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 field guide

A farmer's guide to treating lameness.

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Lameness

Johne's Disease Laboratory Testing

This guide provides information on laboratory testing for Johne’s disease for both veterinarians and farmers.

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Health



Johne's Disease Management

This guide provides risk management tools to combat Johne’s Disease and protect against the spread of Johne’s infection in the herd.

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Health



Lameness scoring poster

A farmer's guide to lameness scoring

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Lameness



Lower Cell Count and Bottom Line

Find out more about the importance of benchmarking. These "percentile" figures provide industry benchmarks.

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Mastitis



Making The Right Decision For Cull Cows

Decision tree to help make the right decision for cull cows before transporting

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Welfare



Mastitis Focus Fact Sheet - Previous Dry Off Strategies

Understanding your Smart Samm report for previous dry-off strategies.

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Mastitis



Mastitis Focus Factsheet - Clinical Mastitis

How to understand your clinical mastitis report.

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Mastitis



Mastitis Investigation Kit

The kit provides a resource that professional advisors can use to gather information during a full mastitis investigation.

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Mastitis



Minimising lameness poster

Easy-to-follow guide showing how you can minimise the chance of lameness in your herd.

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Lameness



Monitor bulk milk somatic cell counts - Smartsamm Technote 11

How to monitor bulk milk SCC

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Mastitis

NZAEL Criteria for Sire, Cow and Herd Statistics

This document outlines the criteria for sires, cows, and herds to be included in NZAEL data

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Breeding decisions

NZAEL Stakeholder Survey Results

The purpose of this slide deck is to present the raw results of stakeholder opinions survey undertaken by NZAEL with minimal presentation.

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Breeding decisions



New Zealand Dairy Core Database Access Panel Application Form

This application form is to be used to request the supply of specific core data only from the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database.

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Breeding decisions



Observe cows weekly - Smartsamm Technote 19

How to observe cows weekly during the dry period

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Mastitis



Rapidly find record and treat clinical cases - Smartsamm Guideline 04

A guide on how to rapidly find, record, and treat clinical mastitis in recently calved cows

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Mastitis



Reduce exposure to environmental mastitis bacteria - Smartsamm Guideline 01

Reduce exposure to environmental mastitis bacteria

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Mastitis



Reduce exposure to environmental mastitis bacteria - Smartsamm Technote 1

How to reduce exposure to environmental mastitis bacteria

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Mastitis

SCC 24 Hour Conversion

Methodology for converting single-sample herd test SCC measurement to a 24-hour equivalent SCC measurement

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Mastitis



Seek professional advice if problems persist - Smartsamm Technote 13

Seek professional advice if problems persist

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Mastitis



Selling cows: check meat withholding periods - Smartsamm Technote 20

Guide to selling cows - check meat withholding periods

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Mastitis



Service teat spray units and review teat disinfectant - Smartsamm Technote 24

How to service teat spray units and review teat disinfectant

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Mastitis



Sign on for herd testing - Smartsamm Technote 23

How to sign on for herd testing

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Mastitis



SmartSAMM Gap Calculator - Paper Example

An example of the SmartSamm Gap Calculator results.

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Mastitis



SmartSAMM Gap Calculator - Paper Version

A tool to calculate the economic benefits from achieving mastitis control targets.

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Mastitis