Displaying items by tag: animal health

Much of the work veterinarians do is behind the scenes, but underpins aspects of our economy, environment and way of life.

It appears that South Island farmers are currently achieving greater success than their northern colleagues in controlling Taenia ovis or sheep measles.

Following NZ's wettest July, according to NIWA, a laboratory analysing faecal egg counts (FEC) says this has led to record parasite numbers in sheep across the country.

Successful calf rearing starts as soon as the calf is born.

Current compliance with tagging and registering of National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) animals sits at around 93%.

South Island farmers are currently achieving greater success than those in the North in controlling Taenia ovis (sheep measles), according to the latest analysis by the Ovis Management programme.

Travellers are no longer allowed to bring personal consignments of any meat products from Indonesia into New Zealand.

Farners are being reminded to be particularly stringent with their on-farm biosecurity as foot and mouth disease spreads through popular tourist destination Bali and other parts of Indonesia.

Torey and Reece Williams are contract milking 830 cows (in three herds) on 230 hectares for Mark and Leanne Miers at Reporoa.

New Zealand is missing an important mark to achieve greater potential lifetime production in its dairy herd, claims Probiotic Revolution’s Chris Collier.