Vetnews | Julie 2024 24 « BACK TO CONTENTS Events I WVAC 2024 Conscious Business - A practice model for the health of veterinary professionals Tanya Grantham Animal Health and Hydro, Benoni, South Africa This presentation will begin by discussing the concept of conscious business. Conscious business encompasses more than practising in an environmentally friendly way. It includes being aware of the self, the team, the clients, the patients, and the business. The challenge for many of us is bringing awareness into our workspace every single day. Many of us are mindful at home, with our partners, family, and friends but this easily falls away under the stresses of managing a business or being a business owner. Our own perceptions, patterns and stories dictate our behaviour. Changing a business practice begins with the individual. Once the decision is made to create a conscious business then the actions follow the leader into the consulting and treatment rooms and to the team. This requires good listening skills, excellent communication, and an ability to have difficult conversations. There is a dedication to others that manifests as a safe space – a psychological and emotional haven. The team members/staff benefit and because of that, the patients do too. Once the patients improve, the family feels better, and a ripple effect moves out into the neighbourhood. The values of the individuals are as important as the values of the business. There should be alignment. These values can be anything; compassion, care, a thirst for knowledge and a desire to care for our planet. As these align, the business takes shape and becomes an expression of all that is part of it. This is possible to achieve in the veterinary arena, regardless of how large or small the business is. This presentation challenges conventional business models and asks you to start making a change for your own well-being, the health of your patients and the future of the planet. Veterinary practice in communal villages, commonages and townships, emerging farmers and small plots. A rural private vet perspective Sheperd Kuziva Marimbire Komani Veterinary Clinic, Queenstown, South Africa The rural set-up and structure of many towns and cities in South Africa is made up of people lining in townships, commonages, and villages. The vast majority of these people are previously disadvantaged, low- or no-income earners and often depend on government grants for their livelihoods. these communities have domestic animals, livestock and pets like all other communities and most of them cannot afford the prices the normal private veterinarians charge. Within those communities, however, there are emerging farmers, backyard farmers and pet owners that need veterinary services. The presentation tells a tale of the veterinary needs of these communities in particular reference to the Eastern Cape of South Africa, common cases found in the communities and reflects the discrepancies in the availability of veterinary services in these communities. the presentation is based on the observations in a newly established veterinary clinic that serves those communities and gives perspective and guidelines to the para-veterinarians who want to venture into servicing these communities in relation to the new regulations published that technicians and veterinary nurses can open Primary Animal Health Facilities to spread veterinary services. The presentation also looks at the viability of opening a practice to serve marginalized communities as observed over the past three years. v Effects of probiotic (saccharomyces cerevisiae) and ascorbic acid on oxidative gene damage biomarker, heat shock protein 70 and interleukin 10 in broiler chickens exposed to heat stress Victory Osirimade Sumanu Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa., Pretoria, South Africa. Heat stress is a prominent factor responsible for economic losses in the poultry meat industry due to adverse effects on the general performance of broiler chickens. In this study, we evaluated the effects of probiotic (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and ascorbic acid on oxidative gene damage biomarker (8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG)), heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) and interleukin 10 in broiler chickens exposed to heat stress under natural conditions. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and one step realtime reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technology were utilized to study the effects of heat stress on the expression levels of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), HSP70 and IL-10 respectively, in broiler chickens raised during the hot summer season. 56 broiler chickens served as the subjects, they were divided into 4 groups of 14, group I (control), group II (probiotic S. cerevisiae at 1 g/kg of feed), group III (ascorbic acid at 200 mg/kg
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