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Drench or vaccine at pre-lamb time? For many farmers, it’s easy to get trapped into thinking that the easiest plan for vaccinating and drenching ewes at pre-lamb is to treat your ewes as one group; with the same treatment plan for all. While this may be easy, this is not best-practice and may not be […]

Head Shepherd Clostridial Diseases Podcast Listen to this Head Shepherd podcast episode featuring MSD Animal Health veterinarians Hamish Pike and Felicity Wills speaking about what clostridial diseases are and how to prevent these in your stock so you can maximise on-farm productivity and profitability.

Southland Campylobacter Prevalence Study Blog In Spring 2024 MSD Animal Health in partnership with Andrew Cochrane from Northern Southland Vets (NSVets) began a new study expected to run for three years looking at Campylobacter prevalence in mixed-age ewes and its impact on lamb wastage. This blog is intended to capture updates on the study at […]

How to order Toxovax® this season Watch this video to learn all you need to know about ordering Toxovax® vaccine this season. Click here to watch the video

Flock Health Checklist Our flock health checklist is intended to benchmark farmers’ operations against best practice. This digital tool encourages farmers to use the results by working with their trusted animal health advisor to develop an action plan. Improved flock health will lead to healthier ewes, rams and lambs and reduced losses which in turn […]

Selenium Dose Calculator There are several ways selenium can be supplemented, including with your 5-in-1 vaccine (e.g. Multine B12 Selenised and Multine Selenised ), which is convenient for farmers as it allows them flexibility to choose options to fit their unique farming system. However, too much selenium can also be toxic and therefore care is […]

Learn more about about Footrot a common cause of lameness in sheep in this Technical Guide to Footrot and it’s control.

Prevalence of Sheep Abortions in NZ Sheep The below graph shows the prevalence of sheep abortion cases cased by Toxoplasma, Campylobacter and Salmonella as evidenced by data taken from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) Surveillance report. Click here to download

EID’s and genetic testing helps Hawkes Bay farmer tackle Campylobacter abortions in his mixed-aged ewes. A Central Hawkes Bay farmer who has continually battled with Campylobacter losses in his high performing sheep flock has kindly shared his recent experience in the hope that it can provide other farmers with helpful information and practical suggestions if […]

Diagnosing, triaging, and treating Salmonella with the assistance of SenseHub® Allflex cow collar technology. Veterinarian Joel Hughes from VetSouth Gore, shares how SenseHub Allflex cow collars and vaccination with Salvexin+B® assisted in the diagnosing, and treating Salmonella in a large dairy herd. Joel Hughes, Senior Veterinarian at VetSouth Gore was first contacted in March 2020 […]