The Hearing Aide offers a BAER animal hearing test service. Once enough data is collected we will to publish our own statistics on deafness in ZA animals.
The Hearing Aide is here to help breeders make good informed breeding decisions. Hearing testing in South Africa has been non existent to low priority for many years. Initially breeders had heard of BAER testing but there was no facility. Then Onderstepoort Veterinary University got a second hand unit from a human audiologist, but that kept breaking down, then they received another one and that is better but appears to suffer from the same reliability problems. Therefore the testing of our animals was hit and miss at the best of times.
Being involved with the breed at the top of the hearing impaired statistics this was unacceptable so we purchased our own BAERcom machine seven years ago.
Now with experience on our side and a lot more research into the hearing gene we have decides to offer this service to all breeders so that they have the opportunity to do the right thing.
We have new reliable equipment that is portable, so we come to you or your vet. We give verbal results at the time of testing and written certificates are emailed out to you within 24 hours. Our results are recognised by KUSA and will be recorded on your registration certificate if the information is submitted at time of registration.
