Massey University Farm services, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 4442
Understanding and researching lameness requires accurate measurement of lameness status. In addition to its value for research, measuring the number of lame goats on a farm is useful for identifying...
TB control is in the news because of Geronimo the alpaca. There are so many angles to this story. These include social ones, such as whether it is right to cull an animal without clinical disease...
Sitting in New Zealand, which as of 15 June had had its 24th consecutive day of no new cases and had no active cases of coronavirus, I feel very privileged, especially when I look at the UK where the...
The literature on the use of NSAIDs in cattle is growing — a quick search using Scopus with search terms ‘NSAID’ and ‘cattle’ identified 228 documents of which half had been published in the last 9...
To vets of a certain age the term mangelwurzel will stir memories of outrageous accents, country yokels and combine harvesters. But the mangelwurzel has a much longer history than a niche 1970s pop...
Effective dry cow management is a crucial part of maximising dairy cow welfare and productivity. It has an impact on calving problems, early lactation metabolic disease, fertility, overall lactation...
