Ticks are nasty blood sucking external parasites, which can affect sheep and cattle, as well as other species...
Anexa News & Vet Advice
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Ryegrass staggers
Mar 1, 2018 | Beef cattle, Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Grazing youngstock, Sheep
This appears to have been a particularly bad year for ryegrass staggers and cases continue to appear in all classes of...
What is Mycoplasma?
Feb 1, 2018 | Beef cattle, Bulls, Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Grazing youngstock
Mycoplasma Bovis is a bacterial disease that typically affects both adult cattle and calves. It does not infect humans...
BVD – is it really worth eradicating?
Feb 1, 2018 | Beef cattle, Bulls, Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Grazing youngstock
BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) is one of the most common and costly diseases in New Zealand cattle. Many of the losses...
Facial Eczema Control
Feb 1, 2018 | Beef cattle, Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Facial eczema, Grazing youngstock, Sheep
Facial Eczema (FE) season is upon us there’s been a slow start to spore counts this year, but with the recent rain we...
Clostridial diseases
Dec 5, 2017 | Beef cattle, Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Grazing youngstock, Sheep
We inject our most of our cattle and sheep at least annually for clostridial diseases. We can use 5 in 1, 6 in 1 or...
Calf scours due to Salmonella
Oct 3, 2017 | Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Grazing youngstock
Many strains of Salmonella infect calves, and many calves carry Salmonella in their guts, but disease does not develop...
Coccidiosis in Calves
Sep 7, 2017 | Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Grazing youngstock
Coccidiosis is a parasitic disease which primarily occurs in young cattle between three and eight months of age, but...
Yersiniosis
Aug 1, 2017 | Beef cattle, Dry stock, Dry stock animal health & welfare, Grazing youngstock
Yersinia is the cause of sporadic cases of enteritis in cattle, usually affecting a single animal. In the last year...