Policies, guidelines and position statements
1. Professional Practices for Veterinarians
a. Coat of Arms - under review
b. Delegate Status
c. Personal Safety
d. Practice Newsletters
e. Advertising in NZVA Publications
f. Complementary Therapy
g. Equity
h. Employment of new graduates
i. After hours
j. Geographically widespread
k. Emergency Cases
l. Referral
2. Use of Veterinary Medicines
a. Storage - under review
b. Packaging & Labelling
c. Management of Medicines
d. Product Safety
(i) Product Safety Appendix
e. Judicious Use
f. Selenium
g. Prostaglandins
(i) Prostaglandins Appendix
h. Pig Prescribing
i. Poultry Prescribing
3. General Welfare
a. Animal Welfare
b. Surgical Alteration - under review
c. Significant Surgical Procedures
d. Castration of Cryptorchids
e. Electroimmobilisation
4. Identification of Animals
a. Permanent Identification
b. Microchip Technology
c. Database Storage
d. Freeze Branding
5. Cattle Health and Welfare
a. Hip Clamps
b. Induction of Lactation
c. Bovine Embryo Transfer
d. Ultrasound Transrectal Pregnancy Exams
e. Service Capacity Testing
f. Occlusion of Teats
g. Tail Shortening of Cattle
h. Dehorning & Disbudding
i. Lepto Management
j. Bobby Calves & Animal Remedies incl DCT
6. Sheep Health and Welfare
a. Mulesing
7. Pig Health and Welfare
8. Deer Health and Welfare
9. Companion Animal Health and Welfare
a. Vaccine Use
b. Prepubertal Desexing
c. Tail Docking
d. Amputation of Dew Claws
e. Dysplasia Schemes
f. Dangerous Dogs
g. Dog Ownership
h. Cat Ownership
i. Renal Transplantation
10. Horse Health and Welfare
a. Use of Whips
b. Racing 2 Year Old Horses
c. Distal Limb Neurectomy
d. Medication for Performance Horses
e. Bleeders
f. Per Rectal Ultrasound
11. Avian Health and Welfare
12. Transport
a. Transport of Livestock
b. Lactating Cows for Transport
c. Transport of Live Sheep by Sea
13. Feral Animal Control
14. Use of Animals in Research, Testing and Teaching
15. Miscellaneous
