AS LIVESTOCK across the country transition to winter crops, remember to heed management principles with such feeds, says PGG Wrightson nutritionist Charlotte Westwood.
I'D LIKE to talk about old dogs in this article, because I have been trying to find a home for my partner's old Huntaway bitch.
A WORLD-first cattle vaccine, based on nanotechnology, is set to provide protection from Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus (BVD).
FODDER BEET has for five years has expanded rapidly as a winter feed crop. The incentive for this is its large yield potential of this high energy feed; grown well it can yield at least 20tDM/ha.
SEEKING TO lift New Zealand's animal welfare performance, MAF has drawn together all players in livestock production – meat and dairy – in an 'animal welfare primary sector chief executives forum' (AWF).
FARMERS MAY be required to make greater use of anesthetic and analgesics when doing painful procedures on farm animals, said animal welfare leader Professor Donald Broom, University of Cambridge, during a recent New Zealand visit.
FLY bait formulated and made in New Zealand kills by ingestion or contact, says distributor Domhealth.
INTERVET SCHERING Plough vaccines are reported to be helping Ruapehu sheep farmer Merv Williams round up against campylobacteriosis and toxoplasmosis.
FARMERS MUST guard against complacency over the impact of Barber's pole worm during summer and autumn, says Pfizer.
TWO VETS who have adopted a new start-point for animal nutrition and, hence production, are this month (March 14-17) running seminars in Canterbury to get the word out.
A SLOW start to hoggets' weight gain last spring prompted Maniototo, Central Otago, producer Scott Armstrong to try a recently launched combination drench with a new active, the supplier reports.
EVEN THOUGH mating is six months or more away on most dairy farms start thinking about causes of cow infertility now, says Ian Carr of Hamilton-based Rurtec.
I RECEIVED an email from a friend, a retired vet who is now doing research at Massey on farm dogs, and he wanted to know my thoughts on the neutering of working dogs.
BAR NEARLY getting his finger bitten off taking a swab, Robert Gardyne, Winton, is enthusiastic about CARLA as a way of building parasite resistance in his Perendale and Texel stud flocks.
SELECTION OF parasite-resistant sheep looks set to become faster and easier with a new test commercially available for the first time this autumn.