Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production
Published by: New Zealand Society of Animal ProductionElectronic ISSN: 1176-5283
The New Zealand Society of Animal Production is the major forum in New Zealand for the presentation of research results on farmed animals. The Society publishes an annual peer-reviewed Proceedings, including an annual contract of invited speakers providing state-of-the-art reviews on topics of current interest.
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Volume 76 ( 2016 )
- Lincoln University Centennial Award
- NZSAP 50th Jubilee University Awards
- NZSAP Innovation Award (Science And Technology)
- Livestock Improvement Corporation /Landcorp Farming Limited Invited Lecturer
- Living Legend Address
- Invited Address
- Abstract: Overview of the research programme: boosting exports of the emerging NZ dairy sheep industry
- Abstracts: Understanding sheep milk composition in the NZ environment
- Abstracts: Advanced analysis of NZ sheep milk lipids
- Abstracts: Differential effects of sheep and cow milk on gastrointestinal physiology in a rat model
- Abstracts: Influence of liveweight gain profiles of ewe lambs between 12 and 20 weeks of age on puberty and mammary gland development
- Abstracts: Designing early weaning approaches to optimise lamb growth and milk harvesting
- Abstracts: Effluent management on a dairy sheep farm
- Abstract: Mineral content in NZ sheep milk from different lactation stage and times and milk fraction'
- Abstract: Pellet Freezing Sheep Milk as transport and storage option; a project outline
- Abstract: Multi-product drying platform for the lower North Island
- Abstract: 2015-2016 Season review
- Abstract: Feeding dairy ewes
- Abstract: Dairy lamb rearing growth rates
- Abstract: Comparison of lamb rearing systems on sheep-dairy farms: behavioural changes and welfare implications.
- Abstract: Sheep milk genetic improvement - key considerations
- Abstract: Opportunities for applying Genomics within the NZ dairy sheep industry
- Abstract: Lactation curves for milk yield and components in dairy sheep using random regression models
- Presidential Address 2015: Environmental goals against background of productivity gains
- Does ewe nutrition during pregnancy affect the neonatal behaviour of twin-born lambs?
- Sustained diuretic effect of plantain when ingested by sheep
- Milk production and urinary nitrogen excretion of dairy cows grazing perennial ryegrass-white clover and pure plantain pastures
- Urine volume of non-lactating dairy cows in late gestation fed forage based diets in winter
- Using genomic information to predict sex in dairy cattle
- Brief Communication: Days to calving and intercalving interval in beef and dairy-beef crossbred cows
- Preliminary investigations into the trait of residual energy intake in sheep
- Genetics of alternative defi nitions of feed effi ciency in grazing lactating dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: An update on genetic parameters for facial eczema tolerance in sheep
- Performance recording of NZ Corriedales
- Estimation of genetic parameters for milk yield traits at different herd production levels in cows milked once- or twice-daily in New Zealand
- DEERSelect - review of the first decade
- Brief Communication: Impact of date of birth recording practises in genetic evaluation in New Zealand sheep
- Brief Communication: Plasma amino acid profiles of lactating dairy cows fed fodder beet and ryegrass diets
- Growth of early weaned lambs on a plantain-clover mix compared with lambs suckling their dam on a plantain-clover mix or a grass based sward
- Relationship between social dominance and milk production of dairy cows grazing pasture
- Does mowing before grazing increase dry matter intake and milk yield?
- Brief Communication: The use of farm-management tools by New Zealand sheep farmers: changes with time
- Dietary preference of dairy cows for perennial ryegrass cultivars growing with and without white clover
- Brief Communication: Ad libitum fodder-beet and pasture beef-finishing systems - intake, utilisation, grazing behaviour and liveweight gains
- Performance and intake of high-yielding Holstein cows offered a TMR either alone or with access to grazing for six hours per day
- Effect of grazing system on nitrogen partitioning in lactating dairy cows grazing irrigated pastures in Canterbury, New Zealand
- Brief Communication: Feed value of maize silage in New Zealand - a review
- Brief Communication: An investigation of automated measures for assessing pain-induced distress in dairy calves
- Brief Communication: A physiological evaluation of the efficacy of pain-mitigation strategies for cautery-disbudded goat kids
- Development and evaluation of a temperament-scoring system for farmed deer: genetic and environmental components
- The incidence of liver abscessation in slaughtered beef bulls in the South Island of New Zealand
- Brief Communication: Do different grazing strategies affect pre-weaning calf growth rates?
- Variation in total body adipose and adipose partitioning in maternal sheep estimated using computed tomography scanning
- Grazing behaviour and species selection of heifer calves fed different forages.
- The impact of lamb growth rate pre- and post-weaning on farm profitability in three geoclimatic regions
- Brief Communication: Variability in growth rates of goat kids on 6 New Zealand dairy goat farms
- Supply curves for yields of dairy products from first-lactation Holstein Friesian, Jersey and Holstein Friesian-Jersey crossbred cows accounting for seasonality of milk composition and production
- Brief Communication: Preliminary estimates of genetic parameters for adult dag scores in New Zealand sheep and their relationship with juvenile measurements
- Reproductive production constraints within the New Zealand racing industry
- Reproductive performance of singleton and twin female offspring born to ewe-lamb dams and mature adult dams
- The influence of previous reproduction on subsequent fertility in multiparous ewes
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Which traits best predict ewe performance and survival the following year on a UK hill farm?
- The influence of age and breed of cow on colostrum indicators of suckled beef calves
- Brief Communication: Immediate removal of dairy goat kids from the doe as a strategy to manage colostrum intake
- Brief Communication: Does Viagra protect fetal lambs against maternal pregnancy toxaemia?
- Brief Communication: The effect of milk allowance on performance of dairy calves
- Brief Communication: The use of infrared thermography and feeding behaviour for early disease detection in New Zealand dairy calves
- Living Legend Address: Signals from inner space
- New Zealand Society Of Animal Production (Inc.) - Annual Report 2014/2015
- New Zealand Society Of Animal Production (Inc.) - Officers Of The Society 2015/2016
- McMeekan Memorial Award: Velmurugu Ravindran
- Sir Arthur Ward Award: Gordon John Greer
- Obituary: Geoffrey Blair Nicoll
- Obituary: Christopher (Chris) Anthony Morris
- Presidents of The Society
- New Zealand Society Of Animal Production Awardees: Life Members Of The Society
- McMeekan Memorial Award
- Sir Arthur Ward Award
- Young Member Award
- More dairy heifers are achieving liveweight targets
Volume 75 ( 2015 )
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Intake of ewe lambs is influenced by the dry matter percentage of the feed consumed
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Onset of breeding season in Dorset Horn ewes
- Preliminary linkage studies in sheep of keratin and keratin-associated protein genes with fleece weight, wool fibre diameter and fibre curvature
- Presidential Address 2014: The role of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production in the era of digital networks
- Colostral immunoglobulin G as a predictor for serum immunoglobulin G concentration in dairy calves
- Modelling the effect of more lambs, faster growth and heavier carcasses on feed conversion efficiency and seasonality of demand
- Growth rate and carcass characteristics of Simmental- and Angus-sired steers born to Angus and Angus-cross-dairy cows
- Using polymerase chain reaction to identify Streptococcus uberis in bovine milk: how does it compare with bacterial culture?
- The lying behaviour of non-lactating, pregnant dairy cows wintered in a loose-housed barn on woodchip bedding material
- Remote sensing of heart rate and rumen temperature in feedlot beef cattle: associations with feeding and activity patterns
- Phenotypic correlations among alternative definitions of feed efficiency in grazing lactating dairy cows across parities and lactation stages
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Metabolite profiling in New Zealand milk
- Uncovering genetic variation in cow fertility using simulation
- Estimation of crossbreeding effects on yields of dairy products and value of milk processed in different product portfolios
- Estimation of a premium for milk with a high concentration of unsaturated fatty acids based on farm and processor profit: A simulation study
- Estimation of breed and heterosis effects for milk traits and somatic cell scores in cows milked once and twice daily in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Substitution of perennial ryegrass with forage rape reduces methane emissions from sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic control of the rumen microbiome in sheep
- Urinary nitrogen excretion, grazing and urination behaviour of dairy heifers grazing pasture, chicory and plantain in autumn
- Nitrogen partitioning in sheep offered three perennial ryegrass cultivars at two allowances in spring and autumn
- Milk production and urination behaviour of dairy cows grazing diverse and simple pastures
- Use of a urine meter to detect variation in urination behaviour of dairy cows on winter crops
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Developing genomic tools in the New Zealand Deer Industry
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters for growth, carcass and meat quality traits in New Zealand sheep
- Transfers of genetic merit through multiple-tiered breeding structures into trait expressions for commercial sheep production
- Genetic parameters for meat yield and quality traits derived from the New Zealand Perendale progeny test
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters for meat traits assessed in the Headwaters New Zealand Progeny Test
- Evaluation of production traits of red deer skins in the Deer Progeny Test
- The sheep dairy industry in New Zealand: a review
- New Zealand case studies of automatic-milking-systems adoption
- The use of herb mix and lucerne to increase growth rates of dairy heifers
- Diurnal pattern of rumen environment and rumen fill in lactating dairy cows
- The effects of feeding maize silage at different times prior to a herbage meal on dry matter intake, milksolids production and nitrogen excretion in late-lactation dairy cows
- From monitoring to precision phenotyping: towards a systemic use of precision livestock measures in dairy herds
- 2015 NZSAP Living Legend Address - Invermay Agricultural Centre
- New Zealand Society of Animal Production - The Past 25 Years
- Stayability of beef-cross-dairy breeding cows to six years of age
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Walking distance and energy expenditure of beef cows grazing on hill country in winter
- Beef cattle wintering systems: effects on cattle and pasture
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Chitosan is a highly effective in vitro antibacterial agent against the strains of bacteria causing footrot, but is not effective in treating stage-four footrot on farm.
- Ryegrass staggers and liveweight gain of ewe lambs and hoggets grazing four combinations of perennial ryegrass and strains of endophyte
- The difficulties in reviewing ergovaline
- Contract session: Application of genetic technologies to the New Zealand sheep industry
- Flexural limb deformities in a cohort of Thoroughbred foals on commercial stud farms
- Blank panels in sheep yards encourage sheep to jump
- Body condition and morphometric measures of adiposity in a cohort of Pony Club horses and ponies in New Zealand
- A snapshot of New Zealand farmers' awareness of, and self-reported compliance with, animal welfare requirements
- Analysing hidden patterns of farmers' preferences for farm performance characteristics that may be related to tail-docking practice decisions
- The reasons farmers choose to dock lamb tails to certain lengths, or leave them intact
- Effect of shearing on lamb growth and carcase performance
- The effect of ewe nutrition and body condition score during very late pregnancy and the perinatal period on the behaviour of twin-bearing ewes and their lambs
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Optimizing a fasting protocol to assess live weight of sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Modelling liveweight change to inform residual feed intake models in growing lambs
- Effect of dam age on the growth and body composition of singleton ram offspring to 11 months of age
- The effect of grazing high-sugar ryegrass on lamb performance
- The effect of dam age on ewe offspring productive performance and efficiency
- Relationships among skin thickness, fat depth and eye muscle depth in sires and their progeny, and the breeding value for survival of their progeny
- The influence of hogget liveweight change during their first lactation on pregnancy rates at the subsequent breeding period
- A comparison of microbial protein synthesis in beef steers fed ad libitum winter ryegrass or fodder beet
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Birth weight of calves born to dairy cows in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Composition of milk sampled from beef-cross-dairy cows unaccustomed to milking
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Do high-milk diets affect the growth rate of heifers prior to weaning?
- Ewe milk products and sheep dairy conference 2015 - Abstracts
Volume 73 ( 2013 )
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Can weighing multiple times increase the accuracy of live weight recording?
- Comparing herd selection strategies for A2 beta-casein
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Association of variation in the ovine ADRB3 gene with weaning weight and post-weaning growth in New Zealand Suffolk sheep
- Association of the KRT33A (formerly KRT1.2) gene with live-weight and wool characteristics in yearling Perendale sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters of stayability measures in a dairy goat herd
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Quantitative trait loci associated with variation in maximum milk flow rate in Friesian-Jersey cross bred cows
- Some lessons from using zinc-salt treatments to protect dairy cows against facial eczema
- Evaluation of lambs subjected to a targeted selective treatment anthelmintic regime
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Rapid analysis of moxidectin in plasma
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Mastitis pathogens isolated from dairy cattle that were managed on conventionally or organically maintained matched farmlets
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Behaviour of New Zealand pasture-based cows offered access to free stalls fitted with sand or water beds, compared with cows at pasture
- Milking reproduction
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: In vitro ruminal fermentation and methane production from maize silage mixed with high or low quality ryegrass
- Effect of post grazing residual and concentrate feeding on milk production in early lactation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of dam size and nutrition during pregnancy on fetal testicular development in sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of milking frequency in early lactation on gene expression in the bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: mTOR signalling in the lactating bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of re-milking following extended non-milking periods on the proliferation and apoptosis of mammary epithelial cells in dairy cows
- The changing nature of farm systems research
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of different herbage mixes on lamb meat quality
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Comparison of castrate and entire ram-lambs for meat quality and skatole in the fat
- A cross-sectional survey of New Zealand sport horse stud farms
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: A comparison of aspects of the reproductive success of ewe lamb and mixed age ewes joined over the same period
- Comparison of mating start date definitions for New Zealand dairy farms
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: High hydrostatic pressure treatment increases cryo-tolerance of in vitro produced bovine embryos
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Uterine expression of oestrogen receptor alpha in Suffolk and Cheviot ewes at Day 19 of pregnancy, following embryo transfer
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: MRI technology to better understand placental function in sheep - A pilot study
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Milksolids production of dairy cows grazing lucerne and perennial ryegrass in spring
- A longitudinal study of production and survivability of carry-over cows in a commercial dairy herd
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Estimation of protein utilization efficiency and metabolisable protein efficiency in lactating cows grouped by breeding worth
- Effect of heifer live weight on calving pattern and milk production
- Spatial-time correlation between milk urea with milk components and somatic cell score of bulk milk samples from farms supplying milk for cheese and milk powder manufacturing
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Development of ultrasound methodology to measure cow udder cistern storage capacity in the New Zealand pasture-fed context
- Another look at shearing lambs
- The effect of ewe prelamb body condition on triplet lamb performance in a commercial flock
- Ewe body condition score and the effect on lamb growth rate
- Relative performance of three strains of fine-woolled Merino sheep farmed on Waikato hill country
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Ewe live weight and body condition in mid- to late-pregnancy does not affect the maximum heat production capacity of its lamb at birth
- Presidential Address 2012: The New Zealand beef cattle industry
- Cows becoming clinically lame differ in changes in behaviour and physiology compared to cows that do not become clinically lame
- Efficiency of beef breeding cows that vary in live weight and milking potential
- Does Production Worth and Breeding Worth reflect cow profitability?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Verification of an automated camera-based system for oestrus detection in dairy cows
- Estimating 24-hour milk, fat and protein yields and somatic cell count for automatically milked cows in pastoral production systems
- Review of milk payment systems to identify the component value of lactose
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genome wide DNA methylation patterns and transcription analysis in sheep muscle
Volume 72 ( 2012 )
- Are faecal egg counts approaching their "sell-by" date?
- Effect of the maternal environment on fetal growth at mid-gestation in sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Is placentome size more important than morphologic type in relation to fetal weight in sheep?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Relationship between profiles of free amino acids in fetal and maternal plasma with those in skeletal muscle, in twin and single fetuses from ad-libitum fed ewes in late gestation
- Family-based selective breeding of New Zealand Abalone, Haliotis iris: challenges and opportunities
- Developing broodstock resources for farmed marine fish
- Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) feed conversion efficiency: evaluation and potential for selection
- Effect of resolving a sub-clinical uterine infection on plasma and follicular fluid steroid concentrations in early lactation dairy cows
- Heritability and repeatability of resistance to nematode parasites in commercial beef cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Host-defence related bioactive proteins in cows milk during mastitis and after drying-off
- McMeekan Memorial Award: Chrisopher Morris
- Sir Arthur Ward Award: Paul R Kenyon
- Lincoln University Centennial Award: Andrew and Tinks Pottinger
- Obituary: Robert Aitken Barton
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Estimates of genetic parameters for flystrike in New Zealand Romney and Romney cross sheep
- Genetic and phenotypic relationships among flystrike indicator traits in the Earnscleugh stud Merino flock
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: In vitro evaluation of the antimicrobial effects of chitosan against bacteria involved in ovine footrot
- Presidential Address 2011: The changing face of agriculture
- Examination of New Zealand sport horse performance records and their suitability for the calculation of breeding values
- Dry matter intake and nitrogen losses of pregnant, non-lactating dairy cows fed kale with a range of supplements in winter
- Milk somatic cells are not suitable biomarkers of lactating ruminant mammary gland function
- Prenatal maternal effects on daughter milk production in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Associations of uterine pathology with milk production and effects of treatment with a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in dairy cows
- Relative performance of Wiltshire and Perendale sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Expression of uterine progesterone receptor in Suffolk and Cheviot ewes at Day 19 of pregnancy, following embryo transfer
- An evaluation of a progesterone-based diagnostic as an aid to re-insemination decisions in a seasonal, pasture-grazed dairy cow herd
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Weight management considerations prior to mating to control litter size in Inverdale ewes
- Use of progesterone profiling to investigate factors affecting conception rates in a large, pasture-grazed dairy herd
- Effects of maternal nutrition during pregnancy on the growth and reproductive development of male sheep: a meta-analysis
- Variation of milk composition traits among Holstein-Friesian-sired cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The relationship between milk synthesis and intracellular profiles of amino acids in the bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of milking frequency in early lactation on milk yield and milk protein gene expression in the bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of re-milking following extended non-milking periods on lactation in dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: DNA methylation evens in the aS1-casein-encoding gene associated with involution and re-initiation of lactation in dairy cows
- Genetic parameters for lactose and its relationship with concentrations and ratios of other milk components
- "Grass to milk" and beyond
- The random bouncing ball
- Genetically, Merino ewes that lose less live weight during joining have a higher chance of having lambs but the total weight of the born lambs is not affected
- In vitro fermentation of [15N-] ryegrass and ruminal digesta of sheep grazing a ryegrass-based pasture in the morning or in the afternoon
- Grazing behaviour of dairy cows on simple and diverse swards in summer and autumn
- Rumen fermentation characteristics are influenced by feeding frequency in sheep fed forage chicory and perennial ryegrass at two feeding levels
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Maintenance energy requirements of non-lactating, pregnant dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Are dairy heifers achieving liveweight targets?
- A comparison of milk fat composition between pasture based cows supplemented with either canola meal or wheat
- Once-daily milking during a feed deficit improves energy status in early lactating dairy cows
- The effect of training to the milking parlour on the behavioural response to milking and milk production in first lactation heifers
- Validation of a bio-economic dairy production model
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Does castration status have an effect on the quality of lamb meat?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Impacts of different forages and packaging conditions on colour and lipid oxidation stability of lamb loins
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Exploring the effects of growth rate and meat yield on lamb meat quality
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic and phenotypic parameters for stayability in a New Zealand research flock
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Potential for genomic selection of bovine embryos
- A comparative analysis of genetic trends within the New Zealand sheep industry
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Development of epigenomic analysis in agricultural animals
- Economic values for New Zealand dairy goats
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Development of a visual scoring system for ovine pneumonia at the processing plant
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preliminary examination of wastage in Thoroughbred and Standardbred horses in New Zealand using training milestones
- Productivity and financial characteristics of herds that produce milkfat with different concentration of unsaturated fatty acids using a stochastic farm model
- Identification of cost-effective management options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 10% on a dairy farm in Waikato, New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The use of milking intervals of individual cows in assessing herd test milk production data
Volume 71 ( 2011 )
- Temporary alterations to milking frequency, immediately post-calving, modified the expression of genes regulating milk synthesis and apoptosis in the bovine mammary gland
- The effect of three techniques of rumen pH assessment on measured pH of rumen fluid and digesta in an in vitro artificial rumen system
- Fenbendazole as a possible marker of supplement intake in sheep
- Economic evaluation of management strategies for a model Waikato farm to achieve a herd average body condition score of 5.0 at calving
- The effect of carbohydrate type on milk and milk component yields in early lactation dairy cows
- Effect of pre-grazing herbage mass on grazing behaviour, grass dry matter intake and milk production of dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Comparison of the performance of dairy cows offered energy supplements prior to drying off and kale at high and low allowance during the dry period in winter
- Effect of milking frequency and nutrition in early lactation on milk production and body condition in grazing dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of milking frequency and concentrate supplementation on milk production during an extended lactation in grazing dairy cows
- Effect of temporary alterations to milking frequency during the early post-partum period on milk production and body condition score in grazing dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The influence of a herb and legume sward on maternal behaviour and lamb colostrum intake and thermoregulation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Voluntary food intake of pregnant and non-pregnant red deer hinds during the gestating period
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effects of dam nutrition during pregnancy on the postnatal growth and puberty attainment of ewe progeny
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effects of dam nutrition during pregnancy on the growth of male offspring
- The association of ewe body condition score with weight of lamb weaned
- The incidence of goitre in newborn lambs from ewes fed fodder radish, rape or Italian ryegrass with or without iodine supplementation
- Why is clover better than ryegrass?
- Is there any advantage of early weaning of twin lambs born to yearlings?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of dam age and lamb birth rank on the growth rate, faecal egg count and onset of puberty of single and twin female offspring to 12 month of age
- Dairy goat production systems in Waikato, New Zealand
- Production variables influencing the auction sales price of New Zealand Thoroughbred yearlings
- Flexibility and climate risk management in high stocking rate dryland sheep farming systems
- Pasture growth and quality, and lamb growth rates in high stocking rate dryland sheep farming systems
- Are high breeding worth index cows more feed conversion efficient and nitrogen use efficient?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: DNA methylation patterns in bovine blastocysts suggest that only limited epigenetic reprogramming has occurred in the early embryo
- An update on genetic parameters for facial eczema susceptibility in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Selection decisions in Thoroughbred broodmares
- Genetic analysis of incidence of recorded clinical lameness in New Zealand dairy cattle
- An economic appraisal of sex-sorted semen in New Zealand dairy herds
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Phenotypic selection of cows for lactation persistency
- Life cycle assessment - a tool for evaluating resource and environmental efficiency of agricultural products and systems from pasture to plate
- Continuing to increase productivity while maintaining our clean green image. Introductory remarks
- The importance of sustainable food production for our markets
- The role of legislation in improving farm sustainability and how the New Zealand Government intends to incentivise the agricultural industry
- Can livestock production be increased without increasing greenhouse gas emissions?
- The role of breeding in reducing sheep GHG intensity
- Modelling farm management scenarios that illustrate opportunities farmers have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining profitability
- The challenges of animal wintering from a sustainability perspective
- The future for animal welfare science: Is there a clear direction or are we just responding to issues? Introductory remarks.
- Animal welfare policy and science - keeping up with a changing world
- The welfare of extensively farmed livestock
- Heat stress in farm animals
- Painful husbandry procedures and methods of alleviation: a review
- The welfare implications of dystocia in sheep and cattle
- Effect of lactation stage and breed on the concentration of unsaturated fatty acids in milkfat of New Zealand dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effects of different forage types on lamb performance and meat quality
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of red wine lees on lamb meat quality
- Efficiency, cheese yield and carbon emissions of Holstein-Friesian, Jersey and crossbred cows: an overview
- Is rumen retention time implicated in sheep differences in methane emission?
- The apparent digestibility of palm kernel expeller (PKE) consumed by pasture-fed sheep
- <i>In vitro</i> digestion of ryegrasses harvested in the morning and afternoon to manipulate water soluble carbohydrate concentration
- Ruminal fermentation characteristics from sheep offered a fresh grazing allocation of a ryegrass-based pasture either in the morning or in the afternoon
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Evaluating rumen fluid from sheep and cattle as inoculum in a newly developed automated <i>in vitro</i> rumen batch culture system
- Methane output and rumen microbiota in dairy cows in response to long-term supplementation with linseed or rapeseed of grass silage- or pasture-based diets
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Arapawa: a novel New Zealand sheep breed of distinct origin
- Genetic and phenotypic relationships between flystrike indicator traits in a stud Merino flock
- Is there an association between dam live weight and litter structure in a flock of grazing Perendale sheep?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genomic selection in the New Zealand Sheep industry using the Ovine SNP50 Beadchip
- Predicting the benefits of two stage genomic selection in young breeding rams
- Raising lambs with intact tails to meet retailer welfare requirements: on farm feasibility and farmer perspectives
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of handling during calf rearing on behavioural and physiological responses of one year-old dairy heifers
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of gender and prior exposure on the intake and preference of sheep for plantain post-weaning
- Feeding behaviour differs between dairy calves selected for divergent feed conversion efficiency
- Physical and physiological factors associated with twin- and triplet-born lamb heat production at 24 to 36 hours of age
- Effect of sub-clinical uterine infection on plasma amino acid concentrations in early lactation dairy cows
- Sub-clinical uterine infection is associated with altered amino acid concentrations of follicular fluid in early lactation dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Liveweight gain of grazing dairy calves in their first season subjected to a targeted selective anthelmintic treatment (TST) regime
- Effect of condensed tannins from <i>Pinus radiata</i> bark on <i>Trichostrongylus colubriformis</i> larvae and adult worms in sheep
- Effect of wine lees on faecal egg count and lamb performance
- Legend session: Forage secondary compounds; past, present and future
- Presidential Address 2010 - What will it take to feed the world and what is the role of New Zealand animal production in this?
Volume 70 ( 2010 )
- Presidential Address 2009: Role of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production in fostering collaboration
- The influence of sheep and cattle on the grazing preference of red deer
- Automatic reading of Kamars for heat detection in dairy herds
- Circulating levels of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) are strongly linked to pregnancy but not to liveweight change in ruminants
- Lack of effect of hot summer conditions in Canterbury on milk production of dairy cows
- Effect of white clover containing either high or low concentrations of water-soluble carbohydrate on metabolic indicators of protein degradation in the rumen of dairy cows
- Phenotypic relationships between milk protein percentage and reproductive performance in three strains of Holstein Friesian cows in Ireland
- Effect of growth hormone on the liver transcriptome profile during established lactation in the dairy cow
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of growth hormone on the mammary transcriptome profile during established lactation in the dairy cow
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION Natural variation in levels of Immunoglobulin A in bovine milk
- Potential benefits of low replacement rate for dairy herd production and profit
- Associations among hormones and metabolites during the transition period and early lactation milk production
- Ryegrass to lucerne - effects of dietary change on intake, milk yield and rumen microflora bacteria of dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of growth hormone on translation initiation and elongation in liver and skeletal muscle tissue in the lactating dairy cow
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Investigation of N isotopic fractionation in dairy cows using milk samples collected at the morning and afternoon milkings
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of growth hormone on the intracellular amino acid profiles in the mammary gland of lactating cows
- Evaluation of sensors for monitoring rumen pH, temperature and pressure
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Use of novel pasture species to reduce methane emissions from New Zealand's grazing ruminants.
- Prediction of herbage dry matter intake for dairy cows grazing ryegrass-based pastures
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Simulated impacts of increased nitrogen retention in dairy cows on nitrate leaching from grazed pasture
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of birth rank and yearling lambing on long-term ewe reproductive performance
- Effect of nutrition around the time of breeding and during pregnancy on yearling liveweight change, pregnancy loss and live weight and survival of their offspring
- Yearling lambing performance and primary cause of lamb death
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of birth weight on survival of lambs born to ewe lambs
- Milestones in genetic prediction for applied livestock improvement
- On-farm ewe lamb mating outcomes from feeding practices before mating and during pregnancy
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Do fetuses from primiparous one-year-old ewes differ from those of multiparous mature ewes?
- Factors affecting dressing-out percentage of lambs
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Determining sensory panel traits which contribute to the overall liking of New Zealand lamb as assessed by a British sensory panel
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Carcass linear measurements as predictors of meat yield in lambs determined by VIAscan
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of twinning and sex on carcass weight and composition in lambs
- An overview of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Industry
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The prevalence of limb deformities in New Zealand Standardbred foals and their influence on racing success - A preliminary investigation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preliminary examination of sport horse competition data for genetic evaluation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Factors influencing gestation length and interval from foaling to conception in mares managed on a commercial Thoroughbred studfarm
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preliminary examination of training and racing milestones in a subset of Standardbred horses
- Effects of age, live weight and dry matter intake on total tract nutrient digestibility in adult mares
- Management and exercise of Thoroughbred yearlings during preparation for yearling sales in the North Island of New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of road transport, including stationary periods, on environmental conditions and physiological responses of sheep
- Genetic and environmental relationships between liveweight change over the summer in Perendale ewes and the lifetime live weight profiles of their progeny
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Do lambs within a twin and triplet-born litter produce different amounts of heat during a cold stress event?
- Effect of litter weight variation on cause of death and survival in triplet lambs
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of restricted fetal nutrition in utero on mTOR signalling in ovine skeletal muscle
- Marbling produced in yearling heifers of Angus origin finished over a medium-term period on a high energy pasture
- Crossing Angus cattle with Limousin as a method of increasing meat yield
- Preliminary investigation of milk production in Angus heifers exposed to different planes of nutrition in utero
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Intracellular concentrations of free amino acids are reduced in skeletal muscle of late gestation twin compared to single fetuses
- Correlated responses following genetic selection to change age at puberty in Angus cattle
- Composition and in sacco degradation characteristics of winter growth of Lolium perenne, Lolium multiflorum and Lolium perenne × multiflorum ryegrasses
- Suitability of the Happy Factor decision support model as part of targeted selective anthelmintic treatment in Coopworth sheep
- Wool characteristics in the Meat and Wool New Zealand Central Progeny Test flocks
- Identification of novel wool keratin intermediate filament genes in sheep skin
- Correlated responses following genetic selection to change faecal worm egg count in Romney sheep
- Comparison of breeding values between sheep ranked for resilience and resistance
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Measurement of sole thickness and distance to distal phalanx using a portable ultrasound machine
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Cathelicidin levels in milk from cows infected with a range of mastitis causing pathogens
- Genetic analysis of incidence of clinical mastitis in New Zealand dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Variation in feed conversion efficiency in Holstein-Friesian heifer calves
- Application of genomic information in a dairy cattle breeding scheme
- Daily water intake by individual dairy cows on a pasture diet during mid lactation
- Review of pork-quality studies in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of lipid type, selenium and vitamin E on total tract nutrient digestibility in growing pigs
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Influence of whole maize feeding on the performance of broiler starters
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Influence of conditioning temperature on pellet quality and the performance and nutrient utilisation of broilers fed maize- and sorghum-based diets
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Can ultrasound eye muscle area scanning be used in the New Zealand deer industry?
- Deer Improvement's breeding programme for venison production in red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The efficacy of a herbal drench treatment on internal parasites in lambs
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preference of lambs for novel pasture herbs
- Brief communication: Condensed tannins for priming innate immunity
- Application of resource allocation optimisation to provide profitable options for dairy production systems
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Methods of delivering salt to cattle
- Improving the power of activity-based heat detection using additional automatically captured data
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Differences in follicle dynamics and the importance of luteal support in young and old cohorts of genetically identical dairy cows
- Productive and reproductive performance of Uruguayan Holstein and Uruguayan Holstein x New Zealand Holstein Friesian cows in a predominantly pasture-based system
- Blood metabolic profiles in Uruguayan Holstein and Uruguayan Holstein x New Zealand Holstein-Friesian dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Influence of management techniques on the levels of mastitis in an organic dairy herd
- Andrew James (Jim) Peterson: A tribute to a far-reaching scientific career in reproductive biology
Volume 69 ( 2009 )
- Presidential Address 2008: Where are we going and who's driving?
- Management of weanlings on commercial Thoroughbred stud farms in the North Island of New Zealand
- Maternal environment as a regulator of birth weight and body dimensions of newborn lambs
- Strategically reducing time on pasture: Dairy cow intake, production, welfare, and excretory behaviour
- Effect of water soluble carbohydrate concentration of ryegrass on the partial preference of sheep for clover
- The effect of feed restriction during peak lactation on milk production parameters : Brief Communication
- Using an existing intake model to demonstrate relationships between herbage allowance, hunger drive, days in milk and actual intake in grazing dairy cows
- Effects of sub-clinical endometritis on ovarian follicular activity in postpartum dairy cows
- Prevalence and identification of systemic markers of sub-clinical endometritis in postpartum dairy cows
- The effect of concentrate supplementation on milk production during an extended lactation in grazing dairy cows : Brief Communication
- Delaying the time of morning grazing improves milk production in winter
- Factors associated with frequency of lameness in dairy cattle managed in pasture based systems with the addition of supplementary feeds : Brief Communication
- Identification of potential impacts of New Zealand dairy housing systems on dairy cow welfare : Brief Communication
- DNA methylation events associated with the suppression of milk protein gene expression during involution of the bovine mammary gland : Brief Communication
- Breed effects for lactoferrin concentration determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- Understanding the interaction of prolactin and leukaemia inhibitory factor signalling during the switch from lactation to involution : Brief Communication
- The effect of weaning at 10 or 14 weeks of age on liveweight changes in the hogget and her lambs : Brief Communication
- An option for managing triplet bearing ewes on extensive properties
- Effects of birth weight on survival in twin born lambs
- Do objective measurements or subjective assessments explain more of the variation in strong wool auction prices?
- Realities of clip preparation for strong wool from adult sheep
- Variation of wool between and across the fleeces of composite-breed strongwool sheep in New Zealand
- A new generation meat program in Australia within the Co-operative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation
- Effect of sex on colour and pH of chilled lamb loins : Brief Communication
- Investigating marbling and its relationship to meat quality in New Zealand pasture fed lamb
- Quality of chilled-never-frozen versus chilled-frozen-thawed lamb : Brief Communication
- The effect of fasting on live weight in hogget wethers and pregnant mature ewes : Brief Communication
- Background effects on ewe lambing and weaning performance in well recorded breeding flocks
- Relationship between blood phylloerythrin concentration and gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in facial eczema-affected cattle and sheep
- Seasonal variation in venison drip loss and tenderness : Brief Communication
- Retrospective examination of the breeding efficiency of the New Zealand Thoroughbred and Standardbred
- Dairy cows and horses do not select oaten hay based on its greenness : Brief Communication
- Breeding and selection goals and animal welfare
- Lancorp Farming Lecture: 'Clean, green and ethical' animal reproduction: extension to sheep and dairy systems in New Zealand
- Sheep Improvement Limited (SIL) - the first 10 years: Introductory remarks
- SIL - progress over a decade
- SIL-ACE - Increasing access to genetic information for sheep farmers
- Rates of genetic progress being achieved throughout the New Zealand ram breeding industry
- Trans-Tasman genetic evaluation of sheep - spreading the net wider
- Developments in the sheep meat industry: Genetic evaluation of meat yield
- Current and future impact of DNA technologies on the New Zealand sheep industry
- Effect of management change on methane output within a sheep flock
- The variation in methane emissions from sheep and cattle is not explained by the chemical composition of ryegrass
- Feeding birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) reduces the environmental impacts of dairy farming
- Real time in situ measurement of rumen methane concentration in the rumen of cattle : Brief Communication
- Exploring the relationships between plant chemical composition and nitrogen partitioning in lactating dairy cows fed ryegrass-based diets
- Urinary nitrogen excretion from cows at different stage of lactation grazing different ryegrass cultivars during spring or autumn
- Responses to selection for pubertal traits in Angus cattle over 23 years
- Genetic parameters for somatic cell score in dairy goats estimated by random regression
- Genetic and phenotypic parameter estimates for growth, yield and meat quality traits in lamb
- Genetic parameters for primal cut meat yield traits in sheep
- Genetic parameters for colour stability of chilled lamb : Brief Communication
- A simulation model to partition ewe efficiency into component traits for genetic analysis
- Parasite-related traits in lambs sired by resistant or resilient Romney sires : Brief Communication
- Bioactive plants inhibit bacteria that cause lactic acidosis in ruminants : Brief Communication
- Amino acid flow at the abomasum in twin-suckling ewes at pasture and the effect of a fishmeal supplement
- Effects of high potassium on in vitro fermentation pattern and C18 fatty acid metabolism of pasture grass
- Differential passage of rumen bacterial populations to the abomasum in sheep : Brief Communication
Volume 68 ( 2008 )
- Presidential Address 2007: The Society's role in being empathetic to the animal production industry
- Characterization and establishment of embryonic stem cell-like cell lines from in vitro produced buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) parthenotes
- Comparison of mastitis prevalence between an organic and a conventional dairy herd from 2004 to 2006
- Artificial insemination of red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds late in the breeding season
- Effect of forage allowance and forage system during the dry period on the performance of dairy cows
- Inheritance of chondrodysplasia in Texel sheep
- Indole and skatole as markers for nitrogen utilisation in dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of offering differing levels of milk and plant extracts on feed intake, growth and development of New Zealand Holstein-Friesian and Jersey crossbred dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: A versatile sheep respiration chamber system for measurement of methane emission
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Expression of innate immune response genes in mammary epithelia following stimulation with lipopolysaccharide or Escherichia coli.
- SNiP and cut: Quantifying the potential benefits of genomic selection tools for genetic fault elimination in sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Use of cDNA microarrays to investigate gene regulation in mastitis as a result of Escherichia coli infection in the bovine mammary gland
- Gene expression profiling of wool follicle growth cycles by cDNA microarray
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of MyoMAX on carcass lean and fat
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Energy rather than protein content of hind intake determines growth rate of red deer calves
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Reticulo-rumen growth and papillae development in farmed red deer calves from four to twelve weeks of age
- Wool follicle characteristics in sheep with differing ventral wool length phenotypes
- Relative economic value of wool processing parameters for New Zealand strong wool between 2003 and 2007
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Variation in diet preference between sheep
- Comparative methane emissions from cattle, red deer and sheep
- Systems and economic analysis of the use of maize silage within pasture-based beef production
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Live weight and body condition of single- and twin-bearing Merino ewes
- Associations between milk protein concentration and preceding reproductive performance in Holstein-Friesian heifers and cows in Australia
- Luteal function in pregnant and non-pregnant non-cycling inseminated cows ("Phantom" cows)
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Artificial Insemination success rates for Meat and Wool New Zealand Central Progeny Test sires
- Effect of genotype and concentrate supplementation on dairy product mix and the value of milk produced by grazing dairy cows during an extended lactation
- Economic modelling of the comparative performance of Jersey x Holstein-Friesian crossbred cows in Victorian Holstein-Friesian herds
- Genetics of residual energy intake in Irish grazing dairy cows
- Effect of dry cow management on teat end bacterial contamination
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Jersey cows milked once-a-day can produce 1,200 kg milksolids per hectare
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Heritability of IGF-1 and its genetic correlation with milk yield in Holstein-Friesian cows in selected Victorian herds.
- Effect of genotype and diet on feed conversion efficiency of dairy cows during a 600-day extended lactation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Are serum amyloid protein levels in milk an indicator of mastitis infection in New Zealand dairy goats?
- Testing for quantitative trait loci for lactation persistency in dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of palm kernel expeller as a supplement for grazing dairy cows at the end of lactation
- Effect of dietary protein on liveweight gain in parasitised calves
- REVIEW: Epidemiology of Johne's disease in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus) in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Field test of production traits genetically correlated with zearalenone resistance in sheep
- Quantifying parasitic nematode larvae on pasture
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Comparison of lameness and hoof horn puncture resistance of New Zealand Friesian and Jersey cross Friesian dairy cattle
- Counting infective-stage nematode larvae in rumen fluid as an indicator of parasite challenge in grazing sheep
- Effects of facial eczema on skatole detoxification efficiency in dairy cows
- Comparison of Romney sheep selected for different roundworm parasite-related traits
- Landcorp Farming Limited Lecture: A review of in-utero environmental effects on sheep production
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: High crude protein in autumn pasture does not impair reproductive performance in sheep
- Policy decision framework for conflicting world views on animal welfare issues
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of once daily milking on milk flavour chemistry
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Factors affecting colour stability of fresh chilled lamb meat
- Quantification of lactoferrin in milk from New Zealand dairy goats
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Does calf genotype influence milk yield of red deer hinds?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters for growth in Wapiti deer farmed in New Zealand
- Carcass and meat quality characteristics in young red deer stags of different growth rates
- Indicators for early detection of ecchymosis (bloodsplash) in fallow deer (Dama dama) carcasses
Volume 67 ( 2007 )
- Presidential Address 2006. Females are in Fashion
- Cattle Breed Evaluation at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Centre and implications for commercial beef farmers
- A comparison of carcass characteristics and meat quality for Angus, Hereford x Friesian, and Jersey x Friesian steers
- Response of calves to different levels of mixed species gastrointestinal parasite infection
- Strain differences in Merinos for carcase and meat quality
- Reconciling the differences between the length at which lambs' tails are commonly docked and animal welfare recommendations
- Impact of early age litter size on subsequent litter output in ewes
- To wether - short scrotum or leave lambs as entire rams? Revisiting an old question using new genetics
- The effect of Finnish Landrace and Texel ewe and lamb behaviour after tagging on lamb survival to weaning
- Parturition duration and birthing difficulty in twin and triplet lambs
- Calcium balance in mid and late pregnancy and vaginal prolapse
- The effects of zeranol or zinc supplementation before lambing on the incidence of vaginal prolapse in twinning ewes
- The Deer Industry's Productivity Strategy: a five-year vision
- New perspectives on deer reproduction, growth and production efficiency
- Development of large scale commercial AI for genetic improvement in farmed red deer in New Zealand
- Genetic technologies for deer breeding
- Johne's Disease: Management of a Challenging Disease
- Internal parasites and productivity in farmed deer
- Integrated livestock management ... challenges and opportunities of farming deer with other livestock
- The effect of maternal liveweight gain of 15-month-old beef heifers on foetal weight
- Summer lamb finishing on forage crops
- The effects of ewe size and nutrition during pregnancy on growth and onset of puberty in female progeny
- Hair whorl patterns are related to age at puberty and milk-production traits in dairy cattle
- Validation of a technology for objectively measuring behaviour in dairy cows and its application for oestrous detection
- 2007 Landcorp Farming Lecture: Genomic selection for accelerated genetic gain in livestock
- Current status and future of genomic selection
- Developing genomic resources for whole genome selection
- Current status of QTL and association studies in New Zealand cattle, sheep and deer
- LoinMAX and MyoMAX: taking DNA marker tests from the research environment to commercial reality
- Prospects for genome wide selection in the New Zealand livestock industries
- Uptake of DNA testing by the livestock industries of New Zealand
- Estimation of autumn live weight breeding values in progeny test datasets when progeny are slaughtered to achieve a target carcass weight
- Effect of divergent selection for wool bulk on live weight and wool characteristics in Perendale sheep
- Maternal constraint in sheep breeds with diverse birth weight
- Sperm DNA damage after scrotal insulation in rams
- Ultrasonic measurement of backfat and muscling in sheep selected for parasite-related traits
- Responses to selection in ryegrass staggers lines of sheep
- Choice of the most appropriate models and estimation procedures of lactation curves for grazing dairy cattle
- The use of neural networks to detect minor and major pathogens that cause bovine mastitis
- A dynamic model incorporating dietary protein for predicting liveweight gain of parasitised grazing lambs
- International drivers for animal welfare change and implications for New Zealand
- The use of diazepam as a pharmacological method for evaluating anxiety in sheep
- Comparison of suckling frequency of red and F1 wapiti-red calves reared on red hinds
- Supplemental fumarate has little effect on the detailed composition of bovine milk during early lactation
- Iodine deficiency in dairy cattle
- Restricted postpartum feeding in grazing dairy heifers decreases milk production but does not lengthen oestrous interval
- Evaluation of a model that estimates insulin sensitivity in dairy cows
- Monensin controlled release capsules for improved production and mitigating methane in dairy cows fed pasture
- The effect of live yeast inclusion into mixed forage diets on milk yield, locomotion score, lameness and sole bruising in first lactation Holstein Friesian dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION. Effect of age on methane emissions of red deer stags from weaning until one year of age grazing perennial ryegrass-based pasture
- Comparison of the effect of simultaneous grazing of sheep or cattle with hinds during fawning
- Quantifying the importance of submission rate to artificial breeding on reproductive performance and profitability in dairy cattle herds
- Effect of increased somatic cell count on lactation yields of milk, fat and protein
- Semen parameters of cloned bulls
- Effects of experimentally induced and treated streptococcus uberis mastitis early in the dry period on production in the subsequent lactation
- The mechanical properties and lesion score of the sole and white line horn of front and hind claws of heifers prior to and during first lactation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION Teat spraying before calving and Streptococcus uberis clinical mastitis in heifers
- Production and physiological indicators to select cows suitable for extended lactations
- Concentrations of pesticides in fleeces after pour-on and saturation dipping of Merino sheep
- Culture of ovine keratinocytes: an experimental model for wool growth
- Expression of keratin intermediate filament genes in wool follicles of wiltshire sheep
- Variation of wool characteristics across the body of New Zealand Wiltshire sheep
- Expression of the developmental regulators Msx1 and Msx2 in sheep skin varies with body region and wool growth pattern
- Variation of fibre characteristics important in processing, over the body of Australian brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
- Preliminary observations on fresh and healed scars in deer skins
- Testing glutathione-S-transferase for an association with facial eczema resistance in cattle
- Puberty in Angus bulls from lines selected for heifers' age at puberty
- Evaluation of a practical weaning weight index for extensively-grazed beef cows
- Multiple trait national genetic evaluation for cow longevity
- Test-day model for national genetic evaluation of milk production traits
- The genetic relationship between heifer and cow fertility
- Metabolic feed efficiency - opportunities for selection in dairy cows
- Breed and heterosis effects for milk protein composition estimated in two stages of lactation in New Zealand dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION. Induced physical distension of rat mammary glands accelerates the onset of apoptosis and involution compared with milk accumulation alone
- Regulation of milk protein synthesis in the bovine mammary gland: A proteomic approach
- Effects of dietary herb supplements on sheepmeat flavour
- Does high-frequency immobilisation of sheep post-mortem affect meat quality?
- Comparison of white clover, perennial ryegrass and the high tannin containing forage <i>Lotus pedunculatus</i> as finishing diets: Effect on sheepmeat quality
- Evaluation of the sulphur hexafluoride tracer technique for methane emission measurement in forage-fed sheep the agreement between the techniques
- Examination of pH in lot fed beef for Japan
Volume 66 ( 2006 )
- Presidential Address 2005: Animal production - the bridge between animals on the farm and the consumer
- Landcorp Farming Lecture: Face facts: drenching with anthelmintics for worm control selects for drug resistance - and no excuses!
- Contract introduction: the problem of anthelmintic resistance.
- A profile of anthelmintic resistance and parasite control practices in New Zealand - results from a 2005 survey
- S3 - The Sheep Sustainability Strategy: project introduction and preliminary results
- Lessons from the National Anthelmintic Resistance Surveys
- Using a Whole Farm Model to explore options for feed grown on-farm to achieve 1750 kg milksolids per hectare in the Waikato
- Development of a model to predict pasture intake for grazing dairy cows in Argentina
- Clover-rich diets and production, behaviour and nutrient use by cows in late lactation
- In vitro production of volatile fatty acids from forages
- Development of a "Wapiti Score" visual assessment tool for determining introgression of wapiti genes in young red deer.
- Sheep and deer grazing of pasture close to cattle dung pats
- Apparent digestibility and rumen fermentation of fresh plantain (Plantago lanceolata cv Ceres Tonic) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv Nui) -based pasture fed to red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- Responses and factors affecting intramammary infection rates resulting from infusion of a Streptococcus uberis strain in Friesian-Jersey crossbred cows
- Impaired insulin secretion in perfused pancreases isolated from offspring of protein malnourished rats
- Plasma protein loss in lambs during a mixed infection of Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Teladorsagia circumcincta - a consequence of the immune response?
- Protein fractionation prototype to extract minor proteins on-farm
- Predicting cow production based on an estimate of animal genotype within a Whole Farm Model
- Genetics of stillbirth in dairy calves
- Body condition score as a candidate trait in the breeding worth dairy index
- Development of new fertility breeding values in the dairy industry
- Genomic technologies to create new opportunities for wool growers: Introductory remarks
- Options for change within the wool supply chain
- SheepGenomics - a trans-Tasman collaboration
- The biological basis of variation in sheep's fleece cover
- Microarrays as a discovery tool in wool genomics
- Wool keratins - the challenge ahead
- Gene-markers for wool fibre traits
- Environmental and physiological mechanisms underlying wool growth rhythms in coarse wool sheep
- Economic implications for growing wool from using genomic technologies
- Concluding remarks: Genomics and the future of wool production
- Bovine viral diarrhoea virus in dairy cattle in New Zealand- studies on its prevalence, biologic and economic impact
- Teat spraying prior to calving may reduce the risk of heifer mastitis caused by Streptococcus uberis
- Methane emissions from growing beef cattle grazing hill country pasture
- Supplementing dairy cows with oils to improve performance and reduce methane - does it work?
- Effect of Se-amended fertilisers on the Se status of grazing dairy cattle
- Further studies on the role of suckling in the parasite status of very young lambs infected with Teladorsagia circumcincta.
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Sources of dark fibre contamination in some lines of mid-micron fleece wools
- Effect on fleece weight of combining genes from four flocks independently selected for increased fleece weight
- Whole-body protein turnover in Merino sheep selected for wool and body growth
- A study of pelt and growth traits in Zandi sheep
- Metabolomics for animal production, an introduction
- Systems Biology and Metabolomics: Experimental and Computational Challenges
- Microbial Metabolomics towards Fibre Digestibility in the Rumen
- Identification of commensal bacterial metabolites that enhance the integrity of the gastrointestinal barrier
- Urinary biomarkers of forage feeding from ESI-MS/MS fingerprinting: exploratory studies
- Prevalence of mastitis for cows of different genotypes milked for two consecutive seasons
- Effect of an extended milking interval on recovery of milk yield and somatic cell count in dairy cows
- Effect of genotype and diet on milksolids production, body condition, and reproduction of cows milked continuously for 600 days
- Mastitis in cows milked in an automated or conventional milking system in New Zealand
- Stage of lactation affects the milking performance and behaviour of cows in a pasture-based automated milking system
- An economic evaluation of automatic milking systems for New Zealand dairy farms
- The influence of red deer genotype on conception pattern: Eastern vs Western subspecies.
- Preliminary survey of congenital and reproductive disorders in the New Zealand Miniature horse population
- The use of alternative therapies in racing thoroughbreds
- A simple HPLC method for measuring sulfate in ultra filtered sheep plasma
- A comparison of sites for monitoring body temperature of cattle and sheep
- Increased hepatic skatole exposure via rumen infusion increases skatole concentration in peripheral circulation and inter-muscular fat in sheep
- Mycotoxins in New Zealand livestock production
- Mycotoxin poisoning in grazing livestock in New Zealand
- Review of zearalenone studies with sheep in New Zealand
- Genetic parameters for resistance to facial eczema in dairy cattle
- Effects of facial eczema on indole flavour compounds in dairy cows
- Effects of artificial insemination on the incidence of long return intervals
- Supplementing mature cows with either cereal or lipid-based supplements had no effect on the post-partum anoestrous interval.
- Diet or strain: effects on postpartum anovulatory interval in dairy cows
- A nutrient-signalling effect of grain feeding on postpartum anovulatory intervals in mature dairy cows
- Variation in yields of milk and milk solids in Holstein cows induced to calve prematurely
- To induce or not to induce?: Insights into important influences on dairy farmer decision making over induced calving
- Management and reproductive performance in herds that differed in their induction policies
- "Chevre meat" (goat meat) impressions and taste responses by Japanese
- Eating quality of commercial meat cuts from Australian lambs and sheep
- An evaluation of sheep meat genetics in New Zealand: The central progeny test (CPT)
- Variation in the New Zealand ram breeding industry - results from the Poukawa progeny test
- Sensitivity analysis of weaner lamb production in New Zealand
- The effect of colostrum intake on mortality and growth of Friesian bulls from birth to slaughter
- Artificial rearing of lambs - avoiding abomasal bloat.
- Effect of dairy cow breed on the metabolic adaptation to lactation
- Effect of cow genotype and feed allowance on milk composition
- Plasma insulin, growth hormone, and IGF-1 concentrations of Holstein-Friesian cows of divergent genotype offered varying levels of concentrate in early lactation
- Supplemental fumarate did not influence milksolids or methane production from dairy cows fed high quality pasture
- Supplementation with concentrates either pre- or post-partum does not affect milk production when diets are iso-energetic
- Effects of conjugated linoleic acid on bioenergetic and milk production parameters in grazing dairy cows offered ad libitum or restricted pasture
- Quantitative genetic selection for twinning rate in ewes
- The effect of maternal nutrition during gestation on the reproductive success of female progeny as 2-tooths
- The effect of nutrition during pregnancy on the behaviour of adolescent ewes and their lamb(s) within 12 hrs of birth.
- Do ewes with twin and triplet lambs produce different yields of milk and does the grazing behaviour of their lambs differ?
- Milk production in Romney ewes lambing out of season
Volume 61 ( 2001 )
- Presidential Address 2000
- Can a mathematical model accurately predict intake of grazing animals? Testing the Q-Graze model
- Digestion kinetics of mature grasses
- Tasmanian grass grub - a significant threat to pastoral farming in dryland regions
- Opportunities for enhancing the delivery of novel forage attributes
- Creep grazing, a method for investigating pre-weaned lamb diets?
- Early indications that feeding Lotus will reduce methane emissions from ruminants
- Nutraceuticals
- Animal production research for the shellfish aquaculture industry
- Cryopreservation of shellfish sperm, eggs and embryos
- Optimal utilization of genetic resources in aquaculture
- The farming of "game" species ... "horses for courses"
- Will the big birds fly?
- Evaluation of an oestrone sulphate dipstick immunoassay for pregnancy testing mares
- Lipolytic response of New Zealand and overseas Holstein-Friesian dairy cows challenged with epinephrine
- Monitoring adrenal activity in dairy cows under various feeding regimens using faecal glucocorticoid metabolites
- Progress in controlling Bovine Tuberculosis in New Zealand
- Possums as vectors of Tb in livestock
- Ferrets as vectors of bovine Tb in New Zealand: a review
- Deer and pigs as hosts of bovine tuberculosis, and their potential use as sentinels of disease presence
- Potential transmission routes of rabbit haemorrhagic disease: consequences for epidemiology of RHD in wild rabbits
- Black-backed gulls (Larus dominicanus) and their role in the spread of Salmonella Brandenburg
- Experimental infection of pregnant sheep with attenuated Salmonella typhimurium
- Boffins and Broadcasting: Headlines can be headaches
- Is Public Relations just "Spin Doctoring" or is it Reputational Risk Management?
- How to get an article published in print media
- Radio Interviews
- The film crew's here! Are you ready?
- Biotechnology, farmers and the media
- The media release
- Genetic studies of resilience of Romney sheep to nematode challenge in New Zealand
- Correlations among beef carcass composition and meat quality traits from a genetic marker trial
- Age effects and interrelationships between wool characteristics of genotypes used to develop GrowBulk sheep
- The search for quantitative trait loci affecting wool colour
- Effect of incorporating East Friesian genes on wool characteristics
- Simulated impacts of new reproductive technologies on the productivity of beef production systems
- The effect of condensed tannins in sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) and sulla (Hedysarum coronarium) on the digestion of amino acids in sheep
- LIC Lecture: Reproductive physiology and management of high-yielding dairy cattle
- Nutrition and lameness in pasture-fed dairy cattle
- Managing fertility in the New Zealand dairy herd
- The influence of reproductive status on pituitary gland function in seasonally anoestrous red deer hinds
- Effects of insulin on amino acid uptake by the mammary gland of the pasture-fed lactating ruminant
- Magnesium supplementation of lactating dairy cows in the summer and autumn
- Changes in plasma, milk and urinary magnesium concentrations in pasture-fed dairy cows in early lactation
- The importance of an accurate estimate of net endogenous loss of magnesium in ruminants
- Magnesium endogenous loss as a function of plasma magnesium concentration rather than a constant allows better development of magnesium models in ruminants
- Effect of premating iodine supplementation of ewes fed pasture or a brassica crop prelambing on the incidence of goitre in newborn lambs
- Diet and genotype affect plasma calcium, magnesium and phosphorus concentrations in the periparturient cow
- CowTrakker(TM) technology for improved heat detection
- Resynchronising returns-to-service in anoestrous cows in Victorian dairy herds
- Factors associated with the incidence of 'Phantom cows' in Australian dairy herds
- Controlled Calving with induction of parturition on Day 274 of gestation in dairy cows
- Postpartum anoestrous interval and metabolic changes in heifers supplemented with pasture prepartum
- Relationship between bulk milk urea nitrogen and reproductive performance of New Zealand dairy herds
- Relationships between, milk production, nutrition and reproduction in "benchmark" herds
- Potential benefits from new reproductive technologies in commercial dairy herds; a case study simulation
- A comparison of dairy farming between New Zealand and Japan
- Feed intake capacity in Holstein-Friesian cows which differed genetically for body weight
- Milk yield, prolactin and IGF-1 in cows which calve in Autumn; preliminary report
- Effect of stage of lactation on the efficiency of Jersey and Friesian cows at converting pasture to milk production or liveweight gain
- Lactation curves for milk traits, live weight and body condition score for heavy and light Holstein-Friesian cows
- Intake, live weight and feed-conversion efficiency of lactating Holstein-Friesian dairy cows which differ genetically in live weight
- Effect of grain or buffer supplementation on milk solids yield and rumen fermentation patterns of cows grazing highly digestible herbage in spring
- Toward a predictive model of supplementary feeding response from grazing dairy cows
- Adapting the MOLLY cow model to fit production data from New Zealand animals
- Modelling the impact of nutrition and genotype on lactation
- Modelling the impact of milking frequency on lactation
- Prediction of ruminal pH of dairy cows fed pasture
- g-glutamyl transpeptidase and amino acid transport for milk protein production in vivo
Volume 60 ( 2000 )
- Presidential Address 1999
- Global opportunities in agricultural trade
- Preparation of fresh forages for incubation and prediction of nutritive value
- Formulating total mixed rations from forages - defining the digestion kinetics of contrasting species
- Prediction of post-partum anovulatory interval in dairy cows
- Analysis of milk constituents by near infrared and visible light
- Effects of an extract from sulla (Hedysarum coronarium) containing condensed tannins on the migration of three sheep gastrointestinal nematodes in vitro
- Effects of condensed tannins and sesquiterpene lactones extracted from chicory on the viability of deer lungworm larvae
- Technology attributes for farm decisions - management of endoparasites
- Role of reproductive technologies in reducing the time lag associated with the commercial application of genetic discovery in the sheep industry
- Incidence of bearings in ewes that had a bearing at the preceding lambing
- Economic benefit of using a major gene in a nucleus selection programme with limits on inbreeding
- Lamb and ewe performance of East Friesian x Coopworths relative to pure-bred Coopworths
- Liveweight gain of young sheep grazing tall fescue or perennial ryegrass swards of different white clover content
- Herbage quality and growth rate of single and twin lambs at foot
- The effects of shearing Finnish Landrace x Romney ewes in mid-pregnancy on lamb survival, birth weight and other weights
- Lamb survival traits in Coopworth sheep selected for high or low backfat depth
- Increased ovarian response following pre-synchrony of superovulated red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds
- New Zealand's food exports in the 21st century: whither the green option?
- Food markets of the future
- A multifaceted approach to providing consumers consistent meat tenderness
- Myostatin, a negative regulator of muscle growth, functions by inhibiting myoblast proliferation
- Cloning and characterization of the bovine myostatin promoter
- The regulation of glycogen level in the muscle of ruminants by nutrition
- Involvement of calpains in postmortem tenderisation A review of recent research
- Live animal contribution to beef tenderness
- Manipulating processing to generate meat quality attributes appropriate for diverse markets
- Search for a locus near to myostatin that increases muscling in Texel sheep in New Zealand
- Preliminary beef carcass composition data from breed crosses in a genetic marker trial
- Pre- and post-rigor treatment of intermediate-pH beef to reduce toughness
- Relationship between intermediate pH toughness in the striploin and other muscles of the beef carcass
- Sensitivity of ultimate meat pH to initial metabolite concentration when glycogen is not limiting
- Effects of yarding and transport on muscle glycogen concentration in beef cattle
- Prediction of DEVCo cut weights from chilled ovine carcasses using single-frequency bioelectrical impedance measurements
- The use of body measurements in cattle to predict future live weight
- Muscle glycogen and blood parameters in genetic strains of Angus cattle
- A program to assess the efficiencies of sheep-meat production systems: a teaching aid
- The effects of winter grazing rotation speed on the performance of beef finishing systems
- Reducing fat colour in beef by grazing steers on turnip bulbs
- Genetic manipulation to modify wool properties and fibre growth rates
- Effect of sample preparation method on the validity of an early-life predictor of hogget wool bulk in genotypes used to develop GrowBulk sheep
- Differences in wool characteristics for lines of sheep with high or low levels of backfat thickness
- The relationship between wool follicle density and fibre diameter is curvilinear
- Variation of fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk over the body of Perendale ewes: Implications for measurement of wool bulk
- The impact of live weight and liveweight change on wool staple tenacity in Romney hoggets
- Sheep Improvement Limited
- Sheep industry structure and genetic improvement
- Sheep industry vision and SIL
- Genetic improvement and importance to sheep and beef farming
- Trait economic weights for genetic improvement with SIL
- E-Genetics. The role of the internet in genetic improvement
- The Sheep Improvement Limited (SIL) genetic engine
- The benefits of sheep recording schemes for genetic research
- Genetic parameters for improvement of dual-purpose flock productivity with constraints on mature ewe body weight
- Sustaining fitness and welfare in the dairy cow
- Cattle behaviour: comparison of measures of temperament in beef cattle
- Urinary corticosteroids: an indicator of stress in dairy cattle
- Dairy farmer perceptions of the industry's "clean and green" image
- Heat challenge of dairy cows in the Waikato: a comparison of spring and summer
- Short-term physiological effects of refeeding 5 to 10-day-old calves after fasting and transport
- Behavioural response of calves to amputation dehorning with or without local anaesthesia
- The human factor: influence on livestock performance and welfare
- The future for the small dairy farm: plans, priorities and constraints
- Performance by dairy cows grazing two perennial ryegrass cultivars
- The effect of pasture silage quality on milk production and liveweight gain of dairy cows
- Dairy farming, nitrogen losses and nitrate-sensitive areas
- Effects of intensifying catchment land-use on the water quality of Lake Taupo
- A comparison of New Zealand and overseas Holstein Friesian heifers
- Comparison of selected reproductive characteristics in Overseas and New Zealand Holstein-Friesian cows grazing pasture or fed a total mixed ration
- Effects of diet on udder function and regression in Holstein-Friesian cattle
- Rumen foam volume and stability in cattle selected for low or high bloat susceptibility
- Experimental design for detection of quantitative trait loci for susceptibility to Facial Eczema in dairy cattle
- Prevalence of bacterial infection and somatic cell count in early postpartum milking goats
- Prevalence and incidence of subclinical mastitis in dairy ewes and goats
- The pharmaceutical scientists' role in animal production: An historical and future look at the evolving area of controlled drug delivery in animal production
- Patterns of luteinising hormone release and embryo recovery following superovulation of cycling and anoestrous lactating dairy cows and in non-lactating cows
- Patterns of luteinising hormone release and embryo recovery following superovulation of cycling and anoestrous lactating dairy cows and in non-lactating cows
- Factors affecting the sex ratio in dairy cattle in New Zealand
- Endocrine control of milk protein production in well-fed dairy cows
- Effects of chromium picolinate on milk production and plasma insulin concentration in dairy cows
- Dietary effects on gene expression of lipogenic enzymes in mammary gland of lactating mice
- Seasonal variation of the fatty acid composition of milkfat from Friesian cows grazing pasture
- Genetics of milk characteristics in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Effect on milk characteristics to supplementing cows on a restricted pasture allowance with different amounts of either turnips or sorghum
Volume 59 ( 1999 )
- Presidential Address 1998
- LIC Lecture: Farm performance measurement - Linking monitoring to business strategy
- Genetic effects in GrowBulk sheep
- Hogget wool traits of sheep breeds being used for crossbreeding with strong wool breeds - preliminary estimates from research studies
- Effect of recipient breeds on birth and weaning weight, and wool and follicle characteristics of Merino lambs born by embryo transfer
- Sex and age effects on genetic parameters for wool production and qualities
- Effect of selection for fleece weight on liveweight, reproductive performance and wool characteristics in mixed age Romney ewes
- Fleece production patterns in Romney ewes: effects of photoperiod, pregnancy and lactation
- Seasonal wool growth patterns and the follicle and fibre characteristics of New Zealand feral sheep
- Development of fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk in hoggets of genotypes used to develop GrowBulk sheep
- Relationship between wool sulphur concentration and wool characteristics
- Relationships of fleece and fibre traits with unscourable yellow discolouration in a survey of strong wool sheep flocks
- Changes in unscourable discolouration of Romney wool samples during storage for one month
- Dag formation
- Separate grazing does not shorten the postpartum anoestrous interval in anoestrous cows
- Lack of effect of short term chromium supplementation in lactating Jersey cows
- Amino acid utilisation by the mammary gland: Whole blood versus plasma free amino acid pools
- Pasture digestion in response to change in ruminal pH
- Improving lamb birthweight through mid- to late-pregnancy shearing: a review of recent studies
- Variation in lamb survival within farm and between farms: results from farmer studies
- Farm Flock Monitoring
- Establishment of a farm monitoring scheme for sheep farms
- CF2000 - a new way of looking at the same information
- Farm financial monitoring
- Vital components of industry-wide benchmarking
- Farmer experience of farm monitoring
- The results and success factors of nine group farm monitoring programmes
- Experiences of a pioneer in the commercial sheep pregnancy scanning business
- Ewe nutrition: decisions to be made with scanning information
- Ultrasonic pregnancy scanning - a tool for change
- Farmer use and experience of ultrasonic pregnancy scanning
- Field data analysis of lamb survival and mortality rates occurring between pregnancy scanning and weaning
- Use of ultrasonic pregnancy scanning information for farmer extension
- Contract references
- Effects of herbage mass and ewe condition score at lambing on lamb survival and liveweight gain
- Nutritional effects, in early pregnancy, on lamb production of Finnish Landrace x Romney ewes
- Compensatory growth in lambs undernourished from birth
- A genetic test to identify carriers of the ovine Inverdale fecundity gene
- Genetic progress in a Romney Group Breeding Scheme
- Genetic parameter estimates for lamb survival in Romney sheep
- Milking performance of East Friesian Poll Dorset cross ewe hoggets
- The importance of date of birth records in genetic evaluation of deer
- Suitability of serum oestrone sulphate measurement to verify pregnancy in red deer
- Attempted transmission Of Brucella ovis between stags and from stags To rams
- The relationship of meat quality to age at slaughter and indicators of animal age in red deer stags and hinds
- A review of forage grazing systems to produce venison according to market signals
- Incidence of high pH in venison: implications for quality
- Factors affecting behaviour, bruising and pH in a deer slaughter premises
- Effect of Lotus corniculatus and condensed tannins on milk yield and milk composition of dairy cows
- The combination of the n-alkanes and the 13C methods as a new tool for estimating individual DM intakes of pasture and maize silage by grazing dairy cows
- Source of excess nitrogen affects nutrient partitioning in lactating ewes
- Tactical supplementation of beef finishing cattle
- Effect of a long acting injectable Vitamin B12 on the Vitamin B12 status of the suckling lamb
- Angus selection herd reproductive data: a genetic model for dairy cattle?
- The evolution of liveweight variance in angus steers and strategies for control
- Validation of body condition scoring by using ultrasound measurements of subcutaneous fat
- Amino acid supply to the small intestine of dairy cows fed pasture
- Milk production response to replacement of carbohydrate with lipid and the addition of ruminally protected protein
- Increasing milksolids production with supplementary feeds
- The effect of stressors on milk yield and composition in dairy cows
- The effects of stressors on lymphocyte populations and function in lactating dairy cows
- Sealing of the bovine teat canal after drying off
- Increasing the relevance of applied bio-physical research: A case study into beef breeding cow twinning technology
- Can b-hydroxybutyrate levels predict the post-partum anoestrous interval of dairy cows?
- Milk production and production worth of anoestrous dairy cows compared with their cycling herd mates
- Embryo and recipient contributions to pregnancy loss following the transfer of cloned embryos derived from foetal and adult somatic cells
- Are cattle capable of producing litters of calves?
- Effect of very low sperm doses on pregnancy rates after AI in sheep
- Seasonal changes in the protein content and composition of ram seminal plasma
- A methodology for dealing with uncertain outcomes when applying embryo technologies
- Synchrony of onset and cessation of breeding activity in brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) in coastal Otago, New Zealand
- The prevalence of Wobbly Possum disease in a bush/farmland environment
- Monitoring oestrus and ovulation in brushtail possums
- Fertility control of possums: The search for regulators of gonadal development and pituitary function
- Has Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease worked in New Zealand?
- Performance of dairy cows grazing pastures with or without ergovaline and lolitrem B in Northland
- Toxicity effects of 1080 on pregnant ewes
- Milk production from perennial ryegrass pastures containing different levels of endophyte
- Effects of ergovaline in endophyte-infected tall fescue on ewe fertility
- Marker-assisted selection for meat quality and the ovine calpastatin gene
- Discriminating among animals for improved rewards from traditional meat cuts
- Application of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for ovine carcass evaluation
- A dynamical model of body composition in sheep
- Mouse 3T3-L1 preadipocyte cells as a bioassay for serum-borne adipogenic factors
- Farm of origin and finishing environment effects on beef quality attributes
- The relationships between beef ultimate pH, breed of cattle, muscle glycogen and enzyme levels and animal behaviour
- A review of recent findings on myostatin, a gene which controls muscle growth
Volume 58 ( 1998 )
- Possible impact of New Technologies On Dairy Cattle Breeding
- Experimental designs for Quantitative trait loci detection in the New Zealand dairy industry
- A candidate gene marker for bloat susceptibility in cattle?
- A simplified method for typing DRB alleles in deer
- Recent improvements in efficiency of flow cytometric sorting of X and Y- chromosome bearing sperm of domestic animals: a review
- Technique for extraction of proteins for enzymatic measurements from sheep muscle and ram spermatozoa
- Out-of-season breeding in thyroidectomized red deer hinds
- A sampling strategy for estimating dairy pasture quality
- Reticular groove contraction in yearling cattle detected by breath test
- Future opportunities in livestock production and biomedicine from advances in animal cloning
- Once-daily milking of dairy cows : an appraisal
- Differential effects of short-term once-daily milking on milk yield, milk composition and concentrations of selected blood metabolites in cows with low or high pasture intake
- Use of once daily milking or treatment with progesterone and oestradiol benzoate in anoestrous cows
- Rates of recovery of milk yield and composition following milking intervals of varying length
- Diurnal variation in the protein composition of bovine milk
- Variation in milk whey composition throughout lactation in cows of different B-lactoglobulin phenotypes
- The value of monozygotic twins in milk composition experiments
- The effect of dairy herd management and milking practices on milk quality
- The effect of calving season on milk production. A system study
- Effects of selection and crossbreeding on industry returns from whole milk powder, butter and casein in the New Zealand dairy industry
- Growth curves and productivity of Holstein-Friesian cows bred for heavy or light mature live weight
- Reproductive performance of Holstein-Friesian cows differing genetically in live weight
- Prevalence of clinical mastitis in 38 Waikato dairy herds
- Factors influencing the prevalence of postpartum anoestrus in New Zealand dairy cows
- Effects of oestradiol benzoate by injection at CIDR(TM) insertion for the treatment of postpartum anovulatory anoestrus in dairy cows
- Manipulating patterns of ovarian follicle development in cattle with progesterone and gonadotrophin releasing hormone to produce oestrous cycles with two or three follicle waves
- Ovarian volume is a predictor of the resumption of spontaneous oestrous cycles but not the response to the treatment of anoestrus
- Effect of luteolysis on control of ovarian follicles using oestradiol benzoate and progesterone in cattle
- Some effects of using progesterone and gonadotrophin releasing hormone on the reproductive performance of inseminated cows
- Milk progesterone concentrations at selected times following oestrus and insemination in relation to the success of pregnancy establishment
- Arterio-venous differences of amino acids across the mammary gland of cows fed fresh pasture at two levels of dry matter intake during early lactation
- Balancing pasture and maize silage diets for dairy cows using urea, soybean meal or fishmeal
- Ruminal utilisation of pasture nitrogen in response to inclusion of dietary starch
- The effect of secondary compounds of birdsfoot trefoil and red clover on dairy cow grazing preferences
- The effect of stage of lactation and season on milksolids response to supplementary feeding of dairy cows
- Using nitrogen fertiliser to increase dairy farm profitability
- Use of 'Barkant' turnips and 'Superchow' sorghum to increase summer-autumn milk production
- Evaluating the business risk associated with feeding supplements to dairy cows on pasture
- Herbage intake, grazing behaviour and feed conversion efficiency of lactating Holstein-Friesian cows that differ genetically for live weight
- Management decision rules to optimise milksolids production on dairy farms
- Effect of sire genotype on lamb growth and carcass productivity
- Genetic parameters for liveweight and live animal ultra-sound fat and eye muscle dimensions in a synthetic terminal sire breed
- Modelling the Feed Requirements of Cross-Bred Sheep
- Sheep breeding: An enterprise budgeting decision support model for on-farm planning
- The role of milk production in dryland lamb production systems
- Effect of maternal nutrition during early and mid-gestation on fetal growth
- Effect of prior ram-ewe contact on the ability of rams to stimulate early oestrus
- Relationship between laboratory measures of ram sperm competence and field fertility
- Effect of sperm dose, diluent type and timing of insemination on pregnancy rates in sheep
- Effect Of Pasture Supplemented With Methionine On Wool Growth And Selected Growth Parameters
- The effects of a cation-anion balanced diet on calcium and phosphorus metabolism in growing lambs
- Variation in copper metabolism between two flocks of Romney sheep in response to increasing dietary copper
- Effect of zinc oxide treatment for facial eczema on the copper status of Romney sheep grazing ryegrass pastures
- Iodine deficiency: an emerging problem in New Zealand sheep flocks?
- The effects of Insulin-nutrient supply interactions on ewe lactation
- Amylin causes hypocalcaemia in lactating goats
- Is carcass classification useful or necessary?
- Calpain, calpastatin and tenderness comparisons in M. longissimus dorsi samples from weight-selected and control Angus cattle
- The effect of blood sampling site on measures of stress in dairy cattle
- Monitoring some muscoid fly populations on Massey University sheep farms in the Manawatu
- To shear or not to shear lambs?
- New Zealand beef industry structure and opportunities to improve income
- A participatory evaluation of out-of-season beef cattle finishing systems in the lower North Island
- The Effect Of Grazing Management on Pasture And Animal Production In Late Autumn To Early Spring Period In A One Year Bull Beef Grazing System
- Grain supplementation of finishing beef cattle
- Exercise effects on muscle glycogen concentration in beef cattle
- Productivity and Profitability of Twinning Beef Cows
- Development of an experimental herd for investigating maternal contributions to fertility in recipient cattle
- Growth and carcass composition of angus steers raised together from birth and managed on two post-weaning nutritional treatments
- The relationship between carotenoid concentration and fat colour in beef carcasses
- Pregnancy diagnosis of twinning beef cows
- Wool follicle traits of 1/2 Merino 1/2 Romney F1, and backcross 3/4 Merino 1/4 Romney gene mapping flocks
- Performance of Romney and 1/4 Merino x 3/4 Romney sheep on Wanganui hill country
- Seasonality of wool growth in Waikato and Southland of Romney sheep selected for high fleece weight
- Unravelling the causes of wool yellowing - Part I: Involvement of a water soluble component
- Unravelling the causes of wool yellowing - Part II: Involvement of bacteria
- The determination of sulphur in wool using near infrared reflectance spectrometry
- Mature Merino ewe performance in an ultrafine fibre diameter selected and a control flock
- Wool fibre diameter effects on yarn bulk independent of core bulk
- The assessment of natural means of controlling loose wool feltability and yarn shrinkage
- Effects of sire and body site on wool colour measurements in Romney x Perendale progeny
- Prolactin receptors are highly expressed in wool follicle dermal papillae
- Growth factors and their role in wool growth: a review
Volume 57 ( 1997 )
- Presidential Address 1997
- LIC Lecture: Can protein utilisation from pasture be improved?
- Progress with selection to change age at puberty and reproductive rate in Angus cattle
- Progeny performance of industry and index selected Angus bulls
- An index to assist multiple trait selection of terminal beef sires in the UK
- Genetic studies of bloat susceptibility in cattle
- Effect of crossbreeding strategies on long-term rates of genetic gain in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Correlated responses in fleece weight to selection for divergence in faecal nematode egg count in New Zealand Romneys and Perendales
- Effect of the Inverdale gene (FecX) on fleece characteristics in Romney sheep
- Sheep breeding objectives and selection criteria of Wairarapa and Tararua sheep farmers
- Susceptibility of Romney and Perendale sheep to flystrike by the Australian Green Fly, Lucilia cuprina (Wied.), and fly attractant trials
- Heritability of resistance to flystrike in New Zealand Perendale sheep
- Across-breed genetic evaluation of New Zealand dairy goats
- Growth and onset of puberty in two genetically different lines of Holstein-Friesian heifers, selected for either heavy or light body weight
- Growing wool in tissue culture - which fibre type is best?
- Localisation of transforming growth factor B1-like immunoreactivity in foetal and mature skin from Romney and Merino sheep
- Volume measurement of wool samples
- Seasonal changes in fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk in Perendale ewes
- Changes in fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk during the lifetime of Perendale ewes
- Relationships between the compounds causing scourable diffuse yellow and yellowness of greasy and clean wool
- Classing Merino fleeces into uniform lines with predicted adult fibre diameters
- Bulk and fibre diameter affect leather and woolskin quality of lamb skins
- Influence of reducing wool fibre diameter away from the winter minimum, on fibre length after carding
- An investigation of techniques used to predict fleece rot incidence in sheep
- The ethically improved sheep concept
- Agricultural ethics - a role in animal production
- Evaluation of a vaccine to control bull behaviour
- The effect of the presence of steers on the behaviour of grazing yearling bulls
- Measures of stress and growth suppression in surgically castrated bulls
- Behaviour of dairy heifers during adaptation to milking
- Farmer groups: a measure of their effectiveness
- Technology Design and Marketing: Case Studies in Beef Cattle Breeding
- Protein-tannin complexes are susceptible to proteolytic degradation
- Responses to protected amino acids or protected protein in dairy cows grazing ryegrass pastures in early or late lactation
- Effects of Mimosa bark extract containing condensed tannins on rumen metabolism in sheep and milk production by grazing cows
- Methane emission from grazing sheep and cattle
- Is beef with yellow fat potentially healthier for you than beef with white fat?
- Accumulation of cadmium in kidney and liver tissue of the suckling Romney lamb from parturition to early weaning
- Effect of feeding level on the seasonal liveweight gain of young red deer (Cervus elaphus) and red/elk hybrid stags
- Plasma potassium - an indicator of protein catabolism in deer?
- The effects of methionine supply upon milk composition and production of dairy cows in mid-lactation
- Effect on milk production and liveweight of feeding balanced or unbalanced supplements to cows grazing restricted summer pasture
- Effects of pasture intake and grain supplementation on milk nitrogen fractions
- Milksolids response in early lactation to condition score at calving and concentrate feeding
- Incorporating turnips into the pasture diet of lactating dairy cows
- The impact of turnips on dairy production as evaluated by component trials, modelling and farm systems research
- Optimum white clover content for milk production
- Effect of nitrogen fertiliser and concentrate feed on dairy production
- The effect of feeding level during rearing on the first lactation milk yield of Friesian replacement heifers
- Growth of Friesian calves offered three allowances of milk replacer
- Lamb and hogget growth on different white clover and ryegrass cultivar mixtures in southern New Zealand
- The effect of protein supply on the periparturient parasite status of the mature ewe
- Free and conjugated levels of zearalenone in ewes mated on grass-dominant pasture or chicory
- Liveweight gain and parasite resistance of lambs treated with controlled - release albendazole capsules
- Sire by finishing environment interactions for beef cattle carcass and meat quality traits
- Age at castration after puberty has no effect on carcass weight
- Cattle diet preference and species selection as influenced by availability
- Effect of topical ivermectin treatments on weight gains in beef weaners
- Effects of time-of-calving on dairy production
- Seasonal and lactational influences on milk composition in New Zealand
- Increased litter size elicits cell proliferation in the lactating murine mammary gland
- Metabolic changes in the mammary gland of sheep in late pregnancy and lactation
- Effects of season-of-lambing, stage-of-lactation and ewe-age on milk volume and composition of machine-milked Dorset ewes
- Effect of breed and diet on de novo synthesis of fatty acids by mammary gland tissue of Friesian and Jersey dairy cows
- Removal of cisternal milk following milk accumulation for 9 hours does not increase total yield during once-daily milking
- Expected pregnancy rate in recipient cattle, sheep and goats derived using a model incorporating embryo and maternal contributions to embryo survival
- Control of reproductive success in rabbits using bromocriptine
- Gestation length in Pere David's x red deer hybrids
- Efficacy of an anoestrous treatment for dairy cows is reduced if administered within three weeks of calving
- Induction of parturition in dairy cows: a survey from spring 1996 in the Waikato region
- Non-invasive pregnancy determination in mares by enzymeimmunoassay of estrone sulphate concentrations in faeces
- Manipulating ovaries' follicle wave patterns can partially synchronise returns to service and increases the pregnancy rate to second insemination
- Oestradiol concentrates the synchrony pattern in heifers treated with progesterone and prostaglandin F2a
- Effect of hormonal environment at emergence on persistence of ovarian follicles in cattle
- The responses of lactating dairy cows treated for Anoestrum to an Oestradiol capsule and an Oestradiol injection
- Use of pregnant dairy cows in product development of the intravaginal progesterone releasing (CIDR) device
- The measurement of ovine follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) bioactivity utilizing a recombinant human FSH receptor bioassay
- Evaluation of different staining techniques for determination of membrane status in spermatozoa
- Changes in activities of plasma membrane bound sperm enzymes during semen processing
- The effect of stage of cycle, oestrous synchronisation method and large follicles on superovulatory response in Merino ewes
- Use of the teaser ram effect to advance lambing date in a farm systems study
- Effect of time of treatment and selection for out-of-season breeding on the superovulatory response in ewes
- Seasonal patterns in production and quality of semen of rams from flocks selected for or against an early breeding season
- Cost-benefit analysis of ultrasound scanning in meat breed ram breeding flocks
- Comparison of weight-selected Romney hoggets for growth and ultrasonic fat and eye muscle dimensions
- Muscle distribution in lamb progeny from several breeds
- Sources of variation in the ultimate pH of M. longissimus from prime steers
- Short-term grain feeding and its effect on carcass and meat quality
- Characterisation of muscle development in foetuses with and without presumptive double-muscled phenotypes
- Nutritional effects on carotenoid concentrations in the fat of beef cattle
- The role of calsequestrin in muscle function
- Mapping productive Traits in Livestock
- Genetic analysis of meat quality in cattle
- Finding QTL without markers: experience with FINDGENE
- A candidate gene approach to animal quality traits
- Parasite Resistance: A genome scan approach to finding markers and genes
- Translation of information between human and livestock gene maps using a deer interspecies hybrid mapping panel
- Positional cloning to identify genes
- Contract Summary
Volume 56 ( 1996 )
- Presidential Address 1996
- Perspectives for marker assisted selection in dairy cattle breeding
- Dairy cattle breeding in New Zealand
- Potential for profitable use of DNA markers in the New Zealand Dairy Industry
- Across breed evaluation of dairy cattle
- Estimation of lactation yield from repeated measures of test day yields
- A computationally feasible test day model with separate first and later lactation genetic effects
- Assessing the value of breeding technologies to dairy farmers
- Associations between milk protein genetic variants and production traits in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Assessment of female traits for genetic improvement of fertility in dairy cattle
- Sperm numbers, semen age and fertility in fresh and frozen bovine semen
- Reproductive efficiency in lactating dairy cows
- Genetic parameters for fertility traits in seasonal dairy cattle
- Manipulation of gene expression in transgenic mice using ribozymes
- Sequence variations in genes coding for bovine b-lactoglobulin and aS1-casein
- The effect of somatostatin infusion on milk yield of goats
- Effects of milk stasis and feed withdrawal on capillary exchange capacity in the goat mammary gland
- Effect of atropine on milk protein composition of dairy cows
- Utilisation of methionine by the mammary gland of the lactating goat
- Effects of stage of lactation and season on udder development and milk yield in pasture-fed cows
- Oestrogenic effects on in vitro co-culture of mammary explants and epithelial cells
- Effect of Streptococcus uberis infection on milk characteristics of individual quarters
- Binding of nuclear proteins to the bovine a-lactalbumin gene promoter
- Measurement of cell death by in situ end labelling of ruminant mammary gland tissue
- Milk cortisol concentrations as an indicator of stress in lactating dairy cows
- The effect of Fenbendazole on the immune system of lambs
- Faecal nematode egg counts and facial eczema susceptibility in Romneys
- The effect of albendazole controlled release capsules and moxidectin injection treatment on faecal egg count and body weight of 18 month old ewes in the autumn
- Progress on genetic studies of resilience to nematode parasites in sheep
- Supplementary feeding and gastrointestinal nematode parasitism in young grazing sheep
- Influence of different proportions of Lotus corniculatus in the diet of lambs on dags, flystrike and animal performance
- Heart rate response as a measure of stress and welfare in cattle
- Ewe maternal behaviour score and lamb growth: Ten years on
- The role of vagal innervation fo the gut in insulin release in lactating ewes
- Influence of level of feeding and stage of lactation on proteolytic activity in bovine milk
- Effects of condensed tannins on animal performance in lambs grazing Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus) and annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) dominant swards
- The use of a novel approach to determine the influence of sward characteristics on the discriminatory grazing behaviour of dairy cows
- Frequency distribution of sward height on pastures grazed by cattle alone or co-grazed with sheep
- The metabolic cost of hepatic ammonia detoxification
- Magnesium metabolism in sheep subjected to sodium or water loading
- Effects of potassium on potential difference across the rumen wall and magnesium metabolism in sheep
- Effect of iodine supplementation on milk iodine concentrations and productivity of dairy cows
- Consistent quality meat products
- Future directions for meat research and development in New Zealand
- A view of the markets for beef and lamb and potential opportunities
- Proteases and meat quality
- Genetic improvement of meat quality in sheep and cattle
- Animal behaviour and stress: impacts on meat quality
- Variation in sheepmeat odour and flavour
- Processing for meat quality
- Repeatabilities of blood plasma metabolites and their associations with leanness in genotypes showing a wide divergence in carcass composition
- Postmortem changes in pH and shear force in three commercial bull beef cuts
- Variation in meat pH in steers and association with other carcass attributes: analysis of a commercial database
- Effect of dietary vitamin A on plasma carotenoid concentration and fat colour in cattle
- Differences in the post mortem kinetics of the calpain system in meat from bulls and steers
- The calpain proteolytic system in different types of ovine skeletal muscles and relationship to meat tenderness
- Growth and carcass characteristics of lambs sired by Texel, Oxford Down and Suffolk rams
- Prediction of carcass tissue weight in vivo using live weight, ultrasound or X-ray CT measurements
- Measuring body composition by fast neutron activation analysis
- Profitability of rotational crossbreeding programmes in commercial dairy herds
- Dynamic programming applied to the dairy cow replacement decision
- Herd-to-herd variations in the properties of milkfat
- Automatic oestrus detection from milking data - a preliminary investigation
- Hormonal induction of oestrus during the early postpartum period and the subsequent effects of nutrition on ovarian activity in dairy heifers
- An attempt to create an 'anoestrous cow' model by restricting feed allowances in non-lactating cyclic cows
- Effect of nitrogen fertiliser and supplements on pasture production and milksolids yield from dairy farm systems
- Effects of feeding silage and extending lactation on the pastoral dairy system
- Effect of feeding turnips to dairy cows grazing limited amounts of pasture in mid to late lactation on milksolids production
- Dairy cow performance on limpograss (Hemarthria altissima)
- Evaluation of the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System for dairy cows fed pasture-based diets
- The effect of inorganic ions on ram sperm motility using Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA)
- Microbial protein synthesis and milk production in cows offered pasture diets differing in non-structural carbohydrate content
- Effect of calving liveweight on milk yield and composition and daily dry matter intake in Friesian and Jersey heifers
- Reduction in SCC and colostrum levels in milk after calving
- Effect of body covers on the liveweight gain of heifer replacement calves and yearlings, and the liveweight gain and milksolids production of dairy cows
- Improving the efficiency of pasture-based dairy production
- Nitrogen application to dairy pasture - the effect of rate and timing of spring nitrogen applications on the concentration of pasture nutrients
- A farm level model to aid decisions regarding the feeding of concentrates to dairy cattle
- A whole farm approach to feed planning and ration balancing using UDDER and CAMDAIRY
- bST: An assessment of potential response for pasture based dairy farms in New Zealand
- Milk production from pastures and pasture silage with different levels of endophyte infection
- Seasonal effects on fetal growth in sheep
- Structural characteristics of the sheepbreeding industry and implications for genetic and reproductive technologies
- Use of bovine oocytes for the evaluation of ram semen
- A comparison of unbred and once-bred lamb production
- Effect of selection for early lambing on the testicular diameter of the male offspring
- Development of fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk in Perendale sheep over the first year of life
- Optimising of the challenge test for the susceptibility of wool to yellow discolouration
- Effect of wool length and season of shearing on the propensity of Romney, Coopworth and Perendale wool to yellow
- Effect of lamb shearing on fine wool Merino hogget performance
- The effect of shearing by cover comb or blades on the resistance of sheep to cold, windy and wet conditions
- Relationships between adult liveweights and velvet weights in farmed Red deer
- Variation in fleece characterisitics over the body of alpacas
- Alpaca management in the Central North Island of New Zealand
- Reproductive senescence in aged red deer hinds
- Patterns of oestrus vary with different forms of synchrony
- Varying the form of oestradiol administration in anoestrous cows previously treated with progesterone
- Prospects for overcoming the physiological limits of dairy cow fertility
- Calving performance after embryo transfer-induced twinning - a summary of 30 studies
- Partial failure of multiple ovulations - a question of uterine efficiency or embryo quality?
- Effect of lipids on ram spermatozoal motility
- Seasonal changes in FSH and LH concentrations in ewes with gonadal hypoplasia: Evidence that steroid-independent mechanisms control seasonality in sheep?
- Ovarian follicle development in the red deer hind
- The accumulation and clearance of equol in the blood of ewes grazed on either high or low formononetin red clovers
- Predicting the onset of nutritional anoestrus in Brahman heifers
- Winter feeding of twinning beef cows
- Characterisation of beef cattle breeding industry structure
- Effects of post-pubertal castration and diet on growth rate and meat quality of bulls
- A comparison of two methods of castration of post-pubertal beef cattle and their effect on behaviour, growth and ultimate pH
- Plasma carotenoid concentrations early in life can be used as a selection criterion for fat colour in heifers
- Reducing animal numbers in experiments
Volume 55 ( 1995 )
- Presidential Address 1995
- Partitioning of milk accumulation between cisternal and alveolar compartments of the bovine udder: relationship to production loss on once-daily milking
- Effect of once-daily milking and bovine somatotropin administration in Friesian cows on milk protease activity during late lactation
- Influence of milking frequency and feeding level on plasmin activity and casein degradation in milk
- Effect of once daily milking (ODM) on enzyme activities in the bovine mammary gland
- Nitric oxide and the control of mammary blood flow
- Regulation of lactose production by ovine mammary acini in culture
- Effects of induced parturition on mammary function
- Mitogenic activity of lamb mammary fat pad in vitro is distinct from that of mouse mammary fat pad
- The role of endogenous insulin-like growth factors-l and -2 on lactation in rats
- Monitoring wool fibre diameter and length changes using gel emulsion autoradiography
- The relationship between cortical structure and fibre diameter in primary and secondary wool fibres of yearling Perendale sheep
- A comparison of protocols for the photoperiodic induction of synchronised wool follicle growth cycles
- Staple tenacity versus staple strength
- Seasonal patterns of wool growth in Romney sheep selected for high and low staple tenacity
- Wool yellowing susceptibility: Heritability, genetic and phonotypic correlations with productive traits in Australian Merino, Corriedale and New Zealand Romney sheep
- Differences in propensity of wool to develop yellow discolouration in flocks of Perendale sheep selected for and against loose wool bulk
- Relationship between wool colour and fibre diameter in four breeds of sheep
- Wool growth responses in Drysdale and high and low staple tenacity Romney sheep to nutrient supplementation in autumn
- The behaviour of calves tail docked with a rubber ring used with or without local anaesthesia
- Tail docked dairy cattle: fly induced behaviour and adrenal responsiveness to ACTH
- Effect of nitrogen fertiliser and summer rotation length on milk production in a dry Waikato summer
- Apple pomace as a supplement to pasture for dairy cows in late lactation
- Calving patterns in dairy heifers following single "set-time" inseminations and re-synchrony preceding second inseminations
- Characteristics of seasonal dairy farms achieving high per cow production in the lower North Island of New Zealand
- Effects of breed and calving liveweight on postpartum ovarian activity in pasture-fed dairy heifers
- Effect of level of nutrition on age of puberty and reproductive performance of Friesian heifers
- Early lactation response of dairy cows to pasture under two different nitrogen fertiliser regimes
- Influence of once daily milking and restricted feeding on milk characteristics in late lactation
- The effect on incidence of bloat of changing pasture herbage mass and species
- Evaluation of 'CONFIRM' as a method to Verify pregnancy in dairy cows
- The effect of season and B-lactoglobulin phenotype on milk composition
- Endocrine manipulation of the pregnant animal and growth of her offspring: a review
- Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in yearling Angus cattle
- Effects of genotype and nutrition on sheep carcass fat and eye muscle development between weaning and 14 months of age
- Evaluation of muscling using Texel and Oxford cross Romney and Hight Romney lambs
- Ultrasonic scanning of lamb carcasses for non-destructive carcass quality measurements
- Assessment of lamb meat quality in Sydney and Melbourne
- Relationship between bioimpedance and muscle mass in chilled lamb carcasses
- Inter-muscle variation in the calpain system of red deer:- implications for meat tenderness
- The Calpain System - genotype, nutrition and their interactions
- Near-infrared reflectance analysis of intramuscular fat in beef
- The relative intake of three Merino strains under different grazing regimes estimated using alkane technology
- Alkane technology estimates of summer and winter herbage intake of four specialty carpet wool breeds, Romneys and Merinos
- Feed requirements for maintenance of mature rams and ewes from lines selected for differences in body composition
- The relationship between wool production, live weight and liveweight change in four specialty carpet wool breeds, Romneys and Merinos
- Effect of continuous stocking of breeding ewes at different sward surface heights during the late summer-autumn on herbage intake and productivity
- An evaluation of the Stockpol(TM) model
- Cortisol response to ACTH in lambs selected for or against fatness: Effects of maturity and fasting
- Effect of selection for early lambing on the expression of hogget oestrus activity
- Compensatory growth in cattle - revisited
- Estimated pasture intake and cow output of single and twin calving beef breeding cows
- Development of a management system to intensify and increase beef production in a range suckler herd in Israel - "the Amaziah project"
- Nutritive value of chicory (Cichorium intybus L) for venison production
- The relationship between daily Se intakes and blood Se concentrations in pregnant dairy cows
- Metabolic changes of cadmium and zinc in kidney and liver tissue during foetal development in Romney and Merino sheep
- Response of trace element concentrations in plasma of sheep to chronic infusion of a recombinant variant of IGF-1
- Grazing behaviour of alpaca and sheep
- The Effect of Peramine Ingestion in Pen-fed Lambs
- Quantitative indicators of stress in stress-susceptible and stress-resistant breeds of pigs
- The effect of immunological castration on behaviour and growth of young bulls
- Evaluation of large scale trapping of flies as a means of reducing the incidence of flystrike in lambs
- Dagginess and flystrike in lambs grazed on Lotus corniculatus or ryegrass
- The effect of six herbages on liveweight gain, wool growth and faecal egg count of parasitised ewe lambs
- Faecal nematode egg counts and haematology in Perendale ewes near lambing
- Effect of control of internal parasitism on productivity of Merino breeding ewes
- Sensitive PCR for detecting Benzimidazole resistant sub populations of ovine nematodes in the Waikato
- The effect of anthehnintic treatment of ewes during pregnancy
- Maternal antibodies and immune responsiveness in growing lambs
- Antibody class-specific immune responses in ovine milk measured by ELISA
- Bio-impedance monitoring of genital tissues of cows as an aid in cattle reproductive management - a review
- Seasonal changes in LH profiles of ewes selected for and against an early lambing date
- Effect of selection for early lambing performance on the seasonal patterns of gonadotrophin levels; response to GnRH and semen characteristics in adult rams
- Field scale evaluation of semen diluents for cervical AI in sheep: An attempt at technology transfer
- The effect of stocking rate and breed on the period of postpartum anoestrum in grazing dairy cattle
- Some effects of using progesterone and oestradiol benzoate to stimulate oestrus and ovulation in dairy cows with anovulatory anoestrus
- Reproductive performance of synchronised lactating dairy cows
- Effect of diluient typ and storage time on the pregnancy rate of ewes inseminated laparoscopically with chilled ram semen
- Comparison of cervical, transcervical and laparoscopic insemination of ewes with chilled stored and frozen ram semen
- Adapting cattle from pasture to brassica diets
- The cost of producing feedlot beef in New Zealand
- Effect of allowance and the rate of adaptation of weaned calves to two brassica types
- Induction of early post-calving ovulation and oestrus in suckled beef cows
- Effect of Monensin capsules on blood metabolites near calving in twin-pregnant and single-pregnant beef cows
- Genetic parameters of lifetime wool production
- Growth Hormone (GH) secretory patterns in genetically lean and fat sheep
- Selection for beef quality traits
- Impact of breeding technologies on the genetic gain of a Merino flock
- MOET in ultrafine Merinos: An experimental evaluation
- Establishing a flock for gene mapping in wool traits
- Discovery of the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- Elucidation of the genetic nature of the Inverdale gene (FecX): Segregation with a twist
- Commercial performance of sheep carrying the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- Living with the Inverdale gene (FecX) in a Romney flock
- Industry use of the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- Ovarian characteristics in Inverdale ewes heterozygous (I+) and homozygous (II) for the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- Hormone secretion patterns associated with increased ovulation rates or with ovarian dysfunction in Inverdale (FecX) ewes
- Genetic markers in Inverdale (FecX) sheep
- Inverdale as a model
- Contract Summary
- Sheep farming - beyond survival
- New sheep - a catalyst for change
- Importing a sheep which offers more - the East Friesian
- Sires for more valuable lambs
- Ewes for more dollars and flexibility
- Using genetic variation fbr greater profit
- Mount Linton wools - now and beyond 2000
- Contract Summary
Volume 54 ( 1994 )
- The current status of the beef breeding cow in New Zealand mixed livestock production systems
- Presidential Address 1994
- Influence of insulin-like growth factor-l (IGF-1) on components of the haematopoietic and lymphatic systems
- The relationship between internal parasite burden, faecal egg count, and mucosal mast cells in fleeceweight-selected and control sheep
- Lamb weight gain and faecal egg count when grazing one of seven herbages and dosed with larvae for six weeks
- Hepatic protein variation among Romneys selected for resistance or susceptibility to sporidesmin-induced liver damage. A quantitative two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis study
- The effect on oesophageal groove closure of water and mineral solutions drenched to cows
- Within herd variability in the mineral status of grazing dairy cows in early lactation
- Cadmium accumulation in liver and kidney of sheep grazing ryegrass/white clover pastures
- Prevalence of two inherited disorders in US Holstein cattle
- Remote Blood Sampling Device A stress free blood sampling technique for free ranging animals
- Separating dead from live sperm in thawed frozen merino semen does not enhance conception rate
- Timing single fixed-time inseminations in ewes: Some new concepts
- A prolonged change in body composition induced by endocrine manipulation of the neonate
- Measurement of steroids by enzymeimmunoassay: An environmentally friendly alternative to radioimmunoassay
- Growth-promoting and metabolic actions of recombinant ovine placental lactogen and bovine growth hormone in young lambs
- Voluntary feed intake, growth and efficiency of feed conversion in growing sambar (Cervus unicolor) and red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- Comparative performance of Angus cattle and swamp buffalo fed ad libitum either a lucerne hay and concentrate ration or pasture hay
- Herbage intake, ingestive behaviour and diet selection in sheep grazing Holcus lanatus and perennial ryegrass swards
- The effect of pasture height on herbage intake and ewe production under continuous stocking management during the autumn
- Effect of contrasting spring grazing management on summer-autumn pasture and milk production of mixed ryegrass-clover dairy swards
- Effects of herbage allowance and a high protein supplement on dairy cows grazing on autumn-winter pastures
- The effect of different perennial ryegrass cultivars on dairy animal performance
- The effect of block and paddock grazing in winter on cow behaviour, cow performance and herbage accumulation
- Some effects of feeding pasture silage as a supplement to pasture on reproductive performance in lactating dairy cows
- Isolation of cDNA subclones encoding ovine glucose transporter proteins
- Effect of once daily milking and concurrent somatotropin (bST) on production and mammary tight junction permeability in cows
- The utilisation of whole body cysteine by the mammary gland of the lactating goat
- Mammary involution in ewes: Changes in milk plasminogen and plasmin
- Bovine growth hormone and its effects on the local production of prostacyclin I, and mammary blood flow in dairy cows
- The effect of peripartum administration of ovine prolactin on lactogenesis in autumn-lambing ewes
- Effect of breed on plasma carotene concentration in New Zealand dairy heifers
- Relationships between major milk whey proteins in blood plasma and milk yield in dairy cattle
- Mouse mammary fat pad interacts with mitogens to stimulate epithelial growth in vitro
- Prenatal wool follicle development in Romney, Merino and Merino-Romney cross sheep
- The effect of long-day photoperiod treatments on plasma prolactin and wool follicle activity in New Zealand Wiltshire sheep
- Comparison of methods for measuring fibre diameter of Romney wool
- The effect of whole body cysteine supplementation on cysteine utilization by the skin of a well-fed sheep
- The effect of manipulation of plasma prolactin concentration on cashmere growth in spring
- Effect of level of nutrition and season on fibre growth in alpacas
- Liveweight and fleece production from New Zealand, South African and first cross Angora goats
- The processing of different staple strength wools
- Repeatability of seasonal wool growth in Merino sheep
- Wool characteristics of fine-wool sheep in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
- Effect of nutrition on fine wool production in Merino wethers
- Chiapas sheep - wool production and animal health in a unique sheep breed
- Issues of sustainability in animal production and the implications for science: An international perspective
- The role of women in livestock production in eastern Turkey
- Animal Production in eastern Turkey
- Reduction of carcass fatness in overfat lambs fed low energy diets supplemented with protein
- Carcass, liver and kidney characteristics of lambs grazing plantain (Plantago lanceolata), chicory (Cichorium intybus), white clover (Trifolium repens) or perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)
- Variation in the pH of lamb meat within and between sheep breeds
- Prediction of beef carcass yield from selected commercial cuts expressed as a percentage of side weight
- A comparison of the carcass and meat quality of Awassi-cross and Texel-cross ram lambs
- Ultrasound measurements predict estimated adipose and muscle weights better than carcass measurements
- The effects of condensed tannin in Lotus corniculatus upon nutrient metabolism and upon body and wool growth in grazing sheep
- Effects of pre-lamb and conventional full-wool shearing on the productivity of ewes
- The effects of season on placental development and fetal growth in sheep
- Reproductive performance of ewes after grazing on G27 red clover, a low formononetin selection in cultivar Pawera
- Residual effect of a four weeks grazing of oestrogenic red clover on reproductive performance of ewes in the following six weeks
- Hormonal and ovarian responses in Romney ewe hoggets after synchronisation and superovulation treatment
- Effect of selection for greasy fleece weight on the components of fleece weight in New Zealand Romney sheep
- Growth rates, wool production and health of Awassi and Texel crossbred ram lambs
- Genetic and phenotypic parameters associated with lean tissue growth in Dorset Down sheep
- Responses to selection for lean tissue growth in Dorset Down sheep
- Effects of milking frequency and machine stripping on milk yields of Dorset ewes
- Selection for or against facial eczema susceptibility in sheep
- Increasing per cow milk solids production in a pasture-based dairy system by manipulating the diet: A review
- Accounting for scale effects in genetic evaluation of dairy cattle
- Predicting the influence of high breeding index dairy sires on farm productivity
- Effects of once daily milking in later lactation on cows with either low or high initial somatic cell counts
- Blood and urinary metabolites in cattle differing in susceptibility to bloat
- The variation in milk composition from individual B-lactoglobulin AA and BB phenotype cows
- Anti goat IGF binding protein 3 antibodies from chicken egg yolk
- Characterization and regulation of cationic amino acid transport in bovine mammary epithelial cells
- Evidence for a diffusible factor influencing the switching of ovine and bovine milk gene expression leads to identification of factors potentially involved
- The effects of restricted suckling and prepartum nutritional level on reproductive performance of primiparous crossbred beef cows
- Managing the high performance beef cow herd - where to next?
- The stock unit system - fair treatment for the breeding cow?
- The complementary contribution of the beef cow to other livestock enterprises
- Nutritional buffering: Do we make the best use of this phenomena in the breeding cow
- Biological efficiency: How relevant is this concept to beef cows in a mixed livestock, seasonal pasture supply context?
- How relevant are current and emerging genetic technologies to the beef breeding cow?
- Current and emerging reproductive technologies for beef breeding cows
- In vitro production of cattle embryos: Use in beef twinning programmes
- Determining the number of calves in early pregnancy using real-time ultrasound imaging in beef cows induced to twin
- Farm management research in New Zealand and its contribution to animal production
- Risk perceptions and management responses to risk in pastoral farming in New Zealand
- The New Zealand policy framework for sustainable agriculture and some implications for animal production research
- Think globally, act locally - Roles for science in enabling local actions for sustainable resource management behaviours
- Use of a grazing model to study management and risk
- Farm management implications of a seasonal price differential for factory supply milk production
- Making use of technology diffusion
- The use of a marketing approach to improve the development of new technologies: A case study
- Variable animal performance and farm diversification
- Use of simulation models in research
- The on-farm impact of beef production technologies
- The role of systems research in animal science
- Physical performance / financial performance... Ne'er the twain shall meet?
Volume 53 ( 1993 )
- Presidential Address 1993
- Rate of intake by sheep of different genotypes of subterranean clover in the vegetative growth stage
- Herbage allowance - intake - production relationships in continuously stocked winter- and spring-lambing ewes.
- Grazing management strategies for the production of fine Merino wool in North Island conditions
- The relationship between staggers and diarrhoea in lambs grazing different components of endophyte-infected ryegrass
- An evaluation of a possible complementary effect of grazing goats witlh bulls in an intensive bull beef system
- Intake and liveweight change of hoggets grazing pastures differing in dead matter content in autumn
- A comparison of the effect of split and single applications of nitrogen fertiliser on dairy production
- Experiences with on-off grazing in early lactation on dairy farms in Northland
- The relationship between breeding index and conception rate and the cost of delayed conception
- Farm monitoring - Review of the Northland focal farm scheme
- Milk Production and Production Index Comparisons in Mixed Breed Dairy Herds
- The relationship between milkfat production per hectare and economic farm surplus on New Zealand dairy farms
- The potential of industry by-products as supplementary feeds for dairy cows in the Hawkes Bay region.
- Ensiled roughages (Chaffhage and Stockhage) as feeds for young calves
- Effects of body covers on milk production by cows during winter, and on oxygen consumption by young calves
- Effect of distance walked on dairy production and milk quality
- Utilisation of white clover pasture and maize silage by the lactating d.airy cow
- Short term changes in selected metabolites in pasture fed dairy cows during peak lactation
- Pasture protein and soluble carbohydrate levels in spring dairy pasture and associations with cow performance
- The application of controlled calving and breeding programmes to the management of large dairy herds
- A prototype sire evaluation for New Zealand dairy cattle
- Liveweight, feed intake and feed conversion efficiency of lactating dairy cows
- A case control study of anoestrum in New Zealand dairy cows
- Differences in the concentrations of glucose and related metabolites in the milk of Jersey and Friesian cows
- As applied agricultural scientists we serve....?
- Goals and management strategies of dairy farmers
- Extension agents can perform more effectively through an appreciation of individual learning styles
- The effects on adoption of beef breeding cow technologies of selected farm business standards, farmer demographics, and farmer beliefs
- Drying off management and the use of management aids on seasonal supply dairy farms
- Animal toxicity problems perceived to be associated with different pasture types on East Coast sheep/beef farms
- Vasodilatory properties of parathyroid hormone-related protein in the mammary gland of the lactating goat
- Regulation of growth in cultured mammary epithelium from beef and dairy heifers
- Factors affecting the production of lactose by ovine mammary cells in vitro
- An appraisal of the utility of primary cell culture from sheep udders to investigate the control of mammary function
- The effect of once daily milking on concentrations and yields of plasminogen, plasmin and other whey proteins
- The effect of an extended milking interval on mammary blood flow and tight junctions between mammary cells in goats
- Expression of milk genes in ruminant mammary tissue, is it subject to local controlling factors?
- B-lactoglobulin expression in bovine mammary tissue
- The nature of the microcirculation in the mammary gland of the lactating rat
- Farm animal welfare contract
- Facility design in relation to animal behaviour, stress and bruising
- Is the welfare of dairy cows at risk from current farm practices?
- Behavioural quantification of welfare in farmed red deer
- Castration, tail docking and dehorning - What are the constraints?
- Humane slaughter: an achievable goal?
- Ewe maternal behaviour score and ewe and lamb activity from birth to suckling
- Twin-suckling beef cows using foster calves: effects on calf and cow performance
- Reduced visibility lowers bull aggression
- Improving productivity with better stock handling
- The welfare status of egg-production in New Zealand
- Does intensive pig farming have a viable future? - Concerns over housing and welfare
- Animal welfare - a threat or an opportunity for research, farming and trade
- Repeatability estimates and selection flock effects for faecal nematode egg counts in Romney breeding ewes
- An investigation of sire by location interactions for faecal nematode egg counts in lambs
- Internal parasites and lamb production - a role for plants containing condensed tannins?
- Stability of ivermectin resistance in a field strain of Ostertagia spp
- Establishment of resistance to Haemonchus contortus by Saanen kids
- Effects of rumensin anti-bloat capsules on plasma magnesium concentration and aspects of health and performance of pastured dairy cows
- Intake and excretion of cadmium in sheep fed fresh herbage
- The effects of endophyte ingestion on immune function in sheep
- Changing the sex ratio at birth in lambs, calves and deer: Implications for productivity and genetic gain in breeding flocks and herds in New Zealand
- Twinning in beef cows: preliminary results from embryo transfer studies
- Combination treatments for synchronising oestrus in dairy heifers
- An enzymeimmunoassay to measure oestrone sulphate in cows' milk
- Effects of melatonin implants on mating performance of Romney and Poll Dorset rams
- The Booroola (FecB) and Inverdale (FecXI) genes influence ovarian development in early foetal life
- How effective are exogenous progestins in mimicking the function of the corpus luteum of female cattle?
- Effects of CIDR withdrawal - insemination interval on conception rate in sheep AI
- Effect of diluent and storage time on pregnancy rate in ewes after intra-uterine insemination
- The date of onset of puberty in ewe lambs as an indicator of the ability to breed out-of-season
- Oestrus, ovarian activity and embryo survival in ewes grazing high and low oestrogenic red clover
- Relationships between loose wool bulk and follicle and fibre characteristics in yearling Perendale sheep
- Textile Evaluation of Texel Wools
- Variability in the susceptibility of wool to yellowing
- Seasonal and between sheep differences in medullation of wool fibres
- Wool growth responses of Romney rams selected for high or low wool strength to nutrient supplementation in winter
- Skin follicle development in South African (SA) and SA x New Zealand Angora goats
- Seasonal fibre growth patterns in three breeds of down goat
- Hormone/metabolite levels in young rams as predictors of genetic merit for backfat depth and fleeceweight
- Liveweight and body condition change through pregnancy as a predictor of ewe litter size
- Awassi lamb performance in New Zealand quarantine
- Heritability of ultrasonic fat and muscle depths in Romney sheep
- Comparison of seasonal wool growth pattern and colour variation in fleece weight selected and control Romney flocks
- Investigation into the possibility of a major gene for fleece weight in screened sires
- Selection programmes for nematode resistant sheep in commercial flocks
- How reliable are sheep pedigrees?
- Plasma prolactin in Romney sheep selected for hogget fleece weight
- Serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I during the oestrous cycle in ewes selected for lamb production
- Metabolic changes in sheep divergently selected for plasma IGF-1
- Prediction in animal production models based on the allometric hypothesis when the size variable is random
- Fat colour and meat colour in different breeds of steers in five consecutive years raised on pasture and slaughtered at 30 months of age
- The use of commercial grading probes for classifying lamb carcasses
- Relationships between objective and subjective measurements of carcass muscularity
- Impact of pre- and post-mortem factors on calpains and meat quality in lambs
- A comparison of carcass and meat characteristics and organ weights of castrate and entire male buffalo and cattle
- The evaluation of kiwifruit vinegar as a stock feed
- Plasma concentrations of progesterone and luteinizing hormone during CIDR device insertion and the oestrous cycle of fallow deer (Dama dama)
- Studies of alternative selection policies for the New Zealand sport horse
- Selecting on pubertal traits to increase beef cow reproduction
- Horse serum contains a novel insulin-like growth factor binding protein
- Time and incidence of foetal mortality in alpacas
- What might be the consequences of adapting wild animals, such as wapiti, to a farm environment?
- A cell culture model to detect IGF receptor expression during the cell proliferation cycle
- Measurement of relative levels of radioactivity in labelled tissue sections using image analysis
- Ovine IGF Antisense RNAs?
- Effects of stress and nutritional changes on the ranking of cattle on plasma caroten concentrations
Volume 52 ( 1992 )
- Presidential Address 1992
- Dairy Production in developing countries
- Production, Economic Performance and Optimum Stocking Rates of Holstein-Friesian and Jersey Cows
- A conceptual framework for an expert system to improve drying off decisions on seasonal supply dairy farms
- The effects of milking once daily throughout lactation on the performance of dairy cows grazing on pasture
- Concentrations of oestrone sulphate in milk during pregnancy in dairy cows
- Blood metabolites near calving in twin-pregnant and single-pregnant cows
- Oestrus synchronisation and oestrus detection in Swamp Buffaloes (Bubalus bzrbalis)
- Expected responses in carcass composition to selection for muscularity in sheep
- The value of ultrasound in assessing the leg muscling of lambs
- Factors affecting repeatability of tissue depth determination by real-time ultrasound in sheep
- A comparison between subjective and objective (carcass weight plus GR or the Hennessy Grading Probe) methods for classifying lamb carcasses.
- Subcutaneous fat distribution as assessed by ultrasound in Border Leicester and Dorset Down ewe hoggets
- Lambs selected for fast glucose clearance have high meat pH levels when stressed before slaughter
- Effect of selection for productive traits on internal parasite resistance in sheep
- A comparison of internal parasitism in fleeceweight-selected and control Romney sheep
- Reproduction in flocks selected for and against lamb faecal egg count
- Developments in breeding Perendale sheep for resistance or susceptibility to internal nematode parasites
- Breed variation in expression of faecal nematode egg count
- The behaviour and welfare of calves during unloading after transportation
- The importance of physiological measurements in farm animal stress research
- Growth and venison production from red deer grazing either pure red clover or perennial ryegrass/white clover pasture
- Nutrient supply for lamb growth from Grasslands Puna chicory (Cichorium intybus) and Wana cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata)
- The nutritive value of Lotus for sheep
- A comparison of grain and pasture finishing of heavyweight cattle
- Angora goat production from different legumes mixed with ryegrass
- Nutritional effects on the calpain system in skeletal muscle of sheep
- Magnesium Solubility in the caecum in response to pH changes
- Computer Applications: Meeting the information needs of a business
- The role of computer software in the feeding of farm livestock
- The use of farm computers in animal management
- Computer use on my farm
- The National Database for sheep genetic evaluation and research
- A terminal sire breeding programme based on screening for hogget liveweight
- Genetic parameters and performance of flocks selected for advanced lambing date
- Genetic parameters for live weights in fallow deer (Darna darna L.)
- Interspecies hybrids of deer - a ruminant resource for gene mapping and quantitative trait studies
- The use of protein polymorphism and DNA fingerprinting to solve complex pedigree problems in deer
- Modelling herd efficiency in liveweight-selected and control Angus cattle
- Melatonin secretion in Romney ewes differing in wool growth and reproduction is not aligned to photoperiod during spring and summer
- Dose-response to a single injection of PMSG in Merino ewes carrying a double copy of the Booroola FecR gene
- The effect of pretreatment with progesterone on the oestrous response to oestradioL-17B benzoate in the post-partum dairy cow
- Melatonin for cashmere production in breeding does
- Seasonal effects on the effkacy of intravaginal CIDR devices for oestrous synchronization of farmed fallow deer (Dama dama)
- Timing of the LH peak and ovulations in superovulated Coopworth ewes synchronised with progesterone-containing CIDRR devices
- Effect of sire, breed and age on plasma FSH concentrations in FeB FecB and Fec+ Fec+ Booroola rams before and after castration
- Effects of suppressed prolactin levels on wool growth in Romney ewes
- The breeding season of pubertal red deer hinds
- Advancing calving in red deer: The effects on growth and sexual development
- Measurement of foetal size by ultrasonography and progesterone concentrations in pregnant alpacas.
- Testis size and endocrine parameters in rams as predictors of aseasonality in their daughters
- Effects of shearing method on the physiology and productivity of sheep
- Lamb and milk production in Awassi, Assaf, Booroola-Awassi and Booroola-Assaf sheep in Israel
- Effects of location and source of ewes and rams on the onset of oestrus in Romney ewes
- Comparison of growth, hogget fleece weight and reproductive traits of three sheep breeds from a flock selected for prolificacy and a Romney control flock
- Wool production from wet and dry ewes on southern North Island hill country
- A modelling study of the productivity and profitability of unmated and mated ewes on North Island hill country
- Comparative performance of ewes shorn either once-yearly or 3 times in 2 years
- Sheep growth rates under Pinus Radiata
- A pilot evaluation of shedding sheep breeds compared with non-shedding breeds for susceptibility to nematodes and flystrike
- Reproductive performance and liveweight in Romney sheep selected for fleece weight and a control flock
- Slimming diets for overfat lambs
- The effect of condensed tannin containing diets on whole body amino acid utilisation in Romney sheep: consequences for wool growth
- Effects of grazing pressure and competition on growth rate of Merino and Romney lambs
- Effect of physical parameters on ram spermatozoall motility
- Effect of glucose level in culture medium on survival of in vitro cultured sheep embryos following transfer to recipient ewes
- Effect of oestrogen pre-treatment and duration of CIDR treatment on pattern of onset of oestrus in ewes
- Effects of month and PMSG on the interval from CIDR removal to ovulation in Romney and Merino ewes
- review implicating a two compartment model for the processes of cell division and differentiation in the Wool Follicle
- Investigations of wool follicle morphology and cell proliferation in sheep with different levels of wool production
- Suppression of secondary wool follicle development by administration of placental lactogen to ovine foetuses
- Wool growth and elementa l composition
- Response s to selectio n for wool staple strength in Romney sheep
- Fibre production, shearing procedure and fleece characteristics of alpacas farmed in New Zealand
- Management effects on seasonal fibre quality in Angora goats
- The reduction of cell division rate in wool follicles by noradrenaline
- Cell proliferation during fibre growth initiation in ferret hair follicles
- Precalving nutrition of heavy two year old Angus heifers weighing 415 kg at calving
- The effect of sward surface height on ingestive behaviour and intake of once-bred and non-pregnant heifers under continuous stocking management in early winter
- Effects of GnRH and of single versus multiple mating on the conception rate in alpacas
- A bibliographic database on the biology of the sheep and goat
Volume 51 ( 1991 )
- Presidential Address 1991
- A review of recent developments on the effect of nutrition on ovulation rate (the flushing effect) with particular reference to research at Ruakura
- Impact of potential change in climate and atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide on pasture and animal production in New Zealand
- Greenhouse gas production by ruminants in New Zealand: a serious problem, or just hot air?
- The welfare of sheep during sea transport
- The sexual behaviour of alpacas imported to New Zealand from Chile
- DNA variation among seven New Zealand sheep breeds
- Oestrous behaviour and Meal function in anoestrous red deer hinds treated with a GnRH analogue or oestradiol
- Effects of immunisation against LHRH on body growth, scrotal circumference, and carcass composition in yearling Red deer stags
- The use of unfrozen semen for in vitro fertilisation of in vitro matured bovine oocytes
- The timing of oestrus, LH surge and ovulation in ewes following synchronisation with MAP sponges FGA sponges or CIDR's
- The use of dinucleotide repeats or microsatellites as genetic markers in domestic animals
- Sheep map: The New Zealand programme to map the sheep genome
- The use of fullsibling pairs to measure plasma FSH concentrations in Booroola ewe and ram lambs
- Karyotyping Booroola gene carriers
- Effects of daily larval challenge on the performance of breeding ewes from late pregnancy to post weaning
- Localisation of a-lactalbumin gene expression in sheep mammary tissue
- Rumen digesta and other body measurements in relation to bloat susceptibility in cattle
- A simplified MOET technique for Merino ewes carrying a double copy of the Booroola FecB gene
- The efficacy of used CIDR devices for synchronisation of oestrus and post-mating treatment
- Factors influencing the time to onset of oestrus after synchronisation treatment in ewes
- Out-of-season embryo transfer in five breeds of imported sheep
- Oxygen consumption and the energy costs of Na+,K+ -transport in the rumen of Holstein-Freisian steers
- Superovulation in ewes: are follicle numbers a useful predictor of ovulation rate?
- Evaluation of the feasibility of a juvenile MOET scheme in sheep
- Artificial insemination using the buck effect to partially synchronise cashmere does
- Fertility of fallow deer (Dama dama) does following synchronisation of oestrus with CIDR devices or prostaglandin
- The influence of sward structure on peak bite force and bite weight in sheep
- The effect of varying leafy sward height and bulk density on the ingestive behaviour of young deer and sheep
- The effects of season and herbage mass on the nutritive value of prairie grass cv. Grasslands Matua and perennial ryegrass
- Effect of high and sustained zinc supplements on trace element metabolism in sheep
- Goat behaviour patterns in hill country
- The effect of three allowances of red clover on Red deer fawn growth and liveweight change in lactating hinds
- Lactational physiology contract
- The effects of once daily milking as a management practice in late lactation
- The effects of oxytocin and bovine somatotropin on production of cows milked once a day
- Comparative wool production of Texel, Oxford Down, Finnish Landrace and Romney sheep
- Autocrine control in milk production and mammary development
- a-Lactalbumin - The milk manipulator's dream
- Ribozyme mediated modification of a-lactalbumin gene expression
- Lactation in transgenic mice expressing the ovine B-lactoglobulin gene
- Plasma hormone concentrations in pasture-fed Friesian cows treated with recombinantly-derived bovine somatotropin (bST)
- The time-course of milk yield and hormonal responses following growth hormone injections in hourly-milked goats
- Secretion of insulin-like growth factor I and II from blood into milk of lactating goats
- Alternatives and supplements to pasture for growing lambs in winter
- Growth, reproduction and fibre production of alpacas imported from Chile
- Four methods of harvesting cashmere from breeding does
- Are yearling heifer mating and more productive beef cow breeds a worthwhile use of winter feed?
- Lamb and hogget wool production from crosses of new and traditional sheep breeds
- Antibody-mediated enhancement of growth hormone activity: application to animal production
- The effect of cow age and management of winter liveweight gain, liveweight at calving and subsequent effects on dairy production in a seasonal supply herd
- The selection and breeding of Merino sheep for footrot resistance
- Integrating sheep and goats
- Selection for resistance to parasites in sheep
- Dairying in the south
- Integrating pastoral venison and beef production
- Computer software to increase the efficiency of the New Zealand sheep industry
- comparison between lamb drafters and the Phillips Fat Displacement Meter (PFDM) for predicting GR, hot carcass weight and class in live lambs
- Development of a self-drafting system for oestrus ewes
- Within-flock ranking of loose wool bulk and fibre diameter to predict wool lustre
- Non-milk constituents in replacers for calf rearing
- Artificial insemination and synchronised natural breeding in Red deer
- Relative economic values of wool processing parameters
- Bulk and its structural basis: A review
- Effect of selecting Perendale hoggets for loose wool bulk on fleece characteristics and wool end-product performance
- Fleece production responses to Merino fine wool index selection
- Nutritional effects on fibre growth cycles and medullated fibre production in Angora goats
- An evaluation of the New Zealand Wiltshire sheep as a model for studies on the physiology of fibre growth
- Effects of fasting and an opioid antagonist on food intake in lambs infected with intestinal parasites
- Susceptibility of the breeding ewe to parasitism
- Effects of two methods of fibre removal on the cold resistance of cashmere goats
- Wool growth in autumn and spring lambing ewes
- A modelling study of once-bred heifer beef production
- Wool sulphur concentration in fleeceweight-selected and control Romney hoggets
- Selection for lean and against fat in sheep
- Analysis of lamb schedules and relative economic values of lean and fat
- Best linear unbiased prediction for across-flock/year breeding values
- Responses to divergent selection for plasma insulin-like growth factor-l (IGF-1 ) in sheep
- Genetic parameters for New Zealand cashmere goats
- The use of fine and coarse bucks and G4 does for breeding for cashgora production
- The effect of sodium bicarbonate on yield and composition of milk from grazing cows in early lactation
- Effects of the digestibility of hay on milk production by cows grazing on restricted pasture
- Screening herds for cows with a history of twin calving
- Factors affecting beef finishing efficiency on pasture
- Optimization of "herd-in-calf rate" with respect to the length of the post-partum anoestrous period in Angus cows suckling calves
- Short term intake of Freisian heifers grazing three pasture species
Volume 50 ( 1990 )
- Presidential Address 1990
- Nutrition of the grazing ruminant
- Plants for grazing systems
- Present and future grazing systems
- Comparitive nutrition of deer and goats, goats and sheep
- Effect of duodenal infusion of protein or amino acids on retention of lambs consuming fresh herbage
- Estimation of the pasture horisons grazed by cattle, sheep and goats during single and mixed grazing
- Pasture dry matter and drinking water intake of grazing red deer stags and steers
- Exploiting the physiology of growth
- Regulation of growth by the growth hormone axis
- Nutritional partitioning of growth for productive gain
- Growth responses of fat and muscle in the lamb to intra-arterial infusions of bovine insulin
- The insulin status of sheep with genetic differences in glucose tolerance and carcass composition
- Characterisation of the insulin status of lambs and consequences for carcass composition
- Neuroendocrine control of growth hormone release in sheep: Effect of dose and route of administration of growth hormone releasing factor on plasma growth hormone levels
- Plasma urea dilution patterns in Southdown ram lambs from high and low backfat selection lines
- Understanding and exploiting the physiology and endocrinology of reproduction to enhance reproductive efficiency in cattle
- Developments in artificial insemination and controlled breeding in dairy cattle and deer in New Zealand
- How does the F gene influence ovulation rates in booroola ewes? A 1990 perspective
- Studies into the mechanisms by which nutrition influences ovulation rate: use of the ovariectomized ewe model
- Effect of oestradiol implants and protein nutrition on plasma FSH levels in ovariectomised ewes
- The effects of nutrition oestradiol, phenobarbital and carbon tetrachloride on ovulation rate and plasma FSH in ewes
- In$uction of oestrus in the ovariectomised red deer with exogenous progesterone and oestradiol benzoate
- Comparison of commercial gonadotrophins using bioassays
- The germline manipulation of livestock: progress during the past five years
- Developments in domestic animal embryo manipulation technology which support the application of molecular biology to animal production
- Development and use of gene transfer in New Zealand
- The future impact of new opportunities in reproductive physiology and molecular biology on genetic improvement programmes
- Ethics and animal production
- The challenge of endoparasitism: developments in the control of nematode infections of sheep
- The sheep's immune response to nematode parasites and prospects for its exploitation
- The effect of endoparasitism on host nutrition - the implications for nutrient manipulation
- A model for nematodiasis in New Zealand lambs: preliminary evaluation of strategies for nematode control
- Studies on the physiological basis of appetite depression in nematode infection in sheep
- Facial eczema in Jersey cattle : heritability and correlation with production
- Occurrence and effects of sub-clinical hypocalcaemia in dairy cows
- Effect of increasing Fe intake on the Fe and Cu content of tissues in grazing sheep
- Milk production by cows grazing on Matua prairie grass (Bromus willdenowii Kunth) pastures maintained under different managements
- The measurement of serum immunoglobulin concentration to estimate lamb colostrum intake
- Responses in venison production to grazing pastures based upon perennial ryegrass or annual ryegrass and to immunisation against melatonin
- Postweaning growth and carcass leanness of lambs that differed in preweaning growth rate
- Carcass and meat quality in possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)
- Concentration of melatonin in plasma of goats treated with Regulin
- Fleece weight and wool characteristics of Merino ewes screened into a superfine selection flock
- Wool production and other characteristics of progeny from high performance Coopworths x Romney rams
- Changes in the fur quality of caged brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) maintained in capitivity
- Seasonal fibre replacement and harvesting of fur in brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)
- Nutrition effects on fibre quaIity in Angora goats during spring
- Effect of shearing once-yearly in January, once-yearly in July or twice-yearly in January and July on ewe performance
- Goat fibre response to melatonin given in spring in two consecutive years
- Melatonin for cashmere productiov
- The pastoral animal industries in the 21st century
- Animal production in the future - a New Zealand response
- Animal researchers and farmers must take heed of changing attitudes toward animal weIfare and the protection of the environment
- What the market will need from milk production
- Animal industries of the 21st century : a meat industry viewpoint
- Animal industries into the 21st century: a wool perspective
- Animal industries in the 21st century - conclusions and challenges
- Comparison of growth and carcass traits of ram lambs of three breeds from a flock screened for prolificacy and a Romney control flock
- Genetic parameters for in vivo body measurements in Suffolk sheep
- Adsorption of DNA to the sperm of rams, bulls and fallow bucks
- The Booroola F gene is excluded from close genetic linkage with either the haemoglobin B or follicle stimulating hormone B loci
- DNA profiling in sheep
- Responses to modern technology within the New Zealand sheep breeding industry
- Factors influencing the success of a large scale artificial insemination programme in sheep
- Experiences in the application of embryo bisection in sheep MOET programmes
- Intraruminal chromium controlled release capsules for measuring herbage intake in ruminants - a review
- Animal production and the "greenhouse gases"
- A computational model to predict lamb growth
- Mating performance of Texel rams
- Magnetic resonance imaging of live pigs to assess body composition
- Comparison of herbage intakes estimated from in vitro or alkane-based digestibles
- Fertility of anestrus ewes infused with gonadotropin releasing hormone or injected with pregnant mares' serum gonadotropin
- Genetic analysis in sheep using hypervariable DNA probes
- The use of the somatic cell count of composite milk samples to predict the infection status of the udder in cows from New Zealand dairy herds
- Oestrus activity in Booroola Merino, New Zealand fine wool Merino and Poll Dorset ewes from October to February
- Effects of varying the progesterone content of CIDR intravaginal devices and multiple UDR treatments on plasma hormone concentrations and residual hormone content
- The effect of early exposure to facial eczema on ewe lifetime production
- The effect of pre-mating feeding level and age on liveweight change on reproductive performance of cashmere does
- Biochemical mechanisms related to overfatness in lambs
- Milk production and plasma prolactin levels in spring- and autumn- lambing ewes
- Use of high fleece weight Romney rams for out-of-season lambing
- Carcass composition of autumn-and spring-born lambs
- Feasibility of intensive artificial insemination programmes using natural oestrus subsequent to synchronisation with CIDR-G in Merino ewes
- Hogget fleece weight and fleece characteristics of Texel x Romney, Texel x Coopworth, Romney and Coopworth sheep
- New Zealand Society of Animal Production - The First 50 Years
Volume 49 ( 1989 )
- Observations on resistance and 'self-cure' to nematode parasites exhibited by grazing lambs and Saanen kids
- Presidential Address 1989
- Biological efficiency for venison production in red deer
- Efficacy of Coprin in deer and sheep: An evaluation and comparative study
- Comparative effects of dietary molybdenum concentration on distribution of copper in plasma in sheep and red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- Water intake of red deer stags consuming dryland pasture or indoors on concentrated feeds
- A study of early venison production from grazing red deer
- Effect of melatonin immunisation on liveweight gain of red deer
- The effect of exogenous melatonin, administered in summer, on wool growth and testis diameter of Romneys
- Effect of Regulin implants on spring fertility, lactation and down growth of cashmere does
- Do melatonin implants influence the breeding season in Coopworth ewes?
- Effects of melatonin on body weight, appetite and seasonal fur growth in the ferret
- Construction of a bovine gene map
- Development of cattle of superior genotypes: Novel approaches to increasing tolerance of dairy cows to extended milking intervals
- Development of cattle with a modified genotype: Embryological techniques needed for the efficient production of transgenics
- Control of the oestrous cycle in farm animals: A review
- The effect of the F gene on characteristics of Booroola x Romney ram sperm
- CIDR-B for managed reproduction in beef cows and heifers
- Recent developments in animal breeding programmes
- Effect of active immunisation with follicular fluid on ovulation rates in Romney ewes
- Induction of twin ovulations in red deer hinds with steroid-free bovine follicular fluid
- Ultrasonic fat depths in Romney lambs and hoggets from lines selected for different production traits
- Changing the body composition of sheep by feeding
- Effect of liveweight gain or loss on lamb meat quality
- Variation in composition and eating quality of New Zealand export beef
- The effect of pH on colour and drip loss of lamb chops thawed in air and CO2
- Liver catalase in Southdown sheep selected for high and low backfat depth
- Carcass composition of New Zealand Saanen goats
- Meat yields and chemical composition of muscle in New Zealand goats
- Nutrition effects on live weight and reproduction of Cashmere doe hoggets
- Fibre growth cycles of unselected, reproducing cashmere does discussed in relation to winter shearing
- The effect of integrated grazing of goats, sheep and cattle on animal productivity and health on high-producing hill country pastures
- Artificial insemination of farmed feral goats with frozen-thawed semen
- Effects of cold conditions on the oxygen consumption of shorn goats
- Estimates of environmental effects and genetic parameters for live weights and fleece traits of Angora goats
- Romney male and female heritabilities and genetic correlations for weaning, autumn and spring body weights and hogget fleece weights
- Technical aspects of the Animalplan system
- Correlated responses in a weight-selection experiment with beef cattle
- Multiple pregnancy diagnosis of ewes using real time ultrasonic body scanner and video-fluoroscopy systems
- Relative wool production of wethers and ewes of different rearing status
- Performance of visually or objectively culled ewe hoggets
- Effects of selection for shear strength on the voluntary intake and digestion of perennial ryegrass fed to sheep
- Effects of selection for shear strength on structure and rumen digestion of perennial ryegrass
- Magnesium absorption from the large intestine of sheep
- The influence of sward height on the mechanics of grazing in steers and bulls
- Early lambing in Hawkes Bay: The effect of pasture allowance and protein supplementation at pasture on lamb growth rates
- Effect of spraying pasture with fungicide on growth rates of grazing lambs in autumn and spring
- Seasonal pattern of ovulation in Merino Romney and Merino x Romney ewes
- Mating Romney ewes in November-December using ClDRs and pregnant mare serum gonadatrophin
- Lamb production from Merino-type ewes lambing in May and August in Victoria
- Breeding season of Romney and Poll Dorset ewes at different locations and the reproductive penalties of a June joining
- Early lambing in Hawkes Bay: Use of the ram effect
- The growth of lambs throughout the year in the Waikato
- Lambing of Romney and Booroola cross hoggets with and without the F gene under different pasture allowances
- Effects of nutrition and shearing during pregnancy on birth weight in highly fecund Boorools-cross sheep
- An alternative hogget-two tooth shearing policy for summer-dry regions in New Zealand
- Inheritance of loose wool bulk
- A note on the use of number of permanent incisor teeth for determining age in sheep
- Effect of different ivermectin treatments on weight gains in beef weaners
Volume 48 ( 1988 )
- DairyMAN: A Massey University animal management program
- Presidential Address 1988
- Farm factors that influence the eating qualitites of lamb meat
- Meat flavour of Romney lambs grazed under Pinus radiata
- Effects of rate of weight gain and weight loss on the relationship between carcass weight and GR measurements in cryptorchid lambs
- Effects of oestradiol on skeletal growth in iambs
- The stability of the relationship between subcutaneous fat percent in the rack and the side for Southdown ram carcasses
- comparison of ultrasound backfat measurements on sheep
- Leanness of young sheep that lost weight after shearing
- Growth and carcass traitssmLePpurebred Texel and Suffolk sheep
- Carcass composition of exotic sheep breeds
- The influence of breed on the meat content of beef carcasses for export
- Early growth and reproduction of exotic sheep breeds - a preliminary report
- Factors affecting AB conception rates in cattle
- Experiences with artificial insemination in goats
- Cervical versus laparoscopic Al of goats after PMSG injection at or 48 hours before CIDR removal
- Induction of ovulation in anoestrous red deer hinds with a GnRH analogue
- The influence of abomasal infusion of protein or energy on ovulation rate in ewes
- Effect of nutrition on the ovulatory response of Coopworth ewes to varying doses of two FSH preparations
- The development of an autumn lambing flock of Dorset x Romney ewes without the use of hormones
- Performance parameters in an autumn lambing ewe flock
- Development of systems for out-of-season lambing at Limestone Downs
- Seasonal changes in oestrus, ovulation and conception of Coopworth ewes treated with ClDRs and PMSG
- Advancement of the breeding season in Coopworth ewes
- Effects of melatonin on early breeding of F+ and ++ Booroola x Perendale and Romney ewes
- Effects of melatonin on seasonal physiology of red deer
- The effects of disease on productivity and profitability of livestock: How should it be assessed?
- Sporidesmin poisoning in ewes during late pregnancy
- Ovulation rates in ewes selected for resistance to facial eczema and the effect of exposure to zearalenone
- A genetic approach to footrot control
- Development of a dried coiostrum
- Weights of some body organs from cattle selected for high and low susceptibility to bloat
- Components of foam and liquor from the rumen of bloating and non-bloating cows
- Short-and long-term effects of intestinal parasitism on growth in sheep
- Detecting inherited variation in DNA sequences and its application in animal science
- Inherited protein variation and parentage testing in farmed red deer
- Effectiveness of drenching on Saanen milking does
- Measurement of blood flow and amino acid metabolism in the skin of sheep
- The mechanism of action of growth hormone on milk production of ruminants
- Follicle and fleece characteristics of Merinos, Romneys and Merino-Romney crossbreds
- Indirect selection for adult fleece weight using canonical discriminant functions of blood metabolites
- Production and characteristics of wool from the hogget progeny of sheep intensively screened for fleece weight
- Effect of shearing once-yearly in October or twice-yearly in February and October on ewe performance
- Measuring pasture yield ffaor;iivestock management on farms
- Management for milkfat or protein, does it differ?
- Comparative performance and energy metabolism of Jerseys and Friesians in early-mid lactation
- Calf weaning and summer grazing strategies for efficient beef cow use on hill country
- Optimal cow replacement on New Zealand seasonal supply dairy farms
- Physical breakdown of forages during rumination
- Some measurements of ruminated forage particles
- Improving the efficiency of utilisation of pasture protein by sheep
- Se, Cu, Zn and Fe metabolism of the young lamb
Volume 47 ( 1987 )
- Presidential Address 1987
- The potential to increase production efficiency from animal-pasture systems
- Importance of dry matter content to voluntary intake of fresh grass forages
- Barley consumption by lambs during transfer from pasture to barley-based diets
- Behavioural factors influencing by-product and residue acceptance by livestock
- Nutritive value of Lotus corniculatus L. containing low and medium concentrations of condensed tannins for sheep
- Pasture quality and animal performance over late spring and summer
- Predicting animal production from pasture
- Predictive use of a pasture production model on commercial farms: some examples
- The use of a pastoral computer model - a learning experience
- Facial eczema in hill country - potential toxicity and effects on ewe performance
- Effectiveness of the New Zealand brucellosis control scheme for sheep
- The New Zealand scheme to accredit goat flocks free from caprine arthritis-encephalitis
- Trends in monthly milkfat production of cows in seasonal dairy herds in New Zealand
- The effect of selenium supplementation on milk production in dairy cattle
- Some effects of injecting a prostaglandin F2a (Lutalyse) during the post-partum period on the subsequent fertility of dairy cows
- Computer aided tomography - comprehensive body compositional data from live animals
- Bone growth and muscularity
- An assessment of the rate of fat accumulation in ruminant adipose tissue in vitro
- Quantitative risk assessment and cost-effectiveness: two important requirements for meat inspection programmes
- Accessing of slaughterhouse information to livestock production systems
- Reproductive performance of progeny of prolific Romney, Coopworth and Perendale sheep
- Genetic aspects of cold resistance in newborn lambs
- A comparison of lamb growth rate and lean carcass gain within and among farm flocks
- Genetic variation among six strains of Romneys and Border Leicester and Coopworth crosses
- Effect of different shearing policies on sheep production in Northland
- Energy nutrition of young red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds and a comparison with young stags
- A comparison of spring and autumn calving for beef cattle production
- Bull beef production on hill country
- An effect of copper supplementation on growth of beef cattle in Northland
- Livestock diversification in New Zealand involving goats for meat and dairy production
- Salmon farming in New Zealand
- Growth potential and constraints in the New Zealand mussel farming industry
- The male effect - a comparison of rams and bucks for teasing ewes
- The timing of CIDR withdrawal ancf ram introduction on ewe fertility
- The effect of steroid immunisation on the seasonal pattern of oestrus, ovulation and ovulation rate in Coopworth ewes
- Effect of steroid immunisation and vaginal artificial insemination on the fertility of synchronised ewes
- Post-mating progesterone supplementation in ewes and hoggets
Volume 46 ( 1986 )
- Presidential Address 1986
- Inheritance of active and passive humoral immunity in ruminants
- immunity to gastrointestinal nematode parasites in domestic stock with particular reference to sheep: A review
- Genetic variation in resistance or toleranc to internal nematode parasites in strains of sheep in Rotomahana
- The effect of post-ruminal infusion of protein or energy on the pathology of Trichostrongylus colubriformis infection and body composition in lambs
- The effect of different protein/energy intakes on nutrition and physiological parameters in young sheep
- An estimation of the dietary allowances of Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn and Se for single- and twin-bearing ewes
- Observations on the effect of litter size, pregnancy nutrition and fat genotype on ewe and foetal parameters
- Progeny testing for lean meat production breed in the Poll Dorset breed
- Consideration of alternative lamb drafting strategies
- A study of short scrotum, castrated and entire ram lambs
- Prediction of ewe mutton carcass composition from carcass weight, GR and C measurements, and the Hennessy grading probe
- New Zealand beef export carcass grading
- Evidence of genetic improvement in the Angus Breeding Scheme of the Department of Lands and Survey
- Some genetic and non-genetic effects on the first oestrus and pregnancy rate of beef heifers
- Prediction of changes in somatic cell counts due to culling and selection
- Effects of milkfat yield and conformation traits on retention for a second lactation of Friesian and Jersey-sired cows
- Genetic and environmental sources of variation in hogget fleece weight and live weight in Coopworth sheep
- Inheritance of foot and jaw abnormalities in sheep
- Repeatability of reproductive performance following active immunisation of ewes
- Organisation of sheep breeding in France
- Sheep breeding organisation and recording in Iceland
- Further development of sheep recording in New Zealand
- The influence of sheep to cattle rtitios on live-weight gain on pastures grazed to different levels in late spring-summer
- The consequence for feed dry matter intake of grazing sheep, cattle and goats to the same residual herbage mass
- Lambing date, ewe live weight and pasture mass effects on ewe and lamb performance during lactation
- Management practices and productive performance on hill country sheep farms
- Preliminary investigation into factors affecting lamb growth from birth to weaning on Taranaki hill country
- Comparison of autumn/winter with spring pasture for growing beef cattle
- Calving date effects on beef cow productivity
- Ram-induced inhibition of plasma follicle-stimulating hormone (FM) concentrations in anoestrous Romney ewes
- Effect on ovulation rate of increasing or decreasing ovarian exposure to follicle stimulating hormone during the preovulatory period in ewes
- Effects of gonadotrophin releasing hormone (buserelin) on sheep fertility
- The effect of dose level of steroid immunogen on the reproductive performance of ewes
- Early induction of ovulation in yearling red deer hinds
- Advancement of breeding in non-lactating adult red deer hinds
- A marker for red deer - wapiti hybrids
- Reasons and strategy for the introduction of objective measurement of wool
- Benefits and incentives available from objective measurement
- Interpretation of objective measurements of wool by the manufacturer
- Implications of objective measurement for sheep management
- Implications of objective measurement for fleece tenderness research
- Implications of objective measurement of wool for sheep breeding
- Rationalised classing of fine wools
- A comparison of rams from fleece weight-selected and randomly bred Romney flocks for intake, wool growth and feed utilisation
- Live weights, fleece weights and wool characteristics of screened high fleece weight and randomly selected Romney ewe hoggets
- Hogget oestrus synchronisation: a comparison of CIDR and sponges
- Artificial insemination in sheep-comparison of storage time, dose rate and insemination technique
- Development of an effective goat embryo transfer regime
- Haemoglobin type and prolificacy in Booroola sheep
- Ovarian follicular development in Booroola ewe lambs and in highly fecund Booroola ewes
- Viabilitv of frozen sheep embryos and semen imported from Europe
- The cause of reproductive loss in Gisborne-East Coast ewe flocks
- Effect of Fusarium culture and zearalenone on the reproductive performance of ewes
- The effect of pre-natal nutrition and type of birth and rearing of lambs on vigour, temperature and weight at birth, and weight and survival at weaning
- Perinatal lamb losses on a group of commercial sheep farms in Central Canterbury
- The effects of various factors on the relationship between lamb growth rate and ewe milk production
Volume 45 ( 1985 )
- Presidential Address 1985
- Comparative dairy production of Jerseys and Friesians
- Effects of level of feeding at different times of the year on milk production by Friesian cows of high or low genetic merit
- Blood metabolites and infertility in dairy cows
- A physiological basis of genetic improvement in milk production of Friesian and Jersey cows
- The presence of kallikrein-like enzymes in bovine saliva
- Response of cows differing in bloat susceptibility to intraruminal water and electrolyte loading
- Effects of varying feeding time on diurnal calving patterns in dairy cows
- Replacement policies for dairy cows
- The effects of season on reproduction in beef cows - a review
- Are rams necessary for the stimulation of anoestrous ewes with oestrus ewes?
- Influence of follicle stimulating hormone on ovarian follicular development and ovulation rate in Romney ewes
- Swimming speed and fertilisation rates of ram sperm from high and low prolificy populations
- Suppression of T-cell function in the pregnant ewe
- Prediction of lamb carcass composition from GR and carcass weight
- Improved feedback of carcass information from freezing works to farms
- The calculation of a simple lean-growth index for young sheep
- The application of a lean growth index in ram breeding flocks
- Display life of frozen lamb chops. Effect of breed, sex, packaging film and temperature at packaging
- The importance of protein turnover to metabolism and carcass composition of growing lambs
- Leanness of lamb carcases following restricted feeding and shearing
- Skeletal changes and some muscle-skeletal relationships during growth and undernutrition in sheep
- The influence of the ,&adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, on lipid metabolism and carcass composition of sheep
- The effect of level of milk intake on growth rate and herbage intake of Friesian bull calves of high and low breeding index
- Comparative intake of digestible organic matter and water by sheep and goats
- Intake and duodenal protein flow in early weaned lambs grazing white clover, lucerne, ryegrass and prairie grass
- Diurnal patterns of rumen fill in grazing sheep
- Evaluation of by-product feedstuffs: acceptability to cattle and farm feeding procedures
- Nutritional value of 'Grasslands Maku' lotus grown on low fertility soils
- Body energy changes and metabolisable energy requirements in growing and adult sheep at pasture
- Effects of facial eczema on ewe reproduction and ewe and lamb live weights
- A preliminary investigation into factors affecting lamb growth on Taranaki hill country
- Effects of shearing and herbage allowance on the intake, live weight gain and wool growth of Romney ewe hoggets in spring-summer
- Effect of herbage allowance on the productive performance of lactating and non lactating hoggets
- Effects of very low nutrition during pregnancy on live weight and survival of ewes and lambs
- Diagnosis o f foetal number in prolific sheep
- Ewe maternal behaviour score and lamb survival
- Effect of slope on lamb mortality
- Differences among and within crossbred beef cow groups in body condit.ion and live weight
- Immunisation of ewes against steroids: A review
- Effect of season of steroid immunisation and Booroola genotype on the level and duration of response in ovulation rate of ewes
- Effect of steroid immunisation in the performance of 3 breeds of sheep under hill country conditions
- Effect of ewe live weight on the level of response to steroid immunisation
- Ovulation and lambing responses with alternating steroid immunisation over 3 years
- Implications of steroid immunisation for programmes of genetic improvement of sheep
- Does immunisation pay?
- Contract Summary
- A review of the importance of wool traits as genetic improvement objectives and selection criteria for New Zealand Romney sheep
- Resistance and susceptibility to fleece yellowing and relationships with scoured colour
- Inheritance of loose wool bulk in Romney and Perendale sheep
- Estimates of environmental effects and some genetic parameters for weaning weight and fleece weights of young Angora goats
- Effect of post-weaning and post-mating/post-weaning shearing on ewe performance
- Effects of level of nutrition in winter and summer on the wool growth of Romney and Perendale ewes with a history of high or low winter wool growth
Volume 44 ( 1984 )
- Presidential Address 1984
- Synchronisation and artificial insemination of ewes - techniques which have possible commercial application
- The insemination of sheep with fresh or frozen semen
- Predicting parturition in the &we from the pattern of uterine motility
- Effect of season on ovarian and pituitary activity in cows
- The effect of melatonin on the onset of first oestrus in Romney ewe lambs
- Reproductive performance of ewe offspring from ewes immunised against steroid hormones
- Ovarian inhibin: a hormone with potential to increase ovulation rate in sheep
- Ovarian activity in the Booroola x Romney ewe possessing a major gene influencing fecundity
- Management and breeding policies for the use of the Booroola F gene for increased flock prolificacy
- Price premiums for high-bukl Perendael wools
- Effect of shearing on meat and wool production from lambs reared on hill country
- The influence of pasture allowance on performance of autumn-shorn lambs
- Fleece tenderness: the effect of nutrition, age and lambing status on pregnant Romney and Coopworth mixed-age ewes
- Seasonal wool production and staple strength of Romney ewes
- The production characteristics of fitch (Mustella putorius)
- Recent trends in conception rates and return patterns in AB herds and their effects on calving patterns
- Herbage allowance, pasture quality and milkfat production as affected by stocking rate and conservation policy
- Variations in milkfat test, live weight, colour and height associated with the use-of Friesian sires in some New Zealand dairy herds
- The salivary proteins secreted from cannulated parotid and mandibular glands of cattle after pharmacological stimulation
- Some rumen characteristics and performance data of cows differing in bloat susceptibility
- The research potential of shared information resources
- Embryonic and genetic engineering
- Prospects for the stimulation of lactation and growth of ruminants by the administration of growth hormone and related molecules
- Sward conditions, herbage allowance and animal production: an evaluation of research results
- Influence of green leaf distribution on diet selection by sheep and the implications for animal performance
- Diet selection of young ruminants in late spring
- Influence of age of early weaned lambs on intake, digestibility and retention time of clover hay
- Spring-summer grazing management on hill country: effects on ewe performance
- Relative priorities for feed between ewes and ewe in winter and spring: a modelling analysis
- The relationship between New Zealand's geology and soils and trace element deficiencies in grazing animals
- Mineral nutrients in pasture species
- The determination of mineral requirements of sheep and cattle
- Diagnosis of mineral deficiencies in sheep and cattle
- The Prevention and Treatment of Trace Element Deficiencies in Sheep and Cattle
- Trace element deficiencies - a new approach to diagnosis
- The association between selenium status and milk production in dairy cattle
- Sodium requirements of grazing livestock
- The effect of stocking rate on response to cobalt supplementation in sheep
- Live-weight gains of lambs on limed and unlimed pasture at similar levels of nutrition
- Voluntary intake, testis development and antler growth patterns of male red deer under a manipulated photoperiod
- Integrating management of sheep and deer
- Effect of herbage allowance on the performance of pregnant beef heifers
- Terminal sire comparisons of the Charolais and Murray Grey breeds for calving difficulty, calf survival and growth
- Perennial ryegrass staggers research - an overview
- The development and application of ELISA detection of Lolium endophyte in ryegrass staggers research
- Grazing behaviour of sheep and ryegrass staggers
- Theoretical considerations for partitioning nutrients between muscle and adipose tissue
- Consumer acceptance of ram and wether meat in the U.S.A.
- Relationships between insulin-glucose status and carcass fat in lambs
- Effect of "Ralgro" on growth, body composition and behaviour of lambs, heifers and bulls
- Relationship of subcutaneous fat depth and weight changes induced by stocking rate in 4 lines of lambs
- Fatness of lambs grazed on 'Grasslands Maku' lotus and 'Grasslands Huia' white clover
- Lamb live weights at slaughter and carcass grades
- The effects of lamb breed, slaughter age and sex on carcass fat depth and export grade
- Dressing percentages of lambs
- Influence of individual beef cuts on net carcass value
- Relative performance of meat breeds of sheep in New Zealand and overseas
- Expected selection responses in lamb carcass composition and weight
- Selection for productive traits on back fat depth in ewe lambs
- Methods of ranking two-tooth rams for fat-free carcass growth rate
Volume 43 ( 1983 )
- Presidential Address 1983
- Ram induced stimulation of ovarian and oestrous activity in anoestrous ewes - a review
- The effect of the duration and timing of flushing on the ovulation rate of ewes
- Effects of teasing and nutrition on the-duration of the breeding season in Romney ewes
- Hogget lambing and its effect on the subsequent two-tooth performance of three breeds
- Distribution of litter sizes within flocks at different levels of fecundity
- Patterns of lamb survival in high fecundity Booroola flocks
- Hogget lamb mortality
- Nutrition and management of ewes before and after lambing
- Influence of herbage allowance during the suckling period on subsequent growth and carcass fatness of twin lambs weaned at 6 weeks of age
- A low cost method of artificially rearing lambs at pasture
- Date of lambing and sheep production during lactation in Southland
- Performance of an autumn lambing Poll Dorset flock in Northland
- Increasing pregnancy rates in New Zealand dairy cattle,
- The effect of pre-mating injection of an analogue of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) on pregnancy rates to first insemination in.dairy cattle
- The effect of breeding index on the performance of non-lactating Jersey cattle
- Nutritional and physiological studies of differences between Friesian cows of high anti low genetic merit
- Differences in the extent of mammary development between Jersey cows of high or low genetic merit
- Fleece tenderness - a review
- Effect of feeding and season on fleece characteristics of Cheviot, Drysdale and Romney hogget wool
- The heritability of loose wool bulk and colour traits and their genetic and phenotypic correlations with other wool traits
- Genetic variation in incidence of daggy sheep - an indicator of genetic resistance to parasites?
- The importance of the amount of feed on the farm at calving to seasonal milk production
- Relationships between amount of feed on the farm, autumn-winter grazing management and dairy cow performance
- Stocking rate effects in dairying
- Selection for and against susceptibility to bloat in dairy cows - a review
- Integrating livestock and sugar-ethanol production and the dairy industry in Northland - a concept
- Comparison of well and poorly muscled lamb carcasses as selected by experienced meat industry personnel
- Ultrasonic selection for divergence in loin fat depth in Southdowns and Suffolks
- Intake, digestibility and retention time of 2 forages by kids and lambs
- Effects of cold exposure on chewing behaviour and rumen particle size in sheep given 4 diets
- The quantities of zinc, copper, manganese and iron associated with body weight gain and wool growth of young sheep
- Changes in the salivary sodium:potassium ratio in lactating cows in response to changes in sodium intake
- The use of 'Lipiodol' for sub-clinical iodine deficiency in livestock
- Livestock exports: past present future
- Livestock exports: the role of the thoroughbred
- Livestock exports: exporter's viewpoint
- Livestock exports: the advisers' and farmers' view
- Livestock exports: animal health implications
- Livestock exports: national economic significance
- Performance of New Zealand-bred animals in foreign environments
- The management of New Zealand beef cattle exported to South Korea
- Growth and carcass composition of Sahiwal-cross and Friesian bulls
- Behaviour factors influencing the rearing of Sahiwal-cross calves
- Some effects of hot conditions on Brahman or Sahiwal crossbred calves
- Export of animals as frozen embryos
- The improvement and export potential of Bali cattle (Bos bibos-banfeng)
- Ten years reproduction performance data from Angus and Hereford weight selection herds
- Inheritance of wear rate in the teeth of sheep
- Selection efficiency in ram breeding flocks
- Segregation of a major gene influencing ovulation rate in progeny of Booroola sheep in commercial and research flocks
- Genetic variation in uterine efficiency and differential responses to increased ovulation rate in sheep
- Techniques to establish flocks from fecund ewes by superovulation with and without ova transfer
- Effect of antioxidants on the toxicity of the facial eczema toxin, sporidesmin, in sheep
- Sporidesmin concentrations in the bile of sheep resistant or susceptible to sporidesmin dosing
- Zinc sulphate in the drinking water of lactating dairy cows for facial eczema control
- Development of a performance test for the selection of rams having facial eczema-tolerant progeny
- Ewe live weight, level of pasture feeding and live-weight gain
- Large scale live breeding sheep exports
- Dags - cost thereof
Volume 42 ( 1982 )
- The shelter requirements of the new-born lamb
- Presidential Address 1982
- Level of nutrition of the ewe and lamb survival
- Central nervous system injury as a determinant of lamb mortality
- Characteristics of high performance flocks in Otago and Southland
- Induction of cyclical ovarian activity in seasonally anoestrous Romney ewes: studies with exogenous GnRH or LH
- Ovulation rates in Marshall Romney and Romney ewes: effects of body size and condition score
- Ovulation and oestrous responses of high and low fecundity ewes to ingestion of isoflavone-rich pasture
- Effect of ewe ovulation rate and uterine efficiency on breed and strain variation in litter size
- Flushing responses of well and poorly reared two-tooth ewes
- The effect of early nutrition and hogget oestrus on subsequent reproduction
- Shearing and time of joining effects on reproduction in two-tooth ewes
- The productive performance of Waihora Romney cross hogget and two-tooth ewes and commercial Romneys
- Productivity of Booroola-Merino cross ewes grazing improved tussock grassland
- Selection priorities in high-fertility sheep flocks
- Tooth eruption patterns in New Zealand sheep breeds
- Prevention of bark chewing of pine trees by cattle: the effectiveness of repellents
- Differences in grazing and milking behaviour in high and low breeding index cows
- Calving behaviour of single-suckled Angus cows and their calves born in the spring
- Early feeding experience and subsequent acceptance of feed by sheep
- Sheep distribution and herbage utilisation after oversowing and topdressing part of a high country summer range
- The influence of an extra flush of pasture before and during mating on the performance of beef cows on hill country
- Reproductive performance of beef cows following temporary removal of calves
- Oestrogen and the PRID
- Fertility of inactivated bovine sperm
- Fertility of inactivated ram sperm
- Biochemical events associated with Ficoll washing of ram spermatozoa
- Trends in meat market requirements: implications for producers
- Recent and potential changes in meat processing and their implications for producers
- New Zealand export carcass grades of lamb, mutton and beef: past, present and probable
- Factors controlling fat deposition in meat animals.
- A comparison of the composition and carcass quality of Kelly and Russian castrate, ram, wether and ewe lambs
- Comparison of backfat depth probes for use in pig carcass grading
- Differences between P and Y export lamb carcass grades in M. longissimus dorsi area and shape
- Relationships of carcass conformation of cattle and sheep with carcass composition
- An evaluation of the fat-depth indicator on carcasses of pigs, cattle and sheep
- Chemical and histological parameters associated with the tenderness of hemicastrate and steer beef
- Evaluation of dam breeds and crosses for export lamb production
- Progeny test of selected lean and fat rams
- Effects of castrating and surgically dehorning male Drysdale and Tukidale lambs on the efficacy of mechanical head skinning
- Modification of antler growth in red deer stags by use of a synthetic progestagen
- The profitability of farming red deer in New Zealand
- An approach to advisory work with deer farmers in Southland
- Diet selection by goats and sheep on hill country
- Effects of chewing during eating on particle size reduction and subsequent fermentation in sheep
- Influence of herbage allowance on diet quality in lactating ewes
- Blood plasma tryptophan concentration - a potentially useful indicator of feed intake in pasture-fed ruminants
- Urinary magnesium - an indicator of magnesium status/intake?
- The effect of Mefluidide on pasture and animal performance
- Animal production from hill country: effect of fertiliser and grazing management
- High animal production from low herbage allowance
- Influence of feeding post-lambing on ewe and lamb performance at grazing
- Effects of season and pasture allowance on the wool growth of Romney ewes
- The effect of clean pasture and anthelmintic frequency on growth rates of lambs on irrigated pasture
- The effects of drenching regimen and pasture larval contamination on gastrointestinal parasitism of lambs
Volume 41 ( 1981 )
- Presidential Address 1981
- The efficiency with which feed is utilised by the dairy cow
- A model for analysing alternative feeding strategies during the lactation cycle
- Effect of nutrition and mating management on calving patterns
- Progress report on the performance of jersey cows differing in breeding index
- Aspects of energy metabolism of jersey cows differing in breeding index
- Production differences between Jersey and Friesian x Jersey cows in commercial dairy herds
- The magnesium status of grazing dairy cows
- Hypomagnesaemia and dairy production
- The hormonal induction of lactation in dry dairy cows
- The case for induced early parturition in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Physical effects within the teatcup related to intra-mammary infection
- The effect of a low rate of lime on North Island hill country pasture and animal production and the economics of use
- Comparison of lucerne and grass-clover pastures for dairying in south Taranaki
- Modelling a hill-country sheep production system
- The effect of sheep and cattle grazing on a mixed ryegrass/kikuyu/white clover pasture in Northland
- Pasture production and sward dynamics under sheep grazing
- Summer ill-thrift in lambs
- The effect of season of the year and pasture allowance on the growth of lambs fed different pasture species
- Phalaris and ryegrass pastures for animal production in Hawkes Bay
- Factors relating to lamb production efficiency on Southland farms
- Effect of grazing management on hogget fleece characteristics
- The repeatability of ultrasonic fat-depth measurements made on sheep up to 18 months of age
- The nutrients available to grazing cattle
- Herbage quality and physical breakdown in the foregut of sheep
- The heat of warming feed
- Metabolisable energy required by feral goats for maintenance and the effects 0f cold climatic conditions on their heat production
- Energy requirements of red deer
- Effects of genotype, liveweight, pasture type and feeding level on ovulation responses in ewes
- Problems in flushing ewes on North Island hill country
- Oestrus and ovarian activity of Booroola Merino crossbred ewe hoggets
- Increasing the ovulation rate in ewes by immunisation
- Effect of mating Romney ewe hoggets on lifetime production - Preliminary results
- Early predictors of ewe fertility
- The starvation-exposure syndrome and neonatal lamb mortality: A review
- Interrelationships of placental development with nutrition in pregnancy and lamb birth weight
- Fertilisation rat& of ewes mated to high and low prolificacy Romney rams
- Marked Udder Method (MUM) - a technique for identifying the progeny of ewes where identification at birth is not practicable.
- Protein deficiency in growing lambs fed fresh ryegrass/clover pasture ad libitum
- Intake and growth performance of grazing lambs weaned at 4 and 12 weeks of age
- Paired comparison analysis of palatabilities of twenty foods to dairy cows
- Nutritional "tapering" of farm livestock
- Performance of crossbred cows in the Ruakura beef breed evaluation trial
- Nutrition of weaner beef heifers; growth, puberty and yearling mating on hill country
- Breeding for facial eczema resistance - A progress report
- The effect of daily infection with 0. circumcincta larvae on the performance of pregnant and lactating sheep
- Wool growth of ewes during autumn on hill country
- Successful semi-commercial artificial insemination of ewes
- Selenium, cobalt and copper supplementation of beef cattle in northern Southland
- The effect of growth implants on cattle and sheep production
Volume 40 ( 1980 )
- Presidential Address 1980
- Effects of level of nutrition and drenching strategy on pasture utilization during autumn by set-stocked hoggets infected with gastro-intestinal nematodes
- The control of internal parasites in lambs by grazing management
- The influence of internal parasites on replacement dairy heifers during their second year of life
- Sheep thrift problems under irrigations
- Effects of different growth paths from 4 to 11 months of age on Romney hogget oestrus and subsequent reproduction
- Flushing responses from heavy and light ewes
- Effects of diet and liveweight on ovulation rates in Romney ewes
- Effect of nutrition on ovulation rate and litter size in Booroola-merino cross and Merino ewes
- The effect of lucerne feeding on ovulation rate in ewes
- Effect of herbage allowance on dairy cow performance
- The effect of herbage allowance on the dry matter intake and milk production of dairy cows
- Modelling the contribution of forage crops to production, profitability and stability of North Island dairy systems
- Some implications of sward chemical and physical characteristics for the nutrition of grazing ruminants
- Correlating stock and pasture production in Northland
- Pasture allowance and lamb growth
- Relationship of pasture parameters to liveweight gain of hoggets on North Island hill country
- Effects of soil-contaminated feed on dry matter and water intake in sheep
- Training sheep as "leaders" in abattoirs and farm sheep yards
- Production potential of extension is not fully exploited
- Some factors which influenced knowledge and use of tail painting - A study in extension
- Laser light scattering as a probe of sperm motility
- Biochemical aspects of ram sperm viability
- Grazing ruminants: evaluation of their feeds and needs
- Passage of Cr-EDTA through the digestive tract of cattle and sheep
- Stomach fermentation and digesta flow in macropodine marsupials and sheep
- Comparative digestive physiology and metabolism of the red deer and the sheep
- Voluntary intake and digestion in red deer and sheep
- The relationship between the degree of udder development and milk production in Coopworth ewes
- The implications of milking management strategies involving variations of milking frequency in the immediate post-partum period
- Milk production losses associated with clinical mastitis within identical-twin sets
- Relationships between milk somatic cell counts, production index and dry cow therapy in seasonal dairy herds
- Cell biology and wool production and properties
- Bulk: A wool trait of importance to the carpet industry
- Wool production and characteristics of Merino and longwool ewes and their respective Booroola crosses
- Effects of short-term differential feeding in the autumn on liveweight gains and wool growth of ewes
- A review of effects of shearing on sheep production
- Effect of increasing phosphorus intake on the P faecal endogenous loss in the sheep
- Factors influencing nitrogen flow from the rumen
- The effect of level of feeding of pasture its digestion by lactating dairy cow
- Nutritional evaluation of kale (brassica oleracea)
- Reproductive efficiency in twenty town supply dairy herds
- Factors influencing the interval to postpartum oestrus, conception date and empty rate in an intensively managed dairy herd
- Plan for improving the fecundity of a flock by indirect selection
- Repeatability of reproduction rate components in Merino and Booroola x Merino ewes
- Liveweight variation in Sheepplan flocks
- The relationships of growth, body shape, and body composition to the initiation of oestrous activity in different sheep breeds
- Investigating wintering of beef steers in Northland
- The successful development of a PRID regime for oestrous synchronization in New Zealand beef cattle
- Interval from calving to first oestrus in autumn- and spring-calving herds in the same locality
- The role of maternal effects on the efficiency of selection in beef cattle - a review
- Preliminary results of selection for yearling or 18-month weight in Angus and Hereford cattle
Volume 39 ( 1979 )
- Presidential Address 1979
- The ,contribution of research to grassland farming systems in Western Europe
- A review of the influence of liveweight and flushing on fertility made in the context of efficient sheep production
- Effects of differential nutrition on the incidence of oestrus and ovulation rate in Booroola x Romney and Romney ewes
- Ovulation-liveweight relationships in ewes
- Hogget liveweight-oestrus relationship among sheep breeds
- Reproduction rate and wool production of two strains of Australian Merino and their crosses with the Booroola Merino
- Ewe and teaser breed effects on reproductive behaviour and performance
- Age and breed effect of ram on ewes reproductive performance
- The influence of sires on lamb survival
- Mating management and reproductive activity of intensively farmed red deer
- The effect gf shearing ewes during the mating period on the subsequent lambing pattern
- The effect of time of shearing on plasma gamma glutamyltransferase levels after a facial eczema outbreak
- The effects of winter grazing systems wool characteristics
- Wool production of exotic x Romney sheep
- The effect of selection different ages on fat for body weight at deposition in mice
- Factors influencing conception rates to artificial breeding in New Zealand dairy herds: - a review
- The relation of pasture allowance to changes in body condition and weight of pregnant non-lactating cows
- Immediate and longer term response of dairy cows to level of nutrition in early lactation
- Milk-fat production increases due to an advisory programme aimed at increasing the feed supply on dairy farms
- Examination of managerial practices on a high producing dairy farm in relation to experimental results
- The value of MAF advisory services in a dairy discussion group
- Calving patterns and herd production in seasonal dairy herds
- Interrelationships between somatic cell counts, production, age and mastitis organisms in individual cows
- Genetic parameters and economic values of traits other than production for dairy cattle
- Interrelationships between GR and other carcass fatness measurements
- Effects of weaning age on export lamb production
- Comparison of the fatness of weaned and unweaned lambs
- Relationships between ultrasonic measurements taken on live cattle and their carcass composition
- Beef breed evaluation - Bred utilization strategies
- Selection for increased cow fecundity: a review
- The biochemical assessment of energy status in the grazing lactating ruminant
- Minimal feeding of pregnant ewes
- Farm production gains following adoption of a hill country grazing management system
- The effect of herbage yield and allowance on growth and carcass characteristics of weaned lambs
- Effect of herbage allowance on intake and utilization of pasture by cattle of different ages
- Feed intake of grazing Friesian bulls
- Leaf protein concentrate quality: the effect of pasture species and reducing agent
- A statistical appraisal of a sacred cow
Volume 38 ( 1978 )
- Presidential Address 1978
- The value of incentives and subsidies for increasing livestock production
- Adopting new technologies and raising dairy production - a matter of incentives
- Factors associated with high productivity on a dairy farm
- Rygrass staggers in sheep and cattle
- Development and control of ryegrass staggers in sheep
- Rygrass staggers: a role fo fungal tremogens
- The characteristics of carpet wools in relation to processing and performance
- Tremokgenic penicilia in ryegrass staggers outbreaks
- Manipulation of liver metabolism in relation to ruminant toxicology
- Studies on sporidesmin metabolism in sheep
- Economic evaluations of exotic sheep crosses in New Zealand
- The risk of importing scrapie with exotic breeds of sheep
- A system of identifying factors limiting the reproductive performance of commercial sheep flocks
- Influence of hogget oestrus on subsequent ewe fertility
- Insemination of sheep with fresh or frozen semen
- Flushing ewes on pasture and pasture silage
- Summer supplementary feeding of ewes in Northland
- Management effects on productivity of southern North Island hill country
- Mixed grazing of cattle and Sheep
- Pasture allowance for the breeding ewe
- Field estimates of daily winter feed allowance for grazing ewes in Southland
- The dynamics of pasture production under sheep
- RE-implanting Ralgro on fattening steers
- Compensatory growth of beef cattle
- The growth and carcass characteristics of entire and castrate red stags
- Techniques of administering progestagens for oestrus synchronization in cattle
- Beef production on an all-crop grazing system
- Some components of improved beef cow productivity on hill country
- Genetic progress from performance and progeny test selection in down sheep
- An effect of pasture on the secretion of salivary proteins by the cow
- Factors influencing the interval from calving to first oestrus in beef cattle on north island hill country
- Genetic and environmental effects on incidence and causes of lamb mortality
- Milk yield and composition from cows grazing lucerne
- Effect of date of harvest and conservation method on the feeding value of conserved pasture for beef cattle at pasture
- Possible exploitation of body composition,- nutrition interrelationships for early weaning of calves
- Pre-calving nutrition of beef cows
Volume 37 ( 1977 )
- Oestrus synchronization in beef cattle: A review
- Presidential Address 1977
- The effect of level of meal allowance on the growth of early-weaned calves at pasture
- Comparative dairy production of Jerseys and Friesian-jersey crossbreds
- Planned animal health and production services - an economic evaluation
- Response of cows in early lactation when offered maize silage to appetite and restricted areas of pasture
- Response of lactating cows to abomasal infusions of casein, methionine and glucose
- Agonistic behaviour of grazing heifers during dairy herd formation
- Induced calving with corticosteroids: A comparison between induced cows and their calves and control animals
- Effect of herbage per unit area and herbage allowance on dry matter intake by steers
- The effect of level of herbage dry matter per animal on efficiency of utilization of pasture by young Friesian cattle
- Beef production from lucerne
- Breed and sex effects on the content of edible meat in beef carcasses
- Value of conformation in New Zealand beef grading
- The relationship between central test station performance and subsequent progeny performance for growth traits of Hereford bulls
- The influence of pre- and post-calving nutrition on beef cow and calf performance
- The influence of plane of nutrition immediately post-calving on the performance of beef cows
- Post-partum anoestrus in beef cattle: A review
- Observations on the behaviour and factors influencing the sexually-active group in cattle
- Relationship between semen traits, mating frequency and percentage of ewes lambing multiples in high fertility Romney sheep
- Effect of breed of ram on the onset of the breeding season in Romney ewes
- Depression of lambing percentage from mating on lucerne
- Reproductive performance of ewes mated on lucerne
- Calorimetric facilities for dairy cattle at Ruakura animal research station
- The energy metabolism of' young Friesian calves fed on a diet of milk and concentrate
- Energy cost of protein deposition in the pre-ruminant and young ruminant lamb
- The physical breakdown of feed during digestion in the rumen
- Rumen motility in sheep and cattle as affected by feeds and feeding
- Breeding objectives for New Zealand sheep production
- Technical aspects of the national sheep recording scheme (Sheeplan)
- Organization of sheep improvement in Norway
- Group breeding schemes in sheep improvement in New Zealand
- Investigations of carpet wool genes in sheep
- Wool production of sheep breeds on hill country
- Reproductive performance, growth and wool production of exotic sheep and their crosses with the Romney
- Reproductive performance and wool production of Merino and high fertility strain (Booroola) x Merino ewes
- Comparison of sire and dam breeds for the production of export lambs slaughtered at 3,4 1/2, and 6 months of age
- Hormonal responses of lambs to trucking, handling and electric stunning
- Improving forage nutritive value: some recent findings in forage conservation research in Europe
- The popular press as an information medium and forum in animal production
Volume 36 ( 1976 )
- Presidential Address 1976
- The importance of pasture pests in animal production
- Selection indices for Perendale sheep
- Pasture production in a protein extraction system
- A comparison of the Danish, U.K., U.S. and New Zealand systems of mastitis control
- The application of oestrus synchronisation in New Zealand dairy herds
- Egg transfer in cattle
- Egg transfers in exotic sheep
- The utilization of whole grain in maize silage by cattle
- The influence of stubble height on digestibility, intake and liveweight gain of beef steers
- The effects of heat treatment during processing in calf milk replacer quality
- The influence of breed of calf on the milk production of beef cows
- Measuring milk intake of lambs suckling grazing ewes by a double isotope method
- Environmental factors associated with summer-autumn growth rates of cattle and sheep
- The effect on dairy cows and sheep performances of additives to high dry matter maize silage
- Effect of formaldehyde-treated casein and methionine on the intake of silage by sheep
- Principles of modelling animal systems
- The basis of nutritive value - a modelling approach
- An evaluation of the role of systems modelling in an agricultural research programme
- Computer simulation of the feed requirements of shorn sheep
- The effect of level of nutrition on the productivity of sheep of different genetic origin
- Performance of early-weaned lambs on lucerne and pasture
- Effect of lambing date on the utilization of grass/clover and lucerne pastures during mating
- Red gut in lamb lucerne grazing trials at Lincoln
- Carcass composition of purebred and crossbred Angus steers
- A new show class in an agricultural show
- An analysis of Angus central bull performance tests in New Zealand
- The value of on-farm performance selection of Angus and Hereford bulls
- On-farm progeny testing for beef production
- Nutrition and embryo survival in the ewe
- Measurement of ovulation rates by laparoscopy and -effects on reproductive performance
- Selection for fertility and response to PMSG in Romney ewes
- The fertility of hill country ewes mating at different stages of the joining period
- Relationship of parturient behaviour to reproductive efficiency of Finn sheep
- Behaviour at lambing of Romney ewes with exotic breed lambs: An interim report
Volume 35 ( 1975 )
- Growth, fertility and wool production of young Merino ewes fed different levels from 7 to 19 months of age.
- Presidential Address 1975
- Progress in identifying sources of animal variation in susceptibility to bloat
- Physiological genetics as a basis for the study of susceptibility to bloat in cows
- The components of bovine saliva in relation to bloat
- Pasture composition and bloat
- The utilization of the energy of fresh milk by young Jersey and Friesian calves
- The influence of a protected tallow supplement on milk yield and composition
- The distribution of Mg in the digesta of sheep fed fresh pasture
- The NZASP study group on internal parasites and animal production
- Human error involved in dairy cow submission to artificial breeding
- Anti-bacterial activity of seminal plasma and other tissues
- The inheritance of a-pyridine nucleosidase in bull semen
- A.I. of sheep with frozen semen
- Egg transfer in cattle: effect of hormonal treatment on synchronization of oestrus and ovarian response
- Preliminary studies on the efficiency of mating of ewe hoggets
- The effects of decreasing liveweight at mating on reproduction in Romney ewes
- Studies on induced calving in cattle
- Onset of puberty in Angus, Friesian, Friesian x Angus, and Friesian x Jersey heifers
- Progeny testing Angus and Hereford bulls for growth performance
- The carcass composition of Angus, Hereford x, Angus, Friesian y Angus, Charolais x Angus and South Devon x Angus steers
- Growth rates of Friesian x Friesian, Hereford x Friesian and Simmental x Friesian steers in several environments
- Growth rate and oestrous behaviour of Friesian, Hereford x Friesian, Simmental x Friesian and Angus heifers
- Relationships between milk yield, milk consumption and lamb growth in Romney, Dorset and crossbred sheep
- The effect of lambing date on lamb growth rate, ewe liveweight and some observations on ewe milk production
- Combined effect of date of lambing and stocking rate on ewe and lamb liveweight during lactation
- Comparative production of Romney sheep grazed with and without access to drinking water
- Estimates of genetic variation and covariation from New Zealand national boar performance testing data
- Effects of stage of growth, season, and conservation method on the nutritive value of lucerne
- Formic acid as an additive for lucerne silage
- Winter performance of beef weaners fed untreated and formaldehyde-treated wilted lucerne silages and hay
- Farm production experiments comparing formaldehyde-treated silage with conventional feeds for wintering yearling beef cattle
- Pad wintering of beef steers
- Liveweight and carcass responses of grazing steers to supplements in summer
- Cerebrospinal fluid magnesium concentrations in hypomagnesaemic tetany
- Iron-induced hypocuprosis
- Environmental heterogeneity as a factor in group size determination among grazing sheep
- Sheep dispersal patterns on hill country: Techniques for study and analysis
- Grazing behaviour of sheep during summer and autumn in relation to facial eczema
- Libido testing and subsequent mating performance in rams
- The influence of the senses of smell, sight and hearing on the sexual behaviour of rams
- Handling deer run in confined areas
- Social grooming patterns of dairy cattle
- Observations on the behaviour of single-suckled calves from birth to 120 days
- Social interactions among dairy cows during herd formation in spring
- Operant conditioning as a technique for the solution of practical problems in animal husbandry
Volume 34 ( 1974 )
- Anti-bacterial and anti-sperm effect of seminal plasma
- Response to oestradiol in ewe lambs
- Presidential Address 1976
- Crossbreeding, interbreeding and establishing a new breed of sheep
- A comparison of' the performance of Dorset, Corriedale and Romney sheep during lactation
- Sources of variation for wool, body weight and oestrous characters in Romney hoggets
- Comparison of pen and paddock systems for the pedigree mating of sheep
- Behaviour of hill country sheep during farming routines
- The present status of applied reproductive physiology in animal production
- Liveweight fertility relationships in Merino and half-bred ewes in a high country environment
- Oestrus synchronization in cattle
- Diagnosing pregnancy in ewes by rectal palpation
- Application of the egg transfer technique in cattle and sheep
- Hydrogenation of unsaturated fatty acids by ruminal fluid in vitro
- Effect of starvation on blood metabolites in pregnant sheep
- Energy requirements for pregnancy in sheep
- Nutritive characteristics of maize silage and maize silage/grass rations for cattle
- Beef production from untreated silage and silage treated with a mixture of formalin and formic acid
- Plant tannins, bloat and nutritive value
- Measurement of rumen methane kinetics and its application to bloat research
- Nutritive values of lucerne leaf-protein concentrate and lupin-seed meal as protein supplements to barley diets for growing pigs
- Comparison between two methods of selecting 20-month steers for slaughter
- Relationships of various parameters with the lambing performance of hoggets
- Reproductive performance of merino ewes dosed with selenium prior to mating
- Condition scoring of sheep
- Influence of birth date and dam's age on early growth in beef cattle
- Hypocuprosis in dairy cattle in Northland
- Heat produced by young jersey and Friesian calves in cold environments
- Nutrition of the pre-ruminant calf
- Measurement of milk consumption in young ruminants using tritiated water
- Breed differences in the tissue proportions and muscle distribution of meat animals
- Communication of animal. Production information: an adviser's viewpoint
- The application of artificial breeding as a reproductive technique in cattle
- Some techniques for increasing reproductive rates in sheep and their application in the industry
- Feedlot facilities
- Pollution problems associated with feedlot production of livestock
- Animal health in a feedlot
- Nutrition of feedlot beef cattle in New Zealand
- Feed intake and growth in New Zealand feedlots
- Financial aspects of feedlot management in New Zealand
- Types of cattle to feed in relation to the needs of markets
- Beef market specifications as they affect the producer
- Business and management problems between killing and final product sales
- Beef feedlotting - A discussion paper
Volume 33 ( 1973 )
- Measurement of the milk consumption of suckling beef calves by an isotope dilution method
- Price : liveweight relationships at beef weaner sales
- Presidential Address 1973
- Memorial address: John Morris Ranstead
- Breeding for improved production sheep
- Recent advances in reproductive physiology: implications for control of fertility and fecundity of sheep and cattle
- Factors affecting storage of semen
- Why do bulls differ in fertility?
- Nutritional and physiological developments in reproduction of pigs
- Some aspects of anoestrus in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Observations on yearling mating of beef cattle
- The effect of liveweight on the ovarian response and fertility of ewes treated with PMSG
- Pre-mating treatment of breeding ewes with thiabendazole
- The behaviour of entire bulls of different ages at pasture
- Some aspects of sheep group breeding schemes in New Zealand
- Application of dynamic programming to the culling decision in dairy cattle
- Quantitative aspects of fermentation in the gastro-intestinal tract of sheep fed fresh herbage
- Some effects of feeding whole wheat grain to young sheep
- Effects of quantity and quality of feed on gastric secretion in the sheep
- The effect of soil ingestion on the Mg and Ca metabolism of sheep
- Ten- and eighteen-week suckling of Friesian steers
- Changes in whole body and carcass composition in young sheep during weight loss and subsequent regrowth
- Yellow fat in lambs
- The effect of cortisol acetate administration on growth and carcass quality of lambs
- Effect of including quindoxin, a new chemical growth promoter, in pig and poultry rations
- Beef cattle improvement through performance recording and selection
- Repeated gonadotrophic stimulation of ewes
- Grass compared with concentrates as an early weaning feed for Friesian bull calves
- Feed conversion efficiency in high liveweight gain and low liveweight gain Friesian bulls
- Amino acid supplementation of normal hybrid and opaque-2 maize-based diets for growing pigs
Volume 32 ( 1972 )
- Presidential Address 1972
- Meat production from Friesian and Angus bulls
- Friesian and beef breed performance in an improved tussock environment
- Calf growth and lifetime performance of beef cattle
- Effects of pre-weaning nutrition on subsequent growth rate, feed conversion efficiency and carcass composition of identical twin steers
- The qualities of farm carcasses
- The qualities of ram carcasses
- The effect of formaldehyde treatment on the chemical composition, apparent digestibility and voluntary intake of silage by sheep
- Production of prime lambs from Coopworth ewes
- Feeding value of lucerne
- Review of field research section fertilizer x stocking rate grazing trials in New Zealand
- Studies on the movement of Mg, Ca, P, Na and K across the gut wall of sheep fed fresh pasture
- Influence of experimental design in measuring the voluntary intake of grazing sheep
- Plasma and urinary metabolites as indices of N utilization in sheep
- Breeding dairy cattle with reduced susceptibility to bloat
- Current levels of; performance in the Ruakura fertility flock of Romney sheep
- The effect of mating pressure on characteristics of the ejaculate in rams and on reproductive performance in ewes
- Growth rate selection in Southdown sheep
- A survey of lambing practices in stud sheep flocks in New Zealand
- Management information system for a broiler hatchery
- Some observations on the suckling activity of calves on nurse cows
- Sources of world food protein and the New Zealand contribution
- Developmens and future trends in non-animal sources of protein
- Milk protein production: an analysis of New Zealand's present and potential capabilities
- Food protein products from milk
- Protein production from sheep, goats and deer
- Protein production from beef
- Protein production from pigs
- Protein production from poultry
- Meat and meat products
Volume 31 ( 1971 )
- Presidential Address 1971
- Effects of varying the environment on the behaviour and performance of dairy cattle
- Calf rearing by multiple suckling and the effects on lactation performance of the cow
- Mismothering in Romney sheep
- Effect of pre-slaughter starvation on weight-loss in cattle
- Reciprocal crossbreeding of Friesian and Angus cattle
- Compensatory growth in yearling beef cattle
- Preliminary studies of digestion in the hindgut of the sheep
- Digestibility of protein-extracted forages
- Some effects of anthelmintic dosing on the mineral status of hoggets
- A comparison of phosphorus responses in pasture and sheep, and effect s of increased grazing pressure in a dry season
- The sites of digestion of fresh pasture species in the gastro-intestinal tracts of sheep
- Studies on the hydrolysis by carbohydrases of plant cell-wall constituents in relation to pasture quality
- Feeding value of barley for sheep
- Nutrition of halfbred ewes on improved tussock grassland
- The effect of sub-maintenance feeding of ewes during mid-pregnancy on lamb and wool production
- Effect of nutrition of the dam on wool follicle development of Corriedale lambs
- Nutrition of the young growing lamb: Studies at Lincoln college
- The effect of treating forage with formaldehyde during haymaking and methionine administration during feeding on the digestion and utilization of energy and nitrogen by sheep
- Computer systems for management information in primary production
- Two new methods of teaching animal breeding with potential in agricultural extension
- Effectiveness of growth performance selection in cattle
- Crossing experiments for the utilization of sheep breeds in New Zealand
- Breeds of sire for export lamb production
- Reproductive differences between Border Leicester x Romney and Romney two-tooth ewes
- The use of an ultrasonic device for detection of pregnancy in the ewe
- Early lamb production and its place in New Zealand farming
- Feed requirements of beef cattle
- Nutrient requirements of New Zealand dairy cattle
- Methods of expressing feed requirements
Volume 30 ( 1970 )
- Efficiency of feed conversion in Friesian and Angus steers
- Presidential Address 1970
- Ingested soil as a possible source of elements for grazing animals
- Saline drinking water for sheep: some aspects of the ingestion of sodium chloride solutions
- Magnesium absorption in the digestive tract of sheep
- Oestrogenic activity in New Zealand pastures and some effects of oestrogen injections on mastitis and fertility
- The feed intake of Friesian dairy beef animals
- The application of performance testing to pig improvement in New Zealand
- Storage of ram semen at ambient temperatures
- Drenching of pregnant ewes and its effect on their wool production and lamb growth rate
- Stress in sheep resulting from management practices
- The effect of storage time on the voluntary intake of silage by sheep
- The production of volatile fatty acids in sheep on different pasture types
- The nutritive value of the residue from protein-extracted herbage
- The intake and utilization of milk and grass by lambs
- Effect of pre-weaning plane of nutrition on subsequent growth and carcass quality of lambs
- Pasture type and lamb carcass composition: A comparison of experimental design
- The influence of protein supplements on milk yield and composition
- Specifications for the classification and grading of meat carcasses in New Zealand
- The grading of lamb and mutton carcasses
- Classification and grading of beef and veal carcasses
- Classification and gradin of pig carcasses
- Classification and grading of beef and lamb in the United States of America
- Protein Supplementation and wool growth
- Wool growth in relation to dietary protein level
- Wool growth in relation to sulphur containing amino acid administration to sheep
- The effect of feeding formaldehyde treated casein and lucerne meal to sheep on nitrogen metabolism and wool production
- Studies on the intestinal digestion of nitrogen by sheep fed formalin-treated casein diets
- Some effects on food intake of infusions of amino acid-containing materials
- Free amino acids in the plasma of sheep fed supplementary protein, with particular reference to C-N-Methyl Lysine
- Evaluation of speakers at the 1970 conference
Volume 29 ( 1969 )
- Presidential Address 1969
- Antibodies in brucellosis
- Milking machine and mastititis
- Some recent research on milking machine design
- Surveys of farm milking and shed performance
- The cleaning of milking machines and milk quality
- Comparative growth performance of Jersey, Friesian and Ayrshire bulls on pasture
- Genetic improvement of dairy cattle
- Research on current sire proving procedures
- Transport of sheep ova in rabbits
- Egg transplanstion studies in Romney ewes
- The utilization of perennial ryegrass and white clover by young sheep
- Progress in defining the differences in nutritive value to sheep of perennial ryegrass, short-rotation ryegrass and white clover.
- The nutritive value of snow (chionochloa zotov)
- The influence of dietary factors and drug processing enzymes on sporidesmin poisoning in sheep - a preliminary report
- Biochemistry of sporidesmin
- Baby beef without concentrates - a feasibility study
- Genetic and environmental effects on beef production
- Some factors affecting yellow fat colour in cattle
- Effects of level of stocking rate on conversion efficiency and productivity of dairy beef cattle and breeding ewes
- The effects of pre-lambing anthelmintic drenching on production of ewes and the development of worm parasitism in lambs
- Oestrous activity and lamb production of the N.Z. Romney ewe
- Observations on the fertility of the two-tooth New Zealand Romney ewe
- An investigation of the relationships between body temperature and implantation and lambing rates in the New Zealand Romney ewe
- Some effects of an increased stocking level on wool growth
- The effect of plane of nutrition and feeding formalin-treated casein on the production, fibre diameter and tensile strength of wool
- Lamb mortality in hill country flocks
Volume 28 ( 1968 )
- Hill country beef cattle research at Whatawhata
- Presidential Address 1968
- Comparison of mice, guinea-pigs and sheep as test animals for bioassay of oestrogenic pasture legumes
- Autotransplantation of endocrine glands in sheep
- Advances in semen dilution
- Genetic implications of advances in semen dilution
- Body composition studies with the milk-fed lamb
- Some factors influencing the growth of lambs on irrigated pasture
- Calculation of the digestibility and the starch equivalent value of herbages from chemical analyses
- Animal and pasture production as indices of fertilizer maintenance requirements
- Prospects for high production from Canterbury plains pastures
- The effect of two different planes of nutrition from conception to four years of age on the maintenance requirements and on the efficiency of wool growth
- Winter supplementation of Merino ewes
- Winter feeding hoggets
- Wool follicle and fleece characters of F1 and F2 Border Leicester x Romney sheep
- Synchronisation of oestrus in ewes
- The influence of liveweight on ovulation rate in the ewe
- Distribution of spermatozoa in the reproductive tract of the Romney ewe
- Future requirements for expanded beef production in New Zealand
- Winter feedin trials with beef cattle
- Meat meal in early weaning calf concentrate mixtures
- Beef production from jersey steers grazed in three environments
- Beef production with Friesian and Friesian-cross cattle
- A comparison between Friesian, Jersey, and Friesian-Jersey cross steers
Volume 27 ( 1967 )
- Presidential Address 1967
- Principles and practices used in livestock improvement programmes in the USA
- Performance recording of sheep
- Population structure and breeding for genetic improvement
- Age at puberty, length of breeding season and ovulation rate in Romney Marsh and Border Leicester x Romney Marsh hoggets
- Observations of gthe prediction of lambing dates
- Residual effects of prenatal nutrition on the postnatal performance of Merino sheep
- An airflow calorimeter for the measurement of the sensible heat loss of animals
- Taste panel relationships
- The utilization of lactose by the growing pig
- Birth weights of dairy, beef and dairy-beef calves
- Possible use of computers in animal production
- Interrupted pregnancy in the dairy cow
- Soils and animal production
- Ingestion of soild by sheep
- Effect of soil type on uptake of magnesium by pasture plants
- Increasing fodder production for the grazing animal
- Breeding for improved quality and quantity of forage for the grazing animal
- Progress in pasture plant physiology
- The efficiency of feed utilization
- Use of the comparative slaughter technique to estimate the nutritive value of pasture for hoggets
- The use of a steady state feeding system in nutrition experiments with ruminants
- The effect of temperature on body growth and other traits of open- and woolly-faced Romney lambs
- The winter nutrition of Romney hoggets
Volume 26 ( 1966 )
- Presidential Address 1966
- Stability and productivity of pastures
- Some aspects of the behaviour of grazing sheep
- Effects of intra-duodenal infusions of fat on the food intake of sheep
- The in vitro prediction of herbage digestibility
- The effect of grazing time and supplementary feeding of hay on production per cow in early lactation
- Problems in the economic interpretation of pig feeding experiments
- Variation in ovarian activiy of Romney Marsh ewes
- Hormonal synchronization of oestrus in Romney ewes during the breeding season
- Disease and animal production - introduction
- Eradication of brucellosis from the New Zealand cattle population
- Field and experimental epidemiology of salmonella infection in calves
- Field observations on incidence of mastitis and control measures
- Some bacteriological aspects of mastitis control
- An attempt to control hydatid disease in animals in an isolated region of New Zealand
- Internal parasites of sheep and their effects on production
- Some economic effects of disease
Volume 25 ( 1965 )
- Presidential Address 1965
- Memorial address: William Riddet
- The estimation of carcass composition in bacon weight pigs
- Current developments in poultry breeding and selection
- Further experiments on the effect of pre-milking stimulus on dairy cow production
- Quantitative studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen: Total removal and return of digesta for quantitative sampling in studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen of cattle
- Quantitative studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen: The digestion of insoluble carbohydrates in the reticulo-rumen
- Quantitative studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen: Fluctuations in the numbers of rumen protozoa and their possible role in bloat
- Variations in ruminal pH, volatile fatty acid concentration and proportions of the individual acids
- Pasture quality in terms of soluble carbohydrates and volatile fatty acid production
- The cell count of milk and rapid tests for mastitis
- Practical implications of anatomical research in beef cattle
- The analysis and interpretation of data on the body weight of the two-tooth ewe
- Extent and nature of weight losses due to pre-slaughter fasting of lambs
- Technique for evaluating fat lamb production
Volume 24 ( 1964 )
- Presidential Address 1964
- Grazed pasture parameters: dead herbage, net gain and utilization of pasture
- The voluntary intake of the lactating dairy cow and its relation to digestion
- Studies on some factors influencing food intake in sheep
- The release of plant cell contents and its relation to bloat
- Sperm transport in the female rabbit
- Studies on the maintenance of the corpus luteum in the ewe
- Assessment of body composition in the live animal
- The ecology of pastoral production in Australia
- Genetic problems in increasing sheep production
- Sheep nutrition and management
- Problems of disease and fertility in sheep production
- Economic implications of increased wool production
Volume 23 ( 1963 )
- Presidential Address 1963
- Availability of selenium in forage to ruminants
- Selenium and ewe fertility
- Nitrate -a factor in animal health
- The effect of lactation on intake in the dairy cow
- Maintenance and lactation requirements of grazing sheep
- Methods of assessing herbage feeding value
- The influence of rams on the onset of the breeding season in ewes
- The use of return interval pattern to indicate dairy herd infertility problems
- Genotype-pasture interaction in the fertility of Romney Marsh ewes
- Some effects of endogenous hormones on muscles and connective tissue, with special reference to the ewe
- Variations in the iodine values of fats from fatty, muscular and bone tissues of the Romney sheep
- Animal research in a tussock environment at Tara Hills
- Systems of pig production in Canterbury: an economic appraisal
- An introduction to the use of simulation in the study of grazing management problems
- Diet and the motility of the fore-stomachs of the sheep
Volume 22 ( 1962 )
- Goitre and neonatal mortality in lambs
- Presidential Address 1962
- The maintenance requirements of New Zealand dairy cattle
- Prospects in animal improvement through breeding
- A suggested approach to the selection of domestic animals on physiological characters
- Bull sampling programmes in the artificial breeding of dairy cattle
- Dairy cattle improvement overseas
- Genetic improvement symposium
- Nitrogen metabolism in the rumen
- Some aspects of rumen metabolism influencing intake and production in sheep
- Pasture carbohydrates and the ruminant
- The role of protozoa in rumen fermentation
- Discussion
- The movement of ova in the genital tract of the ewe
- Dairy herd fertility
- Symposium on factors affecting fertility
- Production economics and problems of animal production
Volume 21 ( 1961 )
- Presidential Address 1961
- Field observations of the effect of grazing management on pasture production on a soil of volcanic origin
- A theoretical basis for grazing management
- Factors limiting pasture production
- Grazing management
- Grazing management symposium
- Nutritional requirements of dairy cattle
- The energy requirements of sheep
- Relative effects of environment and liveweight upon the feed requirements of sheep
- Teh nutritional requirements of swine
- Livestock nutrition symposium
- The use of small animals in agricultural research
- The use of isotopes in animal and plant research
- The use of electronic measuring techniques in agricultural research
- Biological aspects of the sulphur content of Romney wool
- The pollination of red clover and lucerne in New Zealand
- Observations of some effects of glucose infusion in sheep
Volume 20 ( 1960 )
- Presidential Address 1969
- The future of agricultural research
- Advances in controlled sheep breeding
- Brucellosis in animals and man
- Selenium and animal health
- A biopsy study of growth and development of muscle
- A progress report on face clover
- Nematodirosis in lambs
- Some recent results of research in rumen microbiology
- Current research and practice in silage making overseas
- The structure of pasture in relation to production potential
- The effect of pre-milking stimulation on milk and butterfat production
- Cattle twins: the maternal environment and animal production
- An inherited blindness (cataract) in cattle
Volume 19 ( 1959 )
- The mechanical activity of the reticulo-rumen of cattle
- Presidential Address 1959
- Consolidation as a factor in silage fermentation
- Sources of protein for milk production
- The relationship of genetic merit to between herd differences in milk production
- Leadership in a herd of dairy cows
- Symposium on facial eczema research
- The pathology of facial eczema
- The collection of toxic grass and the preservation of toxicity
- Biological assays for toxicity
- Chemical extraction and fractionation of the toxin
- The beaker test as an indicator of facial eczema toxicity
- The association of sporidesmium with facial eczema
- The identification and culture of sporidesmium bakeri syd.
- A summary of intake studies with hoggets
- The chemical composition of rapidly growing ryegrass and its relation to animal production
- Mating of hoggets
Volume 18 ( 1958 )
- Davidson and Brydone - Founders of te New Zealand meat export industry
- Presidential Address 1958
- Animal factors in the aetiology of bloat
- Studies in the utilization of winter pasture by dairy cows
- The effect of stocking rate and concentrate feeding on the conversion of pasture to milk
- Some effects of treading on pasture
- Agricultural advisory services in U.S.A.
- Hormones in relation to animal production
- Cervical mucus aborization - It's use in assessing ovarian activity in the ewe
- The induction of ovulation and oestrus in ewes during anoestrus
- Recent work on animal fats
- Assessment of fat in mutton and lamb
- Use of monozygous twins for experiments involving changes in the characteristics of butterfat
- The influence of thyroxine on wool growth
- The effect of thyroxine on the Romney two-tooth
- Responses of sheep to thyroxine implantation
Volume 17 ( 1957 )
- Presidential Address 1957
- Concentrate feeding of dairy cattle
- Two experiments on the effect of short periods of underfeeding on the yield and composition of cows milk
- The daily water consumption of a herd of dairy cattle
- Recent developments in herd improvement
- Preliminary trials with whey for fattening pigs
- Further studies on meat production per acre
- Pasture growth rate studies in relation to grazing management
- Comparison of faecal pigments and faecal nitrogen for the estimation of feed-to-faeces ratio of pastured cattle
- Variations in the digestible energy content of New Zealand sheep pastures
- Rumen studies in sheep - Levels of microbial end-products
- The breeding behaviour of two-tooth ewes
- Blood levels of progesterone in the ewe
- A study of the breeding season of Romney ewe lambs
- Border Leicester cross ewes for fat lamb production
Volume 16 ( 1956 )
- Presidential Address 1956
- Memorial address: WJ Croucher, father to the pig industry
- Hogget ill-thrift
- A comparison of hogget thrift on perennial ryegrass and white clover
- The effectg of high and low plane rearing of hoggets on lifetime productivity
- Sheep management on improved hill pastures
- New Zealand climatic production potentials of pasture plants
- Face cover in Corriedale sheep
- Face cover in Romney sheep
- Relationship between face cover and reproductive efficiency in Romney ewes
- Cornell research on methods of selecting dairy sires
- Some aspects of dairy sire selection
- Milking characteristics of identical twin cattle
- The economic and managemet consequences of early weaning pigs
- Sources of loss in unfertilised and fertilised sheep's ova
- Some aspects of New Zealand's livestock industry
- Limitations of present methods of controlling bloat in the field
- Twenty-five years of Mendelian sheep breeding
- Antipyrine for in vivo body-fat estimations in pasture-grazing animals
Volume 15 ( 1955 )
- Presidential Address 1955
- Memorial address: James Little and his Corridale sheep
- An economic survey of the New Zealand sheep industry
- The fleece as a factor in sheep adaptation
- Recent developments in the field study of sheep nutrition
- Role of rumen microflora in ruminant metabolism
- Meat production per acre
- The photoperiodic and hormone response of wool growth in sheep
- The chemical control of ecto-parasites of sheep and cattle
- The intakes of grass and silage by dairy cows during the summer
- Studies of molybdenum in the soil
- The role of molybdenum in plant nutrition
- Molybdenum and animal health in New Zealand
- The effect of some endocrine factors on mammary gland growth and lactation
- Some aspects of the inheritance of fertility in sheep
- Neonatal lamb mortality in the Gisborne area
- The bacteriology of lamb mortality
- Techniques and results of low temperature bull semen storage
- Factors affecting the non-fatty solids in milk, with particular reference to the New Zealand town milk industry
Volume 14 ( 1954 )
- Presidential Address 1954
- The future of animal production in New Zealand
- The future of dairying in New Zealand
- The role of the meat and wool industries in the future of New Zealand
- The future of land development in New Zealand
- The future of grassland research in New Zealand
- The future of animal research
- New Zealand's place in the meat export trade
- The role of carotene in ovine rickets
- Some observationss on the effect of drenching young sheep with Phenothiazine
- Observatrions on helminth parasites and hogget unthriftiness in New Zealand
- Levels of inbreeding in New Zealand pedigree Jersey cattle
- The physiology of milk ejection and its role in dairy production
- Break versus paddock grazing of dairy cattle
- Sampling systems for dependent data
- The value of identical twins in research
- Studies of the pelvic region of the ewe during pregnancy and parturition
Volume 13 ( 1953 )
- Presidential Address 1953
- University agricultural education
- Secondary school agricultural education
- A farmer looks at agricultural education
- State agricultural extension services
- The extension worker and his work
- The extension needs of the farmer
- Memorial address: Jame Glenny Wilson, of Bulls
- Pasture quality and animal production
- The pattern of growth of individual pasture plants
- Pasture establishment
- Spray irrigation on grasslands
- Level of superphosphate topdressing and butterfat production per acre
- Ruminant metabolism
- Observations on effects of rabbit grazing on pasture
- Environmental factors affecting wool growth
- Some recent advances in facial eczema research
- Grazing behaviour in relation to bloat
Volume 12 ( 1952 )
- Presidential Address 1952
- Memorial address: John Anderson Gilruth (1871-1937)
- Current genetic thought and dairy cattle breeding
- The expansion and structure of the New Zealand pedigree Jersey breed
- Selection through herd sire
- The future of herd development in New Zealand
- A comparison of various selection plans for sheep improvement
- Some recently discovered aspects of ewe abortion and ram sterility
- Augmentation of fertility in sheep
- Observations of non-nutritional factors affecting fertility in sheep
- A study of dairy farming trends in the Waipa County, 1941-1950
- The toxicity of North African phosphate and superphosphate to milking cows
- The approach to the application of field techniques in wildlife research
- An endocrine approach to the study of the inheritance of milk secretion
- Milk production in the sow
- Milk production in the ewe
Volume 11 ( 1951 )
- Presidential Address 1951
- Some variations in the fleece of Romney Marsh stud ewes
- The limit set to tropical dairy production by nutritional factors
- The call to produce more livestock
- A plan of pig improvement applicable to N.Z. conditions
- Veterinary diagnostic services and primary production
- Infertility in rams
- Age distribution of N.Z. pedigree cattle
- The effect of management on the grazing behaviour of calves
- Factors affecting the efficiency of food conversion by pigs
- The practice of flushing ewes
- Investigation on the excretion of sex hormones by sheep
- The importance of genetic correlations in selection
- Growth rates of early and late weaned single and identical twin calves
- Memorial address: George Henry Holford
Volume 10 ( 1950 )
- Memorial address: The Matthews of Wairongomai
- Presidential Address 1950
- The influence of level of nutrition during pregnancy and lactation on lamb and wool production of grazing sheep
- A comparison of three rations for dairy cattle
- The use of inbreeding in animal improvement
- Experiments in dairy husbandry with particular reference to yield of milk fat
- The measurement of the feed consumption of individual animals
- The measurement of faeces output (summary)
- The estimation of digestibility
- Method of measurement of feed consumption
- Some observations on the use of the moveable enclosure method of estimation of pasture consumption by grazing animals
- Some recent experiments on the problem of milk ejection
- Milk production of the sow (summary)
- Some factors influencing milk ejection in mechanical milking (summary)
- The effect of level of nutrition on the sexual capacity of dairy bulls
- Lethal and other inherited factors causing abnormalities in New Zealand stock
- The epidemiology of nematode parasitism in sheep - with particular reference to the Manawatu district
Volume 9 ( 1949 )
- Presidential address 1949
- Memorial address: Bernard Cracroft Aston
- The problems of increasing production in the meat industry
- Can the hill country supply the store stock necessary for increased fat lamb production?
- Efficiancy of production in New Zealand dairy cows
- Grass rationing in relation to production
- The influence of the type of ewe upon the type of fat lamb carcass
- Influence of sire on fat lamb quality
- Observations of lambing behaviour in ewes
- Lamb fattening on pastures and crops in the Gisborne district
- North Island fat lamb crosses (summary)
- Fat lamb crosses in Canterbury
- Shearing ewes before lambing
- Beef production & marketing in relation to the overall objective of increased meat supply
- Some observations on how the veterinary profession can help meat production
- Milk fever of ewes in New Zealand
Volume 8 ( 1948 )
- Presidential Address 1948
- Grigg of Longbeach
- The fight for food
- Land utilisation and settlement
- The influence of rabbits on farm production
- Some aspects of rabbit control
- The relationship between level of nutrition during the dry period and subsequent production of dairy cattle
- The relationship between level of nutrition during the dry period and subsequent production of dairy cattle
- Winter milk production from an all-grass dairy farm
- Special purpose pastures on intensive grassland farming
- Progeny testing in sheep
- Some aspects of progeny testing in sheep
- Some observations on the nature of the milk let-down mechanism in the cow
- Some farming trends in Whangarei County
- The potential uses of penicillin in the treatment of bovine mastitis
Volume 7 ( 1947 )
- Presidential Address 1947
- Memorial address: Alfred Hyde Cockayne
- Pasture and animal production
- Some aspects of pasture growth and utilisation
- Labour in relation to grassland dairying
- Some hazards of grazing in New Zealand
- Sheep management problems of Poverty Bay
- Hill country pasture problems
- Fertiliser, pasture considerations and management in relation to fat lamb production
- The future of fertilisers
- Extension services and the farmer
- The influence of plane of nutrition upon the reproductive efficiency of animals
- The nutritive status of New Zealand pastures
- Parasitism in relation to pasture farming
- The effect of soil type on productivity in Whangarei County
- Grazing behaviour of dairy cows in New Zealand
- Influence of season on human fertility
Volume 6 ( 1946 )
- Presidential Address 1946
- Ernest Short of Parorangi
- Breeding of dairy cattle in New Zealand
- Sheep breeding in New Zealand
- Pig breeding in New Zealand
- Inheritable cellular antigens in cattle blood
- The relationship of artificial insemination to future dairy cattle breeding
- The inheritance of "parrot beak" in New Zealand milking shorthorns
- The influence of heterosis in progeny tests
- Some notes on the inheritance of productivity in sheep
- Congenital photosensitivity in Southdown sheep
- Breeding N-type sheep
- The accuracy of various methods of estimating a dairy cow's production of milk and butterfat
- The stimulation of milk secretion in dairy cattle with diethylstilbestrol and thyroprotein
- The value of separated milk and pasture as a food for dairy calves
Volume 5 ( 1945 )
- Presidential Address 1945
- The economic importance of disease in dairy cattle
- Economic importance of sheep diseases in New Zealand
- The economic importance of disease losses in pigs
- Advisory functions of the field veterinary officer
- The role of quarantine in prevention and control of animal disease
- The role of the veterinary practitioner in the prevention and control of animal disease
- Some important indigenous poisonous plants in New Zealand
- Poison hazards to stock
- Rickets in sheep in New Zealand
- Copper deficiency affecting farm stock in New Zealand
- Vaccination as a method of control of stock diseases in New Zealand
- Data on control by vaccination of contagious abortion in dairy cattle
- The nutritive status of pampas grass
Volume 4 ( 1944 )
- Food and agriculture
- Soils and food production
- Plants and food
- The animal in relation to food production
- Economic considerations affecting increased production
- General discussion on the first day's papers
- Summer fattening of lambs in Canterbury
- Some further observations on fat lamb production in Canterbury
- The influence of sex on carcass quality and efficiency of food utilisation
- Experiments in poultry breeding
- The cattle pituitary gland in relation to ovarian dysfunction
- Artificial stimulation of milk secretion in dry non-pregnant dairy cattle with diethylstilbestrol
- New techniques for the study of milk ejection in the dairy cow
Volume 3 ( 1943 )
- Presidential Address 1943
- Factors affecting the rate of herd improvement in New Zealand 1920-1942
- The relation of the endocrine system to reproduction and milk secretion
- Female sterility
- Control of contagious abortion
- The theory and practice of mechanical milking
- Mastitis in dairy cows
- Nutrition in relation to the composition of milk
- Preliminary observations on the milk supply in the ewe
- Calf nutrition and the importance of nutrition in the post weaning stages
- Congenital porphyria in pigs
- The inheritence of multifactor characters in the sheep
- Purposeful breeding of pasture plants
- Lactation curves of cows fed on pasture and pasture plus grains
Volume 2 ( 1942 )
- Chairman's opening remarks
- Dehydrated meat
- Ketosis of dairy cows
- Sow nutrition
- Chromium oxide method for determining digestibilty
- Nutrition and animal health in New Zealand
- Identical twins in dairy cattle
- Problems of dairy-pasture feed supply
- The crude fibre complex in animal nutrition
- Grasslands and forage crops in rotation
- On vaccine treatment for mastitis
- Nutrition and the fleece
- The nutritive value of New Zealand lamb and mutton
- Extension work in dairy cattle feeding
- A future for New Zealand fisheries
- The influence of the animal on pasture production
- District and season influence on lactation curves in New Zealand
Volume 1 ( 1941 )
- President's opening address
- Should a breeder tell
- The inheritance of resistance or susceptibility to infection
- Birthcoat characteristics and their gentical significance
- Criteria of male fertility
- Milk production studies
- Pasture utilisation by the animal
- Field surveys in dairy cattle production studies
- Evaluation of the fleece in relation to breeding methods
- Technique in meat production studies
- Statistical method and experimentation
- Artificial insemination in cattle
Articles
- Memorial address: The Matthews of Wairongomai
- Davidson and Brydone - Founders of te New Zealand meat export industry
- Goitre and neonatal mortality in lambs
- The mechanical activity of the reticulo-rumen of cattle
- Hill country beef cattle research at Whatawhata
- Efficiency of feed conversion in Friesian and Angus steers
- Measurement of the milk consumption of suckling beef calves by an isotope dilution method
- Anti-bacterial and anti-sperm effect of seminal plasma
- Response to oestradiol in ewe lambs
- Price : liveweight relationships at beef weaner sales
- Growth, fertility and wool production of young Merino ewes fed different levels from 7 to 19 months of age.
- Oestrus synchronization in beef cattle: A review
- The shelter requirements of the new-born lamb
- DairyMAN: A Massey University animal management program
- Observations on resistance and 'self-cure' to nematode parasites exhibited by grazing lambs and Saanen kids
- The current status of the beef breeding cow in New Zealand mixed livestock production systems
- Presidential Address 1999
- Global opportunities in agricultural trade
- Are faecal egg counts approaching their "sell-by" date?
- Effect of the maternal environment on fetal growth at mid-gestation in sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Is placentome size more important than morphologic type in relation to fetal weight in sheep?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Relationship between profiles of free amino acids in fetal and maternal plasma with those in skeletal muscle, in twin and single fetuses from ad-libitum fed ewes in late gestation
- Family-based selective breeding of New Zealand Abalone, Haliotis iris: challenges and opportunities
- Developing broodstock resources for farmed marine fish
- Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) feed conversion efficiency: evaluation and potential for selection
- Effect of resolving a sub-clinical uterine infection on plasma and follicular fluid steroid concentrations in early lactation dairy cows
- Heritability and repeatability of resistance to nematode parasites in commercial beef cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Host-defence related bioactive proteins in cows milk during mastitis and after drying-off
- McMeekan Memorial Award: Chrisopher Morris
- Sir Arthur Ward Award: Paul R Kenyon
- Lincoln University Centennial Award: Andrew and Tinks Pottinger
- Obituary: Robert Aitken Barton
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Estimates of genetic parameters for flystrike in New Zealand Romney and Romney cross sheep
- Genetic and phenotypic relationships among flystrike indicator traits in the Earnscleugh stud Merino flock
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: In vitro evaluation of the antimicrobial effects of chitosan against bacteria involved in ovine footrot
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Can weighing multiple times increase the accuracy of live weight recording?
- Comparing herd selection strategies for A2 beta-casein
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Association of variation in the ovine ADRB3 gene with weaning weight and post-weaning growth in New Zealand Suffolk sheep
- Association of the KRT33A (formerly KRT1.2) gene with live-weight and wool characteristics in yearling Perendale sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters of stayability measures in a dairy goat herd
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Quantitative trait loci associated with variation in maximum milk flow rate in Friesian-Jersey cross bred cows
- Some lessons from using zinc-salt treatments to protect dairy cows against facial eczema
- Evaluation of lambs subjected to a targeted selective treatment anthelmintic regime
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Rapid analysis of moxidectin in plasma
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Mastitis pathogens isolated from dairy cattle that were managed on conventionally or organically maintained matched farmlets
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Behaviour of New Zealand pasture-based cows offered access to free stalls fitted with sand or water beds, compared with cows at pasture
- Milking reproduction
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: In vitro ruminal fermentation and methane production from maize silage mixed with high or low quality ryegrass
- Effect of post grazing residual and concentrate feeding on milk production in early lactation
- Presidential Address 2011: The changing face of agriculture
- Examination of New Zealand sport horse performance records and their suitability for the calculation of breeding values
- Dry matter intake and nitrogen losses of pregnant, non-lactating dairy cows fed kale with a range of supplements in winter
- Milk somatic cells are not suitable biomarkers of lactating ruminant mammary gland function
- Prenatal maternal effects on daughter milk production in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Associations of uterine pathology with milk production and effects of treatment with a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in dairy cows
- Relative performance of Wiltshire and Perendale sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Expression of uterine progesterone receptor in Suffolk and Cheviot ewes at Day 19 of pregnancy, following embryo transfer
- An evaluation of a progesterone-based diagnostic as an aid to re-insemination decisions in a seasonal, pasture-grazed dairy cow herd
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Weight management considerations prior to mating to control litter size in Inverdale ewes
- Use of progesterone profiling to investigate factors affecting conception rates in a large, pasture-grazed dairy herd
- Effects of maternal nutrition during pregnancy on the growth and reproductive development of male sheep: a meta-analysis
- Variation of milk composition traits among Holstein-Friesian-sired cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The relationship between milk synthesis and intracellular profiles of amino acids in the bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of milking frequency in early lactation on milk yield and milk protein gene expression in the bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of re-milking following extended non-milking periods on lactation in dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: DNA methylation evens in the aS1-casein-encoding gene associated with involution and re-initiation of lactation in dairy cows
- Genetic parameters for lactose and its relationship with concentrations and ratios of other milk components
- "Grass to milk" and beyond
- The random bouncing ball
- Genetically, Merino ewes that lose less live weight during joining have a higher chance of having lambs but the total weight of the born lambs is not affected
- In vitro fermentation of [15N-] ryegrass and ruminal digesta of sheep grazing a ryegrass-based pasture in the morning or in the afternoon
- Grazing behaviour of dairy cows on simple and diverse swards in summer and autumn
- Rumen fermentation characteristics are influenced by feeding frequency in sheep fed forage chicory and perennial ryegrass at two feeding levels
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Maintenance energy requirements of non-lactating, pregnant dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Are dairy heifers achieving liveweight targets?
- A comparison of milk fat composition between pasture based cows supplemented with either canola meal or wheat
- Once-daily milking during a feed deficit improves energy status in early lactating dairy cows
- The effect of training to the milking parlour on the behavioural response to milking and milk production in first lactation heifers
- Validation of a bio-economic dairy production model
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Does castration status have an effect on the quality of lamb meat?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Impacts of different forages and packaging conditions on colour and lipid oxidation stability of lamb loins
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Exploring the effects of growth rate and meat yield on lamb meat quality
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic and phenotypic parameters for stayability in a New Zealand research flock
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Potential for genomic selection of bovine embryos
- A comparative analysis of genetic trends within the New Zealand sheep industry
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Development of epigenomic analysis in agricultural animals
- Economic values for New Zealand dairy goats
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Development of a visual scoring system for ovine pneumonia at the processing plant
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preliminary examination of wastage in Thoroughbred and Standardbred horses in New Zealand using training milestones
- Productivity and financial characteristics of herds that produce milkfat with different concentration of unsaturated fatty acids using a stochastic farm model
- Identification of cost-effective management options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 10% on a dairy farm in Waikato, New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The use of milking intervals of individual cows in assessing herd test milk production data
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of dam size and nutrition during pregnancy on fetal testicular development in sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of milking frequency in early lactation on gene expression in the bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: mTOR signalling in the lactating bovine mammary gland
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of re-milking following extended non-milking periods on the proliferation and apoptosis of mammary epithelial cells in dairy cows
- The changing nature of farm systems research
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of different herbage mixes on lamb meat quality
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Comparison of castrate and entire ram-lambs for meat quality and skatole in the fat
- A cross-sectional survey of New Zealand sport horse stud farms
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: A comparison of aspects of the reproductive success of ewe lamb and mixed age ewes joined over the same period
- Comparison of mating start date definitions for New Zealand dairy farms
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: High hydrostatic pressure treatment increases cryo-tolerance of in vitro produced bovine embryos
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Uterine expression of oestrogen receptor alpha in Suffolk and Cheviot ewes at Day 19 of pregnancy, following embryo transfer
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: MRI technology to better understand placental function in sheep - A pilot study
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Milksolids production of dairy cows grazing lucerne and perennial ryegrass in spring
- A longitudinal study of production and survivability of carry-over cows in a commercial dairy herd
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Estimation of protein utilization efficiency and metabolisable protein efficiency in lactating cows grouped by breeding worth
- Effect of heifer live weight on calving pattern and milk production
- Spatial-time correlation between milk urea with milk components and somatic cell score of bulk milk samples from farms supplying milk for cheese and milk powder manufacturing
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Development of ultrasound methodology to measure cow udder cistern storage capacity in the New Zealand pasture-fed context
- Another look at shearing lambs
- The effect of ewe prelamb body condition on triplet lamb performance in a commercial flock
- Ewe body condition score and the effect on lamb growth rate
- Relative performance of three strains of fine-woolled Merino sheep farmed on Waikato hill country
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Ewe live weight and body condition in mid- to late-pregnancy does not affect the maximum heat production capacity of its lamb at birth
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Intake of ewe lambs is influenced by the dry matter percentage of the feed consumed
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Onset of breeding season in Dorset Horn ewes
- Preliminary linkage studies in sheep of keratin and keratin-associated protein genes with fleece weight, wool fibre diameter and fibre curvature
- Presidential Address 2014: The role of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production in the era of digital networks
- Colostral immunoglobulin G as a predictor for serum immunoglobulin G concentration in dairy calves
- Modelling the effect of more lambs, faster growth and heavier carcasses on feed conversion efficiency and seasonality of demand
- Growth rate and carcass characteristics of Simmental- and Angus-sired steers born to Angus and Angus-cross-dairy cows
- Using polymerase chain reaction to identify Streptococcus uberis in bovine milk: how does it compare with bacterial culture?
- The lying behaviour of non-lactating, pregnant dairy cows wintered in a loose-housed barn on woodchip bedding material
- Remote sensing of heart rate and rumen temperature in feedlot beef cattle: associations with feeding and activity patterns
- Phenotypic correlations among alternative definitions of feed efficiency in grazing lactating dairy cows across parities and lactation stages
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Metabolite profiling in New Zealand milk
- Uncovering genetic variation in cow fertility using simulation
- Estimation of crossbreeding effects on yields of dairy products and value of milk processed in different product portfolios
- Estimation of a premium for milk with a high concentration of unsaturated fatty acids based on farm and processor profit: A simulation study
- Estimation of breed and heterosis effects for milk traits and somatic cell scores in cows milked once and twice daily in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Substitution of perennial ryegrass with forage rape reduces methane emissions from sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic control of the rumen microbiome in sheep
- Urinary nitrogen excretion, grazing and urination behaviour of dairy heifers grazing pasture, chicory and plantain in autumn
- Nitrogen partitioning in sheep offered three perennial ryegrass cultivars at two allowances in spring and autumn
- Milk production and urination behaviour of dairy cows grazing diverse and simple pastures
- Use of a urine meter to detect variation in urination behaviour of dairy cows on winter crops
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Developing genomic tools in the New Zealand Deer Industry
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters for growth, carcass and meat quality traits in New Zealand sheep
- Transfers of genetic merit through multiple-tiered breeding structures into trait expressions for commercial sheep production
- Genetic parameters for meat yield and quality traits derived from the New Zealand Perendale progeny test
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters for meat traits assessed in the Headwaters New Zealand Progeny Test
- Evaluation of production traits of red deer skins in the Deer Progeny Test
- The sheep dairy industry in New Zealand: a review
- New Zealand case studies of automatic-milking-systems adoption
- The use of herb mix and lucerne to increase growth rates of dairy heifers
- Diurnal pattern of rumen environment and rumen fill in lactating dairy cows
- The effects of feeding maize silage at different times prior to a herbage meal on dry matter intake, milksolids production and nitrogen excretion in late-lactation dairy cows
- From monitoring to precision phenotyping: towards a systemic use of precision livestock measures in dairy herds
- 2015 NZSAP Living Legend Address - Invermay Agricultural Centre
- New Zealand Society of Animal Production - The Past 25 Years
- Stayability of beef-cross-dairy breeding cows to six years of age
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Walking distance and energy expenditure of beef cows grazing on hill country in winter
- Beef cattle wintering systems: effects on cattle and pasture
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Chitosan is a highly effective in vitro antibacterial agent against the strains of bacteria causing footrot, but is not effective in treating stage-four footrot on farm.
- Ryegrass staggers and liveweight gain of ewe lambs and hoggets grazing four combinations of perennial ryegrass and strains of endophyte
- The difficulties in reviewing ergovaline
- Contract session: Application of genetic technologies to the New Zealand sheep industry
- Flexural limb deformities in a cohort of Thoroughbred foals on commercial stud farms
- Blank panels in sheep yards encourage sheep to jump
- Body condition and morphometric measures of adiposity in a cohort of Pony Club horses and ponies in New Zealand
- A snapshot of New Zealand farmers' awareness of, and self-reported compliance with, animal welfare requirements
- Analysing hidden patterns of farmers' preferences for farm performance characteristics that may be related to tail-docking practice decisions
- The reasons farmers choose to dock lamb tails to certain lengths, or leave them intact
- Effect of shearing on lamb growth and carcase performance
- The effect of ewe nutrition and body condition score during very late pregnancy and the perinatal period on the behaviour of twin-bearing ewes and their lambs
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Optimizing a fasting protocol to assess live weight of sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Modelling liveweight change to inform residual feed intake models in growing lambs
- Effect of dam age on the growth and body composition of singleton ram offspring to 11 months of age
- The effect of grazing high-sugar ryegrass on lamb performance
- The effect of dam age on ewe offspring productive performance and efficiency
- Relationships among skin thickness, fat depth and eye muscle depth in sires and their progeny, and the breeding value for survival of their progeny
- The influence of hogget liveweight change during their first lactation on pregnancy rates at the subsequent breeding period
- A comparison of microbial protein synthesis in beef steers fed ad libitum winter ryegrass or fodder beet
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Birth weight of calves born to dairy cows in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Composition of milk sampled from beef-cross-dairy cows unaccustomed to milking
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Do high-milk diets affect the growth rate of heifers prior to weaning?
- Ewe milk products and sheep dairy conference 2015 - Abstracts
- Presidential Address 2012: The New Zealand beef cattle industry
- Cows becoming clinically lame differ in changes in behaviour and physiology compared to cows that do not become clinically lame
- Efficiency of beef breeding cows that vary in live weight and milking potential
- Does Production Worth and Breeding Worth reflect cow profitability?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Verification of an automated camera-based system for oestrus detection in dairy cows
- Estimating 24-hour milk, fat and protein yields and somatic cell count for automatically milked cows in pastoral production systems
- Review of milk payment systems to identify the component value of lactose
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genome wide DNA methylation patterns and transcription analysis in sheep muscle
- Lincoln University Centennial Award
- NZSAP 50th Jubilee University Awards
- NZSAP Innovation Award (Science And Technology)
- Livestock Improvement Corporation /Landcorp Farming Limited Invited Lecturer
- Living Legend Address
- Invited Address
- Abstract: Overview of the research programme: boosting exports of the emerging NZ dairy sheep industry
- Abstracts: Understanding sheep milk composition in the NZ environment
- Abstracts: Advanced analysis of NZ sheep milk lipids
- Abstracts: Differential effects of sheep and cow milk on gastrointestinal physiology in a rat model
- Abstracts: Influence of liveweight gain profiles of ewe lambs between 12 and 20 weeks of age on puberty and mammary gland development
- Abstracts: Designing early weaning approaches to optimise lamb growth and milk harvesting
- Abstracts: Effluent management on a dairy sheep farm
- Abstract: Mineral content in NZ sheep milk from different lactation stage and times and milk fraction'
- Abstract: Pellet Freezing Sheep Milk as transport and storage option; a project outline
- Abstract: Multi-product drying platform for the lower North Island
- Abstract: 2015-2016 Season review
- Abstract: Feeding dairy ewes
- Abstract: Dairy lamb rearing growth rates
- Abstract: Comparison of lamb rearing systems on sheep-dairy farms: behavioural changes and welfare implications.
- Abstract: Sheep milk genetic improvement - key considerations
- Abstract: Opportunities for applying Genomics within the NZ dairy sheep industry
- Abstract: Lactation curves for milk yield and components in dairy sheep using random regression models
- Presidential Address 2015: Environmental goals against background of productivity gains
- Does ewe nutrition during pregnancy affect the neonatal behaviour of twin-born lambs?
- Sustained diuretic effect of plantain when ingested by sheep
- Milk production and urinary nitrogen excretion of dairy cows grazing perennial ryegrass-white clover and pure plantain pastures
- Urine volume of non-lactating dairy cows in late gestation fed forage based diets in winter
- Using genomic information to predict sex in dairy cattle
- Brief Communication: Days to calving and intercalving interval in beef and dairy-beef crossbred cows
- Preliminary investigations into the trait of residual energy intake in sheep
- Genetics of alternative defi nitions of feed effi ciency in grazing lactating dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: An update on genetic parameters for facial eczema tolerance in sheep
- Performance recording of NZ Corriedales
- Estimation of genetic parameters for milk yield traits at different herd production levels in cows milked once- or twice-daily in New Zealand
- DEERSelect - review of the first decade
- Brief Communication: Impact of date of birth recording practises in genetic evaluation in New Zealand sheep
- Brief Communication: Plasma amino acid profiles of lactating dairy cows fed fodder beet and ryegrass diets
- Growth of early weaned lambs on a plantain-clover mix compared with lambs suckling their dam on a plantain-clover mix or a grass based sward
- Relationship between social dominance and milk production of dairy cows grazing pasture
- Does mowing before grazing increase dry matter intake and milk yield?
- Brief Communication: The use of farm-management tools by New Zealand sheep farmers: changes with time
- Dietary preference of dairy cows for perennial ryegrass cultivars growing with and without white clover
- Brief Communication: Ad libitum fodder-beet and pasture beef-finishing systems - intake, utilisation, grazing behaviour and liveweight gains
- Performance and intake of high-yielding Holstein cows offered a TMR either alone or with access to grazing for six hours per day
- Effect of grazing system on nitrogen partitioning in lactating dairy cows grazing irrigated pastures in Canterbury, New Zealand
- Brief Communication: Feed value of maize silage in New Zealand - a review
- Brief Communication: An investigation of automated measures for assessing pain-induced distress in dairy calves
- Brief Communication: A physiological evaluation of the efficacy of pain-mitigation strategies for cautery-disbudded goat kids
- Development and evaluation of a temperament-scoring system for farmed deer: genetic and environmental components
- The incidence of liver abscessation in slaughtered beef bulls in the South Island of New Zealand
- Brief Communication: Do different grazing strategies affect pre-weaning calf growth rates?
- Variation in total body adipose and adipose partitioning in maternal sheep estimated using computed tomography scanning
- Grazing behaviour and species selection of heifer calves fed different forages.
- The impact of lamb growth rate pre- and post-weaning on farm profitability in three geoclimatic regions
- Brief Communication: Variability in growth rates of goat kids on 6 New Zealand dairy goat farms
- Supply curves for yields of dairy products from first-lactation Holstein Friesian, Jersey and Holstein Friesian-Jersey crossbred cows accounting for seasonality of milk composition and production
- Brief Communication: Preliminary estimates of genetic parameters for adult dag scores in New Zealand sheep and their relationship with juvenile measurements
- Reproductive production constraints within the New Zealand racing industry
- Reproductive performance of singleton and twin female offspring born to ewe-lamb dams and mature adult dams
- The influence of previous reproduction on subsequent fertility in multiparous ewes
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Which traits best predict ewe performance and survival the following year on a UK hill farm?
- The influence of age and breed of cow on colostrum indicators of suckled beef calves
- Brief Communication: Immediate removal of dairy goat kids from the doe as a strategy to manage colostrum intake
- Brief Communication: Does Viagra protect fetal lambs against maternal pregnancy toxaemia?
- Brief Communication: The effect of milk allowance on performance of dairy calves
- Brief Communication: The use of infrared thermography and feeding behaviour for early disease detection in New Zealand dairy calves
- Living Legend Address: Signals from inner space
- New Zealand Society Of Animal Production (Inc.) - Annual Report 2014/2015
- New Zealand Society Of Animal Production (Inc.) - Officers Of The Society 2015/2016
- McMeekan Memorial Award: Velmurugu Ravindran
- Sir Arthur Ward Award: Gordon John Greer
- Obituary: Geoffrey Blair Nicoll
- Obituary: Christopher (Chris) Anthony Morris
- Presidents of The Society
- New Zealand Society Of Animal Production Awardees: Life Members Of The Society
- McMeekan Memorial Award
- Sir Arthur Ward Award
- Young Member Award
- Presidential Address 1945
- Food and agriculture
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- Chairman's opening remarks
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- Dehydrated meat
- Should a breeder tell
- Presidential Address 1950
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- Dairy Production in developing countries
- The influence of sheep and cattle on the grazing preference of red deer
- Temporary alterations to milking frequency, immediately post-calving, modified the expression of genes regulating milk synthesis and apoptosis in the bovine mammary gland
- More dairy heifers are achieving liveweight targets
- LIC Lecture: Can protein utilisation from pasture be improved?
- Can a mathematical model accurately predict intake of grazing animals? Testing the Q-Graze model
- Landcorp Farming Lecture: Face facts: drenching with anthelmintics for worm control selects for drug resistance - and no excuses!
- Characterization and establishment of embryonic stem cell-like cell lines from in vitro produced buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) parthenotes
- Management of weanlings on commercial Thoroughbred stud farms in the North Island of New Zealand
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- Inheritance of active and passive humoral immunity in ruminants
- Biological efficiency for venison production in red deer
- Influence of insulin-like growth factor-l (IGF-1) on components of the haematopoietic and lymphatic systems
- Partitioning of milk accumulation between cisternal and alveolar compartments of the bovine udder: relationship to production loss on once-daily milking
- Perspectives for marker assisted selection in dairy cattle breeding
- Preparation of fresh forages for incubation and prediction of nutritive value
- Experimental designs for Quantitative trait loci detection in the New Zealand dairy industry
- LIC Lecture: Farm performance measurement - Linking monitoring to business strategy
- Ketosis of dairy cows
- Ram induced stimulation of ovarian and oestrous activity in anoestrous ewes - a review
- Synchronisation and artificial insemination of ewes - techniques which have possible commercial application
- Comparative dairy production of Jerseys and Friesians
- The potential to increase production efficiency from animal-pasture systems
- Farm factors that influence the eating qualitites of lamb meat
- Nutrition of the grazing ruminant
- Production, Economic Performance and Optimum Stocking Rates of Holstein-Friesian and Jersey Cows
- Rate of intake by sheep of different genotypes of subterranean clover in the vegetative growth stage
- Effect of once-daily milking and bovine somatotropin administration in Friesian cows on milk protease activity during late lactation
- Soils and food production
- The inheritance of resistance or susceptibility to infection
- Memorial address: Alfred Hyde Cockayne
- Stability and productivity of pastures
- Dairy cattle breeding in New Zealand
- Digestion kinetics of mature grasses
- Comparison of mastitis prevalence between an organic and a conventional dairy herd from 2004 to 2006
- Automatic reading of Kamars for heat detection in dairy herds
- The value of incentives and subsidies for increasing livestock production
- The relationship between internal parasite burden, faecal egg count, and mucosal mast cells in fleeceweight-selected and control sheep
- Influence of milking frequency and feeding level on plasmin activity and casein degradation in milk
- Potential for profitable use of DNA markers in the New Zealand Dairy Industry
- Progress with selection to change age at puberty and reproductive rate in Angus cattle
- Formulating total mixed rations from forages - defining the digestion kinetics of contrasting species
- Cattle Breed Evaluation at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Centre and implications for commercial beef farmers
- The effect of three techniques of rumen pH assessment on measured pH of rumen fluid and digesta in an in vitro artificial rumen system
- The economic importance of disease in dairy cattle
- Memorial address: Bernard Cracroft Aston
- Memorial address: John Anderson Gilruth (1871-1937)
- Field observations of the effect of grazing management on pasture production on a soil of volcanic origin
- Effects of varying the environment on the behaviour and performance of dairy cattle
- A candidate gene marker for bloat susceptibility in cattle?
- Maternal environment as a regulator of birth weight and body dimensions of newborn lambs
- Factors affecting the rate of herd improvement in New Zealand 1920-1942
- Comparison of mice, guinea-pigs and sheep as test animals for bioassay of oestrogenic pasture legumes
- Ingested soil as a possible source of elements for grazing animals
- Meat production from Friesian and Angus bulls
- Crossbreeding, interbreeding and establishing a new breed of sheep
- Memorial address: John Morris Ranstead
- The insemination of sheep with fresh or frozen semen
- Efficacy of Coprin in deer and sheep: An evaluation and comparative study
- A conceptual framework for an expert system to improve drying off decisions on seasonal supply dairy farms
- Herbage allowance - intake - production relationships in continuously stocked winter- and spring-lambing ewes.
- Ernest Short of Parorangi
- The maintenance requirements of New Zealand dairy cattle
- The importance of pasture pests in animal production
- Effects of level of nutrition and drenching strategy on pasture utilization during autumn by set-stocked hoggets infected with gastro-intestinal nematodes
- Effect of once daily milking (ODM) on enzyme activities in the bovine mammary gland
- Across breed evaluation of dairy cattle
- Progeny performance of industry and index selected Angus bulls
- Artificial insemination of red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds late in the breeding season
- Birthcoat characteristics and their gentical significance
- Pasture and animal production
- Memorial address: WJ Croucher, father to the pig industry
- Availability of selenium in forage to ruminants
- The future of agricultural research
- Memorial address: William Riddet
- Progress in identifying sources of animal variation in susceptibility to bloat
- The ,contribution of research to grassland farming systems in Western Europe
- Level of nutrition of the ewe and lamb survival
- The effect of the duration and timing of flushing on the ovulation rate of ewes
- Effects of level of feeding at different times of the year on milk production by Friesian cows of high or low genetic merit
- Importance of dry matter content to voluntary intake of fresh grass forages
- Meat flavour of Romney lambs grazed under Pinus radiata
- The effects of milking once daily throughout lactation on the performance of dairy cows grazing on pasture
- A simplified method for typing DRB alleles in deer
- Tasmanian grass grub - a significant threat to pastoral farming in dryland regions
- Circulating levels of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) are strongly linked to pregnancy but not to liveweight change in ruminants
- Fenbendazole as a possible marker of supplement intake in sheep
- Sow nutrition
- Grigg of Longbeach
- The future of animal production in New Zealand
- Antibodies in brucellosis
- A comparison of' the performance of Dorset, Corriedale and Romney sheep during lactation
- Nitric oxide and the control of mammary blood flow
- Genetic effects in GrowBulk sheep
- Contract introduction: the problem of anthelmintic resistance.
- Central nervous system injury as a determinant of lamb mortality
- Predicting parturition in the &we from the pattern of uterine motility
- immunity to gastrointestinal nematode parasites in domestic stock with particular reference to sheep: A review
- Comparative effects of dietary molybdenum concentration on distribution of copper in plasma in sheep and red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- A review of recent developments on the effect of nutrition on ovulation rate (the flushing effect) with particular reference to research at Ruakura
- Grazing management strategies for the production of fine Merino wool in North Island conditions
- Lamb weight gain and faecal egg count when grazing one of seven herbages and dosed with larvae for six weeks
- An index to assist multiple trait selection of terminal beef sires in the UK
- Prediction of post-partum anovulatory interval in dairy cows
- A profile of anthelmintic resistance and parasite control practices in New Zealand - results from a 2005 survey
- Strategically reducing time on pasture: Dairy cow intake, production, welfare, and excretory behaviour
- Plants and food
- Current genetic thought and dairy cattle breeding
- Consolidation as a factor in silage fermentation
- The efficiency with which feed is utilised by the dairy cow
- Estimation of lactation yield from repeated measures of test day yields
- Recent improvements in efficiency of flow cytometric sorting of X and Y- chromosome bearing sperm of domestic animals: a review
- Opportunities for enhancing the delivery of novel forage attributes
- Effect of forage allowance and forage system during the dry period on the performance of dairy cows
- University agricultural education
- Memorial address: James Little and his Corridale sheep
- Principles and practices used in livestock improvement programmes in the USA
- Grazed pasture parameters: dead herbage, net gain and utilization of pasture
- Effects of teasing and nutrition on the-duration of the breeding season in Romney ewes
- Blood metabolites and infertility in dairy cows
- Barley consumption by lambs during transfer from pasture to barley-based diets
- Concentrations of oestrone sulphate in milk during pregnancy in dairy cows
- Regulation of lactose production by ovine mammary acini in culture
- Hogget wool traits of sheep breeds being used for crossbreeding with strong wool breeds - preliminary estimates from research studies
- Economic evaluation of management strategies for a model Waikato farm to achieve a herd average body condition score of 5.0 at calving
- Criteria of male fertility
- Some variations in the fleece of Romney Marsh stud ewes
- A theoretical basis for grazing management
- Breeding for improved production sheep
- The control of internal parasites in lambs by grazing management
- A comparison of carcass characteristics and meat quality for Angus, Hereford x Friesian, and Jersey x Friesian steers
- Friesian and beef breed performance in an improved tussock environment
- Sources of variation for wool, body weight and oestrous characters in Romney hoggets
- Characteristics of high performance flocks in Otago and Southland
- Effect of season on ovarian and pituitary activity in cows
- Effects of rate of weight gain and weight loss on the relationship between carcass weight and GR measurements in cryptorchid lambs
- The relationship between staggers and diarrhoea in lambs grazing different components of endophyte-infected ryegrass
- Hepatic protein variation among Romneys selected for resistance or susceptibility to sporidesmin-induced liver damage. A quantitative two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis study
- A computationally feasible test day model with separate first and later lactation genetic effects
- Genetic studies of bloat susceptibility in cattle
- Technique for extraction of proteins for enzymatic measurements from sheep muscle and ram spermatozoa
- Effect of recipient breeds on birth and weaning weight, and wool and follicle characteristics of Merino lambs born by embryo transfer
- Analysis of milk constituents by near infrared and visible light
- Lack of effect of hot summer conditions in Canterbury on milk production of dairy cows
- The relation of the endocrine system to reproduction and milk secretion
- The influence of level of nutrition during pregnancy and lactation on lamb and wool production of grazing sheep
- Concentrate feeding of dairy cattle
- Selenium and ewe fertility
- Sources of protein for milk production
- Saline drinking water for sheep: some aspects of the ingestion of sodium chloride solutions
- Calf growth and lifetime performance of beef cattle
- Adopting new technologies and raising dairy production - a matter of incentives
- The effect of level of meal allowance on the growth of early-weaned calves at pasture
- Out-of-season breeding in thyroidectomized red deer hinds
- Creep grazing, a method for investigating pre-weaned lamb diets?
- S3 - The Sheep Sustainability Strategy: project introduction and preliminary results
- Inheritance of chondrodysplasia in Texel sheep
- Effect of water soluble carbohydrate concentration of ryegrass on the partial preference of sheep for clover
- Economic importance of sheep diseases in New Zealand
- Chromium oxide method for determining digestibilty
- Animal factors in the aetiology of bloat
- The relationship of genetic merit to between herd differences in milk production
- Magnesium absorption in the digestive tract of sheep
- Physiological genetics as a basis for the study of susceptibility to bloat in cows
- Induction of cyclical ovarian activity in seasonally anoestrous Romney ewes: studies with exogenous GnRH or LH
- Hogget lambing and its effect on the subsequent two-tooth performance of three breeds
- The effect of melatonin on the onset of first oestrus in Romney ewe lambs
- A physiological basis of genetic improvement in milk production of Friesian and Jersey cows
- Behavioural factors influencing by-product and residue acceptance by livestock
- Water intake of red deer stags consuming dryland pasture or indoors on concentrated feeds
- Blood metabolites near calving in twin-pregnant and single-pregnant cows
- Effects of induced parturition on mammary function
- Effects of an extract from sulla (Hedysarum coronarium) containing condensed tannins on the migration of three sheep gastrointestinal nematodes in vitro
- Breeding of dairy cattle in New Zealand
- Hogget ill-thrift
- Some aspects of the behaviour of grazing sheep
- Autotransplantation of endocrine glands in sheep
- Oestrogenic activity in New Zealand pastures and some effects of oestrogen injections on mastitis and fertility
- Milking machine and mastititis
- Calf rearing by multiple suckling and the effects on lactation performance of the cow
- Assessing the value of breeding technologies to dairy farmers
- Effect of crossbreeding strategies on long-term rates of genetic gain in New Zealand dairy cattle
- The animal in relation to food production
- Nutrition and animal health in New Zealand
- The limit set to tropical dairy production by nutritional factors
- Two experiments on the effect of short periods of underfeeding on the yield and composition of cows milk
- A comparison of hogget thrift on perennial ryegrass and white clover
- Advances in semen dilution
- Comparison of pen and paddock systems for the pedigree mating of sheep
- Selection indices for Perendale sheep
- Comparative dairy production of Jerseys and Friesian-jersey crossbreds
- A review of the influence of liveweight and flushing on fertility made in the context of efficient sheep production
- The influence of internal parasites on replacement dairy heifers during their second year of life
- Genetic variation in resistance or toleranc to internal nematode parasites in strains of sheep in Rotomahana
- The effect on oesophageal groove closure of water and mineral solutions drenched to cows
- Mitogenic activity of lamb mammary fat pad in vitro is distinct from that of mouse mammary fat pad
- Sex and age effects on genetic parameters for wool production and qualities
- Early indications that feeding Lotus will reduce methane emissions from ruminants
- Response of calves to different levels of mixed species gastrointestinal parasite infection
- Indole and skatole as markers for nitrogen utilisation in dairy cows
- Effect of white clover containing either high or low concentrations of water-soluble carbohydrate on metabolic indicators of protein degradation in the rumen of dairy cows
- The effect of carbohydrate type on milk and milk component yields in early lactation dairy cows
- The problems of increasing production in the meat industry
- Secondary school agricultural education
- An economic survey of the New Zealand sheep industry
- Associations between milk protein genetic variants and production traits in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Lessons from the National Anthelmintic Resistance Surveys
- The effect of feed restriction during peak lactation on milk production parameters : Brief Communication
- Milk production studies
- The daily water consumption of a herd of dairy cattle
- Sheep thrift problems under irrigations
- Ovulation rates in Marshall Romney and Romney ewes: effects of body size and condition score
- Distribution of litter sizes within flocks at different levels of fecundity
- Reproductive performance of ewe offspring from ewes immunised against steroid hormones
- Nutritive value of Lotus corniculatus L. containing low and medium concentrations of condensed tannins for sheep
- A study of early venison production from grazing red deer
- Effects of oestradiol on skeletal growth in iambs
- Impact of potential change in climate and atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide on pasture and animal production in New Zealand
- Oestrus synchronisation and oestrus detection in Swamp Buffaloes (Bubalus bzrbalis)
- An evaluation of a possible complementary effect of grazing goats witlh bulls in an intensive bull beef system
- A sampling strategy for estimating dairy pasture quality
- Female sterility
- A comparison of three rations for dairy cattle
- The estimation of carcass composition in bacon weight pigs
- Some recent research on milking machine design
- Effects of pre-weaning nutrition on subsequent growth rate, feed conversion efficiency and carcass composition of identical twin steers
- Recent advances in reproductive physiology: implications for control of fertility and fecundity of sheep and cattle
- The role of endogenous insulin-like growth factors-l and -2 on lactation in rats
- Correlated responses in fleece weight to selection for divergence in faecal nematode egg count in New Zealand Romneys and Perendales
- Effects of condensed tannins and sesquiterpene lactones extracted from chicory on the viability of deer lungworm larvae
- The fight for food
- Some aspects of pasture growth and utilisation
- The future of dairying in New Zealand
- Recent developments in herd improvement
- Effects of different growth paths from 4 to 11 months of age on Romney hogget oestrus and subsequent reproduction
- The effect of post-ruminal infusion of protein or energy on the pathology of Trichostrongylus colubriformis infection and body composition in lambs
- The presence of kallikrein-like enzymes in bovine saliva
- Within herd variability in the mineral status of grazing dairy cows in early lactation
- Assessment of female traits for genetic improvement of fertility in dairy cattle
- Effect of selection for fleece weight on liveweight, reproductive performance and wool characteristics in mixed age Romney ewes
- Nutraceuticals
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of offering differing levels of milk and plant extracts on feed intake, growth and development of New Zealand Holstein-Friesian and Jersey crossbred dairy cattle
- The economic importance of disease losses in pigs
- A farmer looks at agricultural education
- Nitrate -a factor in animal health
- Behaviour of hill country sheep during farming routines
- A model for analysing alternative feeding strategies during the lactation cycle
- Monitoring wool fibre diameter and length changes using gel emulsion autoradiography
- Animal production research for the shellfish aquaculture industry
- Strain differences in Merinos for carcase and meat quality
- Using an existing intake model to demonstrate relationships between herbage allowance, hunger drive, days in milk and actual intake in grazing dairy cows
- Effect of pre-grazing herbage mass on grazing behaviour, grass dry matter intake and milk production of dairy cows
- Performance recording of sheep
- The voluntary intake of the lactating dairy cow and its relation to digestion
- The components of bovine saliva in relation to bloat
- Ovulation and oestrous responses of high and low fecundity ewes to ingestion of isoflavone-rich pasture
- Patterns of lamb survival in high fecundity Booroola flocks
- Ovarian inhibin: a hormone with potential to increase ovulation rate in sheep
- Effect of melatonin immunisation on liveweight gain of red deer
- The stability of the relationship between subcutaneous fat percent in the rack and the side for Southdown ram carcasses
- Plants for grazing systems
- Expected responses in carcass composition to selection for muscularity in sheep
- Intake and liveweight change of hoggets grazing pastures differing in dead matter content in autumn
- Effect of the Inverdale gene (FecX) on fleece characteristics in Romney sheep
- Reticular groove contraction in yearling cattle detected by breath test
- Using a Whole Farm Model to explore options for feed grown on-farm to achieve 1750 kg milksolids per hectare in the Waikato
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: A versatile sheep respiration chamber system for measurement of methane emission
- Phenotypic relationships between milk protein percentage and reproductive performance in three strains of Holstein Friesian cows in Ireland
- Economic considerations affecting increased production
- Identical twins in dairy cattle
- Pasture production in a protein extraction system
- Factors associated with high productivity on a dairy farm
- Fleece production patterns in Romney ewes: effects of photoperiod, pregnancy and lactation
- Technology attributes for farm decisions - management of endoparasites
- Pasture utilisation by the animal
- Can the hill country supply the store stock necessary for increased fat lamb production?
- The effectg of high and low plane rearing of hoggets on lifetime productivity
- The effect of different protein/energy intakes on nutrition and physiological parameters in young sheep
- Response of cows differing in bloat susceptibility to intraruminal water and electrolyte loading
- Pasture quality and animal performance over late spring and summer
- Cadmium accumulation in liver and kidney of sheep grazing ryegrass/white clover pastures
- The relationship between cortical structure and fibre diameter in primary and secondary wool fibres of yearling Perendale sheep
- Sperm numbers, semen age and fertility in fresh and frozen bovine semen
- Cryopreservation of shellfish sperm, eggs and embryos
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Expression of innate immune response genes in mammary epithelia following stimulation with lipopolysaccharide or Escherichia coli.
- Control of contagious abortion
- The use of inbreeding in animal improvement
- Efficiancy of production in New Zealand dairy cows
- The role of the meat and wool industries in the future of New Zealand
- The expansion and structure of the New Zealand pedigree Jersey breed
- The fleece as a factor in sheep adaptation
- Studies in the utilization of winter pasture by dairy cows
- Genetic implications of advances in semen dilution
- The feed intake of Friesian dairy beef animals
- Planned animal health and production services - an economic evaluation
- Future opportunities in livestock production and biomedicine from advances in animal cloning
- Reconciling the differences between the length at which lambs' tails are commonly docked and animal welfare recommendations
- Effects of sub-clinical endometritis on ovarian follicular activity in postpartum dairy cows
- Advisory functions of the field veterinary officer
- Problems of dairy-pasture feed supply
- Sheep breeding in New Zealand
- Factors limiting pasture production
- Effect of ewe ovulation rate and uterine efficiency on breed and strain variation in litter size
- Hogget lamb mortality
- Ovarian activity in the Booroola x Romney ewe possessing a major gene influencing fecundity
- comparison of ultrasound backfat measurements on sheep
- The value of ultrasound in assessing the leg muscling of lambs
- A comparison of the effect of split and single applications of nitrogen fertiliser on dairy production
- Sheep breeding objectives and selection criteria of Wairarapa and Tararua sheep farmers
- SNiP and cut: Quantifying the potential benefits of genomic selection tools for genetic fault elimination in sheep
- Effect of growth hormone on the liver transcriptome profile during established lactation in the dairy cow
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Comparison of the performance of dairy cows offered energy supplements prior to drying off and kale at high and low allowance during the dry period in winter
- State agricultural extension services
- The effect of stocking rate and concentrate feeding on the conversion of pasture to milk
- Flushing responses from heavy and light ewes
- Effect of nutrition and mating management on calving patterns
- Reproductive efficiency in lactating dairy cows
- Seasonal wool growth patterns and the follicle and fibre characteristics of New Zealand feral sheep
- Prospects in animal improvement through breeding
- Pasture composition and bloat
- Effects of varying feeding time on diurnal calving patterns in dairy cows
- Predicting animal production from pasture
- The effect of exogenous melatonin, administered in summer, on wool growth and testis diameter of Romneys
- Present and future grazing systems
- Greenhouse gas production by ruminants in New Zealand: a serious problem, or just hot air?
- Prevalence of two inherited disorders in US Holstein cattle
- A comparison of protocols for the photoperiodic induction of synchronised wool follicle growth cycles
- Optimal utilization of genetic resources in aquaculture
- Development of a model to predict pasture intake for grazing dairy cows in Argentina
- Experiments in dairy husbandry with particular reference to yield of milk fat
- Recent developments in the field study of sheep nutrition
- Leadership in a herd of dairy cows
- Effects of intra-duodenal infusions of fat on the food intake of sheep
- The utilization of the energy of fresh milk by young Jersey and Friesian calves
- Once-daily milking of dairy cows : an appraisal
- Role of reproductive technologies in reducing the time lag associated with the commercial application of genetic discovery in the sheep industry
- The theory and practice of mechanical milking
- Land utilisation and settlement
- Preliminary trials with whey for fattening pigs
- Surveys of farm milking and shed performance
- The present status of applied reproductive physiology in animal production
- Flushing responses of well and poorly reared two-tooth ewes
- Nutrition and management of ewes before and after lambing
- Management and breeding policies for the use of the Booroola F gene for increased flock prolificacy
- An estimation of the dietary allowances of Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn and Se for single- and twin-bearing ewes
- Leanness of young sheep that lost weight after shearing
- Factors affecting repeatability of tissue depth determination by real-time ultrasound in sheep
- Experiences with on-off grazing in early lactation on dairy farms in Northland
- Susceptibility of Romney and Perendale sheep to flystrike by the Australian Green Fly, Lucilia cuprina (Wied.), and fly attractant trials
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Use of cDNA microarrays to investigate gene regulation in mastitis as a result of Escherichia coli infection in the bovine mammary gland
- Prevalence and identification of systemic markers of sub-clinical endometritis in postpartum dairy cows
- Effect of milking frequency and nutrition in early lactation on milk production and body condition in grazing dairy cows
- General discussion on the first day's papers
- The crude fibre complex in animal nutrition
- Field surveys in dairy cattle production studies
- The call to produce more livestock
- Effects of diet and liveweight on ovulation rates in Romney ewes
- Genetic parameters for fertility traits in seasonal dairy cattle
- The farming of "game" species ... "horses for courses"
- Sheep management on improved hill pastures
- The effect of lactation on intake in the dairy cow
- The qualities of farm carcasses
- The qualities of ram carcasses
- Response of cows in early lactation when offered maize silage to appetite and restricted areas of pasture
- Progress report on the performance of jersey cows differing in breeding index
- Replacement policies for dairy cows
- Predictive use of a pasture production model on commercial farms: some examples
- Effect of Regulin implants on spring fertility, lactation and down growth of cashmere does
- Comparitive nutrition of deer and goats, goats and sheep
- Remote Blood Sampling Device A stress free blood sampling technique for free ranging animals
- Staple tenacity versus staple strength
- Development of fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk in hoggets of genotypes used to develop GrowBulk sheep
- Impact of early age litter size on subsequent litter output in ewes
- Gene expression profiling of wool follicle growth cycles by cDNA microarray
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of growth hormone on the mammary transcriptome profile during established lactation in the dairy cow
- The role of quarantine in prevention and control of animal disease
- Selection through herd sire
- Body composition studies with the milk-fed lamb
- Factors affecting storage of semen
- Incidence of bearings in ewes that had a bearing at the preceding lambing
- Grasslands and forage crops in rotation
- The measurement of the feed consumption of individual animals
- The extension worker and his work
- Further studies on meat production per acre
- Some factors influencing the growth of lambs on irrigated pasture
- The application of performance testing to pig improvement in New Zealand
- Mismothering in Romney sheep
- The influence of a protected tallow supplement on milk yield and composition
- The effect of early nutrition and hogget oestrus on subsequent reproduction
- Influence of herbage allowance during the suckling period on subsequent growth and carcass fatness of twin lambs weaned at 6 weeks of age
- Price premiums for high-bukl Perendael wools
- Observations on the effect of litter size, pregnancy nutrition and fat genotype on ewe and foetal parameters
- Growth and carcass traitssmLePpurebred Texel and Suffolk sheep
- The welfare of sheep during sea transport
- A comparison between subjective and objective (carcass weight plus GR or the Hennessy Grading Probe) methods for classifying lamb carcasses.
- The relationship between breeding index and conception rate and the cost of delayed conception
- Heritability of resistance to flystrike in New Zealand Perendale sheep
- Differential effects of short-term once-daily milking on milk yield, milk composition and concentrations of selected blood metabolites in cows with low or high pasture intake
- Economic benefit of using a major gene in a nucleus selection programme with limits on inbreeding
- Grass rationing in relation to production
- Labour in relation to grassland dairying
- Advances in controlled sheep breeding
- Effect of pre-slaughter starvation on weight-loss in cattle
- A comparison of the Danish, U.K., U.S. and New Zealand systems of mastitis control
- Rygrass staggers in sheep and cattle
- Seasonal patterns of wool growth in Romney sheep selected for high and low staple tenacity
- Manipulation of gene expression in transgenic mice using ribozymes
- Will the big birds fly?
- Clover-rich diets and production, behaviour and nutrient use by cows in late lactation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of milking frequency and concentrate supplementation on milk production during an extended lactation in grazing dairy cows
- Mastitis in dairy cows
- The measurement of faeces output (summary)
- Some effects of treading on pasture
- Current developments in poultry breeding and selection
- Studies on some factors influencing food intake in sheep
- Reciprocal crossbreeding of Friesian and Angus cattle
- Effects of differential nutrition on the incidence of oestrus and ovulation rate in Booroola x Romney and Romney ewes
- Effect of nutrition on ovulation rate and litter size in Booroola-merino cross and Merino ewes
- A low cost method of artificially rearing lambs at pasture
- The effects of season on reproduction in beef cows - a review
- The use of a pastoral computer model - a learning experience
- Do melatonin implants influence the breeding season in Coopworth ewes?
- Effect of duodenal infusion of protein or amino acids on retention of lambs consuming fresh herbage
- The sexual behaviour of alpacas imported to New Zealand from Chile
- Farm monitoring - Review of the Northland focal farm scheme
- Separating dead from live sperm in thawed frozen merino semen does not enhance conception rate
- Across-breed genetic evaluation of New Zealand dairy goats
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of MyoMAX on carcass lean and fat
- The effect of concentrate supplementation on milk production during an extended lactation in grazing dairy cows : Brief Communication
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION Natural variation in levels of Immunoglobulin A in bovine milk
- Evaluation of the fleece in relation to breeding methods
- Symposium on facial eczema research
- The effect of lucerne feeding on ovulation rate in ewes
- Aspects of energy metabolism of jersey cows differing in breeding index
- Use of once daily milking or treatment with progesterone and oestradiol benzoate in anoestrous cows
- Relationship between wool sulphur concentration and wool characteristics
- To wether - short scrotum or leave lambs as entire rams? Revisiting an old question using new genetics
- The estimation of digestibility
- The future of land development in New Zealand
- A suggested approach to the selection of domestic animals on physiological characters
- Liveweight fertility relationships in Merino and half-bred ewes in a high country environment
- Shearing and time of joining effects on reproduction in two-tooth ewes
- Date of lambing and sheep production during lactation in Southland
- Effect of shearing on meat and wool production from lambs reared on hill country
- Progeny testing for lean meat production breed in the Poll Dorset breed
- Facial eczema in hill country - potential toxicity and effects on ewe performance
- Subcutaneous fat distribution as assessed by ultrasound in Border Leicester and Dorset Down ewe hoggets
- Timing single fixed-time inseminations in ewes: Some new concepts
- Wool yellowing susceptibility: Heritability, genetic and phonotypic correlations with productive traits in Australian Merino, Corriedale and New Zealand Romney sheep
- Sequence variations in genes coding for bovine b-lactoglobulin and aS1-casein
- Evaluation of an oestrone sulphate dipstick immunoassay for pregnancy testing mares
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Energy rather than protein content of hind intake determines growth rate of red deer calves
- Effect of temporary alterations to milking frequency during the early post-partum period on milk production and body condition score in grazing dairy cows
- Pasture growth rate studies in relation to grazing management
- Population structure and breeding for genetic improvement
- Response of lactating cows to abomasal infusions of casein, methionine and glucose
- Differences in propensity of wool to develop yellow discolouration in flocks of Perendale sheep selected for and against loose wool bulk
- Growth and onset of puberty in two genetically different lines of Holstein-Friesian heifers, selected for either heavy or light body weight
- Relationships of fleece and fibre traits with unscourable yellow discolouration in a survey of strong wool sheep flocks
- Potential benefits of low replacement rate for dairy herd production and profit
- Delaying the time of morning grazing improves milk production in winter
- Grazing management
- The distribution of Mg in the digesta of sheep fed fresh pasture
- Development and control of ryegrass staggers in sheep
- The productive performance of Waihora Romney cross hogget and two-tooth ewes and commercial Romneys
- Effects of melatonin on body weight, appetite and seasonal fur growth in the ferret
- DNA variation among seven New Zealand sheep breeds
- Milk Production and Production Index Comparisons in Mixed Breed Dairy Herds
- The effect of somatostatin infusion on milk yield of goats
- Rates of recovery of milk yield and composition following milking intervals of varying length
- Lamb and ewe performance of East Friesian x Coopworths relative to pure-bred Coopworths
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Reticulo-rumen growth and papillae development in farmed red deer calves from four to twelve weeks of age
- The influence of rabbits on farm production
- A plan of pig improvement applicable to N.Z. conditions
- Role of rumen microflora in ruminant metabolism
- The pathology of facial eczema
- New Zealand climatic production potentials of pasture plants
- Age at puberty, length of breeding season and ovulation rate in Romney Marsh and Border Leicester x Romney Marsh hoggets
- The cleaning of milking machines and milk quality
- The effect of formaldehyde treatment on the chemical composition, apparent digestibility and voluntary intake of silage by sheep
- Production differences between Jersey and Friesian x Jersey cows in commercial dairy herds
- Growing wool in tissue culture - which fibre type is best?
- Lipolytic response of New Zealand and overseas Holstein-Friesian dairy cows challenged with epinephrine
- The effect of Finnish Landrace and Texel ewe and lamb behaviour after tagging on lamb survival to weaning
- Pig breeding in New Zealand
- The role of the veterinary practitioner in the prevention and control of animal disease
- Summer fattening of lambs in Canterbury
- Method of measurement of feed consumption
- Some hazards of grazing in New Zealand
- The future of herd development in New Zealand
- Observations of gthe prediction of lambing dates
- Calculation of the digestibility and the starch equivalent value of herbages from chemical analyses
- Why do bulls differ in fertility?
- Performance of an autumn lambing Poll Dorset flock in Northland
- The influence of pasture allowance on performance of autumn-shorn lambs
- Consideration of alternative lamb drafting strategies
- Are rams necessary for the stimulation of anoestrous ewes with oestrus ewes?
- Effectiveness of the New Zealand brucellosis control scheme for sheep
- Estimation of the pasture horisons grazed by cattle, sheep and goats during single and mixed grazing
- Lambs selected for fast glucose clearance have high meat pH levels when stressed before slaughter
- Effects of milk stasis and feed withdrawal on capillary exchange capacity in the goat mammary gland
- Diurnal variation in the protein composition of bovine milk
- Changes in unscourable discolouration of Romney wool samples during storage for one month
- Wool follicle characteristics in sheep with differing ventral wool length phenotypes
- Technique in meat production studies
- The extension needs of the farmer
- Production of prime lambs from Coopworth ewes
- The application of oestrus synchronisation in New Zealand dairy herds
- Agonistic behaviour of grazing heifers during dairy herd formation
- Ovulation-liveweight relationships in ewes
- Effect of herbage allowance on dairy cow performance
- Relationship between wool colour and fibre diameter in four breeds of sheep
- In vitro production of volatile fatty acids from forages
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The influence of a herb and legume sward on maternal behaviour and lamb colostrum intake and thermoregulation
- On vaccine treatment for mastitis
- Meat production per acre
- Agricultural advisory services in U.S.A.
- Storage of ram semen at ambient temperatures
- Compensatory growth in yearling beef cattle
- Oestrus synchronization in cattle
- The NZASP study group on internal parasites and animal production
- Productivity of Booroola-Merino cross ewes grazing improved tussock grassland
- Influence of follicle stimulating hormone on ovarian follicular development and ovulation rate in Romney ewes
- The relationship between milkfat production per hectare and economic farm surplus on New Zealand dairy farms
- A prolonged change in body composition induced by endocrine manipulation of the neonate
- Effect of atropine on milk protein composition of dairy cows
- Localisation of transforming growth factor B1-like immunoreactivity in foetal and mature skin from Romney and Merino sheep
- Liveweight gain of young sheep grazing tall fescue or perennial ryegrass swards of different white clover content
- Associations among hormones and metabolites during the transition period and early lactation milk production
- Factors associated with frequency of lameness in dairy cattle managed in pasture based systems with the addition of supplementary feeds : Brief Communication
- Some important indigenous poisonous plants in New Zealand
- Nutrition in relation to the composition of milk
- The future of grassland research in New Zealand
- Residual effects of prenatal nutrition on the postnatal performance of Merino sheep
- The in vitro prediction of herbage digestibility
- Further experiments on the effect of pre-milking stimulus on dairy cow production
- Drenching of pregnant ewes and its effect on their wool production and lamb growth rate
- Induced calving with corticosteroids: A comparison between induced cows and their calves and control animals
- Dag formation
- Variation in milk whey composition throughout lactation in cows of different B-lactoglobulin phenotypes
- Monitoring adrenal activity in dairy cows under various feeding regimens using faecal glucocorticoid metabolites
- The collection of toxic grass and the preservation of toxicity
- Maintenance and lactation requirements of grazing sheep
- Animal and pasture production as indices of fertilizer maintenance requirements
- Rygrass staggers: a role fo fungal tremogens
- The magnesium status of grazing dairy cows
- Increasing pregnancy rates in New Zealand dairy cattle,
- Fleece tenderness: the effect of nutrition, age and lambing status on pregnant Romney and Coopworth mixed-age ewes
- The New Zealand scheme to accredit goat flocks free from caprine arthritis-encephalitis
- Construction of a bovine gene map
- Carcass composition of exotic sheep breeds
- Effect of selection for productive traits on internal parasite resistance in sheep
- Utilisation of methionine by the mammary gland of the lactating goat
- Relative economic value of wool processing parameters for New Zealand strong wool between 2003 and 2007
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Voluntary food intake of pregnant and non-pregnant red deer hinds during the gestating period
- Inheritable cellular antigens in cattle blood
- Some aspects of rabbit control
- Bull sampling programmes in the artificial breeding of dairy cattle
- Brucellosis in animals and man
- Comparative growth performance of Jersey, Friesian and Ayrshire bulls on pasture
- Feeding value of lucerne
- The characteristics of carpet wools in relation to processing and performance
- Wool growth responses in Drysdale and high and low staple tenacity Romney sheep to nutrient supplementation in autumn
- Identification of potential impacts of New Zealand dairy housing systems on dairy cow welfare : Brief Communication
- Some further observations on fat lamb production in Canterbury
- Sheep management problems of Poverty Bay
- Face cover in Corriedale sheep
- Diagnosing pregnancy in ewes by rectal palpation
- Selection priorities in high-fertility sheep flocks
- A study of short scrotum, castrated and entire ram lambs
- Swimming speed and fertilisation rates of ram sperm from high and low prolificy populations
- Pasture dry matter and drinking water intake of grazing red deer stags and steers
- Oestrous behaviour and Meal function in anoestrous red deer hinds treated with a GnRH analogue or oestradiol
- The potential of industry by-products as supplementary feeds for dairy cows in the Hawkes Bay region.
- Measurement of steroids by enzymeimmunoassay: An environmentally friendly alternative to radioimmunoassay
- The value of monozygotic twins in milk composition experiments
- Separate grazing does not shorten the postpartum anoestrous interval in anoestrous cows
- Herbage quality and growth rate of single and twin lambs at foot
- Development of a "Wapiti Score" visual assessment tool for determining introgression of wapiti genes in young red deer.
- Parturition duration and birthing difficulty in twin and triplet lambs
- Preliminary observations on the milk supply in the ewe
- Memorial address: Jame Glenny Wilson, of Bulls
- Comparison of faecal pigments and faecal nitrogen for the estimation of feed-to-faeces ratio of pastured cattle
- Selenium and animal health
- Application of the egg transfer technique in cattle and sheep
- Hogget liveweight-oestrus relationship among sheep breeds
- The effect of dairy herd management and milking practices on milk quality
- Progress in controlling Bovine Tuberculosis in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effects of dam nutrition during pregnancy on the postnatal growth and puberty attainment of ewe progeny
- Statistical method and experimentation
- Some observations on the use of the moveable enclosure method of estimation of pasture consumption by grazing animals
- Veterinary diagnostic services and primary production
- The photoperiodic and hormone response of wool growth in sheep
- The release of plant cell contents and its relation to bloat
- Seasonal wool production and staple strength of Romney ewes
- Trends in monthly milkfat production of cows in seasonal dairy herds in New Zealand
- Development of cattle of superior genotypes: Novel approaches to increasing tolerance of dairy cows to extended milking intervals
- The influence of breed on the meat content of beef carcasses for export
- A comparison of internal parasitism in fleeceweight-selected and control Romney sheep
- Volume measurement of wool samples
- Possums as vectors of Tb in livestock
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Variation in diet preference between sheep
- Ryegrass to lucerne - effects of dietary change on intake, milk yield and rumen microflora bacteria of dairy cows
- DNA methylation events associated with the suppression of milk protein gene expression during involution of the bovine mammary gland : Brief Communication
- Artificial insemination in cattle
- Poison hazards to stock
- Calf nutrition and the importance of nutrition in the post weaning stages
- A comparison of various selection plans for sheep improvement
- A biopsy study of growth and development of muscle
- Egg transfer in cattle
- Human error involved in dairy cow submission to artificial breeding
- Tremokgenic penicilia in ryegrass staggers outbreaks
- Effect of herbage per unit area and herbage allowance on dry matter intake by steers
- The behaviour of calves tail docked with a rubber ring used with or without local anaesthesia
- Effects of stage of lactation and season on udder development and milk yield in pasture-fed cows
- Lack of effect of short term chromium supplementation in lactating Jersey cows
- The effects of shearing Finnish Landrace x Romney ewes in mid-pregnancy on lamb survival, birth weight and other weights
- The relationship of artificial insemination to future dairy cattle breeding
- Biological assays for toxicity
- Face cover in Romney sheep
- Manipulation of liver metabolism in relation to ruminant toxicology
- The effect of herbage allowance on the dry matter intake and milk production of dairy cows
- Tooth eruption patterns in New Zealand sheep breeds
- The effect of pre-mating injection of an analogue of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) on pregnancy rates to first insemination in.dairy cattle
- Prediction of ewe mutton carcass composition from carcass weight, GR and C measurements, and the Hennessy grading probe
- Suppression of T-cell function in the pregnant ewe
- Early growth and reproduction of exotic sheep breeds - a preliminary report
- Exploiting the physiology of growth
- Growth-promoting and metabolic actions of recombinant ovine placental lactogen and bovine growth hormone in young lambs
- Sheep and deer grazing of pasture close to cattle dung pats
- Comparative methane emissions from cattle, red deer and sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effects of dam nutrition during pregnancy on the growth of male offspring
- The influence of the type of ewe upon the type of fat lamb carcass
- The relationship between level of nutrition during the dry period and subsequent production of dairy cattle
- The future of animal research
- Some recently discovered aspects of ewe abortion and ram sterility
- Ferrets as vectors of bovine Tb in New Zealand: a review
- Breed effects for lactoferrin concentration determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- Nutrition and the fleece
- The relationship between level of nutrition during the dry period and subsequent production of dairy cattle
- Augmentation of fertility in sheep
- Grazing management symposium
- A progress report on face clover
- Anti-bacterial activity of seminal plasma and other tissues
- Prevention of bark chewing of pine trees by cattle: the effectiveness of repellents
- Hypomagnesaemia and dairy production
- The production characteristics of fitch (Mustella putorius)
- The effect of selenium supplementation on milk production in dairy cattle
- Factors affecting AB conception rates in cattle
- Ensiled roughages (Chaffhage and Stockhage) as feeds for young calves
- Tail docked dairy cattle: fly induced behaviour and adrenal responsiveness to ACTH
- Seasonal changes in fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk in Perendale ewes
- The effect of calving season on milk production. A system study
- Lamb survival traits in Coopworth sheep selected for high or low backfat depth
- Calcium balance in mid and late pregnancy and vaginal prolapse
- Infertility in rams
- Preliminary studies of digestion in the hindgut of the sheep
- Nutritional and physiological developments in reproduction of pigs
- The effect of level of herbage dry matter per animal on efficiency of utilization of pasture by young Friesian cattle
- Oestrogenic effects on in vitro co-culture of mammary explants and epithelial cells
- Amino acid utilisation by the mammary gland: Whole blood versus plasma free amino acid pools
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of growth hormone on translation initiation and elongation in liver and skeletal muscle tissue in the lactating dairy cow
- The association of ewe body condition score with weight of lamb weaned
- Variations in the digestible energy content of New Zealand sheep pastures
- Methods of assessing herbage feeding value
- Nematodirosis in lambs
- Genetic improvement of dairy cattle
- Reproduction rate and wool production of two strains of Australian Merino and their crosses with the Booroola Merino
- The effect of breeding index on the performance of non-lactating Jersey cattle
- Recent trends in conception rates and return patterns in AB herds and their effects on calving patterns
- New Zealand beef export carcass grading
- Prediction of lamb carcass composition from GR and carcass weight
- Effects of immunisation against LHRH on body growth, scrotal circumference, and carcass composition in yearling Red deer stags
- Voluntary feed intake, growth and efficiency of feed conversion in growing sambar (Cervus unicolor) and red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- Systems and economic analysis of the use of maize silage within pasture-based beef production
- Rickets in sheep in New Zealand
- The influence of sex on carcass quality and efficiency of food utilisation
- Winter milk production from an all-grass dairy farm
- Chemical extraction and fractionation of the toxin
- Nutritional requirements of dairy cattle
- Review of field research section fertilizer x stocking rate grazing trials in New Zealand
- Digestibility of protein-extracted forages
- Modelling the contribution of forage crops to production, profitability and stability of North Island dairy systems
- Effect of nitrogen fertiliser and summer rotation length on milk production in a dry Waikato summer
- Effects of selection and crossbreeding on industry returns from whole milk powder, butter and casein in the New Zealand dairy industry
- Deer and pigs as hosts of bovine tuberculosis, and their potential use as sentinels of disease presence
- Apparent digestibility and rumen fermentation of fresh plantain (Plantago lanceolata cv Ceres Tonic) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv Nui) -based pasture fed to red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- Pasture quality and animal production
- Quantitative studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen: Total removal and return of digesta for quantitative sampling in studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen of cattle
- Prospects for high production from Canterbury plains pastures
- Stress in sheep resulting from management practices
- Some effects of anthelmintic dosing on the mineral status of hoggets
- Hydrogenation of unsaturated fatty acids by ruminal fluid in vitro
- The inheritance of a-pyridine nucleosidase in bull semen
- Studies on sporidesmin metabolism in sheep
- Differences in grazing and milking behaviour in high and low breeding index cows
- Some effects of injecting a prostaglandin F2a (Lutalyse) during the post-partum period on the subsequent fertility of dairy cows
- Development of cattle with a modified genotype: Embryological techniques needed for the efficient production of transgenics
- Experiences with artificial insemination in goats
- Reproduction in flocks selected for and against lamb faecal egg count
- Effects of body covers on milk production by cows during winter, and on oxygen consumption by young calves
- Effect of Streptococcus uberis infection on milk characteristics of individual quarters
- Changes in fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk during the lifetime of Perendale ewes
- Increased ovarian response following pre-synchrony of superovulated red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Investigation of N isotopic fractionation in dairy cows using milk samples collected at the morning and afternoon milkings
- Understanding the interaction of prolactin and leukaemia inhibitory factor signalling during the switch from lactation to involution : Brief Communication
- Congenital porphyria in pigs
- Influence of sire on fat lamb quality
- Hill country pasture problems
- The chemical control of ecto-parasites of sheep and cattle
- Relationship between face cover and reproductive efficiency in Romney ewes
- A comparison of phosphorus responses in pasture and sheep, and effect s of increased grazing pressure in a dry season
- Effect of starvation on blood metabolites in pregnant sheep
- Pasture digestion in response to change in ruminal pH
- The incidence of goitre in newborn lambs from ewes fed fodder radish, rape or Italian ryegrass with or without iodine supplementation
- Some recent experiments on the problem of milk ejection
- Observations of non-nutritional factors affecting fertility in sheep
- Dairy cattle improvement overseas
- Some recent results of research in rumen microbiology
- Sperm transport in the female rabbit
- Energy requirements for pregnancy in sheep
- Egg transfers in exotic sheep
- Beef production from lucerne
- Nutritional and physiological studies of differences between Friesian cows of high anti low genetic merit
- Herbage allowance, pasture quality and milkfat production as affected by stocking rate and conservation policy
- Evidence of genetic improvement in the Angus Breeding Scheme of the Department of Lands and Survey
- Improved feedback of carcass information from freezing works to farms
- Developments in breeding Perendale sheep for resistance or susceptibility to internal nematode parasites
- The use of unfrozen semen for in vitro fertilisation of in vitro matured bovine oocytes
- Comparative performance of Angus cattle and swamp buffalo fed ad libitum either a lucerne hay and concentrate ration or pasture hay
- Apple pomace as a supplement to pasture for dairy cows in late lactation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Live weight and body condition of single- and twin-bearing Merino ewes
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of growth hormone on the intracellular amino acid profiles in the mammary gland of lactating cows
- Copper deficiency affecting farm stock in New Zealand
- The nutritive value of New Zealand lamb and mutton
- Ewe and teaser breed effects on reproductive behaviour and performance
- Some implications of sward chemical and physical characteristics for the nutrition of grazing ruminants
- The hormonal induction of lactation in dry dairy cows
- Binding of nuclear proteins to the bovine a-lactalbumin gene promoter
- Growth curves and productivity of Holstein-Friesian cows bred for heavy or light mature live weight
- Potential transmission routes of rabbit haemorrhagic disease: consequences for epidemiology of RHD in wild rabbits
- The effects of zeranol or zinc supplementation before lambing on the incidence of vaginal prolapse in twinning ewes
- The effect of weaning at 10 or 14 weeks of age on liveweight changes in the hogget and her lambs : Brief Communication
- New Zealand's place in the meat export trade
- The beaker test as an indicator of facial eczema toxicity
- Cornell research on methods of selecting dairy sires
- Studies on the maintenance of the corpus luteum in the ewe
- An airflow calorimeter for the measurement of the sensible heat loss of animals
- Calving behaviour of single-suckled Angus cows and their calves born in the spring
- Cervical versus laparoscopic Al of goats after PMSG injection at or 48 hours before CIDR removal
- Computer aided tomography - comprehensive body compositional data from live animals
- Breed variation in expression of faecal nematode egg count
- Effect of distance walked on dairy production and milk quality
- Associations between milk protein concentration and preceding reproductive performance in Holstein-Friesian heifers and cows in Australia
- The inheritence of multifactor characters in the sheep
- Rumen studies in sheep - Levels of microbial end-products
- Calving patterns in dairy heifers following single "set-time" inseminations and re-synchrony preceding second inseminations
- Relationships between the compounds causing scourable diffuse yellow and yellowness of greasy and clean wool
- Improving lamb birthweight through mid- to late-pregnancy shearing: a review of recent studies
- Responses and factors affecting intramammary infection rates resulting from infusion of a Streptococcus uberis strain in Friesian-Jersey crossbred cows
- The inheritance of "parrot beak" in New Zealand milking shorthorns
- Taste panel relationships
- The effect of grazing time and supplementary feeding of hay on production per cow in early lactation
- A.I. of sheep with frozen semen
- Economic evaluations of exotic sheep crosses in New Zealand
- The case for induced early parturition in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Differences in the extent of mammary development between Jersey cows of high or low genetic merit
- Variations in milkfat test, live weight, colour and height associated with the use-of Friesian sires in some New Zealand dairy herds
- Some genetic and non-genetic effects on the first oestrus and pregnancy rate of beef heifers
- Induction of ovulation in anoestrous red deer hinds with a GnRH analogue
- Control of the oestrous cycle in farm animals: A review
- Herbage intake, ingestive behaviour and diet selection in sheep grazing Holcus lanatus and perennial ryegrass swards
- Measurement of cell death by in situ end labelling of ruminant mammary gland tissue
- Black-backed gulls (Larus dominicanus) and their role in the spread of Salmonella Brandenburg
- An option for managing triplet bearing ewes on extensive properties
- Evaluation of sensors for monitoring rumen pH, temperature and pressure
- Why is clover better than ryegrass?
- Vaccination as a method of control of stock diseases in New Zealand
- Experiments in poultry breeding
- Special purpose pastures on intensive grassland farming
- The breeding behaviour of two-tooth ewes
- The utilization of lactose by the growing pig
- Breed and sex effects on the content of edible meat in beef carcasses
- Characteristics of seasonal dairy farms achieving high per cow production in the lower North Island of New Zealand
- New Zealand's food exports in the 21st century: whither the green option?
- The influence of heterosis in progeny tests
- Birth weights of dairy, beef and dairy-beef calves
- Early feeding experience and subsequent acceptance of feed by sheep
- Fleece tenderness - a review
- The calculation of a simple lean-growth index for young sheep
- Bone growth and muscularity
- Regulation of growth by the growth hormone axis
- The behaviour and welfare of calves during unloading after transportation
- The timing of oestrus, LH surge and ovulation in ewes following synchronisation with MAP sponges FGA sponges or CIDR's
- Classing Merino fleeces into uniform lines with predicted adult fibre diameters
- Reproductive performance of Holstein-Friesian cows differing genetically in live weight
- Variation in lamb survival within farm and between farms: results from farmer studies
- The Deer Industry's Productivity Strategy: a five-year vision
- Luteal function in pregnant and non-pregnant non-cycling inseminated cows ("Phantom" cows)
- The cattle pituitary gland in relation to ovarian dysfunction
- The pattern of growth of individual pasture plants
- The intakes of grass and silage by dairy cows during the summer
- The effect of two different planes of nutrition from conception to four years of age on the maintenance requirements and on the efficiency of wool growth
- The sites of digestion of fresh pasture species in the gastro-intestinal tracts of sheep
- Experimental infection of pregnant sheep with attenuated Salmonella typhimurium
- Fertiliser, pasture considerations and management in relation to fat lamb production
- Genetic improvement symposium
- Current research and practice in silage making overseas
- The salivary proteins secreted from cannulated parotid and mandibular glands of cattle after pharmacological stimulation
- Utilisation of white clover pasture and maize silage by the lactating d.airy cow
- The effect of pasture height on herbage intake and ewe production under continuous stocking management during the autumn
- Effects of birth weight on survival in twin born lambs
- Extension work in dairy cattle feeding
- A study of dairy farming trends in the Waipa County, 1941-1950
- The utilization of whole grain in maize silage by cattle
- Physical effects within the teatcup related to intra-mammary infection
- Effects of breed and calving liveweight on postpartum ovarian activity in pasture-fed dairy heifers
- Prevalence of clinical mastitis in 38 Waikato dairy herds
- Farm Flock Monitoring
- The role of carotene in ovine rickets
- The association of sporidesmium with facial eczema
- Hormones in relation to animal production
- Some aspects of dairy sire selection
- Assessment of body composition in the live animal
- Research on current sire proving procedures
- The effect of storage time on the voluntary intake of silage by sheep
- Studies on the movement of Mg, Ca, P, Na and K across the gut wall of sheep fed fresh pasture
- Age and breed effect of ram on ewes reproductive performance
- Sheep distribution and herbage utilisation after oversowing and topdressing part of a high country summer range
- Prediction of changes in somatic cell counts due to culling and selection
- The application of a lean growth index in ram breeding flocks
- The influence of abomasal infusion of protein or energy on ovulation rate in ewes
- An assessment of the rate of fat accumulation in ruminant adipose tissue in vitro
- The importance of physiological measurements in farm animal stress research
- Short term changes in selected metabolites in pasture fed dairy cows during peak lactation
- Milk cortisol concentrations as an indicator of stress in lactating dairy cows
- Bulk and fibre diameter affect leather and woolskin quality of lamb skins
- Establishment of a farm monitoring scheme for sheep farms
- Impaired insulin secretion in perfused pancreases isolated from offspring of protein malnourished rats
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Artificial Insemination success rates for Meat and Wool New Zealand Central Progeny Test sires
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Use of novel pasture species to reduce methane emissions from New Zealand's grazing ruminants.
- Artificial stimulation of milk secretion in dry non-pregnant dairy cattle with diethylstilbestrol
- Blood levels of progesterone in the ewe
- Nutritive characteristics of maize silage and maize silage/grass rations for cattle
- Egg transfer in cattle: effect of hormonal treatment on synchronization of oestrus and ovarian response
- Food markets of the future
- Boffins and Broadcasting: Headlines can be headaches
- New perspectives on deer reproduction, growth and production efficiency
- Data on control by vaccination of contagious abortion in dairy cattle
- Age distribution of N.Z. pedigree cattle
- The influence of rams on the onset of the breeding season in ewes
- Nitrogen metabolism in the rumen
- The energy requirements of sheep
- Beef production from untreated silage and silage treated with a mixture of formalin and formic acid
- The risk of importing scrapie with exotic breeds of sheep
- The influence of an extra flush of pasture before and during mating on the performance of beef cows on hill country
- Effect of feeding and season on fleece characteristics of Cheviot, Drysdale and Romney hogget wool
- Some rumen characteristics and performance data of cows differing in bloat susceptibility
- The use of dinucleotide repeats or microsatellites as genetic markers in domestic animals
- Effect of contrasting spring grazing management on summer-autumn pasture and milk production of mixed ryegrass-clover dairy swards
- Effect of level of nutrition on age of puberty and reproductive performance of Friesian heifers
- Factors influencing the prevalence of postpartum anoestrus in New Zealand dairy cows
- CF2000 - a new way of looking at the same information
- Effect of genotype and concentrate supplementation on dairy product mix and the value of milk produced by grazing dairy cows during an extended lactation
- Is there any advantage of early weaning of twin lambs born to yearlings?
- Some notes on the inheritance of productivity in sheep
- A future for New Zealand fisheries
- Milk production of the sow (summary)
- A study of the breeding season of Romney ewe lambs
- Possible use of computers in animal production
- A system of identifying factors limiting the reproductive performance of commercial sheep flocks
- The effect of Fenbendazole on the immune system of lambs
- Do objective measurements or subjective assessments explain more of the variation in strong wool auction prices?
- Prediction of herbage dry matter intake for dairy cows grazing ryegrass-based pastures
- Purposeful breeding of pasture plants
- Some factors influencing milk ejection in mechanical milking (summary)
- Studies of molybdenum in the soil
- The influence of stubble height on digestibility, intake and liveweight gain of beef steers
- Display life of frozen lamb chops. Effect of breed, sex, packaging film and temperature at packaging
- Effect of nutrition on the ovulatory response of Coopworth ewes to varying doses of two FSH preparations
- Quantitative risk assessment and cost-effectiveness: two important requirements for meat inspection programmes
- The effect of the F gene on characteristics of Booroola x Romney ram sperm
- Nutritional partitioning of growth for productive gain
- Growth and venison production from red deer grazing either pure red clover or perennial ryegrass/white clover pasture
- Influence of reducing wool fibre diameter away from the winter minimum, on fibre length after carding
- Pasture establishment
- The structure of pasture in relation to production potential
- Studies on the hydrolysis by carbohydrases of plant cell-wall constituents in relation to pasture quality
- Plant tannins, bloat and nutritive value
- Value of conformation in New Zealand beef grading
- The effect of a low rate of lime on North Island hill country pasture and animal production and the economics of use
- Early lactation response of dairy cows to pasture under two different nitrogen fertiliser regimes
- Effects of oestradiol benzoate by injection at CIDR(TM) insertion for the treatment of postpartum anovulatory anoestrus in dairy cows
- Farm financial monitoring
- Is Public Relations just "Spin Doctoring" or is it Reputational Risk Management?
- Development of large scale commercial AI for genetic improvement in farmed red deer in New Zealand
- New techniques for the study of milk ejection in the dairy cow
- The toxicity of North African phosphate and superphosphate to milking cows
- The identification and culture of sporidesmium bakeri syd.
- Winter supplementation of Merino ewes
- Preliminary studies on the efficiency of mating of ewe hoggets
- Reproductive performance of beef cows following temporary removal of calves
- The heritability of loose wool bulk and colour traits and their genetic and phenotypic correlations with other wool traits
- The research potential of shared information resources
- Effects of milkfat yield and conformation traits on retention for a second lactation of Friesian and Jersey-sired cows
- Pasture protein and soluble carbohydrate levels in spring dairy pasture and associations with cow performance
- Effects of herbage allowance and a high protein supplement on dairy cows grazing on autumn-winter pastures
- An investigation of techniques used to predict fleece rot incidence in sheep
- A multifaceted approach to providing consumers consistent meat tenderness
- Plasma protein loss in lambs during a mixed infection of Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Teladorsagia circumcincta - a consequence of the immune response?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of dam age and lamb birth rank on the growth rate, faecal egg count and onset of puberty of single and twin female offspring to 12 month of age
- The nutritive status of pampas grass
- The influence of the animal on pasture production
- The effect of level of nutrition on the sexual capacity of dairy bulls
- Some observationss on the effect of drenching young sheep with Phenothiazine
- Faecal nematode egg counts and facial eczema susceptibility in Romneys
- The ethically improved sheep concept
- Vital components of industry-wide benchmarking
- How to get an article published in print media
- Economic modelling of the comparative performance of Jersey x Holstein-Friesian crossbred cows in Victorian Holstein-Friesian herds
- Observations of lambing behaviour in ewes
- Quantitative studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen: The digestion of insoluble carbohydrates in the reticulo-rumen
- Influence of experimental design in measuring the voluntary intake of grazing sheep
- Correlating stock and pasture production in Northland
- The importance of protein turnover to metabolism and carcass composition of growing lambs
- Accessing of slaughterhouse information to livestock production systems
- CIDR-B for managed reproduction in beef cows and heifers
- Nutrient supply for lamb growth from Grasslands Puna chicory (Cichorium intybus) and Wana cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata)
- Sheep map: The New Zealand programme to map the sheep genome
- Influence of once daily milking and restricted feeding on milk characteristics in late lactation
- Manipulating patterns of ovarian follicle development in cattle with progesterone and gonadotrophin releasing hormone to produce oestrous cycles with two or three follicle waves
- Farmer experience of farm monitoring
- Myostatin, a negative regulator of muscle growth, functions by inhibiting myoblast proliferation
- Radio Interviews
- Realities of clip preparation for strong wool from adult sheep
- Lactation curves of cows fed on pasture and pasture plus grains
- Progeny testing in sheep
- Problems in the economic interpretation of pig feeding experiments
- The film crew's here! Are you ready?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Simulated impacts of increased nitrogen retention in dairy cows on nitrate leaching from grazed pasture
- Dairy goat production systems in Waikato, New Zealand
- The effect of management on the grazing behaviour of calves
- Cervical mucus aborization - It's use in assessing ovarian activity in the ewe
- The induction of ovulation and oestrus in ewes during anoestrus
- Transport of sheep ova in rabbits
- Plasma and urinary metabolites as indices of N utilization in sheep
- Some aspects of anoestrus in New Zealand dairy cattle
- The effects of heat treatment during processing in calf milk replacer quality
- The influence of sires on lamb survival
- Oestrogen and the PRID
- Genetic variation in incidence of daggy sheep - an indicator of genetic resistance to parasites?
- Embryonic and genetic engineering
- Genetic and environmental sources of variation in hogget fleece weight and live weight in Coopworth sheep
- The development of an autumn lambing flock of Dorset x Romney ewes without the use of hormones
- The use of fullsibling pairs to measure plasma FSH concentrations in Booroola ewe and ram lambs
- The application of controlled calving and breeding programmes to the management of large dairy herds
- The effect of different perennial ryegrass cultivars on dairy animal performance
- The effect of albendazole controlled release capsules and moxidectin injection treatment on faecal egg count and body weight of 18 month old ewes in the autumn
- The results and success factors of nine group farm monitoring programmes
- Biotechnology, farmers and the media
- Spray irrigation on grasslands
- The role of molybdenum in plant nutrition
- Border Leicester cross ewes for fat lamb production
- The use of return interval pattern to indicate dairy herd infertility problems
- Some aspects of rumen metabolism influencing intake and production in sheep
- Comparison of lucerne and grass-clover pastures for dairying in south Taranaki
- The effect on incidence of bloat of changing pasture herbage mass and species
- Agricultural ethics - a role in animal production
- Ovarian volume is a predictor of the resumption of spontaneous oestrous cycles but not the response to the treatment of anoestrus
- Protein fractionation prototype to extract minor proteins on-farm
- Genetics of residual energy intake in Irish grazing dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of birth rank and yearling lambing on long-term ewe reproductive performance
- Factors affecting the efficiency of food conversion by pigs
- The approach to the application of field techniques in wildlife research
- Milking characteristics of identical twin cattle
- The relationship between central test station performance and subsequent progeny performance for growth traits of Hereford bulls
- Leanness of lamb carcases following restricted feeding and shearing
- Reproductive performance of progeny of prolific Romney, Coopworth and Perendale sheep
- The nutritive value of Lotus for sheep
- Effect of luteolysis on control of ovarian follicles using oestradiol benzoate and progesterone in cattle
- Congenital photosensitivity in Southdown sheep
- District and season influence on lactation curves in New Zealand
- The ecology of pastoral production in Australia
- The production of volatile fatty acids in sheep on different pasture types
- Influence of hogget oestrus on subsequent ewe fertility
- Modelling a hill-country sheep production system
- Cloning and characterization of the bovine myostatin promoter
- The media release
- Variation of wool between and across the fleeces of composite-breed strongwool sheep in New Zealand
- Lethal and other inherited factors causing abnormalities in New Zealand stock
- Observatrions on helminth parasites and hogget unthriftiness in New Zealand
- A summary of intake studies with hoggets
- The effects of decreasing liveweight at mating on reproduction in Romney ewes
- Fertility of inactivated bovine sperm
- The importance of the amount of feed on the farm at calving to seasonal milk production
- Prospects for the stimulation of lactation and growth of ruminants by the administration of growth hormone and related molecules
- Performance parameters in an autumn lambing ewe flock
- Recent developments in animal breeding programmes
- Growth responses of fat and muscle in the lamb to intra-arterial infusions of bovine insulin
- Karyotyping Booroola gene carriers
- A prototype sire evaluation for New Zealand dairy cattle
- The effect of block and paddock grazing in winter on cow behaviour, cow performance and herbage accumulation
- Evaluation of 'CONFIRM' as a method to Verify pregnancy in dairy cows
- Progress on genetic studies of resilience to nematode parasites in sheep
- Evaluation of a vaccine to control bull behaviour
- Experiences of a pioneer in the commercial sheep pregnancy scanning business
- Genetic technologies for deer breeding
- Effect of nutrition around the time of breeding and during pregnancy on yearling liveweight change, pregnancy loss and live weight and survival of their offspring
- Relative effects of environment and liveweight upon the feed requirements of sheep
- The nutritive value of the residue from protein-extracted herbage
- Feeding value of barley for sheep
- Studies on induced calving in cattle
- Pasture allowance and lamb growth
- Some effects of using progesterone and gonadotrophin releasing hormone on the reproductive performance of inseminated cows
- Genetic studies of resilience of Romney sheep to nematode challenge in New Zealand
- Predicting cow production based on an estimate of animal genotype within a Whole Farm Model
- Effect of dry cow management on teat end bacterial contamination
- Production variables influencing the auction sales price of New Zealand Thoroughbred yearlings
- Molybdenum and animal health in New Zealand
- The effect of pre-milking stimulation on milk and butterfat production
- Interrupted pregnancy in the dairy cow
- The influence of breed of calf on the milk production of beef cows
- Fertility of inactivated ram sperm
- Relationships between amount of feed on the farm, autumn-winter grazing management and dairy cow performance
- Inheritance of foot and jaw abnormalities in sheep
- Skeletal changes and some muscle-skeletal relationships during growth and undernutrition in sheep
- Genetic aspects of cold resistance in newborn lambs
- The insulin status of sheep with genetic differences in glucose tolerance and carcass composition
- A comparison of grain and pasture finishing of heavyweight cattle
- Ewe nutrition: decisions to be made with scanning information
- An endocrine approach to the study of the inheritance of milk secretion
- Winter feeding hoggets
- The intake and utilization of milk and grass by lambs
- Measurement of rumen methane kinetics and its application to bloat research
- Observations on yearling mating of beef cattle
- Mating management and reproductive activity of intensively farmed red deer
- The effect of season and B-lactoglobulin phenotype on milk composition
- Supplementary feeding and gastrointestinal nematode parasitism in young grazing sheep
- The regulation of glycogen level in the muscle of ruminants by nutrition
- Breeding N-type sheep
- The future of fertilisers
- The effect of some endocrine factors on mammary gland growth and lactation
- The economic and managemet consequences of early weaning pigs
- Cattle twins: the maternal environment and animal production
- Egg transplanstion studies in Romney ewes
- Nutritive values of lucerne leaf-protein concentrate and lupin-seed meal as protein supplements to barley diets for growing pigs
- The effect of sheep and cattle grazing on a mixed ryegrass/kikuyu/white clover pasture in Northland
- Biochemical events associated with Ficoll washing of ram spermatozoa
- Development of systems for out-of-season lambing at Limestone Downs
- Effects of daily larval challenge on the performance of breeding ewes from late pregnancy to post weaning
- Liveweight, feed intake and feed conversion efficiency of lactating dairy cows
- Some effects of feeding pasture silage as a supplement to pasture on reproductive performance in lactating dairy cows
- Milk progesterone concentrations at selected times following oestrus and insemination in relation to the success of pregnancy establishment
- Ultrasonic pregnancy scanning - a tool for change
- Johne's Disease: Management of a Challenging Disease
- Levels of inbreeding in New Zealand pedigree Jersey cattle
- Quantitative studies of digestion in the reticulo-rumen: Fluctuations in the numbers of rumen protozoa and their possible role in bloat
- Breeding dairy cattle with reduced susceptibility to bloat
- Comparison between two methods of selecting 20-month steers for slaughter
- The influence of pre- and post-calving nutrition on beef cow and calf performance
- The effect of the presence of steers on the behaviour of grazing yearling bulls
- Correlations among beef carcass composition and meat quality traits from a genetic marker trial
- A new generation meat program in Australia within the Co-operative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Jersey cows milked once-a-day can produce 1,200 kg milksolids per hectare
- Yearling lambing performance and primary cause of lamb death
- Flexibility and climate risk management in high stocking rate dryland sheep farming systems
- Lamb fattening on pastures and crops in the Gisborne district
- Some aspects of progeny testing in sheep
- Level of superphosphate topdressing and butterfat production per acre
- Nutrition of halfbred ewes on improved tussock grassland
- Onset of puberty in Angus, Friesian, Friesian x Angus, and Friesian x Jersey heifers
- Insemination of sheep with fresh or frozen semen
- Stocking rate effects in dairying
- The influence of the ,&adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, on lipid metabolism and carcass composition of sheep
- Effect of active immunisation with follicular fluid on ovulation rates in Romney ewes
- Characterisation of the insulin status of lambs and consequences for carcass composition
- Localisation of a-lactalbumin gene expression in sheep mammary tissue
- Angora goat production from different legumes mixed with ryegrass
- Endocrine manipulation of the pregnant animal and growth of her offspring: a review
- Farmer use and experience of ultrasonic pregnancy scanning
- Variation in ovarian activiy of Romney Marsh ewes
- Relationship of pasture parameters to liveweight gain of hoggets on North Island hill country
- Arterio-venous differences of amino acids across the mammary gland of cows fed fresh pasture at two levels of dry matter intake during early lactation
- Field data analysis of lamb survival and mortality rates occurring between pregnancy scanning and weaning
- Genetics of stillbirth in dairy calves
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Heritability of IGF-1 and its genetic correlation with milk yield in Holstein-Friesian cows in selected Victorian herds.
- The accuracy of various methods of estimating a dairy cow's production of milk and butterfat
- The chemical composition of rapidly growing ryegrass and its relation to animal production
- Recent work on animal fats
- Pasture carbohydrates and the ruminant
- Current levels of; performance in the Ruakura fertility flock of Romney sheep
- Measuring milk intake of lambs suckling grazing ewes by a double isotope method
- Trends in meat market requirements: implications for producers
- Sward conditions, herbage allowance and animal production: an evaluation of research results
- Seasonal changes in oestrus, ovulation and conception of Coopworth ewes treated with ClDRs and PMSG
- A comparison of lamb growth rate and lean carcass gain within and among farm flocks
- Isolation of cDNA subclones encoding ovine glucose transporter proteins
- Influence of different proportions of Lotus corniculatus in the diet of lambs on dags, flystrike and animal performance
- Involvement of calpains in postmortem tenderisation A review of recent research
- The practice of flushing ewes
- Genotype-pasture interaction in the fertility of Romney Marsh ewes
- Relationships of various parameters with the lambing performance of hoggets
- The effect gf shearing ewes during the mating period on the subsequent lambing pattern
- Measures of stress and growth suppression in surgically castrated bulls
- Age effects and interrelationships between wool characteristics of genotypes used to develop GrowBulk sheep
- Effect of genotype and diet on feed conversion efficiency of dairy cows during a 600-day extended lactation
- Sources of loss in unfertilised and fertilised sheep's ova
- Soils and animal production
- Flushing ewes on pasture and pasture silage
- Pasture production and sward dynamics under sheep grazing
- Selection for and against susceptibility to bloat in dairy cows - a review
- Repeatability of reproductive performance following active immunisation of ewes
- Genetic variation among six strains of Romneys and Border Leicester and Coopworth crosses
- Neuroendocrine control of growth hormone release in sheep: Effect of dose and route of administration of growth hormone releasing factor on plasma growth hormone levels
- Nutritional effects on the calpain system in skeletal muscle of sheep
- A case control study of anoestrum in New Zealand dairy cows
- Effect of once daily milking and concurrent somatotropin (bST) on production and mammary tight junction permeability in cows
- Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in yearling Angus cattle
- Use of ultrasonic pregnancy scanning information for farmer extension
- Effect of sex on colour and pH of chilled lamb loins : Brief Communication
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of birth weight on survival of lambs born to ewe lambs
- Investigation on the excretion of sex hormones by sheep
- Milk production in the sow
- The utilization of perennial ryegrass and white clover by young sheep
- Balancing pasture and maize silage diets for dairy cows using urea, soybean meal or fishmeal
- Internal parasites and productivity in farmed deer
- Extension services and the farmer
- Some aspects of the inheritance of fertility in sheep
- The physiology of milk ejection and its role in dairy production
- Reproductive performance of merino ewes dosed with selenium prior to mating
- Environmental factors associated with summer-autumn growth rates of cattle and sheep
- Progeny testing Angus and Hereford bulls for growth performance
- The influence of plane of nutrition immediately post-calving on the performance of beef cows
- The effect of time of shearing on plasma gamma glutamyltransferase levels after a facial eczema outbreak
- Recent and potential changes in meat processing and their implications for producers
- The effect of level of milk intake on growth rate and herbage intake of Friesian bull calves of high and low breeding index
- Advancement of the breeding season in Coopworth ewes
- Induction of twin ovulations in red deer hinds with steroid-free bovine follicular fluid
- Rumen digesta and other body measurements in relation to bloat susceptibility in cattle
- Magnesium Solubility in the caecum in response to pH changes
- The utilisation of whole body cysteine by the mammary gland of the lactating goat
- Heart rate response as a measure of stress and welfare in cattle
- Contract references
- Live animal contribution to beef tenderness
- Body condition score as a candidate trait in the breeding worth dairy index
- Pasture growth and quality, and lamb growth rates in high stocking rate dryland sheep farming systems
- The stimulation of milk secretion in dairy cattle with diethylstilbestrol and thyroprotein
- The importance of genetic correlations in selection
- Neonatal lamb mortality in the Gisborne area
- Effects of genotype and nutrition on sheep carcass fat and eye muscle development between weaning and 14 months of age
- Effects of herbage mass and ewe condition score at lambing on lamb survival and liveweight gain
- The search for quantitative trait loci affecting wool colour
- Investigating marbling and its relationship to meat quality in New Zealand pasture fed lamb
- Milestones in genetic prediction for applied livestock improvement
- The effect of sub-maintenance feeding of ewes during mid-pregnancy on lamb and wool production
- Summer supplementary feeding of ewes in Northland
- Influence of green leaf distribution on diet selection by sheep and the implications for animal performance
- Organisation of sheep breeding in France
- Plasma urea dilution patterns in Southdown ram lambs from high and low backfat selection lines
- Differences in the concentrations of glucose and related metabolites in the milk of Jersey and Friesian cows
- Behaviour of dairy heifers during adaptation to milking
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Are serum amyloid protein levels in milk an indicator of mastitis infection in New Zealand dairy goats?
- The epidemiology of nematode parasitism in sheep - with particular reference to the Manawatu district
- Ruminant metabolism
- Variations in ruminal pH, volatile fatty acid concentration and proportions of the individual acids
- Effect of pre-weaning plane of nutrition on subsequent growth and carcass quality of lambs
- The effects of winter grazing systems wool characteristics
- Effects of soil-contaminated feed on dry matter and water intake in sheep
- Ruminal utilisation of pasture nitrogen in response to inclusion of dietary starch
- Growth rates of early and late weaned single and identical twin calves
- North Island fat lamb crosses (summary)
- Some effects of endogenous hormones on muscles and connective tissue, with special reference to the ewe
- Hormonal synchronization of oestrus in Romney ewes during the breeding season
- Wool follicle and fleece characters of F1 and F2 Border Leicester x Romney sheep
- New Zealand export carcass grades of lamb, mutton and beef: past, present and probable
- Integrating livestock and sugar-ethanol production and the dairy industry in Northland - a concept
- Comparative intake of digestible organic matter and water by sheep and goats
- Effect of different shearing policies on sheep production in Northland
- A simplified MOET technique for Merino ewes carrying a double copy of the Booroola FecB gene
- Computer Applications: Meeting the information needs of a business
- As applied agricultural scientists we serve....?
- Mammary involution in ewes: Changes in milk plasminogen and plasmin
- Ewe maternal behaviour score and lamb growth: Ten years on
- Manipulating processing to generate meat quality attributes appropriate for diverse markets
- Development of new fertility breeding values in the dairy industry
- Integrated livestock management ... challenges and opportunities of farming deer with other livestock
- Testing for quantitative trait loci for lactation persistency in dairy cattle
- An inherited blindness (cataract) in cattle
- Evaluation of muscling using Texel and Oxford cross Romney and Hight Romney lambs
- Nutritional effects, in early pregnancy, on lamb production of Finnish Landrace x Romney ewes
- Quality of chilled-never-frozen versus chilled-frozen-thawed lamb : Brief Communication
- Some observations on the nature of the milk let-down mechanism in the cow
- The role of protozoa in rumen fermentation
- Teh nutritional requirements of swine
- Ingestion of soild by sheep
- Post-partum anoestrus in beef cattle: A review
- Diet selection of young ruminants in late spring
- Effects of melatonin on early breeding of F+ and ++ Booroola x Perendale and Romney ewes
- Understanding and exploiting the physiology and endocrinology of reproduction to enhance reproductive efficiency in cattle
- Farmer groups: a measure of their effectiveness
- Effect of incorporating East Friesian genes on wool characteristics
- Are high breeding worth index cows more feed conversion efficient and nitrogen use efficient?
- The value of separated milk and pasture as a food for dairy calves
- Management effects on productivity of southern North Island hill country
- The role of vagal innervation fo the gut in insulin release in lactating ewes
- The effect of secondary compounds of birdsfoot trefoil and red clover on dairy cow grazing preferences
- Search for a locus near to myostatin that increases muscling in Texel sheep in New Zealand
- Memorial address: George Henry Holford
- Some farming trends in Whangarei County
- Break versus paddock grazing of dairy cattle
- Mating of hoggets
- Genetic problems in increasing sheep production
- Training sheep as "leaders" in abattoirs and farm sheep yards
- Comparison of well and poorly muscled lamb carcasses as selected by experienced meat industry personnel
- Sheep breeding organisation and recording in Iceland
- Energy nutrition of young red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds and a comparison with young stags
- The efficacy of used CIDR devices for synchronisation of oestrus and post-mating treatment
- The role of computer software in the feeding of farm livestock
- Goals and management strategies of dairy farmers
- Bovine growth hormone and its effects on the local production of prostacyclin I, and mammary blood flow in dairy cows
- Ultrasonic scanning of lamb carcasses for non-destructive carcass quality measurements
- Compensatory growth in lambs undernourished from birth
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effect of palm kernel expeller as a supplement for grazing dairy cows at the end of lactation
- Fat lamb crosses in Canterbury
- Observations on effects of rabbit grazing on pasture
- Assessment of fat in mutton and lamb
- The effect of mating pressure on characteristics of the ejaculate in rams and on reproductive performance in ewes
- The carcass composition of Angus, Hereford x, Angus, Friesian y Angus, Charolais x Angus and South Devon x Angus steers
- Summer ill-thrift in lambs
- Technology Design and Marketing: Case Studies in Beef Cattle Breeding
- Simulated impacts of new reproductive technologies on the productivity of beef production systems
- The effect of fasting on live weight in hogget wethers and pregnant mature ewes : Brief Communication
- Environmental factors affecting wool growth
- Factors controlling fat deposition in meat animals.
- Influence of age of early weaned lambs on intake, digestibility and retention time of clover hay
- Intake and duodenal protein flow in early weaned lambs grazing white clover, lucerne, ryegrass and prairie grass
- Effects of melatonin on seasonal physiology of red deer
- Ultrasonic fat depths in Romney lambs and hoggets from lines selected for different production traits
- The effect of stage of lactation and season on milksolids response to supplementary feeding of dairy cows
- Preliminary beef carcass composition data from breed crosses in a genetic marker trial
- Genomic technologies to create new opportunities for wool growers: Introductory remarks
- Options for change within the wool supply chain
- Effect of dietary protein on liveweight gain in parasitised calves
- On-farm ewe lamb mating outcomes from feeding practices before mating and during pregnancy
- The influence of plane of nutrition upon the reproductive efficiency of animals
- Progress in defining the differences in nutritive value to sheep of perennial ryegrass, short-rotation ryegrass and white clover.
- Synchronisation of oestrus in ewes
- Growth rate selection in Southdown sheep
- Effect of nutrition of the dam on wool follicle development of Corriedale lambs
- Condition scoring of sheep
- The effect of liveweight on the ovarian response and fertility of ewes treated with PMSG
- Assessment of lamb meat quality in Sydney and Melbourne
- Influence of level of feeding and stage of lactation on proteolytic activity in bovine milk
- A genetic test to identify carriers of the ovine Inverdale fecundity gene
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: DNA methylation patterns in bovine blastocysts suggest that only limited epigenetic reprogramming has occurred in the early embryo
- Milk production in the ewe
- Some aspects of New Zealand's livestock industry
- The influence of liveweight on ovulation rate in the ewe
- A survey of lambing practices in stud sheep flocks in New Zealand
- Influence of birth date and dam's age on early growth in beef cattle
- Pre-mating treatment of breeding ewes with thiabendazole
- Wool production of exotic x Romney sheep
- Ultrasonic selection for divergence in loin fat depth in Southdowns and Suffolks
- The use of farm computers in animal management
- Extension agents can perform more effectively through an appreciation of individual learning styles
- The effect of peripartum administration of ovine prolactin on lactogenesis in autumn-lambing ewes
- Pre- and post-rigor treatment of intermediate-pH beef to reduce toughness
- Background effects on ewe lambing and weaning performance in well recorded breeding flocks
- Pasture type and lamb carcass composition: A comparison of experimental design
- Mixed grazing of cattle and Sheep
- A comparison of spring and autumn calving for beef cattle production
- Protein-tannin complexes are susceptible to proteolytic degradation
- The effect of condensed tannins in sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) and sulla (Hedysarum coronarium) on the digestion of amino acids in sheep
- The effect of season of the year and pasture allowance on the growth of lambs fed different pasture species
- Production potential of extension is not fully exploited
- A comparison of the composition and carcass quality of Kelly and Russian castrate, ram, wether and ewe lambs
- Spring-summer grazing management on hill country: effects on ewe performance
- Further development of sheep recording in New Zealand
- Diurnal patterns of rumen fill in grazing sheep
- The effects of disease on productivity and profitability of livestock: How should it be assessed?
- Factors influencing the time to onset of oestrus after synchronisation treatment in ewes
- Relationship between bioimpedance and muscle mass in chilled lamb carcasses
- Using nitrogen fertiliser to increase dairy farm profitability
- Genetic progress in a Romney Group Breeding Scheme
- Relationship between intermediate pH toughness in the striploin and other muscles of the beef carcass
- The effect of maternal liveweight gain of 15-month-old beef heifers on foetal weight
- REVIEW: Epidemiology of Johne's disease in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus) in New Zealand
- An update on genetic parameters for facial eczema susceptibility in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Sampling systems for dependent data
- Discussion
- The effect of selection different ages on fat for body weight at deposition in mice
- Some factors which influenced knowledge and use of tail painting - A study in extension
- Effects of condensed tannins on animal performance in lambs grazing Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus) and annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) dominant swards
- Relationship between blood phylloerythrin concentration and gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in facial eczema-affected cattle and sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Do fetuses from primiparous one-year-old ewes differ from those of multiparous mature ewes?
- Pasture quality in terms of soluble carbohydrates and volatile fatty acid production
- Growth rates of Friesian x Friesian, Hereford x Friesian and Simmental x Friesian steers in several environments
- Phalaris and ryegrass pastures for animal production in Hawkes Bay
- Comparison of backfat depth probes for use in pig carcass grading
- Intake, digestibility and retention time of 2 forages by kids and lambs
- Bull beef production on hill country
- Computer use on my farm
- Effect of breed on plasma carotene concentration in New Zealand dairy heifers
- SheepGenomics - a trans-Tasman collaboration
- The bacteriology of lamb mortality
- Distribution of spermatozoa in the reproductive tract of the Romney ewe
- The effect on dairy cows and sheep performances of additives to high dry matter maize silage
- Out-of-season embryo transfer in five breeds of imported sheep
- Inter-muscle variation in the calpain system of red deer:- implications for meat tenderness
- Responses to protected amino acids or protected protein in dairy cows grazing ryegrass pastures in early or late lactation
- LIC Lecture: Reproductive physiology and management of high-yielding dairy cattle
- Sensitivity of ultimate meat pH to initial metabolite concentration when glycogen is not limiting
- The potential uses of penicillin in the treatment of bovine mastitis
- The value of identical twins in research
- Some recent advances in facial eczema research
- Variations in the iodine values of fats from fatty, muscular and bone tissues of the Romney sheep
- Livestock nutrition symposium
- Effect of soil type on uptake of magnesium by pasture plants
- Future requirements for expanded beef production in New Zealand
- Nutrition of the young growing lamb: Studies at Lincoln college
- Pasture allowance for the breeding ewe
- Differences between P and Y export lamb carcass grades in M. longissimus dorsi area and shape
- Relative priorities for feed between ewes and ewe in winter and spring: a modelling analysis
- The influence of sheep to cattle rtitios on live-weight gain on pastures grazed to different levels in late spring-summer
- Evaluation of by-product feedstuffs: acceptability to cattle and farm feeding procedures
- Changing the body composition of sheep by feeding
- The National Database for sheep genetic evaluation and research
- The effects on adoption of beef breeding cow technologies of selected farm business standards, farmer demographics, and farmer beliefs
- Relationships between major milk whey proteins in blood plasma and milk yield in dairy cattle
- Use of 'Barkant' turnips and 'Superchow' sorghum to increase summer-autumn milk production
- Genetic parameter estimates for lamb survival in Romney sheep
- Summer lamb finishing on forage crops
- Factors affecting dressing-out percentage of lambs
- Shearing ewes before lambing
- Limitations of present methods of controlling bloat in the field
- The use of a novel approach to determine the influence of sward characteristics on the discriminatory grazing behaviour of dairy cows
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Field test of production traits genetically correlated with zearalenone resistance in sheep
- Selection decisions in Thoroughbred broodmares
- Studies of the pelvic region of the ewe during pregnancy and parturition
- Disease and animal production - introduction
- The influence of protein supplements on milk yield and composition
- Management information system for a broiler hatchery
- Effects of cold exposure on chewing behaviour and rumen particle size in sheep given 4 diets
- An effect of copper supplementation on growth of beef cattle in Northland
- Developments in artificial insemination and controlled breeding in dairy cattle and deer in New Zealand
- Oxygen consumption and the energy costs of Na+,K+ -transport in the rumen of Holstein-Freisian steers
- The Calpain System - genotype, nutrition and their interactions
- Seasonal variation in venison drip loss and tenderness : Brief Communication
- The use of small animals in agricultural research
- The nutritive value of snow (chionochloa zotov)
- The behaviour of entire bulls of different ages at pasture
- Laser light scattering as a probe of sperm motility
- Near-infrared reflectance analysis of intramuscular fat in beef
- Effects of yarding and transport on muscle glycogen concentration in beef cattle
- The biological basis of variation in sheep's fleece cover
- Quantifying parasitic nematode larvae on pasture
- The nutritive status of New Zealand pastures
- Eradication of brucellosis from the New Zealand cattle population
- The influence of dietary factors and drug processing enzymes on sporidesmin poisoning in sheep - a preliminary report
- Factors relating to lamb production efficiency on Southland farms
- Relationships of carcass conformation of cattle and sheep with carcass composition
- The relationship between New Zealand's geology and soils and trace element deficiencies in grazing animals
- The consequence for feed dry matter intake of grazing sheep, cattle and goats to the same residual herbage mass
- Nutritional value of 'Grasslands Maku' lotus grown on low fertility soils
- Livestock diversification in New Zealand involving goats for meat and dairy production
- A terminal sire breeding programme based on screening for hogget liveweight
- Mouse mammary fat pad interacts with mitogens to stimulate epithelial growth in vitro
- Frequency distribution of sward height on pastures grazed by cattle alone or co-grazed with sheep
- Evaluating the business risk associated with feeding supplements to dairy cows on pasture
- Milking performance of East Friesian Poll Dorset cross ewe hoggets
- Techniques and results of low temperature bull semen storage
- Use of monozygous twins for experiments involving changes in the characteristics of butterfat
- Increasing fodder production for the grazing animal
- Effects of Mimosa bark extract containing condensed tannins on rumen metabolism in sheep and milk production by grazing cows
- Prediction of DEVCo cut weights from chilled ovine carcasses using single-frequency bioelectrical impedance measurements
- The effects of ewe size and nutrition during pregnancy on growth and onset of puberty in female progeny
- Retrospective examination of the breeding efficiency of the New Zealand Thoroughbred and Standardbred
- Genetic analysis of incidence of recorded clinical lameness in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Grazing behaviour in relation to bloat
- Effect of formaldehyde-treated casein and methionine on the intake of silage by sheep
- Field estimates of daily winter feed allowance for grazing ewes in Southland
- An evaluation of the fat-depth indicator on carcasses of pigs, cattle and sheep
- The quantities of zinc, copper, manganese and iron associated with body weight gain and wool growth of young sheep
- Salmon farming in New Zealand
- Effect of liveweight gain or loss on lamb meat quality
- Drying off management and the use of management aids on seasonal supply dairy farms
- The relative intake of three Merino strains under different grazing regimes estimated using alkane technology
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Determining sensory panel traits which contribute to the overall liking of New Zealand lamb as assessed by a British sensory panel
- The influence of thyroxine on wool growth
- Specifications for the classification and grading of meat carcasses in New Zealand
- Principles of modelling animal systems
- Observations on the behaviour and factors influencing the sexually-active group in cattle
- Effect of grazing management on hogget fleece characteristics
- Herbage intake, grazing behaviour and feed conversion efficiency of lactating Holstein-Friesian cows that differ genetically for live weight
- Nutrition and lameness in pasture-fed dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Comparison of lameness and hoof horn puncture resistance of New Zealand Friesian and Jersey cross Friesian dairy cattle
- Parasitism in relation to pasture farming
- Sheep nutrition and management
- The effect of treating forage with formaldehyde during haymaking and methionine administration during feeding on the digestion and utilization of energy and nitrogen by sheep
- Growth rate and oestrous behaviour of Friesian, Hereford x Friesian, Simmental x Friesian and Angus heifers
- The dynamics of pasture production under sheep
- Factors influencing conception rates to artificial breeding in New Zealand dairy herds: - a review
- Lambing date, ewe live weight and pasture mass effects on ewe and lamb performance during lactation
- Body energy changes and metabolisable energy requirements in growing and adult sheep at pasture
- Genetic parameters and performance of flocks selected for advanced lambing date
- The importance of date of birth records in genetic evaluation of deer
- The use of body measurements in cattle to predict future live weight
- Microarrays as a discovery tool in wool genomics
- Beef production & marketing in relation to the overall objective of increased meat supply
- Twenty-five years of Mendelian sheep breeding
- The use of isotopes in animal and plant research
- The grading of lamb and mutton carcasses
- Biochemical aspects of ram sperm viability
- Alkane technology estimates of summer and winter herbage intake of four specialty carpet wool breeds, Romneys and Merinos
- The metabolic cost of hepatic ammonia detoxification
- Methane emission from grazing sheep and cattle
- Hair whorl patterns are related to age at puberty and milk-production traits in dairy cattle
- Counting infective-stage nematode larvae in rumen fluid as an indicator of parasite challenge in grazing sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Carcass linear measurements as predictors of meat yield in lambs determined by VIAscan
- Animal research in a tussock environment at Tara Hills
- Hypocuprosis in dairy cattle in Northland
- Chemical and histological parameters associated with the tenderness of hemicastrate and steer beef
- Changes in the salivary sodium:potassium ratio in lactating cows in response to changes in sodium intake
- Growth potential and constraints in the New Zealand mussel farming industry
- Sporidesmin poisoning in ewes during late pregnancy
- Prenatal wool follicle development in Romney, Merino and Merino-Romney cross sheep
- Suitability of serum oestrone sulphate measurement to verify pregnancy in red deer
- An economic appraisal of sex-sorted semen in New Zealand dairy herds
- Factors affecting the non-fatty solids in milk, with particular reference to the New Zealand town milk industry
- Biochemistry of sporidesmin
- Some observations on the suckling activity of calves on nurse cows
- Heat produced by young jersey and Friesian calves in cold environments
- Management decision rules to optimise milksolids production on dairy farms
- Muscle glycogen and blood parameters in genetic strains of Angus cattle
- Dairy cows and horses do not select oaten hay based on its greenness : Brief Communication
- The movement of ova in the genital tract of the ewe
- Nutrition of the pre-ruminant calf
- The repeatability of ultrasonic fat-depth measurements made on sheep up to 18 months of age
- Evaluation of dam breeds and crosses for export lamb production
- Management practices and productive performance on hill country sheep farms
- Effects of facial eczema on ewe reproduction and ewe and lamb live weights
- Variation in composition and eating quality of New Zealand export beef
- Superovulation in ewes: are follicle numbers a useful predictor of ovulation rate?
- Genetic parameters for live weights in fallow deer (Darna darna L.)
- Animal toxicity problems perceived to be associated with different pasture types on East Coast sheep/beef farms
- Feed requirements for maintenance of mature rams and ewes from lines selected for differences in body composition
- Magnesium metabolism in sheep subjected to sodium or water loading
- Wool keratins - the challenge ahead
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of twinning and sex on carcass weight and composition in lambs
- Field and experimental epidemiology of salmonella infection in calves
- Is beef with yellow fat potentially healthier for you than beef with white fat?
- Attempted transmission Of Brucella ovis between stags and from stags To rams
- Effects of facial eczema on skatole detoxification efficiency in dairy cows
- Computer systems for management information in primary production
- The use of 'Lipiodol' for sub-clinical iodine deficiency in livestock
- Mineral nutrients in pasture species
- The male effect - a comparison of rams and bucks for teasing ewes
- Ovulation rates in ewes selected for resistance to facial eczema and the effect of exposure to zearalenone
- How does the F gene influence ovulation rates in booroola ewes? A 1990 perspective
- The effect of long-day photoperiod treatments on plasma prolactin and wool follicle activity in New Zealand Wiltshire sheep
- Comparison of methods for measuring fibre diameter of Romney wool
- Managing fertility in the New Zealand dairy herd
- A program to assess the efficiencies of sheep-meat production systems: a teaching aid
- Breeding and selection goals and animal welfare
- Relationship between semen traits, mating frequency and percentage of ewes lambing multiples in high fertility Romney sheep
- Grazing ruminants: evaluation of their feeds and needs
- Effect of sire genotype on lamb growth and carcass productivity
- Validation of a technology for objectively measuring behaviour in dairy cows and its application for oestrous detection
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Phenotypic selection of cows for lactation persistency
- The effect of soil type on productivity in Whangarei County
- The cell count of milk and rapid tests for mastitis
- Baby beef without concentrates - a feasibility study
- Relationships between milk yield, milk consumption and lamb growth in Romney, Dorset and crossbred sheep
- Progeny test of selected lean and fat rams
- Livestock exports: past present future
- A preliminary investigation into factors affecting lamb growth on Taranaki hill country
- The effect of pH on colour and drip loss of lamb chops thawed in air and CO2
- Interspecies hybrids of deer - a ruminant resource for gene mapping and quantitative trait studies
- The relationship between wool production, live weight and liveweight change in four specialty carpet wool breeds, Romneys and Merinos
- Accumulation of cadmium in kidney and liver tissue of the suckling Romney lamb from parturition to early weaning
- The relationship of meat quality to age at slaughter and indicators of animal age in red deer stags and hinds
- An overview of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Industry
- The effect of lambing date on lamb growth rate, ewe liveweight and some observations on ewe milk production
- The relation of pasture allowance to changes in body condition and weight of pregnant non-lactating cows
- Effects of potassium on potential difference across the rumen wall and magnesium metabolism in sheep
- Comparison of Romney sheep selected for different roundworm parasite-related traits
- Dairy herd fertility
- Breeding for improved quality and quantity of forage for the grazing animal
- Sources of world food protein and the New Zealand contribution
- Some aspects of sheep group breeding schemes in New Zealand
- RE-implanting Ralgro on fattening steers
- Immediate and longer term response of dairy cows to level of nutrition in early lactation
- The determination of mineral requirements of sheep and cattle
- Preliminary investigation into factors affecting lamb growth from birth to weaning on Taranaki hill country
- The timing of CIDR withdrawal ancf ram introduction on ewe fertility
- A genetic approach to footrot control
- Evaluation of the feasibility of a juvenile MOET scheme in sheep
- Vasodilatory properties of parathyroid hormone-related protein in the mammary gland of the lactating goat
- The effect of whole body cysteine supplementation on cysteine utilization by the skin of a well-fed sheep
- Effect of feeding level on the seasonal liveweight gain of young red deer (Cervus elaphus) and red/elk hybrid stags
- The effects of winter grazing rotation speed on the performance of beef finishing systems
- Gene-markers for wool fibre traits
- Life cycle assessment - a tool for evaluating resource and environmental efficiency of agricultural products and systems from pasture to plate
- Symposium on factors affecting fertility
- The basis of nutritive value - a modelling approach
- The nutrients available to grazing cattle
- Genetic parameters for liveweight and live animal ultra-sound fat and eye muscle dimensions in a synthetic terminal sire breed
- A review of forage grazing systems to produce venison according to market signals
- Lancorp Farming Lecture: 'Clean, green and ethical' animal reproduction: extension to sheep and dairy systems in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The prevalence of limb deformities in New Zealand Standardbred foals and their influence on racing success - A preliminary investigation
- Some observations on how the veterinary profession can help meat production
- The effect of thyroxine on the Romney two-tooth
- Antipyrine for in vivo body-fat estimations in pasture-grazing animals
- Application of dynamic programming to the culling decision in dairy cattle
- Compensatory growth of beef cattle
- Effects of castrating and surgically dehorning male Drysdale and Tukidale lambs on the efficacy of mechanical head skinning
- Livestock exports: the role of the thoroughbred
- Effects of shearing and herbage allowance on the intake, live weight gain and wool growth of Romney ewe hoggets in spring-summer
- Studies into the mechanisms by which nutrition influences ovulation rate: use of the ovariectomized ewe model
- Effect of continuous stocking of breeding ewes at different sward surface heights during the late summer-autumn on herbage intake and productivity
- The influence of reproductive status on pituitary gland function in seasonally anoestrous red deer hinds
- Production economics and problems of animal production
- Two new methods of teaching animal breeding with potential in agricultural extension
- The growth and carcass characteristics of entire and castrate red stags
- Effect of breed of ram on the onset of the breeding season in Romney ewes
- Herbage quality and physical breakdown in the foregut of sheep
- Landcorp Farming Limited Lecture: A review of in-utero environmental effects on sheep production
- Diagnosis of mineral deficiencies in sheep and cattle
- The effect of steroid immunisation on the seasonal pattern of oestrus, ovulation and ovulation rate in Coopworth ewes
- Development of a dried coiostrum
- Liver catalase in Southdown sheep selected for high and low backfat depth
- Artificial insemination using the buck effect to partially synchronise cashmere does
- The use of protein polymorphism and DNA fingerprinting to solve complex pedigree problems in deer
- Regulation of growth in cultured mammary epithelium from beef and dairy heifers
- The effect of manipulation of plasma prolactin concentration on cashmere growth in spring
- Effect of iodine supplementation on milk iodine concentrations and productivity of dairy cows
- Reducing fat colour in beef by grazing steers on turnip bulbs
- 2007 Landcorp Farming Lecture: Genomic selection for accelerated genetic gain in livestock
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preliminary examination of sport horse competition data for genetic evaluation
- Systems of pig production in Canterbury: an economic appraisal
- The use of electronic measuring techniques in agricultural research
- Classification and grading of beef and veal carcasses
- Combined effect of date of lambing and stocking rate on ewe and lamb liveweight during lactation
- Plasma potassium - an indicator of protein catabolism in deer?
- Effects of insulin on amino acid uptake by the mammary gland of the pasture-fed lactating ruminant
- Environmental and physiological mechanisms underlying wool growth rhythms in coarse wool sheep
- Grazing behaviour of dairy cows in New Zealand
- Field observations on incidence of mastitis and control measures
- Winter feedin trials with beef cattle
- Measurement of milk consumption in young ruminants using tritiated water
- Techniques of administering progestagens for oestrus synchronization in cattle
- Passage of Cr-EDTA through the digestive tract of cattle and sheep
- Modification of antler growth in red deer stags by use of a synthetic progestagen
- Livestock exports: exporter's viewpoint
- Comparison of autumn/winter with spring pasture for growing beef cattle
- Effect of oestradiol implants and protein nutrition on plasma FSH levels in ovariectomised ewes
- Modelling herd efficiency in liveweight-selected and control Angus cattle
- An evaluation of the Stockpol(TM) model
- Incidence of high pH in venison: implications for quality
- Progress in pasture plant physiology
- Some bacteriological aspects of mastitis control
- Consistent quality meat products
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Factors influencing gestation length and interval from foaling to conception in mares managed on a commercial Thoroughbred studfarm
- Influence of season on human fertility
- Genetic and environmental effects on beef production
- Developmens and future trends in non-animal sources of protein
- Beef production on an all-crop grazing system
- Livestock exports: the advisers' and farmers' view
- The Prevention and Treatment of Trace Element Deficiencies in Sheep and Cattle
- Effect of herbage allowance on the productive performance of lactating and non lactating hoggets
- Effect of steroid immunisation and vaginal artificial insemination on the fertility of synchronised ewes
- Weights of some body organs from cattle selected for high and low susceptibility to bloat
- Carcass composition of New Zealand Saanen goats
- Fertility of fallow deer (Dama dama) does following synchronisation of oestrus with CIDR devices or prostaglandin
- Factors affecting the production of lactose by ovine mammary cells in vitro
- Effect of level of nutrition and season on fibre growth in alpacas
- Future directions for meat research and development in New Zealand
- The effects of methionine supply upon milk composition and production of dairy cows in mid-lactation
- Genetic manipulation to modify wool properties and fibre growth rates
- Current status and future of genomic selection
- Milk-fat production increases due to an advisory programme aimed at increasing the feed supply on dairy farms
- Factors affecting behaviour, bruising and pH in a deer slaughter premises
- Magnesium supplementation of lactating dairy cows in the summer and autumn
- Developing genomic resources for whole genome selection
- Sheep Improvement Limited (SIL) - the first 10 years: Introductory remarks
- Problems of disease and fertility in sheep production
- Quantitative aspects of fermentation in the gastro-intestinal tract of sheep fed fresh herbage
- Depression of lambing percentage from mating on lucerne
- The profitability of farming red deer in New Zealand
- Calving date effects on beef cow productivity
- The effects of nutrition oestradiol, phenobarbital and carbon tetrachloride on ovulation rate and plasma FSH in ewes
- Melatonin secretion in Romney ewes differing in wool growth and reproduction is not aligned to photoperiod during spring and summer
- Economic implications for growing wool from using genomic technologies
- SIL - progress over a decade
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preliminary examination of training and racing milestones in a subset of Standardbred horses
- Continuing to increase productivity while maintaining our clean green image. Introductory remarks
- The importance of sustainable food production for our markets
- An evaluation of the role of systems modelling in an agricultural research programme
- Comparative production of Romney sheep grazed with and without access to drinking water
- Stomach fermentation and digesta flow in macropodine marsupials and sheep
- Cortisol response to ACTH in lambs selected for or against fatness: Effects of maturity and fasting
- Effectiveness of growth performance selection in cattle
- Breed differences in the tissue proportions and muscle distribution of meat animals
- Estimates of genetic variation and covariation from New Zealand national boar performance testing data
- Some components of improved beef cow productivity on hill country
- Comparative digestive physiology and metabolism of the red deer and the sheep
- Livestock exports: animal health implications
- Trace element deficiencies - a new approach to diagnosis
- Effects of very low nutrition during pregnancy on live weight and survival of ewes and lambs
- Post-mating progesterone supplementation in ewes and hoggets
- Components of foam and liquor from the rumen of bloating and non-bloating cows
- An appraisal of the utility of primary cell culture from sheep udders to investigate the control of mammary function
- Liveweight and fleece production from New Zealand, South African and first cross Angora goats
- A view of the markets for beef and lamb and potential opportunities
- Effect on milk production and liveweight of feeding balanced or unbalanced supplements to cows grazing restricted summer pasture
- Practical implications of anatomical research in beef cattle
- Communication of animal. Production information: an adviser's viewpoint
- Effects of stage of growth, season, and conservation method on the nutritive value of lucerne
- Reproductive performance of ewes mated on lucerne
- The heat of warming feed
- Effect of Lotus corniculatus and condensed tannins on milk yield and milk composition of dairy cows
- Changes in plasma, milk and urinary magnesium concentrations in pasture-fed dairy cows in early lactation
- Effects of age, live weight and dry matter intake on total tract nutrient digestibility in adult mares
- The role of legislation in improving farm sustainability and how the New Zealand Government intends to incentivise the agricultural industry
- Milk fever of ewes in New Zealand
- Responses of sheep to thyroxine implantation
- Biological aspects of the sulphur content of Romney wool
- An approach to advisory work with deer farmers in Southland
- The association between selenium status and milk production in dairy cattle
- Ram-induced inhibition of plasma follicle-stimulating hormone (FM) concentrations in anoestrous Romney ewes
- Meat yields and chemical composition of muscle in New Zealand goats
- The influence of sward structure on peak bite force and bite weight in sheep
- Dose-response to a single injection of PMSG in Merino ewes carrying a double copy of the Booroola FecR gene
- Proteases and meat quality
- Current status of QTL and association studies in New Zealand cattle, sheep and deer
- SIL-ACE - Increasing access to genetic information for sheep farmers
- The efficiency of feed utilization
- Examination of managerial practices on a high producing dairy farm in relation to experimental results
- Effect of selection for early lambing on the expression of hogget oestrus activity
- Effects of pasture intake and grain supplementation on milk nitrogen fractions
- Concluding remarks: Genomics and the future of wool production
- Diet selection by goats and sheep on hill country
- Livestock exports: national economic significance
- Sodium requirements of grazing livestock
- Diagnosis o f foetal number in prolific sheep
- In$uction of oestrus in the ovariectomised red deer with exogenous progesterone and oestradiol benzoate
- The effect of once daily milking on concentrations and yields of plasminogen, plasmin and other whey proteins
- Effect of sample preparation method on the validity of an early-life predictor of hogget wool bulk in genotypes used to develop GrowBulk sheep
- Rates of genetic progress being achieved throughout the New Zealand ram breeding industry
- The combination of the n-alkanes and the 13C methods as a new tool for estimating individual DM intakes of pasture and maize silage by grazing dairy cows
- The importance of an accurate estimate of net endogenous loss of magnesium in ruminants
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: High crude protein in autumn pasture does not impair reproductive performance in sheep
- Can livestock production be increased without increasing greenhouse gas emissions?
- Meat meal in early weaning calf concentrate mixtures
- Some effects of feeding whole wheat grain to young sheep
- Effect on ovulation rate of increasing or decreasing ovarian exposure to follicle stimulating hormone during the preovulatory period in ewes
- Short-and long-term effects of intestinal parasitism on growth in sheep
- Nutrition effects on live weight and reproduction of Cashmere doe hoggets
- The effect of pretreatment with progesterone on the oestrous response to oestradioL-17B benzoate in the post-partum dairy cow
- Compensatory growth in cattle - revisited
- Genetic improvement of meat quality in sheep and cattle
- Milksolids response in early lactation to condition score at calving and concentrate feeding
- Management and exercise of Thoroughbred yearlings during preparation for yearling sales in the North Island of New Zealand
- Beef production from jersey steers grazed in three environments
- Effects of quantity and quality of feed on gastric secretion in the sheep
- The application of artificial breeding as a reproductive technique in cattle
- Calorimetric facilities for dairy cattle at Ruakura animal research station
- Voluntary intake and digestion in red deer and sheep
- Source of excess nitrogen affects nutrient partitioning in lactating ewes
- Trans-Tasman genetic evaluation of sheep - spreading the net wider
- Policy decision framework for conflicting world views on animal welfare issues
- An introduction to the use of simulation in the study of grazing management problems
- Formic acid as an additive for lucerne silage
- Effects of chewing during eating on particle size reduction and subsequent fermentation in sheep
- Performance of New Zealand-bred animals in foreign environments
- The effect of stocking rate on response to cobalt supplementation in sheep
- Ewe maternal behaviour score and lamb survival
- The effect of varying leafy sward height and bulk density on the ingestive behaviour of young deer and sheep
- The effect of an extended milking interval on mammary blood flow and tight junctions between mammary cells in goats
- The processing of different staple strength wools
- Differences in wool characteristics for lines of sheep with high or low levels of backfat thickness
- Milk protein production: an analysis of New Zealand's present and potential capabilities
- Winter performance of beef weaners fed untreated and formaldehyde-treated wilted lucerne silages and hay
- Magnesium endogenous loss as a function of plasma magnesium concentration rather than a constant allows better development of magnesium models in ruminants
- LoinMAX and MyoMAX: taking DNA marker tests from the research environment to commercial reality
- An attempt to control hydatid disease in animals in an isolated region of New Zealand
- Classification and gradin of pig carcasses
- Some techniques for increasing reproductive rates in sheep and their application in the industry
- Computer simulation of the feed requirements of shorn sheep
- Genetic progress from performance and progeny test selection in down sheep
- Influence of herbage allowance on diet quality in lactating ewes
- Effects of gonadotrophin releasing hormone (buserelin) on sheep fertility
- Comparison of commercial gonadotrophins using bioassays
- Melatonin for cashmere production in breeding does
- Estimated pasture intake and cow output of single and twin calving beef breeding cows
- Incorporating turnips into the pasture diet of lactating dairy cows
- Modelling the Feed Requirements of Cross-Bred Sheep
- Developments in the sheep meat industry: Genetic evaluation of meat yield
- Animal behaviour and stress: impacts on meat quality
- Tactical supplementation of beef finishing cattle
- The relationship between wool follicle density and fibre diameter is curvilinear
- Bovine viral diarrhoea virus in dairy cattle in New Zealand- studies on its prevalence, biologic and economic impact
- Prospects for genome wide selection in the New Zealand livestock industries
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of once daily milking on milk flavour chemistry
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of road transport, including stationary periods, on environmental conditions and physiological responses of sheep
- The role of breeding in reducing sheep GHG intensity
- The energy metabolism of' young Friesian calves fed on a diet of milk and concentrate
- The relationship between the degree of udder development and milk production in Coopworth ewes
- Metabolisable energy required by feral goats for maintenance and the effects 0f cold climatic conditions on their heat production
- The management of New Zealand beef cattle exported to South Korea
- Live-weight gains of lambs on limed and unlimed pasture at similar levels of nutrition
- Effect of slope on lamb mortality
- Fibre growth cycles of unselected, reproducing cashmere does discussed in relation to winter shearing
- Expression of milk genes in ruminant mammary tissue, is it subject to local controlling factors?
- Repeatability of seasonal wool growth in Merino sheep
- Economic implications of increased wool production
- The analysis and interpretation of data on the body weight of the two-tooth ewe
- Some factors affecting yellow fat colour in cattle
- The effect of soil ingestion on the Mg and Ca metabolism of sheep
- Crossing experiments for the utilization of sheep breeds in New Zealand
- The value of MAF advisory services in a dairy discussion group
- Effect of premating iodine supplementation of ewes fed pasture or a brassica crop prelambing on the incidence of goitre in newborn lambs
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Factors affecting colour stability of fresh chilled lamb meat
- Internal parasites of sheep and their effects on production
- Blood plasma tryptophan concentration - a potentially useful indicator of feed intake in pasture-fed ruminants
- The effect of dose level of steroid immunogen on the reproductive performance of ewes
- The effect of integrated grazing of goats, sheep and cattle on animal productivity and health on high-producing hill country pastures
- Seasonal effects on the effkacy of intravaginal CIDR devices for oestrous synchronization of farmed fallow deer (Dama dama)
- Development of a management system to intensify and increase beef production in a range suckler herd in Israel - "the Amaziah project"
- The impact of turnips on dairy production as evaluated by component trials, modelling and farm systems research
- Sheep breeding: An enterprise budgeting decision support model for on-farm planning
- Current and future impact of DNA technologies on the New Zealand sheep industry
- Genetic and environmental relationships between liveweight change over the summer in Perendale ewes and the lifetime live weight profiles of their progeny
- The pollination of red clover and lucerne in New Zealand
- Use of the comparative slaughter technique to estimate the nutritive value of pasture for hoggets
- Ten- and eighteen-week suckling of Friesian steers
- The implications of milking management strategies involving variations of milking frequency in the immediate post-partum period
- Effect of a long acting injectable Vitamin B12 on the Vitamin B12 status of the suckling lamb
- Variation of fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk over the body of Perendale ewes: Implications for measurement of wool bulk
- Quantification of lactoferrin in milk from New Zealand dairy goats
- Farm production experiments comparing formaldehyde-treated silage with conventional feeds for wintering yearling beef cattle
- Energy cost of protein deposition in the pre-ruminant and young ruminant lamb
- Energy requirements of red deer
- Urinary magnesium - an indicator of magnesium status/intake?
- Growth and carcass composition of Sahiwal-cross and Friesian bulls
- Voluntary intake, testis development and antler growth patterns of male red deer under a manipulated photoperiod
- Differences among and within crossbred beef cow groups in body condit.ion and live weight
- The germline manipulation of livestock: progress during the past five years
- The effects of season and herbage mass on the nutritive value of prairie grass cv. Grasslands Matua and perennial ryegrass
- B-lactoglobulin expression in bovine mammary tissue
- Wool characteristics of fine-wool sheep in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China
- Variation in sheepmeat odour and flavour
- Modelling farm management scenarios that illustrate opportunities farmers have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining profitability
- Pad wintering of beef steers
- Calving patterns and herd production in seasonal dairy herds
- Diet and genotype affect plasma calcium, magnesium and phosphorus concentrations in the periparturient cow
- Teat spraying prior to calving may reduce the risk of heifer mastitis caused by Streptococcus uberis
- Uptake of DNA testing by the livestock industries of New Zealand
- Diet and the motility of the fore-stomachs of the sheep
- Liveweight and carcass responses of grazing steers to supplements in summer
- The effect of Mefluidide on pasture and animal performance
- Nutritive value of chicory (Cichorium intybus L) for venison production
- Optimum white clover content for milk production
- Angus selection herd reproductive data: a genetic model for dairy cattle?
- Food protein products from milk
- Cerebrospinal fluid magnesium concentrations in hypomagnesaemic tetany
- The effect of level of nutrition on the productivity of sheep of different genetic origin
- The role of milk production in dryland lamb production systems
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Does calf genotype influence milk yield of red deer hinds?
- Effect of management change on methane output within a sheep flock
- Behaviour factors influencing the rearing of Sahiwal-cross calves
- Integrating management of sheep and deer
- Immunisation of ewes against steroids: A review
- Early induction of ovulation in yearling red deer hinds
- Detecting inherited variation in DNA sequences and its application in animal science
- Artificial insemination of farmed feral goats with frozen-thawed semen
- Timing of the LH peak and ovulations in superovulated Coopworth ewes synchronised with progesterone-containing CIDRR devices
- The nature of the microcirculation in the mammary gland of the lactating rat
- The impact of live weight and liveweight change on wool staple tenacity in Romney hoggets
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Do lambs within a twin and triplet-born litter produce different amounts of heat during a cold stress event?
- Classification and grading of beef and lamb in the United States of America
- Processing for meat quality
- Effect of nitrogen fertiliser and concentrate feed on dairy production
- CowTrakker(TM) technology for improved heat detection
- Methane emissions from growing beef cattle grazing hill country pasture
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genetic parameters for growth in Wapiti deer farmed in New Zealand
- The challenges of animal wintering from a sustainability perspective
- The physical breakdown of feed during digestion in the rumen
- Animal production from hill country: effect of fertiliser and grazing management
- Effect of herbage allowance on the performance of pregnant beef heifers
- Effect of high and sustained zinc supplements on trace element metabolism in sheep
- Farm animal welfare contract
- Effect of nutrition on fine wool production in Merino wethers
- The evolution of liveweight variance in angus steers and strategies for control
- An effect of pasture on the secretion of salivary proteins by the cow
- Effects of genotype, liveweight, pasture type and feeding level on ovulation responses in ewes
- The relationship between daily Se intakes and blood Se concentrations in pregnant dairy cows
- Sheep Improvement Limited
- Carcass and meat quality characteristics in young red deer stags of different growth rates
- The variation in methane emissions from sheep and cattle is not explained by the chemical composition of ryegrass
- Breeds of sire for export lamb production
- Iron-induced hypocuprosis
- Factors influencing the interval from calving to first oestrus in beef cattle on north island hill country
- Milk production losses associated with clinical mastitis within identical-twin sets
- Interrelationships between somatic cell counts, production, age and mastitis organisms in individual cows
- Some effects of hot conditions on Brahman or Sahiwal crossbred calves
- Advancement of breeding in non-lactating adult red deer hinds
- Effects of cold conditions on the oxygen consumption of shorn goats
- Effect of sire, breed and age on plasma FSH concentrations in FeB FecB and Fec+ Fec+ Booroola rams before and after castration
- Facility design in relation to animal behaviour, stress and bruising
- Effect of maternal nutrition during early and mid-gestation on fetal growth
- Sheep industry structure and genetic improvement
- Estimation of autumn live weight breeding values in progeny test datasets when progeny are slaughtered to achieve a target carcass weight
- Effect of litter weight variation on cause of death and survival in triplet lambs
- Observations of some effects of glucose infusion in sheep
- Effects of level of stocking rate on conversion efficiency and productivity of dairy beef cattle and breeding ewes
- Reproductive differences between Border Leicester x Romney and Romney two-tooth ewes
- Rumen motility in sheep and cattle as affected by feeds and feeding
- Metabolic changes of cadmium and zinc in kidney and liver tissue during foetal development in Romney and Merino sheep
- The effect of feeding level during rearing on the first lactation milk yield of Friesian replacement heifers
- Resynchronising returns-to-service in anoestrous cows in Victorian dairy herds
- Supplementing dairy cows with oils to improve performance and reduce methane - does it work?
- Beef production with Friesian and Friesian-cross cattle
- The effects of pre-lambing anthelmintic drenching on production of ewes and the development of worm parasitism in lambs
- Feedlot facilities
- High animal production from low herbage allowance
- Terminal sire comparisons of the Charolais and Murray Grey breeds for calving difficulty, calf survival and growth
- Chiapas sheep - wool production and animal health in a unique sheep breed
- Validation of body condition scoring by using ultrasound measurements of subcutaneous fat
- Protein production from sheep, goats and deer
- Effect of season of steroid immunisation and Booroola genotype on the level and duration of response in ovulation rate of ewes
- Effect of prior ram-ewe contact on the ability of rams to stimulate early oestrus
- Indicators for early detection of ecchymosis (bloodsplash) in fallow deer (Dama dama) carcasses
- The future for animal welfare science: Is there a clear direction or are we just responding to issues? Introductory remarks.
- Animal welfare policy and science - keeping up with a changing world
- Performance of early-weaned lambs on lucerne and pasture
- Influence of feeding post-lambing on ewe and lamb performance at grazing
- Export of animals as frozen embryos
- A marker for red deer - wapiti hybrids
- Goat behaviour patterns in hill country
- Effects of suppressed prolactin levels on wool growth in Romney ewes
- Is the welfare of dairy cows at risk from current farm practices?
- Response of trace element concentrations in plasma of sheep to chronic infusion of a recombinant variant of IGF-1
- Growth of Friesian calves offered three allowances of milk replacer
- Feeding birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) reduces the environmental impacts of dairy farming
- A comparison between Friesian, Jersey, and Friesian-Jersey cross steers
- The use of an ultrasonic device for detection of pregnancy in the ewe
- Relationships between milk somatic cell counts, production index and dry cow therapy in seasonal dairy herds
- Genetic parameters and economic values of traits other than production for dairy cattle
- Repeatabilities of blood plasma metabolites and their associations with leanness in genotypes showing a wide divergence in carcass composition
- Amino acid supply to the small intestine of dairy cows fed pasture
- Sheep industry vision and SIL
- Factors associated with the incidence of 'Phantom cows' in Australian dairy herds
- Effect of divergent selection for wool bulk on live weight and wool characteristics in Perendale sheep
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of restricted fetal nutrition in utero on mTOR signalling in ovine skeletal muscle
- The use of a steady state feeding system in nutrition experiments with ruminants
- Genetic and environmental effects on incidence and causes of lamb mortality
- Perennial ryegrass staggers research - an overview
- Effect of steroid immunisation in the performance of 3 breeds of sheep under hill country conditions
- Inherited protein variation and parentage testing in farmed red deer
- Developments in domestic animal embryo manipulation technology which support the application of molecular biology to animal production
- Issues of sustainability in animal production and the implications for science: An international perspective
- Relationship between laboratory measures of ram sperm competence and field fertility
- The welfare of extensively farmed livestock
- Some economic effects of disease
- Pollution problems associated with feedlot production of livestock
- Breeding objectives for New Zealand sheep production
- Lamb and hogget growth on different white clover and ryegrass cultivar mixtures in southern New Zealand
- Effect of Se-amended fertilisers on the Se status of grazing dairy cattle
- Technical aspects of the national sheep recording scheme (Sheeplan)
- Problems in flushing ewes on North Island hill country
- Effects of season and pasture allowance on the wool growth of Romney ewes
- The improvement and export potential of Bali cattle (Bos bibos-banfeng)
- Reasons and strategy for the introduction of objective measurement of wool
- Effectiveness of drenching on Saanen milking does
- Estimates of environmental effects and genetic parameters for live weights and fleece traits of Angora goats
- The breeding season of pubertal red deer hinds
- Behavioural quantification of welfare in farmed red deer
- Grazing behaviour of alpaca and sheep
- Marbling produced in yearling heifers of Angus origin finished over a medium-term period on a high energy pasture
- Extent and nature of weight losses due to pre-slaughter fasting of lambs
- Changes in whole body and carcass composition in young sheep during weight loss and subsequent regrowth
- Environmental heterogeneity as a factor in group size determination among grazing sheep
- Effect of lambing date on the utilization of grass/clover and lucerne pastures during mating
- Effect of ewe live weight on the level of response to steroid immunisation
- Postmortem changes in pH and shear force in three commercial bull beef cuts
- Milk production response to replacement of carbohydrate with lipid and the addition of ruminally protected protein
- Genetic improvement and importance to sheep and beef farming
- Controlled Calving with induction of parturition on Day 274 of gestation in dairy cows
- Real time in situ measurement of rumen methane concentration in the rumen of cattle : Brief Communication
- Protein production from beef
- Milk yield and composition from cows grazing lucerne
- Ten years reproduction performance data from Angus and Hereford weight selection herds
- The development and application of ELISA detection of Lolium endophyte in ryegrass staggers research
- The effect of three allowances of red clover on Red deer fawn growth and liveweight change in lactating hinds
- The role of women in livestock production in eastern Turkey
- Heat stress in farm animals
- Protein Supplementation and wool growth
- Early lamb production and its place in New Zealand farming
- Benefits and incentives available from objective measurement
- The Effect of Peramine Ingestion in Pen-fed Lambs
- The effect of protein supply on the periparturient parasite status of the mature ewe
- Effect of sperm dose, diluent type and timing of insemination on pregnancy rates in sheep
- The effect of clean pasture and anthelmintic frequency on growth rates of lambs on irrigated pasture
- Ovulation and lambing responses with alternating steroid immunisation over 3 years
- Measurement of blood flow and amino acid metabolism in the skin of sheep
- Advancing calving in red deer: The effects on growth and sexual development
- Quantitative indicators of stress in stress-susceptible and stress-resistant breeds of pigs
- Variation in meat pH in steers and association with other carcass attributes: analysis of a commercial database
- Further studies on the role of suckling in the parasite status of very young lambs infected with Teladorsagia circumcincta.
- Maternal constraint in sheep breeds with diverse birth weight
- Animal health in a feedlot
- Increasing milksolids production with supplementary feeds
- Postpartum anoestrous interval and metabolic changes in heifers supplemented with pasture prepartum
- Exploring the relationships between plant chemical composition and nitrogen partitioning in lactating dairy cows fed ryegrass-based diets
- Cell biology and wool production and properties
- Oestrus and ovarian activity of Booroola Merino crossbred ewe hoggets
- The effects of drenching regimen and pasture larval contamination on gastrointestinal parasitism of lambs
- Inheritance of wear rate in the teeth of sheep
- Grazing behaviour of sheep and ryegrass staggers
- Implications of steroid immunisation for programmes of genetic improvement of sheep
- Interpretation of objective measurements of wool by the manufacturer
- Lactational physiology contract
- Castration, tail docking and dehorning - What are the constraints?
- Animal Production in eastern Turkey
- Effect Of Pasture Supplemented With Methionine On Wool Growth And Selected Growth Parameters
- Trait economic weights for genetic improvement with SIL
- Crossing Angus cattle with Limousin as a method of increasing meat yield
- Painful husbandry procedures and methods of alleviation: a review
- Red gut in lamb lucerne grazing trials at Lincoln
- The effect of immunological castration on behaviour and growth of young bulls
- Free and conjugated levels of zearalenone in ewes mated on grass-dominant pasture or chicory
- Yellow fat in lambs
- Sheep dispersal patterns on hill country: Techniques for study and analysis
- Effect of date of harvest and conservation method on the feeding value of conserved pasture for beef cattle at pasture
- The mechanism of action of growth hormone on milk production of ruminants
- Romney male and female heritabilities and genetic correlations for weaning, autumn and spring body weights and hogget fleece weights
- Development and use of gene transfer in New Zealand
- The effects of once daily milking as a management practice in late lactation
- Measurement of foetal size by ultrasonography and progesterone concentrations in pregnant alpacas.
- Liveweight gain and parasite resistance of lambs treated with controlled - release albendazole capsules
- Oestrous activity and lamb production of the N.Z. Romney ewe
- The effect of cortisol acetate administration on growth and carcass quality of lambs
- Sire by finishing environment interactions for beef cattle carcass and meat quality traits
- The effects of a cation-anion balanced diet on calcium and phosphorus metabolism in growing lambs
- The effect of stressors on milk yield and composition in dairy cows
- E-Genetics. The role of the internet in genetic improvement
- Relationship between bulk milk urea nitrogen and reproductive performance of New Zealand dairy herds
- Sperm DNA damage after scrotal insulation in rams
- The effect of temperature on body growth and other traits of open- and woolly-faced Romney lambs
- Effect of including quindoxin, a new chemical growth promoter, in pig and poultry rations
- Increasing the ovulation rate in ewes by immunisation
- Selection efficiency in ram breeding flocks
- Theoretical considerations for partitioning nutrients between muscle and adipose tissue
- Does immunisation pay?
- Reduction of carcass fatness in overfat lambs fed low energy diets supplemented with protein
- Evaluation of large scale trapping of flies as a means of reducing the incidence of flystrike in lambs
- Effect of dietary vitamin A on plasma carotenoid concentration and fat colour in cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Sources of dark fibre contamination in some lines of mid-micron fleece wools
- Observations on the fertility of the two-tooth New Zealand Romney ewe
- Beef cattle improvement through performance recording and selection
- Nutrition of feedlot beef cattle in New Zealand
- Interrelationships between GR and other carcass fatness measurements
- Preliminary investigation of milk production in Angus heifers exposed to different planes of nutrition in utero
- The welfare implications of dystocia in sheep and cattle
- Technique for evaluating fat lamb production
- An investigation of the relationships between body temperature and implantation and lambing rates in the New Zealand Romney ewe
- Follicle and fleece characteristics of Merinos, Romneys and Merino-Romney crossbreds
- Testis size and endocrine parameters in rams as predictors of aseasonality in their daughters
- Differences in the post mortem kinetics of the calpain system in meat from bulls and steers
- Variation in copper metabolism between two flocks of Romney sheep in response to increasing dietary copper
- The effects of stressors on lymphocyte populations and function in lactating dairy cows
- The Sheep Improvement Limited (SIL) genetic engine
- Relationships between, milk production, nutrition and reproduction in "benchmark" herds
- Effect on fleece weight of combining genes from four flocks independently selected for increased fleece weight
- Feed requirements of beef cattle
- Possible exploitation of body composition,- nutrition interrelationships for early weaning of calves
- Bulk: A wool trait of importance to the carpet industry
- Dagginess and flystrike in lambs grazed on Lotus corniculatus or ryegrass
- Age at castration after puberty has no effect on carcass weight
- Urinary nitrogen excretion from cows at different stage of lactation grazing different ryegrass cultivars during spring or autumn
- Segregation of a major gene influencing ovulation rate in progeny of Booroola sheep in commercial and research flocks
- Contract Summary
- Technical aspects of the Animalplan system
- The future impact of new opportunities in reproductive physiology and molecular biology on genetic improvement programmes
- The effects of oxytocin and bovine somatotropin on production of cows milked once a day
- Humane slaughter: an achievable goal?
- Carcass, liver and kidney characteristics of lambs grazing plantain (Plantago lanceolata), chicory (Cichorium intybus), white clover (Trifolium repens) or perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)
- Cattle diet preference and species selection as influenced by availability
- Grazing behaviour of sheep during summer and autumn in relation to facial eczema
- Carcass composition of purebred and crossbred Angus steers
- Organization of sheep improvement in Norway
- Effect of mating Romney ewe hoggets on lifetime production - Preliminary results
- Implications of objective measurement for sheep management
- The calpain proteolytic system in different types of ovine skeletal muscles and relationship to meat tenderness
- Sealing of the bovine teat canal after drying off
- The benefits of sheep recording schemes for genetic research
- Ultrasonic measurement of backfat and muscling in sheep selected for parasite-related traits
- Effects of shearing method on the physiology and productivity of sheep
- The effect of six herbages on liveweight gain, wool growth and faecal egg count of parasitised ewe lambs
- Effect of topical ivermectin treatments on weight gains in beef weaners
- Effect of zinc oxide treatment for facial eczema on the copper status of Romney sheep grazing ryegrass pastures
- Potential benefits from new reproductive technologies in commercial dairy herds; a case study simulation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Intracellular concentrations of free amino acids are reduced in skeletal muscle of late gestation twin compared to single fetuses
- Implications of objective measurement for fleece tenderness research
- Whole-body protein turnover in Merino sheep selected for wool and body growth
- Genetic variation in uterine efficiency and differential responses to increased ovulation rate in sheep
- Indirect selection for adult fleece weight using canonical discriminant functions of blood metabolites
- Ewe maternal behaviour score and ewe and lamb activity from birth to suckling
- Variation in the pH of lamb meat within and between sheep breeds
- Growth and carcass characteristics of lambs sired by Texel, Oxford Down and Suffolk rams
- Increasing the relevance of applied bio-physical research: A case study into beef breeding cow twinning technology
- Responses to selection for pubertal traits in Angus cattle over 23 years
- Wool growth in relation to dietary protein level
- Pre-calving nutrition of beef cows
- Effects of weaning age on export lamb production
- Implications of objective measurement of wool for sheep breeding
- Faecal nematode egg counts and haematology in Perendale ewes near lambing
- Iodine deficiency: an emerging problem in New Zealand sheep flocks?
- Correlated responses following genetic selection to change age at puberty in Angus cattle
- A review of the importance of wool traits as genetic improvement objectives and selection criteria for New Zealand Romney sheep
- Correlated responses in a weight-selection experiment with beef cattle
- Comparative wool production of Texel, Oxford Down, Finnish Landrace and Romney sheep
- Autocrine control in milk production and mammary development
- Lamb and milk production in Awassi, Assaf, Booroola-Awassi and Booroola-Assaf sheep in Israel
- Twin-suckling beef cows using foster calves: effects on calf and cow performance
- Genetic parameters for improvement of dual-purpose flock productivity with constraints on mature ewe body weight
- A comparison of dairy farming between New Zealand and Japan
- Effect of lactation stage and breed on the concentration of unsaturated fatty acids in milkfat of New Zealand dairy cattle
- Repeated gonadotrophic stimulation of ewes
- Libido testing and subsequent mating performance in rams
- A new show class in an agricultural show
- Early predictors of ewe fertility
- Effects of time-of-calving on dairy production
- Responses to selection in ryegrass staggers lines of sheep
- Grass compared with concentrates as an early weaning feed for Friesian bull calves
- Protein production from pigs
- Wool production and characteristics of Merino and longwool ewes and their respective Booroola crosses
- Techniques to establish flocks from fecund ewes by superovulation with and without ova transfer
- Prediction of beef carcass yield from selected commercial cuts expressed as a percentage of side weight
- Effect of control of internal parasitism on productivity of Merino breeding ewes
- Prediction of carcass tissue weight in vivo using live weight, ultrasound or X-ray CT measurements
- Seasonal and lactational influences on milk composition in New Zealand
- The effects of Insulin-nutrient supply interactions on ewe lactation
- Can b-hydroxybutyrate levels predict the post-partum anoestrous interval of dairy cows?
- Feed conversion efficiency in high liveweight gain and low liveweight gain Friesian bulls
- Feed intake and growth in New Zealand feedlots
- Group breeding schemes in sheep improvement in New Zealand
- A study of pelt and growth traits in Zandi sheep
- Genetic parameters for somatic cell score in dairy goats estimated by random regression
- Composition and in sacco degradation characteristics of winter growth of Lolium perenne, Lolium multiflorum and Lolium perenne × multiflorum ryegrasses
- Production and characteristics of wool from the hogget progeny of sheep intensively screened for fleece weight
- Multiple pregnancy diagnosis of ewes using real time ultrasonic body scanner and video-fluoroscopy systems
- Effects of location and source of ewes and rams on the onset of oestrus in Romney ewes
- Reduced visibility lowers bull aggression
- Increased litter size elicits cell proliferation in the lactating murine mammary gland
- Sustaining fitness and welfare in the dairy cow
- Feed intake capacity in Holstein-Friesian cows which differed genetically for body weight
- Some effects of an increased stocking level on wool growth
- Amino acid supplementation of normal hybrid and opaque-2 maize-based diets for growing pigs
- Milk production and production worth of anoestrous dairy cows compared with their cycling herd mates
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The effects of different forage types on lamb performance and meat quality
- Wool growth in relation to sulphur containing amino acid administration to sheep
- Effects of short-term differential feeding in the autumn on liveweight gains and wool growth of ewes
- The starvation-exposure syndrome and neonatal lamb mortality: A review
- Effect of antioxidants on the toxicity of the facial eczema toxin, sporidesmin, in sheep
- Consumer acceptance of ram and wether meat in the U.S.A.
- Resistance and susceptibility to fleece yellowing and relationships with scoured colour
- Rationalised classing of fine wools
- Relative wool production of wethers and ewes of different rearing status
- A comparison of the carcass and meat quality of Awassi-cross and Texel-cross ram lambs
- Sensitive PCR for detecting Benzimidazole resistant sub populations of ovine nematodes in the Waikato
- Metabolic changes in the mammary gland of sheep in late pregnancy and lactation
- Amylin causes hypocalcaemia in lactating goats
- Metabolomics for animal production, an introduction
- Choice of the most appropriate models and estimation procedures of lactation curves for grazing dairy cattle
- The winter nutrition of Romney hoggets
- An analysis of Angus central bull performance tests in New Zealand
- Relationships between insulin-glucose status and carcass fat in lambs
- Milk yield, prolactin and IGF-1 in cows which calve in Autumn; preliminary report
- Genetic and phenotypic parameter estimates for growth, yield and meat quality traits in lamb
- Nutrient requirements of New Zealand dairy cattle
- Comparison of the fatness of weaned and unweaned lambs
- Effect of "Ralgro" on growth, body composition and behaviour of lambs, heifers and bulls
- Ethics and animal production
- a-Lactalbumin - The milk manipulator's dream
- Comparison of growth, hogget fleece weight and reproductive traits of three sheep breeds from a flock selected for prolificacy and a Romney control flock
- Improving productivity with better stock handling
- The effect of anthehnintic treatment of ewes during pregnancy
- Is carcass classification useful or necessary?
- Embryo and recipient contributions to pregnancy loss following the transfer of cloned embryos derived from foetal and adult somatic cells
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of red wine lees on lamb meat quality
- The influence of the senses of smell, sight and hearing on the sexual behaviour of rams
- Measuring body composition by fast neutron activation analysis
- Effects of season-of-lambing, stage-of-lactation and ewe-age on milk volume and composition of machine-milked Dorset ewes
- Handling deer run in confined areas
- Investigations of carpet wool genes in sheep
- Sporidesmin concentrations in the bile of sheep resistant or susceptible to sporidesmin dosing
- Inheritance of loose wool bulk in Romney and Perendale sheep
- Effect of shearing once-yearly in October or twice-yearly in February and October on ewe performance
- Effect of stage of lactation on the efficiency of Jersey and Friesian cows at converting pasture to milk production or liveweight gain
- Systems Biology and Metabolomics: Experimental and Computational Challenges
- Suitability of the Happy Factor decision support model as part of targeted selective anthelmintic treatment in Coopworth sheep
- Maternal antibodies and immune responsiveness in growing lambs
- Calpain, calpastatin and tenderness comparisons in M. longissimus dorsi samples from weight-selected and control Angus cattle
- Cattle behaviour: comparison of measures of temperament in beef cattle
- Efficiency, cheese yield and carbon emissions of Holstein-Friesian, Jersey and crossbred cows: an overview
- Protein production from poultry
- Financial aspects of feedlot management in New Zealand
- A review of effects of shearing on sheep production
- Relationship of subcutaneous fat depth and weight changes induced by stocking rate in 4 lines of lambs
- A comparison of rams from fleece weight-selected and randomly bred Romney flocks for intake, wool growth and feed utilisation
- Performance of visually or objectively culled ewe hoggets
- The challenge of endoparasitism: developments in the control of nematode infections of sheep
- The welfare status of egg-production in New Zealand
- Ultrasound measurements predict estimated adipose and muscle weights better than carcass measurements
- The use of neural networks to detect minor and major pathogens that cause bovine mastitis
- Genetic parameters for primal cut meat yield traits in sheep
- The effect of feeding formaldehyde treated casein and lucerne meal to sheep on nitrogen metabolism and wool production
- The value of on-farm performance selection of Angus and Hereford bulls
- Profitability of rotational crossbreeding programmes in commercial dairy herds
- Effect of breed and diet on de novo synthesis of fatty acids by mammary gland tissue of Friesian and Jersey dairy cows
- Are cattle capable of producing litters of calves?
- Relationships between ultrasonic measurements taken on live cattle and their carcass composition
- Zinc sulphate in the drinking water of lactating dairy cows for facial eczema control
- Estimates of environmental effects and some genetic parameters for weaning weight and fleece weights of young Angora goats
- Wool production from wet and dry ewes on southern North Island hill country
- Removal of cisternal milk following milk accumulation for 9 hours does not increase total yield during once-daily milking
- Lactation curves for milk traits, live weight and body condition score for heavy and light Holstein-Friesian cows
- Wool characteristics in the Meat and Wool New Zealand Central Progeny Test flocks
- The effect of plane of nutrition and feeding formalin-treated casein on the production, fibre diameter and tensile strength of wool
- Studies on the intestinal digestion of nitrogen by sheep fed formalin-treated casein diets
- Wool production of sheep breeds on hill country
- Interrelationships of placental development with nutrition in pregnancy and lamb birth weight
- Antibody class-specific immune responses in ovine milk measured by ELISA
- Expected pregnancy rate in recipient cattle, sheep and goats derived using a model incorporating embryo and maternal contributions to embryo survival
- The effect of blood sampling site on measures of stress in dairy cattle
- Urinary corticosteroids: an indicator of stress in dairy cattle
- Lamb mortality in hill country flocks
- Social grooming patterns of dairy cattle
- Fatness of lambs grazed on 'Grasslands Maku' lotus and 'Grasslands Huia' white clover
- Live weights, fleece weights and wool characteristics of screened high fleece weight and randomly selected Romney ewe hoggets
- Measuring pasture yield ffaor;iivestock management on farms
- Ribozyme mediated modification of a-lactalbumin gene expression
- Does intensive pig farming have a viable future? - Concerns over housing and welfare
- The effects of condensed tannin in Lotus corniculatus upon nutrient metabolism and upon body and wool growth in grazing sheep
- Effect of very low sperm doses on pregnancy rates after AI in sheep
- Microbial Metabolomics towards Fibre Digestibility in the Rumen
- Is rumen retention time implicated in sheep differences in methane emission?
- Reproductive performance, growth and wool production of exotic sheep and their crosses with the Romney
- Monitoring some muscoid fly populations on Massey University sheep farms in the Manawatu
- A dynamic model incorporating dietary protein for predicting liveweight gain of parasitised grazing lambs
- Genetic parameters for colour stability of chilled lamb : Brief Communication
- Observations on the behaviour of single-suckled calves from birth to 120 days
- Effect of increasing phosphorus intake on the P faecal endogenous loss in the sheep
- Development of a performance test for the selection of rams having facial eczema-tolerant progeny
- Effect of post-weaning and post-mating/post-weaning shearing on ewe performance
- Effects of selection for shear strength on the voluntary intake and digestion of perennial ryegrass fed to sheep
- A modelling study of the productivity and profitability of unmated and mated ewes on North Island hill country
- Bio-impedance monitoring of genital tissues of cows as an aid in cattle reproductive management - a review
- Dynamic programming applied to the dairy cow replacement decision
- Intake, live weight and feed-conversion efficiency of lactating Holstein-Friesian dairy cows which differ genetically in live weight
- On-farm progeny testing for beef production
- Control of reproductive success in rabbits using bromocriptine
- Dairy farmer perceptions of the industry's "clean and green" image
- Identification of novel wool keratin intermediate filament genes in sheep skin
- Beef breed evaluation - Bred utilization strategies
- Lamb live weights at slaughter and carcass grades
- Animal welfare - a threat or an opportunity for research, farming and trade
- Effects of pre-lamb and conventional full-wool shearing on the productivity of ewes
- Seasonal changes in the protein content and composition of ram seminal plasma
- A simulation model to partition ewe efficiency into component traits for genetic analysis
- The apparent digestibility of palm kernel expeller (PKE) consumed by pasture-fed sheep
- Selection for increased cow fecundity: a review
- Fertilisation rat& of ewes mated to high and low prolificacy Romney rams
- Seasonal changes in LH profiles of ewes selected for and against an early lambing date
- Herd-to-herd variations in the properties of milkfat
- To shear or not to shear lambs?
- Effect of grain or buffer supplementation on milk solids yield and rumen fermentation patterns of cows grazing highly digestible herbage in spring
- Ewe live weight, level of pasture feeding and live-weight gain
- Effects of level of nutrition in winter and summer on the wool growth of Romney and Perendale ewes with a history of high or low winter wool growth
- Hogget oestrus synchronisation: a comparison of CIDR and sponges
- Management for milkfat or protein, does it differ?
- Effects of selection for shear strength on structure and rumen digestion of perennial ryegrass
- Lactation in transgenic mice expressing the ovine B-lactoglobulin gene
- Comparative performance of ewes shorn either once-yearly or 3 times in 2 years
- Gestation length in Pere David's x red deer hybrids
- Identification of commensal bacterial metabolites that enhance the integrity of the gastrointestinal barrier
- Meat and meat products
- Factors influencing nitrogen flow from the rumen
- A methodology for dealing with uncertain outcomes when applying embryo technologies
- Heat challenge of dairy cows in the Waikato: a comparison of spring and summer
- International drivers for animal welfare change and implications for New Zealand
- Some effects on food intake of infusions of amino acid-containing materials
- The effect of level of feeding of pasture its digestion by lactating dairy cow
- The effects of lamb breed, slaughter age and sex on carcass fat depth and export grade
- Repeatability estimates and selection flock effects for faecal nematode egg counts in Romney breeding ewes
- The effects of season on placental development and fetal growth in sheep
- Effect of selection for early lambing performance on the seasonal patterns of gonadotrophin levels; response to GnRH and semen characteristics in adult rams
- Automatic oestrus detection from milking data - a preliminary investigation
- Efficacy of an anoestrous treatment for dairy cows is reduced if administered within three weeks of calving
- New Zealand beef industry structure and opportunities to improve income
- Parasite-related traits in lambs sired by resistant or resilient Romney sires : Brief Communication
- Marked Udder Method (MUM) - a technique for identifying the progeny of ewes where identification at birth is not practicable.
- Large scale live breeding sheep exports
- Artificial insemination in sheep-comparison of storage time, dose rate and insemination technique
- Magnesium absorption from the large intestine of sheep
- The sheep's immune response to nematode parasites and prospects for its exploitation
- Sheep growth rates under Pinus Radiata
- Synchrony of onset and cessation of breeding activity in brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) in coastal Otago, New Zealand
- Toward a predictive model of supplementary feeding response from grazing dairy cows
- Correlated responses following genetic selection to change faecal worm egg count in Romney sheep
- <i>In vitro</i> digestion of ryegrasses harvested in the morning and afternoon to manipulate water soluble carbohydrate concentration
- Reproductive performance and wool production of Merino and high fertility strain (Booroola) x Merino ewes
- Hormonal induction of oestrus during the early postpartum period and the subsequent effects of nutrition on ovarian activity in dairy heifers
- Short-term physiological effects of refeeding 5 to 10-day-old calves after fasting and transport
- Urinary biomarkers of forage feeding from ESI-MS/MS fingerprinting: exploratory studies
- Bioactive plants inhibit bacteria that cause lactic acidosis in ruminants : Brief Communication
- Social interactions among dairy cows during herd formation in spring
- Nutrition and embryo survival in the ewe
- Nutritional evaluation of kale (brassica oleracea)
- Dags - cost thereof
- Dressing percentages of lambs
- Comparative performance and energy metabolism of Jerseys and Friesians in early-mid lactation
- An investigation of sire by location interactions for faecal nematode egg counts in lambs
- Reproductive performance of ewes after grazing on G27 red clover, a low formononetin selection in cultivar Pawera
- Induction of parturition in dairy cows: a survey from spring 1996 in the Waikato region
- A participatory evaluation of out-of-season beef cattle finishing systems in the lower North Island
- Field scale evaluation of semen diluents for cervical AI in sheep: An attempt at technology transfer
- The use of diazepam as a pharmacological method for evaluating anxiety in sheep
- Types of cattle to feed in relation to the needs of markets
- The biochemical assessment of energy status in the grazing lactating ruminant
- Protein deficiency in growing lambs fed fresh ryegrass/clover pasture ad libitum
- Development of an effective goat embryo transfer regime
- The influence of sward height on the mechanics of grazing in steers and bulls
- A pilot evaluation of shedding sheep breeds compared with non-shedding breeds for susceptibility to nematodes and flystrike
- An attempt to create an 'anoestrous cow' model by restricting feed allowances in non-lactating cyclic cows
- The prevalence of Wobbly Possum disease in a bush/farmland environment
- Amino acid flow at the abomasum in twin-suckling ewes at pasture and the effect of a fishmeal supplement
- Non-invasive pregnancy determination in mares by enzymeimmunoassay of estrone sulphate concentrations in faeces
- Behavioural response of calves to amputation dehorning with or without local anaesthesia
- Adapting the MOLLY cow model to fit production data from New Zealand animals
- Ruminal fermentation characteristics from sheep offered a fresh grazing allocation of a ryegrass-based pasture either in the morning or in the afternoon
- Comparison of sire and dam breeds for the production of export lambs slaughtered at 3,4 1/2, and 6 months of age
- Reproductive efficiency in twenty town supply dairy herds
- Intake and growth performance of grazing lambs weaned at 4 and 12 weeks of age
- Influence of individual beef cuts on net carcass value
- Plasma hormone concentrations in pasture-fed Friesian cows treated with recombinantly-derived bovine somatotropin (bST)
- Internal parasites and lamb production - a role for plants containing condensed tannins?
- Residual effect of a four weeks grazing of oestrogenic red clover on reproductive performance of ewes in the following six weeks
- Comparison of breeding values between sheep ranked for resilience and resistance
- Factors influencing the interval to postpartum oestrus, conception date and empty rate in an intensively managed dairy herd
- The effect of stocking rate and breed on the period of postpartum anoestrum in grazing dairy cattle
- Effect of nitrogen fertiliser and supplements on pasture production and milksolids yield from dairy farm systems
- The Effect Of Grazing Management on Pasture And Animal Production In Late Autumn To Early Spring Period In A One Year Bull Beef Grazing System
- Monitoring oestrus and ovulation in brushtail possums
- Prevalence of mastitis for cows of different genotypes milked for two consecutive seasons
- Haemoglobin type and prolificacy in Booroola sheep
- Calf weaning and summer grazing strategies for efficient beef cow use on hill country
- Early lambing in Hawkes Bay: The effect of pasture allowance and protein supplementation at pasture on lamb growth rates
- The effect of endoparasitism on host nutrition - the implications for nutrient manipulation
- Reproductive performance and liveweight in Romney sheep selected for fleece weight and a control flock
- Manipulating ovaries' follicle wave patterns can partially synchronise returns to service and increases the pregnancy rate to second insemination
- The human factor: influence on livestock performance and welfare
- Modelling the impact of nutrition and genotype on lactation
- Comparison of suckling frequency of red and F1 wapiti-red calves reared on red hinds
- Operant conditioning as a technique for the solution of practical problems in animal husbandry
- Oestradiol concentrates the synchrony pattern in heifers treated with progesterone and prostaglandin F2a
- Effects of high potassium on in vitro fermentation pattern and C18 fatty acid metabolism of pasture grass
- Relative performance of meat breeds of sheep in New Zealand and overseas
- The time-course of milk yield and hormonal responses following growth hormone injections in hourly-milked goats
- Stability of ivermectin resistance in a field strain of Ostertagia spp
- Hormonal and ovarian responses in Romney ewe hoggets after synchronisation and superovulation treatment
- Some effects of using progesterone and oestradiol benzoate to stimulate oestrus and ovulation in dairy cows with anovulatory anoestrus
- Effects of feeding silage and extending lactation on the pastoral dairy system
- Effect of hormonal environment at emergence on persistence of ovarian follicles in cattle
- Grain supplementation of finishing beef cattle
- Fertility control of possums: The search for regulators of gonadal development and pituitary function
- Modelling the impact of milking frequency on lactation
- Free amino acids in the plasma of sheep fed supplementary protein, with particular reference to C-N-Methyl Lysine
- Measurement of ovulation rates by laparoscopy and -effects on reproductive performance
- Plan for improving the fecundity of a flock by indirect selection
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Measurement of sole thickness and distance to distal phalanx using a portable ultrasound machine
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Evaluating rumen fluid from sheep and cattle as inoculum in a newly developed automated <i>in vitro</i> rumen batch culture system
- Beef market specifications as they affect the producer
- Ovarian follicular development in Booroola ewe lambs and in highly fecund Booroola ewes
- Slimming diets for overfat lambs
- The responses of lactating dairy cows treated for Anoestrum to an Oestradiol capsule and an Oestradiol injection
- The future for the small dairy farm: plans, priorities and constraints
- Prediction of ruminal pH of dairy cows fed pasture
- Effect of an extended milking interval on recovery of milk yield and somatic cell count in dairy cows
- Minimal feeding of pregnant ewes
- Paired comparison analysis of palatabilities of twenty foods to dairy cows
- Reproductive performance of synchronised lactating dairy cows
- Effect of feeding turnips to dairy cows grazing limited amounts of pasture in mid to late lactation on milksolids production
- Use of pregnant dairy cows in product development of the intravaginal progesterone releasing (CIDR) device
- Supplemental fumarate has little effect on the detailed composition of bovine milk during early lactation
- Differential passage of rumen bacterial populations to the abomasum in sheep : Brief Communication
- Hormonal responses of lambs to trucking, handling and electric stunning
- Expected selection responses in lamb carcass composition and weight
- Optimal cow replacement on New Zealand seasonal supply dairy farms
- The effect of condensed tannin containing diets on whole body amino acid utilisation in Romney sheep: consequences for wool growth
- Establishment of resistance to Haemonchus contortus by Saanen kids
- Effect of selection for greasy fleece weight on the components of fleece weight in New Zealand Romney sheep
- The measurement of ovine follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) bioactivity utilizing a recombinant human FSH receptor bioassay
- Exercise effects on muscle glycogen concentration in beef cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Cathelicidin levels in milk from cows infected with a range of mastitis causing pathogens
- Methane output and rumen microbiota in dairy cows in response to long-term supplementation with linseed or rapeseed of grass silage- or pasture-based diets
- g-glutamyl transpeptidase and amino acid transport for milk protein production in vivo
- Viabilitv of frozen sheep embryos and semen imported from Europe
- Effect of spraying pasture with fungicide on growth rates of grazing lambs in autumn and spring
- A model for nematodiasis in New Zealand lambs: preliminary evaluation of strategies for nematode control
- Secretion of insulin-like growth factor I and II from blood into milk of lactating goats
- Effect of diluient typ and storage time on the pregnancy rate of ewes inseminated laparoscopically with chilled ram semen
- Dairy cow performance on limpograss (Hemarthria altissima)
- Productivity and Profitability of Twinning Beef Cows
- Has Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease worked in New Zealand?
- Performance of dairy cows grazing pastures with or without ergovaline and lolitrem B in Northland
- Effect of genotype and diet on milksolids production, body condition, and reproduction of cows milked continuously for 600 days
- Evaluation of different staining techniques for determination of membrane status in spermatozoa
- Genetic analysis of incidence of clinical mastitis in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Business and management problems between killing and final product sales
- Selection for fertility and response to PMSG in Romney ewes
- Physical breakdown of forages during rumination
- Effects of grazing pressure and competition on growth rate of Merino and Romney lambs
- Effects of rumensin anti-bloat capsules on plasma magnesium concentration and aspects of health and performance of pastured dairy cows
- Growth rates, wool production and health of Awassi and Texel crossbred ram lambs
- Performance by dairy cows grazing two perennial ryegrass cultivars
- Repeatability of reproduction rate components in Merino and Booroola x Merino ewes
- Nutritional "tapering" of farm livestock
- Comparison of cervical, transcervical and laparoscopic insemination of ewes with chilled stored and frozen ram semen
- Development of an experimental herd for investigating maternal contributions to fertility in recipient cattle
- Iodine deficiency in dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Arapawa: a novel New Zealand sheep breed of distinct origin
- Evaluation of speakers at the 1970 conference
- Improving forage nutritive value: some recent findings in forage conservation research in Europe
- Selection for productive traits on back fat depth in ewe lambs
- Some measurements of ruminated forage particles
- Seasonal pattern of ovulation in Merino Romney and Merino x Romney ewes
- Studies on the physiological basis of appetite depression in nematode infection in sheep
- Alternatives and supplements to pasture for growing lambs in winter
- Toxicity effects of 1080 on pregnant ewes
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Variation in feed conversion efficiency in Holstein-Friesian heifer calves
- Farm production gains following adoption of a hill country grazing management system
- The cause of reproductive loss in Gisborne-East Coast ewe flocks
- Effect of physical parameters on ram spermatozoall motility
- Intake and excretion of cadmium in sheep fed fresh herbage
- Genetic and phenotypic parameters associated with lean tissue growth in Dorset Down sheep
- Adapting cattle from pasture to brassica diets
- Evaluation of the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System for dairy cows fed pasture-based diets
- Changes in activities of plasma membrane bound sperm enzymes during semen processing
- Genetic and phenotypic relationships between flystrike indicator traits in a stud Merino flock
- The fertility of hill country ewes mating at different stages of the joining period
- The effect of stage of cycle, oestrous synchronisation method and large follicles on superovulatory response in Merino ewes
- Growth and carcass composition of angus steers raised together from birth and managed on two post-weaning nutritional treatments
- Mastitis in cows milked in an automated or conventional milking system in New Zealand
- Relationship of parturient behaviour to reproductive efficiency of Finn sheep
- Methods of ranking two-tooth rams for fat-free carcass growth rate
- Improving the efficiency of utilisation of pasture protein by sheep
- The effect of inorganic ions on ram sperm motility using Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA)
- The effect of pasture silage quality on milk production and liveweight gain of dairy cows
- Application of genomic information in a dairy cattle breeding scheme
- Beef feedlotting - A discussion paper
- Liveweight variation in Sheepplan flocks
- The effect of herbage yield and allowance on growth and carcass characteristics of weaned lambs
- Performance of crossbred cows in the Ruakura beef breed evaluation trial
- Effect of Fusarium culture and zearalenone on the reproductive performance of ewes
- Mating Romney ewes in November-December using ClDRs and pregnant mare serum gonadatrophin
- Facial eczema in Jersey cattle : heritability and correlation with production
- Growth, reproduction and fibre production of alpacas imported from Chile
- Effect of glucose level in culture medium on survival of in vitro cultured sheep embryos following transfer to recipient ewes
- The effects of endophyte ingestion on immune function in sheep
- Responses to selection for lean tissue growth in Dorset Down sheep
- The cost of producing feedlot beef in New Zealand
- Microbial protein synthesis and milk production in cows offered pasture diets differing in non-structural carbohydrate content
- Restricted postpartum feeding in grazing dairy heifers decreases milk production but does not lengthen oestrous interval
- Use of the teaser ram effect to advance lambing date in a farm systems study
- The relationship between carotenoid concentration and fat colour in beef carcasses
- Dairy farming, nitrogen losses and nitrate-sensitive areas
- Se, Cu, Zn and Fe metabolism of the young lamb
- Effect of oestrogen pre-treatment and duration of CIDR treatment on pattern of onset of oestrus in ewes
- Effect of allowance and the rate of adaptation of weaned calves to two brassica types
- Daily water intake by individual dairy cows on a pasture diet during mid lactation
- Is there an association between dam live weight and litter structure in a flock of grazing Perendale sheep?
- The popular press as an information medium and forum in animal production
- Behaviour at lambing of Romney ewes with exotic breed lambs: An interim report
- The relationships of growth, body shape, and body composition to the initiation of oestrous activity in different sheep breeds
- Effect of time of treatment and selection for out-of-season breeding on the superovulatory response in ewes
- Milk production from perennial ryegrass pastures containing different levels of endophyte
- Stage of lactation affects the milking performance and behaviour of cows in a pasture-based automated milking system
- The effect of pre-natal nutrition and type of birth and rearing of lambs on vigour, temperature and weight at birth, and weight and survival at weaning
- Four methods of harvesting cashmere from breeding does
- Changing the sex ratio at birth in lambs, calves and deer: Implications for productivity and genetic gain in breeding flocks and herds in New Zealand
- Seasonal patterns in production and quality of semen of rams from flocks selected for or against an early breeding season
- Pregnancy diagnosis of twinning beef cows
- Effect of herbage allowance on intake and utilization of pasture by cattle of different ages
- Effect of calving liveweight on milk yield and composition and daily dry matter intake in Friesian and Jersey heifers
- Cost-benefit analysis of ultrasound scanning in meat breed ram breeding flocks
- Lamb production from Merino-type ewes lambing in May and August in Victoria
- Occurrence and effects of sub-clinical hypocalcaemia in dairy cows
- Effects of month and PMSG on the interval from CIDR removal to ovulation in Romney and Merino ewes
- Effects of milking frequency and machine stripping on milk yields of Dorset ewes
- Induction of early post-calving ovulation and oestrus in suckled beef cows
- Effects of intensifying catchment land-use on the water quality of Lake Taupo
- Evaluation of a model that estimates insulin sensitivity in dairy cows
- Review of pork-quality studies in New Zealand
- Wool follicle traits of 1/2 Merino 1/2 Romney F1, and backcross 3/4 Merino 1/4 Romney gene mapping flocks
- Perinatal lamb losses on a group of commercial sheep farms in Central Canterbury
- Twinning in beef cows: preliminary results from embryo transfer studies
- Selection for or against facial eczema susceptibility in sheep
- Reduction in SCC and colostrum levels in milk after calving
- Comparison of weight-selected Romney hoggets for growth and ultrasonic fat and eye muscle dimensions
- Effects of ergovaline in endophyte-infected tall fescue on ewe fertility
- An economic evaluation of automatic milking systems for New Zealand dairy farms
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Genomic selection in the New Zealand Sheep industry using the Ovine SNP50 Beadchip
- Feed intake of grazing Friesian bulls
- The effects of various factors on the relationship between lamb growth rate and ewe milk production
- Breeding season of Romney and Poll Dorset ewes at different locations and the reproductive penalties of a June joining
- Effect of increasing Fe intake on the Fe and Cu content of tissues in grazing sheep
- Are yearling heifer mating and more productive beef cow breeds a worthwhile use of winter feed?
- review implicating a two compartment model for the processes of cell division and differentiation in the Wool Follicle
- Effect of Monensin capsules on blood metabolites near calving in twin-pregnant and single-pregnant beef cows
- A comparison of New Zealand and overseas Holstein Friesian heifers
- Effect of body covers on the liveweight gain of heifer replacement calves and yearlings, and the liveweight gain and milksolids production of dairy cows
- Performance of Romney and 1/4 Merino x 3/4 Romney sheep on Wanganui hill country
- Marker-assisted selection for meat quality and the ovine calpastatin gene
- Monensin controlled release capsules for improved production and mitigating methane in dairy cows fed pasture
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of lipid type, selenium and vitamin E on total tract nutrient digestibility in growing pigs
- Predicting the benefits of two stage genomic selection in young breeding rams
- Nutrition of weaner beef heifers; growth, puberty and yearling mating on hill country
- Combination treatments for synchronising oestrus in dairy heifers
- Increasing per cow milk solids production in a pasture-based dairy system by manipulating the diet: A review
- Muscle distribution in lamb progeny from several breeds
- Investigating wintering of beef steers in Northland
- Genetic parameters of lifetime wool production
- Milk production by cows grazing on Matua prairie grass (Bromus willdenowii Kunth) pastures maintained under different managements
- Discriminating among animals for improved rewards from traditional meat cuts
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Influence of whole maize feeding on the performance of broiler starters
- Improving the efficiency of pasture-based dairy production
- Seasonality of wool growth in Waikato and Southland of Romney sheep selected for high fleece weight
- Comparison of selected reproductive characteristics in Overseas and New Zealand Holstein-Friesian cows grazing pasture or fed a total mixed ration
- The influence of red deer genotype on conception pattern: Eastern vs Western subspecies.
- Raising lambs with intact tails to meet retailer welfare requirements: on farm feasibility and farmer perspectives
- Early lambing in Hawkes Bay: Use of the ram effect
- Lamb and hogget wool production from crosses of new and traditional sheep breeds
- An enzymeimmunoassay to measure oestrone sulphate in cows' milk
- Sources of variation in the ultimate pH of M. longissimus from prime steers
- The successful development of a PRID regime for oestrous synchronization in New Zealand beef cattle
- Growth Hormone (GH) secretory patterns in genetically lean and fat sheep
- Application of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for ovine carcass evaluation
- The effect of live yeast inclusion into mixed forage diets on milk yield, locomotion score, lameness and sole bruising in first lactation Holstein Friesian dairy cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Influence of conditioning temperature on pellet quality and the performance and nutrient utilisation of broilers fed maize- and sorghum-based diets
- Breeding for facial eczema resistance - A progress report
- Investigations of wool follicle morphology and cell proliferation in sheep with different levels of wool production
- Unravelling the causes of wool yellowing - Part I: Involvement of a water soluble component
- Preliminary survey of congenital and reproductive disorders in the New Zealand Miniature horse population
- Leaf protein concentrate quality: the effect of pasture species and reducing agent
- The measurement of serum immunoglobulin concentration to estimate lamb colostrum intake
- Effects of melatonin implants on mating performance of Romney and Poll Dorset rams
- Accounting for scale effects in genetic evaluation of dairy cattle
- Selection for beef quality traits
- Short-term grain feeding and its effect on carcass and meat quality
- A dynamical model of body composition in sheep
- Effects of diet on udder function and regression in Holstein-Friesian cattle
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Can ultrasound eye muscle area scanning be used in the New Zealand deer industry?
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effects of handling during calf rearing on behavioural and physiological responses of one year-old dairy heifers
- Nitrogen application to dairy pasture - the effect of rate and timing of spring nitrogen applications on the concentration of pasture nutrients
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION. Effect of age on methane emissions of red deer stags from weaning until one year of age grazing perennial ryegrass-based pasture
- The growth of lambs throughout the year in the Waikato
- Antibody-mediated enhancement of growth hormone activity: application to animal production
- The effect of cow age and management of winter liveweight gain, liveweight at calving and subsequent effects on dairy production in a seasonal supply herd
- Suppression of secondary wool follicle development by administration of placental lactogen to ovine foetuses
- Unravelling the causes of wool yellowing - Part II: Involvement of bacteria
- Rumen foam volume and stability in cattle selected for low or high bloat susceptibility
- Impact of breeding technologies on the genetic gain of a Merino flock
- Characterisation of muscle development in foetuses with and without presumptive double-muscled phenotypes
- Deer Improvement's breeding programme for venison production in red deer (Cervus elaphus)
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Effect of gender and prior exposure on the intake and preference of sheep for plantain post-weaning
- The effect of daily infection with 0. circumcincta larvae on the performance of pregnant and lactating sheep
- Responses in venison production to grazing pastures based upon perennial ryegrass or annual ryegrass and to immunisation against melatonin
- Mouse 3T3-L1 preadipocyte cells as a bioassay for serum-borne adipogenic factors
- The use of alternative therapies in racing thoroughbreds
- Interval from calving to first oestrus in autumn- and spring-calving herds in the same locality
- A farm level model to aid decisions regarding the feeding of concentrates to dairy cattle
- Comparison of the effect of simultaneous grazing of sheep or cattle with hinds during fawning
- A statistical appraisal of a sacred cow
- Lambing of Romney and Booroola cross hoggets with and without the F gene under different pasture allowances
- Wool growth and elementa l composition
- The Booroola (FecB) and Inverdale (FecXI) genes influence ovarian development in early foetal life
- Predicting the influence of high breeding index dairy sires on farm productivity
- MOET in ultrafine Merinos: An experimental evaluation
- The determination of sulphur in wool using near infrared reflectance spectrometry
- Experimental design for detection of quantitative trait loci for susceptibility to Facial Eczema in dairy cattle
- Feeding behaviour differs between dairy calves selected for divergent feed conversion efficiency
- Nutritional effects on carotenoid concentrations in the fat of beef cattle
- Farm of origin and finishing environment effects on beef quality attributes
- Wool growth of ewes during autumn on hill country
- The selection and breeding of Merino sheep for footrot resistance
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: The efficacy of a herbal drench treatment on internal parasites in lambs
- Mature Merino ewe performance in an ultrafine fibre diameter selected and a control flock
- Prevalence of bacterial infection and somatic cell count in early postpartum milking goats
- A simple HPLC method for measuring sulfate in ultra filtered sheep plasma
- The role of maternal effects on the efficiency of selection in beef cattle - a review
- Effects of nutrition and shearing during pregnancy on birth weight in highly fecund Boorools-cross sheep
- Response s to selectio n for wool staple strength in Romney sheep
- Effects of once daily milking in later lactation on cows with either low or high initial somatic cell counts
- Establishing a flock for gene mapping in wool traits
- A whole farm approach to feed planning and ration balancing using UDDER and CAMDAIRY
- Quantifying the importance of submission rate to artificial breeding on reproductive performance and profitability in dairy cattle herds
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Preference of lambs for novel pasture herbs
- The role of calsequestrin in muscle function
- Physical and physiological factors associated with twin- and triplet-born lamb heat production at 24 to 36 hours of age
- Postweaning growth and carcass leanness of lambs that differed in preweaning growth rate
- Integrating sheep and goats
- How effective are exogenous progestins in mimicking the function of the corpus luteum of female cattle?
- Mapping productive Traits in Livestock
- The relationships between beef ultimate pH, breed of cattle, muscle glycogen and enzyme levels and animal behaviour
- Prevalence and incidence of subclinical mastitis in dairy ewes and goats
- Successful semi-commercial artificial insemination of ewes
- Genetic analysis of meat quality in cattle
- Wool fibre diameter effects on yarn bulk independent of core bulk
- Brief communication: Condensed tannins for priming innate immunity
- Fibre production, shearing procedure and fleece characteristics of alpacas farmed in New Zealand
- Blood and urinary metabolites in cattle differing in susceptibility to bloat
- Discovery of the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- bST: An assessment of potential response for pasture based dairy farms in New Zealand
- A comparison of sites for monitoring body temperature of cattle and sheep
- An alternative hogget-two tooth shearing policy for summer-dry regions in New Zealand
- Selection for resistance to parasites in sheep
- Effects of CIDR withdrawal - insemination interval on conception rate in sheep AI
- Elucidation of the genetic nature of the Inverdale gene (FecX): Segregation with a twist
- Finding QTL without markers: experience with FINDGENE
- The assessment of natural means of controlling loose wool feltability and yarn shrinkage
- A review of recent findings on myostatin, a gene which controls muscle growth
- The pharmaceutical scientists' role in animal production: An historical and future look at the evolving area of controlled drug delivery in animal production
- Application of resource allocation optimisation to provide profitable options for dairy production systems
- Effect of sub-clinical uterine infection on plasma amino acid concentrations in early lactation dairy cows
- Milk production from pastures and pasture silage with different levels of endophyte infection
- Selenium, cobalt and copper supplementation of beef cattle in northern Southland
- Carcass and meat quality in possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)
- Management effects on seasonal fibre quality in Angora goats
- The variation in milk composition from individual B-lactoglobulin AA and BB phenotype cows
- Effect of increased somatic cell count on lactation yields of milk, fat and protein
- The effect of growth implants on cattle and sheep production
- Commercial performance of sheep carrying the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- A candidate gene approach to animal quality traits
- Effects of sire and body site on wool colour measurements in Romney x Perendale progeny
- Dairying in the south
- Effect of diluent and storage time on pregnancy rate in ewes after intra-uterine insemination
- Patterns of luteinising hormone release and embryo recovery following superovulation of cycling and anoestrous lactating dairy cows and in non-lactating cows
- Increased hepatic skatole exposure via rumen infusion increases skatole concentration in peripheral circulation and inter-muscular fat in sheep
- Living with the Inverdale gene (FecX) in a Romney flock
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Methods of delivering salt to cattle
- Sub-clinical uterine infection is associated with altered amino acid concentrations of follicular fluid in early lactation dairy cows
- Inheritance of loose wool bulk
- Concentration of melatonin in plasma of goats treated with Regulin
- Integrating pastoral venison and beef production
- The reduction of cell division rate in wool follicles by noradrenaline
- Anti goat IGF binding protein 3 antibodies from chicken egg yolk
- Seasonal effects on fetal growth in sheep
- Parasite Resistance: A genome scan approach to finding markers and genes
- Patterns of luteinising hormone release and embryo recovery following superovulation of cycling and anoestrous lactating dairy cows and in non-lactating cows
- Semen parameters of cloned bulls
- Industry use of the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- Prolactin receptors are highly expressed in wool follicle dermal papillae
- Computer software to increase the efficiency of the New Zealand sheep industry
- Cell proliferation during fibre growth initiation in ferret hair follicles
- The date of onset of puberty in ewe lambs as an indicator of the ability to breed out-of-season
- Improving the power of activity-based heat detection using additional automatically captured data
- Mycotoxins in New Zealand livestock production
- Mycotoxin poisoning in grazing livestock in New Zealand
- Fleece weight and wool characteristics of Merino ewes screened into a superfine selection flock
- Characterization and regulation of cationic amino acid transport in bovine mammary epithelial cells
- Ovarian characteristics in Inverdale ewes heterozygous (I+) and homozygous (II) for the Inverdale gene (FecX)
- Structural characteristics of the sheepbreeding industry and implications for genetic and reproductive technologies
- Translation of information between human and livestock gene maps using a deer interspecies hybrid mapping panel
- Factors affecting the sex ratio in dairy cattle in New Zealand
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Liveweight gain of grazing dairy calves in their first season subjected to a targeted selective anthelmintic treatment (TST) regime
- Positional cloning to identify genes
- A note on the use of number of permanent incisor teeth for determining age in sheep
- Precalving nutrition of heavy two year old Angus heifers weighing 415 kg at calving
- Oestrus, ovarian activity and embryo survival in ewes grazing high and low oestrogenic red clover
- Evidence for a diffusible factor influencing the switching of ovine and bovine milk gene expression leads to identification of factors potentially involved
- Growth factors and their role in wool growth: a review
- Endocrine control of milk protein production in well-fed dairy cows
- Effects of experimentally induced and treated streptococcus uberis mastitis early in the dry period on production in the subsequent lactation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Differences in follicle dynamics and the importance of luteal support in young and old cohorts of genetically identical dairy cows
- Preliminary results of selection for yearling or 18-month weight in Angus and Hereford cattle
- Hormone secretion patterns associated with increased ovulation rates or with ovarian dysfunction in Inverdale (FecX) ewes
- Use of bovine oocytes for the evaluation of ram semen
- Effect of condensed tannins from <i>Pinus radiata</i> bark on <i>Trichostrongylus colubriformis</i> larvae and adult worms in sheep
- Wool production and other characteristics of progeny from high performance Coopworths x Romney rams
- Contract Summary
- Review of zearalenone studies with sheep in New Zealand
- Productive and reproductive performance of Uruguayan Holstein and Uruguayan Holstein x New Zealand Holstein Friesian cows in a predominantly pasture-based system
- Effect of different ivermectin treatments on weight gains in beef weaners
- The effect of sward surface height on ingestive behaviour and intake of once-bred and non-pregnant heifers under continuous stocking management in early winter
- Relationships between loose wool bulk and follicle and fibre characteristics in yearling Perendale sheep
- The effects of restricted suckling and prepartum nutritional level on reproductive performance of primiparous crossbred beef cows
- Genetic markers in Inverdale (FecX) sheep
- A comparison of unbred and once-bred lamb production
- Effects of chromium picolinate on milk production and plasma insulin concentration in dairy cows
- The mechanical properties and lesion score of the sole and white line horn of front and hind claws of heifers prior to and during first lactation
- comparison between lamb drafters and the Phillips Fat Displacement Meter (PFDM) for predicting GR, hot carcass weight and class in live lambs
- Effect of wine lees on faecal egg count and lamb performance
- Inverdale as a model
- Effect of selection for early lambing on the testicular diameter of the male offspring
- Genetic parameters for resistance to facial eczema in dairy cattle
- Changes in the fur quality of caged brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) maintained in capitivity
- Effects of GnRH and of single versus multiple mating on the conception rate in alpacas
- Textile Evaluation of Texel Wools
- Dietary effects on gene expression of lipogenic enzymes in mammary gland of lactating mice
- Blood metabolic profiles in Uruguayan Holstein and Uruguayan Holstein x New Zealand Holstein-Friesian dairy cows
- Contract Summary
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION Teat spraying before calving and Streptococcus uberis clinical mastitis in heifers
- A bibliographic database on the biology of the sheep and goat
- Development of fibre and follicle characteristics related to wool bulk in Perendale sheep over the first year of life
- Seasonal variation of the fatty acid composition of milkfat from Friesian cows grazing pasture
- Legend session: Forage secondary compounds; past, present and future
- Development of a self-drafting system for oestrus ewes
- Variability in the susceptibility of wool to yellowing
- Managing the high performance beef cow herd - where to next?
- Sheep farming - beyond survival
- Effects of facial eczema on indole flavour compounds in dairy cows
- Production and physiological indicators to select cows suitable for extended lactations
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Influence of management techniques on the levels of mastitis in an organic dairy herd
- Seasonal fibre replacement and harvesting of fur in brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)
- New sheep - a catalyst for change
- Genetics of milk characteristics in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Within-flock ranking of loose wool bulk and fibre diameter to predict wool lustre
- Seasonal and between sheep differences in medullation of wool fibres
- The stock unit system - fair treatment for the breeding cow?
- Optimising of the challenge test for the susceptibility of wool to yellow discolouration
- Andrew James (Jim) Peterson: A tribute to a far-reaching scientific career in reproductive biology
- Effect on milk characteristics to supplementing cows on a restricted pasture allowance with different amounts of either turnips or sorghum
- Concentrations of pesticides in fleeces after pour-on and saturation dipping of Merino sheep
- Importing a sheep which offers more - the East Friesian
- Nutrition effects on fibre quaIity in Angora goats during spring
- Non-milk constituents in replacers for calf rearing
- Wool growth responses of Romney rams selected for high or low wool strength to nutrient supplementation in winter
- The complementary contribution of the beef cow to other livestock enterprises
- Sires for more valuable lambs
- Effect of wool length and season of shearing on the propensity of Romney, Coopworth and Perendale wool to yellow
- Effects of artificial insemination on the incidence of long return intervals
- Ewes for more dollars and flexibility
- Culture of ovine keratinocytes: an experimental model for wool growth
- Artificial insemination and synchronised natural breeding in Red deer
- Skin follicle development in South African (SA) and SA x New Zealand Angora goats
- Using genetic variation fbr greater profit
- Effect of lamb shearing on fine wool Merino hogget performance
- Effect of shearing once-yearly in January, once-yearly in July or twice-yearly in January and July on ewe performance
- Nutritional buffering: Do we make the best use of this phenomena in the breeding cow
- Supplementing mature cows with either cereal or lipid-based supplements had no effect on the post-partum anoestrous interval.
- Diet or strain: effects on postpartum anovulatory interval in dairy cows
- Mount Linton wools - now and beyond 2000
- Seasonal fibre growth patterns in three breeds of down goat
- Contract Summary
- The effect of shearing by cover comb or blades on the resistance of sheep to cold, windy and wet conditions
- Expression of keratin intermediate filament genes in wool follicles of wiltshire sheep
- Relative economic values of wool processing parameters
- Biological efficiency: How relevant is this concept to beef cows in a mixed livestock, seasonal pasture supply context?
- Relationships between adult liveweights and velvet weights in farmed Red deer
- A nutrient-signalling effect of grain feeding on postpartum anovulatory intervals in mature dairy cows
- Goat fibre response to melatonin given in spring in two consecutive years
- Hormone/metabolite levels in young rams as predictors of genetic merit for backfat depth and fleeceweight
- How relevant are current and emerging genetic technologies to the beef breeding cow?
- Variation in fleece characterisitics over the body of alpacas
- Melatonin for cashmere productiov
- Bulk and its structural basis: A review
- Liveweight and body condition change through pregnancy as a predictor of ewe litter size
- Variation of wool characteristics across the body of New Zealand Wiltshire sheep
- Alpaca management in the Central North Island of New Zealand
- Awassi lamb performance in New Zealand quarantine
- Reproductive senescence in aged red deer hinds
- Variation in yields of milk and milk solids in Holstein cows induced to calve prematurely
- The pastoral animal industries in the 21st century
- Current and emerging reproductive technologies for beef breeding cows
- Expression of the developmental regulators Msx1 and Msx2 in sheep skin varies with body region and wool growth pattern
- Effect of selecting Perendale hoggets for loose wool bulk on fleece characteristics and wool end-product performance
- Heritability of ultrasonic fat and muscle depths in Romney sheep
- Patterns of oestrus vary with different forms of synchrony
- Varying the form of oestradiol administration in anoestrous cows previously treated with progesterone
- To induce or not to induce?: Insights into important influences on dairy farmer decision making over induced calving
- Comparison of seasonal wool growth pattern and colour variation in fleece weight selected and control Romney flocks
- In vitro production of cattle embryos: Use in beef twinning programmes
- Variation of fibre characteristics important in processing, over the body of Australian brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
- Fleece production responses to Merino fine wool index selection
- Determining the number of calves in early pregnancy using real-time ultrasound imaging in beef cows induced to twin
- Investigation into the possibility of a major gene for fleece weight in screened sires
- Prospects for overcoming the physiological limits of dairy cow fertility
- Management and reproductive performance in herds that differed in their induction policies
- Preliminary observations on fresh and healed scars in deer skins
- Farm management research in New Zealand and its contribution to animal production
- Calving performance after embryo transfer-induced twinning - a summary of 30 studies
- Nutritional effects on fibre growth cycles and medullated fibre production in Angora goats
- Selection programmes for nematode resistant sheep in commercial flocks
- "Chevre meat" (goat meat) impressions and taste responses by Japanese
- Animal production in the future - a New Zealand response
- Testing glutathione-S-transferase for an association with facial eczema resistance in cattle
- Partial failure of multiple ovulations - a question of uterine efficiency or embryo quality?
- How reliable are sheep pedigrees?
- Risk perceptions and management responses to risk in pastoral farming in New Zealand
- Eating quality of commercial meat cuts from Australian lambs and sheep
- An evaluation of the New Zealand Wiltshire sheep as a model for studies on the physiology of fibre growth
- Effect of lipids on ram spermatozoal motility
- Puberty in Angus bulls from lines selected for heifers' age at puberty
- Seasonal changes in FSH and LH concentrations in ewes with gonadal hypoplasia: Evidence that steroid-independent mechanisms control seasonality in sheep?
- An evaluation of sheep meat genetics in New Zealand: The central progeny test (CPT)
- The New Zealand policy framework for sustainable agriculture and some implications for animal production research
- Ovarian follicle development in the red deer hind
- Evaluation of a practical weaning weight index for extensively-grazed beef cows
- Effects of fasting and an opioid antagonist on food intake in lambs infected with intestinal parasites
- Plasma prolactin in Romney sheep selected for hogget fleece weight
- Animal researchers and farmers must take heed of changing attitudes toward animal weIfare and the protection of the environment
- Think globally, act locally - Roles for science in enabling local actions for sustainable resource management behaviours
- The accumulation and clearance of equol in the blood of ewes grazed on either high or low formononetin red clovers
- Variation in the New Zealand ram breeding industry - results from the Poukawa progeny test
- What the market will need from milk production
- Susceptibility of the breeding ewe to parasitism
- Serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I during the oestrous cycle in ewes selected for lamb production
- Use of a grazing model to study management and risk
- Sensitivity analysis of weaner lamb production in New Zealand
- Multiple trait national genetic evaluation for cow longevity
- Predicting the onset of nutritional anoestrus in Brahman heifers
- Effects of two methods of fibre removal on the cold resistance of cashmere goats
- Animal industries of the 21st century : a meat industry viewpoint
- Metabolic changes in sheep divergently selected for plasma IGF-1
- Winter feeding of twinning beef cows
- The effect of colostrum intake on mortality and growth of Friesian bulls from birth to slaughter
- Test-day model for national genetic evaluation of milk production traits
- Wool growth in autumn and spring lambing ewes
- Farm management implications of a seasonal price differential for factory supply milk production
- Prediction in animal production models based on the allometric hypothesis when the size variable is random
- Characterisation of beef cattle breeding industry structure
- Artificial rearing of lambs - avoiding abomasal bloat.
- Animal industries into the 21st century: a wool perspective
- The genetic relationship between heifer and cow fertility
- A modelling study of once-bred heifer beef production
- Fat colour and meat colour in different breeds of steers in five consecutive years raised on pasture and slaughtered at 30 months of age
- Making use of technology diffusion
- Effects of post-pubertal castration and diet on growth rate and meat quality of bulls
- Effect of dairy cow breed on the metabolic adaptation to lactation
- Metabolic feed efficiency - opportunities for selection in dairy cows
- Animal industries in the 21st century - conclusions and challenges
- The use of commercial grading probes for classifying lamb carcasses
- The use of a marketing approach to improve the development of new technologies: A case study
- A comparison of two methods of castration of post-pubertal beef cattle and their effect on behaviour, growth and ultimate pH
- Wool sulphur concentration in fleeceweight-selected and control Romney hoggets
- Comparison of growth and carcass traits of ram lambs of three breeds from a flock screened for prolificacy and a Romney control flock
- Relationships between objective and subjective measurements of carcass muscularity
- Effect of cow genotype and feed allowance on milk composition
- Plasma carotenoid concentrations early in life can be used as a selection criterion for fat colour in heifers
- Variable animal performance and farm diversification
- Breed and heterosis effects for milk protein composition estimated in two stages of lactation in New Zealand dairy cows
- Reducing animal numbers in experiments
- Selection for lean and against fat in sheep
- Genetic parameters for in vivo body measurements in Suffolk sheep
- Impact of pre- and post-mortem factors on calpains and meat quality in lambs
- Use of simulation models in research
- Plasma insulin, growth hormone, and IGF-1 concentrations of Holstein-Friesian cows of divergent genotype offered varying levels of concentrate in early lactation
- BRIEF COMMUNICATION. Induced physical distension of rat mammary glands accelerates the onset of apoptosis and involution compared with milk accumulation alone
- Analysis of lamb schedules and relative economic values of lean and fat
- Adsorption of DNA to the sperm of rams, bulls and fallow bucks
- A comparison of carcass and meat characteristics and organ weights of castrate and entire male buffalo and cattle
- Regulation of milk protein synthesis in the bovine mammary gland: A proteomic approach
- Supplemental fumarate did not influence milksolids or methane production from dairy cows fed high quality pasture
- The Booroola F gene is excluded from close genetic linkage with either the haemoglobin B or follicle stimulating hormone B loci
- Best linear unbiased prediction for across-flock/year breeding values
- The evaluation of kiwifruit vinegar as a stock feed
- The on-farm impact of beef production technologies
- Effects of dietary herb supplements on sheepmeat flavour
- Supplementation with concentrates either pre- or post-partum does not affect milk production when diets are iso-energetic
- DNA profiling in sheep
- Responses to divergent selection for plasma insulin-like growth factor-l (IGF-1 ) in sheep
- Plasma concentrations of progesterone and luteinizing hormone during CIDR device insertion and the oestrous cycle of fallow deer (Dama dama)
- The role of systems research in animal science
- Does high-frequency immobilisation of sheep post-mortem affect meat quality?
- Responses to modern technology within the New Zealand sheep breeding industry
- Genetic parameters for New Zealand cashmere goats
- Studies of alternative selection policies for the New Zealand sport horse
- Physical performance / financial performance... Ne'er the twain shall meet?
- Effects of conjugated linoleic acid on bioenergetic and milk production parameters in grazing dairy cows offered ad libitum or restricted pasture
- Comparison of white clover, perennial ryegrass and the high tannin containing forage <i>Lotus pedunculatus</i> as finishing diets: Effect on sheepmeat quality
- Factors influencing the success of a large scale artificial insemination programme in sheep
- Selecting on pubertal traits to increase beef cow reproduction
- The use of fine and coarse bucks and G4 does for breeding for cashgora production
- Quantitative genetic selection for twinning rate in ewes
- Experiences in the application of embryo bisection in sheep MOET programmes
- Evaluation of the sulphur hexafluoride tracer technique for methane emission measurement in forage-fed sheep the agreement between the techniques
- Horse serum contains a novel insulin-like growth factor binding protein
- The effect of maternal nutrition during gestation on the reproductive success of female progeny as 2-tooths
- Examination of pH in lot fed beef for Japan
- Intraruminal chromium controlled release capsules for measuring herbage intake in ruminants - a review
- The effect of sodium bicarbonate on yield and composition of milk from grazing cows in early lactation
- Time and incidence of foetal mortality in alpacas
- What might be the consequences of adapting wild animals, such as wapiti, to a farm environment?
- A cell culture model to detect IGF receptor expression during the cell proliferation cycle
- The effect of nutrition during pregnancy on the behaviour of adolescent ewes and their lamb(s) within 12 hrs of birth.
- Animal production and the "greenhouse gases"
- Effects of the digestibility of hay on milk production by cows grazing on restricted pasture
- Measurement of relative levels of radioactivity in labelled tissue sections using image analysis
- Do ewes with twin and triplet lambs produce different yields of milk and does the grazing behaviour of their lambs differ?
- Screening herds for cows with a history of twin calving
- A computational model to predict lamb growth
- Ovine IGF Antisense RNAs?
- Milk production in Romney ewes lambing out of season
- Mating performance of Texel rams
- Factors affecting beef finishing efficiency on pasture
- Magnetic resonance imaging of live pigs to assess body composition
- Effects of stress and nutritional changes on the ranking of cattle on plasma caroten concentrations
- Comparison of herbage intakes estimated from in vitro or alkane-based digestibles
- Optimization of "herd-in-calf rate" with respect to the length of the post-partum anoestrous period in Angus cows suckling calves
- Fertility of anestrus ewes infused with gonadotropin releasing hormone or injected with pregnant mares' serum gonadotropin
- Genetic analysis in sheep using hypervariable DNA probes
- Short term intake of Freisian heifers grazing three pasture species
- The use of the somatic cell count of composite milk samples to predict the infection status of the udder in cows from New Zealand dairy herds
- Oestrus activity in Booroola Merino, New Zealand fine wool Merino and Poll Dorset ewes from October to February
- Effects of varying the progesterone content of CIDR intravaginal devices and multiple UDR treatments on plasma hormone concentrations and residual hormone content
- The effect of early exposure to facial eczema on ewe lifetime production
- The effect of pre-mating feeding level and age on liveweight change on reproductive performance of cashmere does
- Biochemical mechanisms related to overfatness in lambs
- Milk production and plasma prolactin levels in spring- and autumn- lambing ewes
- Use of high fleece weight Romney rams for out-of-season lambing
- Carcass composition of autumn-and spring-born lambs
- Feasibility of intensive artificial insemination programmes using natural oestrus subsequent to synchronisation with CIDR-G in Merino ewes
- Hogget fleece weight and fleece characteristics of Texel x Romney, Texel x Coopworth, Romney and Coopworth sheep
- New Zealand Society of Animal Production - The First 50 Years
- Methods of expressing feed requirements
- Presidential Address 2010 - What will it take to feed the world and what is the role of New Zealand animal production in this?