Animals and feeding

This section covers current welfare issues and management practices around feeding, cow condition, mastitis and other useful information.  Following these guidelines will show you how to have healthy animals that are more productive.

• Animal welfare
  Treating animals with regard to their welfare (and in accordance with the ‘Five Freedoms’) can have positive effects on production, including increased milk yield.>>More
  
• Condition scoring
  Condition scoring is a visual assessment of a cow’s condition.>>More
  
• Feed Information Sheet
  The Feed Information Sheet contains all the feed supply and demand numbers required for daily and annual feed requirements of dairy cattle. >>More
  
• Mastitis
  Mastitis is a major and costly problem for the New Zealand dairy industry. Find out more about the SAMM plan (Seasonal Approach to Managing Mastitis) and other ways of managing this condition. >>More
  
• InCalf
  InCalf is DairyNZ’s response to addressing a clearly identified need of dairy farmers - to turn around the unfavourable trend in herd reproductive performance observed over the last 15 years. >>More
  
• Healthy Hoof
  The Healthy Hoof Programme is a simple, stepwise approach to managing lameness on dairy farms caused by physical factors. It consists of five key steps that each farm takes with the support of a trained programme provider. >>More

• Animal Evaluation
  New Zealand Animal Evaluation Limited (NZAEL) is the guardian of the national Breeding Worth index for artificial breeding (AB) sires. >>More