Displaying items by tag: Calves

Get your colostrum feeding right and you'll go a long way towards raising healthy replacement calves.

As the dairy industry's spring calving kicks off, the Bobby Calf Action Group (BCAG) is reminding everyone who handles calves of the important role they have to play.

Getting cows in-calf quickly is the key to achieving a good calving pattern, says DairyNZ.

Moving from the corridors of powers in Australia to the hill country of northern Waikato can be daunting for anyone.

Dirty tricks played on the farming sector by an animal rights lobby could cost the group its charitable status.

'Grossly irresponsible' is how New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen has rightly described animal rights group SAFE's placement of an anti-NZ dairy farming ad in a British newspaper.

Your old mate reckons the self-professed friend of bobby calves – the Dutchman who wants to single-handedly destroy NZ's dairy industry, Hans Kriek...

Grossly irresponsible – that's how Mike Petersen describes the animal rights group SAFE's placement of an anti-NZ dairying advertisement in a UK newspaper.

It's a long way to Methven, particularly if you come from Devon in the UK or Wairarapa, as have Andrew Furzeland and Rebecca Langley.

All those involved in this latest scandal of mistreatment of bobby calves redefine the meaning of the word idiot.