Welcome to AkoVet
We’re bringing animal owners, veterinary professionals, and industry experts together to build an information ecosystem for Aotearoa New Zealand that makes it easy to make the right decisions for the animals under our care.
As animal owners and veterinarians in Aotearoa, we know how challenging it can be to find reliable information about preventing and managing common problems affecting the animals under our care.
We’re here to help by integrating everything you need to know into a single platform and building resources to guide you through the process of developing effective, evidence-based care plans tailored to your unique situation.
We create dynamic resource libraries and learning modules to provide you with the knowledge you need to make positive change
We build decision-support tools that make it easy for animal owners and veterinary professionals to collaborate in delivering effective care
We design research studies to fill the knowledge gaps in our understanding of how to manage medical and behavioural problems
Thanks to support from a Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures (SFFF) grant, we have started our journey by creating content to help you provide the best evidence-based care for your birds in sickness and in health.
We would love to hear what you think and have you share your experiences to help us make the resources even more relevant to the challenges you face in New Zealand.
We’re working to build animal care pathways for all the major production, lifestyle, and companion animal species in Aotearoa New Zealand across the entire spectrum of care.
Setting yourself up for success if you are considering adding animals to your household, lifestyle block, or business.
Providing animals with the appropriate conditions and care to prevent medical and behavioural issues.
Getting animals back on the right track when something has gone wrong with their health or behaviour.
Doing our best to prepare for the worst if a natural disaster, disease outbreak, or other emergency occurs.
After giving our animals a good life, planning for them to have a good death when their time comes.
We are a team of veterinary researchers, educators, and clinicians on a mission to improve the lives of animals and the people who care for them.
Follow us on our journey to develop an integrated animal health information system for New Zealand.
Like many of my veterinary colleagues, the only experience I had with poultry medicine was through a small handful of lectures and practical sessions in veterinary school that were mainly focused on managing infectious diseases in large commercial flocks. Otherwise,
Ako embraces the Māori philosophy that lives are made better when students and teachers learn from each other. We started AkoVet because we believe that animal and human lives are all made better when animal owners, veterinary professionals, and industry
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