Displaying items by tag: animal health

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.

LIC has launched a new app, which will help farmers keep their cows’ health in-check from a mobile device.

The long term future of a dairy heifer can be influenced by events in the first 24 hours of her life. 

DairyNZ scientists are urging farmers to take care when feeding fodder beet to their dairy herds this winter.