Displaying items by tag: animal health

In response to growing demand from dairy farmers, CRV says is has increased its offering of polled sires from 11 to 15.

The total number of TB-infected herds in Hawke’s Bay has risen to 20, following the recent reclassification of a new herd in the Waitara Valley.

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.