Displaying items by tag: animal health

An outbreak of facial eczema (FE) on the West Coast is driving home the need for FE-tolerant genetics, according to a farmer.

An animal nutritionist is urging farmers to look deeper than body condition score for a true understanding of their cows' skeletons in assessing their health.

The eight organisations that formed a Bobby Calf Action Group at the end of 2015 are well advanced on a range of initiatives ensuring best practice handling and management of bobby calves.

A cool cow in summer is a happy cow, says DairyNZ animal welfare team manager Chris Leach.

A combination of unusual conditions has bothered sheep farmers Hamish and Alastair Craw on their Banks Peninsula farm, Longridge Agriculture Ltd, for 10 years, says Ravensdown.

A Manawatu farmer got an expensive reminder about managing intestinal parasites in stock when he was sentenced for animal welfare offences in the Palmerston North District Court yesterday.

I had an email recently from a woman whose father was looking to get a dog to help him on his small block. 

Nine months since reports of cows collapsing on swede crops in Southland, the exact cause of the casualties is still uncertain.

The Bovine Tuberculosis Pest Management Plan is under review and farmers are urged to have their say.

Cows can dance for joy or stretch right out in deep, peaceful sleep because of the comfort of compost-bedding pack barns, says Maury Cox of the Kentucky Dairy Development Council.