B+LNZ has a number of resources that relate to animal welfare, and the key ones are listed here. For more information, search on the B+LNZ Knowledge Hub.
Resources
Please contact B+LNZ's resources team at resources@beeflambnz.com to request printed copies of resources.
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- Resource Book: Beef levies for dairy farmers (PDF, 9.6MB)
- Factsheet: B+LNZ commitment to the welfare of sheep and beef cattle (PDF, 275KB)
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- Online module: Animal welfare on farms
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- MPI: NZ Code of welfare: Transport (PDF, 535KB)
- MPI: NZ Code of welfare: Sheep and beef (PDF, 806KB)
- MPI: NZ Code of welfare: Painful husbandy procedures (PDF, 392KB)
- Factsheet: Animal welfare obligations for paingul husbandry procedures in cattle (PDF, 145KB)
- Factsheet: Animal welfare obligations for paingul husbandry procedures in sheep (PDF, 198KB)
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- Factsheet: Shelter maintaining the welfare and productivity of sheep and cattle on drystock farms (PDF, 4.6MB)
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- Resource Book: Drystock biosecurity guidelines (PDF, 3.1MB)
- Resource Book: Biosecurity farm plan (PDF, 1.6MB)
- MPI factsheet: Calf rearers survey
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- Online module: Biosecurity planning
- Online module: On-farm biosecurity
- Subject page: Animal waste and carcass management
- Subject page: Pest control
- Subject page: Biosecurity resources
- Subject page: Livestock movement
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- Factsheet: Recovering after floods (PDF, 218KB)
Listen
- Podcast: Autumn animal health with Ginny Dodunski. Part 1: Sheep
- Podcast: Animal health management with Trevor Cook
- Podcast: Autumn animal health with Ginny Dodunski. Part 2: Cattle
- Podcast: Animal health management with Trevor Cook
- Podcast: Ill thrift and autumn trace element management. Part 1: Charlotte Westwood on plant physiology
- Podcast: Dave Leathwick: Animal health, internal parasites
- Podcast: The Parasite chronicles episode 3: insights from farmers reducing drench use
- Podcast: The Parasite chronicles episode 4: Dave McKenzie
- Podcast: The Parasite chronicles episode one: Tom Brown
- Podcast: The Parasite chronicles episode 5: Ginny Dodunski
- Podcast: The Parasite chronicles episode 8: Garth Riddle
- Podcast: Wormwise tips for ewes pre-lamb and lambs at tailing
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- Video: Internal parasite management: insights from farmer Alan Harvey
- Video: Examining ewes' udders to identify possible problems
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- Resource Book: Sheep and beef cattle health review workbook (PDF, 1.7MB)
- Factsheet: Pneumonia and pleurisy in sheep (PDF, 125KB)
- Factsheet: Examining ewes udders (PDF, 495KB)
Listen
- Podcast: Lynley Wyeth: Saving and rearing newborn lambs
- Podcast: Breakfeed: Orphan lamb rearing, with Kerry Harmer
Watch
- Video: Intensive triplet management
- Video: Orphan lambs
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Watch
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- DairyNZ: Winter grazing
- Factsheet: Top tips for winter crop paddock selection (PDF, 321KB)
Use
- Online module: Stock water management
- Online module: Freshwater ecosystem health
- Online module: Sheep mating management
- Subject page: Preparing for winter
Listen
- Podcast: Heifer mating: Breed ‘em, feed ‘em
- Podcast: Use of ewe pregnancy diagnosis (scanning) information, with Professor Paul Kenyon, Massey University
Watch
- Video: Maximise lamb production on fodder beet
- Video: Maximising lamb growth rates on hill country pastures
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- Factsheet: Animal production from annual clover/plantain based pastures (PDF, 767KB)
- Factsheet: Annual legumes enhance animal production summer dry pasture (PDF, 648KB)
- Factsheet: Animal production from lucerne based pastures (PDF, 321KB)
- Factsheet: Optimising flock performance in challenging environments (PDF, 60, 8KB)
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- Online module: Body condition scoring (sheep)
- Subject page: Getting through tough spring
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- Factsheet: Managing your bulls slaughter (PDF, 56, 8KB)