Animal

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Caring For Calves

For managers of teams involved in the care of calves from the paddock through the first few days of a calf’s life. Simple processes, to make sure that every calf has the best possible start.

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Calves

Body Condition Scoring Made Easy Field Guide

Condition score (BCS) your dairy herd accurately and consistently by using this handy field guide for objective levels for animal measurement.

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Body condition score

Body Condition Scoring Reference Guide

Aims to provide advice on body condition score (BCS) targets, management strategies, and an overview of how to get accurate and consistent results.

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Body condition score

FeedChecker calculator

The FeedChecker calculator is a robust way to ensure you are optimising feed allocation throughout the year.

Tools & Apps

Nutrition

Ranking of Active Sires

The RAS list is published by NZAEL, an independent animal evaluation body working alongside breeding companies for greater genetic gains.

Tools & Apps

Breeding decisions

Bull Search

Search for an individual bull or set criteria to produce a list of bulls to suit your requirements.

Tools & Apps

Breeding decisions

Bull Team

Simply use the RAS list or search below to add bulls. This page will update with your new selections.

Tools & Apps

Breeding decisions

Heifer Development Plan

Growing heifers well, so that they meet their liveweight targets, can improve farm productivity and profitability. Use this tool to set a plan for the first two years of a heifer's life.

Tools & Apps

Heifers

Lameness Calculator

Use this tool to calculate the impact of lameness on the farm business bottom line and to show the origin of these costs.

Tools & Apps

Lameness

Lameness Field Guide

A farmer's guide to treating lameness.

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Lameness

InCalf - Reproduction gap calculator

Estimate the value of your herd's reproductive 'gap'.

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Repro and mating



InCalf - Reproduction calendar

A calendar of relevant seasonal messages linking to different parts of the ‘herd fertility cake’.

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Repro and mating



InCalf - Heat detection gap tool

This is a gap assessment tool. It assesses heat detection efficiency and the likely benefit of improving heat detection on your herd’s overall reproductive performance.

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Repro and mating



Breeding Values Comparison

Breeding Values (BVs) of current cows before (2005) and after (2015) the base change. You can see the breakdown of individual traits for cows that were average.

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Breeding decisions



Selective DCT poster for rural advisers

Selective DCT poster for rural advisers

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Mastitis



Decide dry cow management strategy - Smartsamm Guideline 14

Use individual cow SCC for management decision

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Mastitis



Decide dry cow management strategy - Smartsamm Technote 14

Decide dry cow management strategy

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Mastitis



Animal Evaluation run schedule 2024-2025

Dates and details of the Animal Evaluation run schedule for 2024-2025

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Breeding decisions



DIGAD Data Standard for submitting static measurements of cattle liveweight data

A data standard that defines the requirements, processes, and procedures required for accurately recording static liveweight data to the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database for use in animal evaluation.

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Breeding decisions



DIGAD Data Standard for body condition score

A data standard that defines the requirements, processes, and procedures required for accurately recording Body Condition Score data and associated metadata, and submission of this data to the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database (DIGAD) for use in animal evaluation.

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Breeding decisions



DIGAD Data Standard for parentage, breed recording and genetic testing

A data standard that defines the requirements, processes, and procedures required for accurately recording parentage and breed recording, and genetic testing and associated metadata, and submission of this data to the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database (DIGAD) for use in animal evaluation. 

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Breeding decisions



NZCDAP Core Database Compliance IA Report

New Zealand Core Database Access Panel Core Database Compliance Internal Audit Report January 2024.

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Breeding decisions



Mastitis Management - Staphylococcus aureus Factsheet

Information on how to prevent, find and treat Staphylococcus aureus, a common cause of mastitis.

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Mastitis



Caring for cows in transit

Transport can be stressful for livestock. Find out how farmers and others along the way can make sure cows are comfortable during transport and at their destination.

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Welfare



FeedRight Booklet

The most frequently asked questions about what, when and how to feed cows. Busting the myths on cow nutrition.

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Nutrition



FeedRight Modules - Intro and Contents

FeedRight modules combine research information and practical knowledge to help answer feed management questions on a seasonal basis.

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Nutrition



FeedRight Glossary

Glossary for FeedRight TechNotes.

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Nutrition



FeedRight information sheet - Do lactating cows on pasture require additional fibre?

FeedRight information sheet for feeding additional fibre to lactating cows.

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Nutrition



FeedRight information sheet - Protein to fat ratio

FeedRight information sheet that considers the importance of P:F ratio for New Zealand dairy farmers.

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Nutrition



Traits Other than Production (TOP) booklet

Evalution system for traits other than production (TOP) for dairy cattle in New Zealand.

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Breeding decisions



Body Condition Scoring Certification - Complaint Form

Submit complaints about the conduct of a Certified BCS Assessor.

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Body condition score



Body Condition Scoring Certification - Complaints Procedure

An outline of the complaints procedure for clients of Certified Body Condition Score (BCS) Assessors

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Body condition score



Caring For Calves

For managers of teams involved in the care of calves from the paddock through the first few days of a calf’s life. Simple processes, to make sure that every calf has the best possible start.

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Calves

FeedChecker Calculator 2024

Estimates the energy and nutrient demands for a selected mob of cows and then compares this to what is supplied in the diet.

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Nutrition