Displaying items by tag: animal health

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.

Tiny nanoparticles less than a thousandth of a millimetre in size are providing a promising new method to protect sheep against flystrike, according to University of Queensland research.

Metabolic diseases primarily affect ewes in late pregnancy and sometimes early lactation. These can have a huge economic impact on a farming operation - especially if there are large losses of capital stock. In the second of two articles, we take a look at hypocalcaemia and hypomagnesaemia.