Great news – the Anexa team are out on farm vaccinating calves, heifers & cows with the new lepto vaccine developed to tackle Lepto Pacifica, the novel strain of lepto recently identified in New Zealand. What does this mean for your animals? Lepto 4-Way™...
Duck shooting is not everyone’s cup of tea but love it or hate it – it’s not long until the opening of duck shooting season. Duck shooters will spend some time over the next few weekends checking limits, readying the maimai, rigging decoys, and...
Is your cat looking a bit rough? Are they always hungry but still losing weight? Has it become more vocal lately, demanding food? Are they not quite themselves? Some may just write this off as expected behaviour from an older cat, but these symptoms could actually be...
As we all know, mature cows need to calve in body condition score 5 and first and second calvers in body condition score 5.5. These targets are based on the production and reproductive benefits of these calving body condition scores – cows in their last month of...
Use individual Body Condition Scoring to your best advantage Most of you will know the body condition score (BCS) targets at calving of 5.0 for mixed-age (MA) cows and 5.5 for first and second calvers (R3yo). These are not just nice targets to achieve. They should be...
