On a 155-hectare farm in Western Southland, herd owners Mark and Ashleigh Dobson milk530 pedigree Jersey cows, rear 185–230 heifer calves and 100–200 bull calves. In 2024 the Dobson’s introduced ShutOut internal teat sealant (ITS) to their first calvers and saw immediate results. “Despite one of the toughest, wettest springs we’ve faced, udder health improved […]
MSD Animal Health has announced the approval of Bovilis Cryptium®, the world’s first vaccine designed to help reduce the impact of Cryptosporidium parvum (“crypto”) in newborn calves, a highly infectious parasite responsible for cryptosporidiosis -one of the most significant gastrointestinal diseases affecting neonatal calves in New Zealand and worldwide. A Breakthrough for Calf Health and […]
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ShutOut helped Lucas Beeler’ achieve his Dry Cow Therapy Goal:Reducing unnecessary antibiotic usage and save money without riskingmastitis. As a sharemilker on their family farm in Northland, managing a250 Kiwi Cross herd, Lucas Beeler can’t emphasise enough how usingShutOut has transformed their dry cow regimen. Upon taking over the farm 3 years ago, they were […]
Christine Sinclair has a busy role as the lead Veterinary Technician at Totally Vets Limited (TVL) in Feilding, and when she’s not doing this, she’s helping her husband out with running their 410-cow dairy farm. Autumn and winter are busy times for her team administering thousands of tubes of dry cow treatments, including teat sealants, […]
James Stewart’s goals for drying-off are to reduce Somatic Cell Count and clinical mastitis and he says “from the results I have seen over the years, I am sold on using an internal teat sealant to prevent mastitis”. “As a farm we want to reduce our SCC and Shutout has been a great partner in […]
Located just north of Feilding in the Manawatu, Richard Sinclair milks 410 cows on 195 hectares with his wife Christine and two staff members. They have a split-calving herd, with 300 cows calving in spring and another 110 in autumn. After weaning, the calves are sent to a 116-hectare run-off located 6-7Km away and stay […]
In an aim to strengthen bonds and enhance support for farmers across New Zealand, MSD Animal Health recently hosted its first dealer event in Hamilton this February. https://www.allflex.co.nz/sensehub/collars/MSD Animal Health offers a wide range of technology solutions for farmers, including the market leading behaviour monitoring cow collar, SenseHub® Dairy, previously known at Allflex® collars, […]
Flexolt® is the first ever oral lice treatment for sheep, giving farmers the ultimate flexibility when it comes to treating their flock. The world-first product can be used on both sheep and lambs*, with any length of wool, revolutionising how and when producers can administer a sheep lice treatment. Flexolt contains a novel active ingredient […]
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