a 3am call about a calving needs to already know the farm, the gate code, and the animal.
That decision is why the practice still runs its own rota across six vets rather than a shared one across a dozen practices. It costs more to staff. Thirty years on, it is still the reason clients here tend to stay for decades rather than switch to whoever is nearest.
Small animal, large animal, and out of hours.
One practice, two very different halves, and the same vets across both.
Companion animals
Vaccination, neutering, dentistry and diagnostics. Appointments run to twenty minutes because ten is not long enough with a frightened animal.
Farm and equine
Herd health, fertility work, pregnancy testing and lameness. We know your ground and we know your stock.
Out of hours
Our own vets, not a call centre an hour away. If you ring at 3am you get somebody who has met your animal.
What happens next
Register
A five-minute form and we pull your history from your last practice.
First consultation
Twenty minutes. We meet the animal properly before we do anything to it.
Ongoing care
Reminders when they are due, and a plan you agreed to rather than one we sent you.
Thirty years in the same district.
Two branches, six vets, and a lot of gates we know the trick to.
years in Boonah
“Calved at two in the morning and Rachel was in the yard in forty minutes. You do not forget that.”
— Tom B., Kalbar
Register with the practice
Small animal or farm, we will take your history from your old vet so you do not have to.