Abstract: A survey was undertaken in Southern peninsular state of India, Tamil Nadu, to assess the uptake of livestock services by farmers from various types of service providers for getting their animals treated and bovines bred. The study revealed that 51.55% animal ailments were attended to at public veterinary centres, while 31.85% by veterinarians and 9.85% by para-veterinarians through home services. The role of traditional healers, shops dispensing �over the counter� medicines and private veterinary clinics were limited in rendering animal healthcare services. The treatments were skewed towards cattle among all categories of service providers. Of the cases reported to the public veterinary centres in the study area, the number of acute medical cases was more followed by chronic medical, gynaecological, acute surgical, chronic surgical and obstetrical cases. Considering the cases attended to by veterinarians through home services, acute medical cases followed by obstetrical cases predominantly attracted the role of veterinarians, although a limited number of other categories of cases were also attended to. Para-veterinarians seemed to have been called for treating obstetrical cases, especially for dystocia and retained placenta mostly, followed by acute medical cases and acute surgical cases to a certain extent. Although, the public veterinary centres were the single major animal health care providers, their role appeared to have been lesser than expected. Contrastingly, the public veterinary centres were the major bovine breeding service provider in the study area, while, natural breeding still remained to be an important mode of breeding.