Welcome to our Animal Health section. New Zealand has a well established reputation of good animal health and welfare. We rely on our animals to make a living and their health and well being are critical to ensure we continue to produce quality food for ourselves and our customers both in New Zealand and overseas.
It is our responsibility to protect this image as many Nations are restricting imports of products from countries with poor animal health and welfare records. Our Animal Health section will contain articles and news relating to general Animal Health and Welfare in farming practice.
This page is very much community driven so if there’s anything you’d like to see included here please get in touch. Among the things we’d be delighted to receive are any of below:
Animal Health news and articles, events, bloggers, hints and tips, videos and photos.
If you’d like to have any of above published send your material to contribute@ruraltrader.co.nz
Agri-feeds vet Dr Claire Nicholson advises farmers to continue to monitor faecal or pasture spore counts on-farm
The battle to vanquish bovine tuberculosis (TB) from New Zealand is in top gear as infected herd numbers fell for the fifteenth consecutive year
Condition scoring has become an essential tool in the dairy farmer's toolbox. As an assessment framework it is critical to the wellbeing and production of dairy cows
Dairy farmers will now give effect to the Animal Welfare (Dairy Cattle) Code of Welfare 2010 (Code)
Rotorua farmer Mark Spitz was yesterday convicted in the Rotorua District Court on multiple counts of ill-treatment to farm animals in his care. Mr Spitz was sentenced to 250 hours community service and ordered to pay $9340 in reparations
Federated Farmers says last Monday’s prosecution of a farmer, who ill-treated livestock, sends an important message
The Government's voluntary bonding scheme for veterinarians is to be expanded to cover all practices that deal with production animals, Agriculture Minister David Carter announced on Wednesday
Achieving good standards of animal health and welfare on-farm is now even simpler, thanks to the most recent addition to the Compliance Toolkit
The West Coast Regional Council's new experimental strategy on Tb is ill-conceived and a waste of public money says Farmers against Ten Eighty (FATE)
Organic sector members opposed to AgResearch's continuing efforts to experiment on genetically engineered (GE) animals have taken a look at the facility that threatens to further tarnish New Zealand's clean green 100% Pure branding
There is always a lot of debate surrounding the necessity for a calf milk replacer to curd. In NZ we produce calf milk powders using casein based proteins whereas overseas they utilise whey proteins which do not curd.
Four major factors determine number of piglets born per sow and/or success at mating...
In their aim to become more sustainable many people decide to keep pigs in order to provide their own home-produced pork or bacon.
When young ruminants are born, they have what is in essence a sterile gut. This gut becomes colonized by bacteria very quickly, usually with their first feed.
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