Celestè Snyders

Herd Health and Welfare

• Feed livestock according to farm schedules and feeding plans.
• Observe and monitor livestock condition, health, and welfare.

Early idintification of illness, injuries and risk pertaining to livestock welfare.

Reporting illnesses and injuries.

Treatments, parasite control, and vaccination of animals.

Herd handling and movement

• Moving livestock between camps.
• Guiding and handling livestock in crushes and kraals. Handling livestock with care while moving and using handling equipment.

Record Keeping and administration

• Keeping record of births, deaths, treatments and movements.
• Weighing livestock for weaning, post-weaning, and general weighings keeping record of all weights.
• Meticulous record keeping of any and all other relevant information and data to the herd.
• Stock take and ordering of feed, stock, and medicines.
• Keeping files on livestock ( individual animals in the herd ) and cattling farming programs up to date entering relevant data.
• General
• Branding, dehorning, tagging, and tattooing. Intervening with difficult calving.

• Immobilisation of game ( Darting of animals )
• Mass Game Captures
• Game counts

• All as mentioned at Savuti Veterinary Services
• Wildlife, livestock and small animal clinic

• Managing farms
• Employees (Work and duty delegation to farm workers and lodge staff)
• General and equipment maintenance (Fences, roads, vehicles, machinery etc)
• Planting, maintaining and harvesting of lucern lands
• Feeding and supplement feeding to game. Adjusting when necessary, veld conditon changes, seasonal requirements and animal condition.
• Advising on camp systems, feeding, herd structures and behaviour to optimise herd sustainability.
• Managing buffalo and sable antelope projects
• Designed and built passive capture boma for buffalo

• Game capturing (Mass captures)
• Ensuring safe loading of animals and administering tranquilisers or sedatives
• Treatment and tending to animals in holding pens (Wounded or needing extra care)
• Managing feeding of animals (According to each species' needs and requirements)

Planning and providing them with supplemements as needed.

• Arranging animals in pens according to social structure and behaviour
• Ensuring general welfare of animals in pens before and during auctions
• Managing loading of animals after sale
• Game counts
• On occasion ethically culled animals from helicopter to control animal numbers to maintain and sustain populations and prevent overpopulation.

( Partnership of Veterinarians disbanded at Limpopo Animal Clinic, Veteriniarian opened Savuti Veterinary Services )

• Managed reception, coordinating bookings, and welcoming customers to provide smooth communication and a warm experience.
• Administration of client / patient records, invoicing, stock management and control, email correspondence.
• Sales of merchandise, ordering stock and stock intake.

Small animals

• Admitting patients to hospital.
• Assisted in all surgical and emergency procedures.
• Preparing instruments and ensuring a sterile environment for optimal patient care.
• Monitored patients in hospital, and conducted post-operative observation and care.
• Administered medication and treatments to animals under veterinary supervision, following precise instructions.
• Handled and restrained animals during examinations and treatments, ensuring safety of staff and patients.

Game / Wildlife (Buffalo, exotic species and plains game)

• Game immobilisation for movement, transport or treatment (Darting from ground and helicopter)
• Ground work (Monitoring of vitals of animals and administering medication, sedatives or tranquilisers)
• Planning and managing loading and transport of animals into trucks or trailers
• Treatment of animals, surgical and emercency procedures
• Bleeding of animals for testing and movement - Buffalo movement, DNA, diseases, and notifiable diseases
• Horn measurements and aging for record keeping and auctions.
• Assisted in elephant project immobilising, collaring elephants and administering contraception to elephant cows
• Assisted in rhino project immobilising and loading of rhinos
• Immobilising lions for loading and transport
• Advised farmers on the management of species (buffalo, sable, roan, plains game), social structures, and different species' behaviour on farms or camp systems.
• Advised farmers on game feeding and additional supplement feed for dry months in camp systems.
• Advised on animal and field conditions, ecological observations and impact.

Livestock (Cattle, boergoats, sheep and horses)

• Treatment, surgical and emergency procedures
• Annual vaccinations
• Annual bleeding for diseases
• Pregnancy diagnosis
• Bull testing