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    Snow support

    … Snow Guidelines   (PDF, 177KB)    – this factsheet has management ideas, feeding tips through to how much your stock will need.  Reviving newborn lambs  (PDF, 178KB) – Dextrose can help revive your lambs. Need to know more?  Feed … you have volunteers coming onto your property for snow raking or clean up. Please consider health and safety. Do your stock need access to grazing? If you need emergency feed, generators, large capacity water pumps, help moving stock or cleaning up, please call the Rural Support Trust on 0800 787 254. Coping with stress – information and support …
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    Alternative worm treatments

    … ones, and available evidence for their efficacy.  Apple cider vinegar  Cider vinegar is claimed by some to have various stock animal health benefits, including parasite control.    Research into it’s efficacy has been limited.   … particles  Prior to the advent of safe, broad spectrum worm drenches, copper was a component of some mixtures given to stock for worm treatment. An example was the sometimes-toxic ‘NCA’ (Nicotine Copper & Arsenic).   Copper oxide wire particles (COWPs) can be administered to stock as copper boluses.  Copper boluses have a capsule which breaks down in the abomasum, releasing the COWPs, which …
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    People and equipment

    … (e.g. veterinarians, livestock agents, feed and fencing contractors, shearers) and delivery and pick-up vehicles (e.g. stock trucks). Notify these operators prior to entry. Where direct contact with animals has occurred, clean and disinfect … young children are at particularly high risk of contracting serious gastrointestinal illnesses from contact with stock and animal faeces on-farm. Provide facilities (e.g. hoses, disinfectant, brushes etc.) in ‘permitted access areas’ …
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    Animal waste and carcass management

    … Identify and remove dead stock as soon as possible to prevent contamination of pasture and possible transmission of disease …
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    Tractor operation

    Follow this Safe Work Procedure when operating tractors. All operators must refer to the operator’s manual prior to operating the tractor. …

  • Animal welfare

    … Research B+LNZ has a diverse portfolio of research, completed and ongoing, that covers nearly every aspect of stock management. In the pastoral sector, commercial drivers and welfare promotion are often closely aligned, where … materials are also supplied to farmers, which frequently contain items of welfare relevance, for example information on stock care distributed in anticipation of adverse weather events. It is, however, through our regional presence that B+LNZ is able to actively promote good stock welfare as part of efficient, productive sheep and beef farming. This encompasses: Extension activities B+LNZ Farmer …
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    Holding on to soil

    … cultivation practices, such as direct drilling Re-sow areas of bare or damaged soil as soon as possible Avoid heavy stock grazing on steeper, more vulnerable soils, especially when wet Fence stock out of waterways Plant riparian margins Leave buffers when cultivating, over sowing, topdressing and/or burning …
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    Refugia

    … in the population and eventually, drenches fail to work.  Because we still want our drenches to be effective for the stock that need them most, refugia is an important piece of any worm management plan.  … light 2ths or ewes, don’t drench them and run them together with lambs.  Avoid running lambs or R1 cattle as the sole stock class in a grazing area.  …
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    Beef + Lamb New Zealand elects new Chair

    Beef + Lamb New Zealand elects new Chair …
    Kate Acland
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    Ewe body condition scoring

    … scoring (BCS). And few offer such potential for gains in productivity, for efficient feed management and for good stock wellbeing. It’s a skill that is easy to learn, requires no specialised tools, and should be a part of every sheep …