Our practice is 50% cattle mostly dairy, 5% swine, and  45% pets.  This position can vary from 1/2 cattle and 1/2 pets to 2/3 cattle and 1/3 pets.  Interests in Swine, Beef, calves, and Embryo Transfer would be a plus.  Start mixed and grow your specialty until it is much of what you do!  We keep pace with our changing industries.

Dairy practice involves local family owned farms and large dairies further away.  Herd sizes range from 100 to 9000 cows.  We influence 30,000 cows.  We are actively involved in building design, cow comfort, vaccination programs,  ventilation, nutrition, reproduction and treatment of individual animals.   We perform milking system evaluations and in house milk cultures including myco.  Team meetings and peer groups are used to foster continuous improvement.  Beef practice includes small cow calf producers, some feedlots, and dairy beef.  Swine practice includes designing customized health and production programs.  This involves record evaluation, serologic testing and disease monitoring.     We provide a truck equipped with a fully stocked Bowie unit for each doctor including an Easi-Scan ultrasound.   

We practice high quality pet medicine  in our three clinics in Maria Stein, Versailles and Wapakoneta.    We use isoflourane anesthesia  and have digital X-ray, ultrasound,  pain management, surgery monitoring and   therapeutic laser.    Support staff is robust with 28 staff members including six registered animal technicians.  We use a computer system that networks all clinics.   In clinic diagnostics include diagnostic blood chemistry, bacterial culture and fecal analysis. 

Mentoring is something we do very well with extensive training of our new associates in the first few months.  Professional developement is part of our culture with paid CE days, registration and travel stipend and weekly doctors meetings. Work should integrate with life with a four and a half day average work week after training.   The compensation package is competitive with a base and bonus Prosal system that has served us well for 25 years. The on call schedule after training is one week night and one weekend out of six.  Excellent benefits include health/ disability/ liability insurance, paid vacation, license and professional dues, retirement, uniforms and massage.   

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