HoofPrint
Published by: Dairy Cattle Veterinarians of the New Zealand Veterinary AssociationElectronic ISSN: 1172-580X
The Newsletter of the Dairy Cattle Veterinarians of the NZVA helps to enable the profession to remain relevant, healthy and sustainable in a changing world.
Volume 42 ( 2024 )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 41 ( 2023 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 40 ( 2022 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 39 ( 2021 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 38 ( 2020 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 37 ( 2019 )
Issue 2 ( Dec )
Issue 1 ( Sep )
Volume 36 ( 2018 )
Issue 4 ( Jul )
Issue 3 ( Mar )
Issue 2 ( Dec )
Issue 1 ( Sep )
Volume 35 ( 2017 )
Issue 4 ( Jun )
Issue 3 ( Mar )
Issue 2 ( Dec )
Issue 1 ( Sep )
Volume 34 ( 2016 )
Issue 4 ( Jun )
Issue 3 ( Mar )
Issue 2 ( Dec )
Issue 1 ( Sep )
Volume 33 ( 2015 )
Issue 4 ( Jun )
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Articles
- HoofPrint, Volume 42, Number 1 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 41, Number 4 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 41, Number 3 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 41, Number 2 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 40, Number 4 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 40, Number 3 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 40, Number 2 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 40, Number 1 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 39, Number 4 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 39, Number 3 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 38, Number 2 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 39, Number 2 - Full issue
- HoofPrint - Volume 39 - Number 1 - Full Issue
- HoofPrint - Full Issue
- Editorial and President's Report
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- Presidents Report
- President Report
- Presidents Report
- Up Front
- Creating a safer environment for artificial breeding services in New Zealand
- NZVA Centenary - Memories from time on the DCV committee
- Regional roundup
- News and updates
- Regional round-up
- Letter to the editor
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- President's Report
- Regional round-up
- President's report
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- DCV Executive Report
- DCV Executive Report
- DCV Executive Report
- Regional roundup
- Veterinarians Toolkit for dealing with animal welfare issues on farms and lifestyle blocks
- Regional round-up
- DCV online survey results - member's views
- Up front: Regional roundup
- Up Front: NZVA Veterinary Manger (Large Animals); National Reproductive Strategy Group
- Veterinary Manager's (Large Animals) Report
- DCV Strategic Statement and Annual Plan
- Editorial
- President's Report
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Editorial
- President's Report
- President's Report
- Epizootic haemorrhagic disease continues rapid spread into France
- Up front
- What is the source of Staphylococcus aureus found in dry period mastitis cases?
- Regional round-up
- Up front
- Drench programs and toxicity in calves
- Regional round-up
- Concurrent use of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories
- DairyNZ: Research shows New Zealand the world's most emissions efficient
- Animal Welfare: Dairy cow health and welfare - are we there yet?
- Case Study: Osteomyelitis of the olecranon in an alpaca
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- Letter: Humeral fractures in New Zealand dairy heifers
- Executive Report - AGM
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- Introducing Mark Ward, CEO NZVA
- DCV Executive Report
- A Case of Dermatophilosis in a Friesian Calf
- DCV Executive Report
- Dairy Cattle veterinarians of the NZVA 2015 Accounts
- Regional roundup
- MPI report released on M. bovis spread in Wakanui
- Introducing our new Head of Veterinary Services, Large Animal
- Hornex Paste Update
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- Case study: Anaplasmosis in a Thai dairy cow
- Production efficiency for vets
- Mastitis in New Zealand dairy cows caused by Serratia species
- Regional roundup
- Celebrating our legends at the DCV dinner
- Stronger together: The power of biosecurity partnerships
- Animal welfare: The cull cow recumbency problem
- What is being on the DCV committee like? Do we even do anything?
- Wintering on crop: effects of weather and paddock conditions on dairy cow lying behaviour
- Fonterra: Recent changes to the co-operative difference
- Animal Welfare: Tail condition scoring guidelines
- Up Front: New DCT poster
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report: Business as usual...?
- Executive Report
- Executive Report
- Executive Report
- Summary from the World Buiatrics Congress 2016 Dublin, Ireland
- A Practical Tube Feeding Solution
- DCV Executive Report
- Minutes of the 33rd Annual General meeting of he Society of Dairy Cattle Veterinarians of the NZVA
- Planning requirements under the new Code of Welfare
- Minutes Summary from DCV Meeting held on May 10th 2022
- Proposed amendments to the Code of Welfare: Dairy Cattle
- Up Front: Vet tech course in limbo
- Book review: The Veterinary Book for Dairy Farmers 4th Edition by Roger W. Blowey
- Executive Report
- Pillars of a Competitive and Responsible Dairy System: Improved Longevity and Reproductive Performance
- Minutes of the 34th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Dairy Cattle Veterinarians of the NZVA
- Update on the MPIVS bobby calf and cull dairy cow programmes
- Improving outcomes for animals and people
- Working collaboratively to prevent down cows
- Managing Parasites in Cattle - Parasite advisory day coming this June
- Survey highlights evolving role of large animal veterinary technicians
- Conscious about calf care
- Case study: Cases of Dropped Hock Syndrome and low copper levels in Northland, New Zealand
- New Endemic Diseases Team at MPI
- Research: Clinical mastitis in mid-gestation dairy heifers
- Research: Can cow behaviour influence performance?
- Case Study: Multicentric lymphoma in two first-calved heifers
- DairyNZ Health Plan: Altering the perspective of animal care during winter
- Meaningful metrics for dairy cattle wellbeing
- Tail damage and tail scoring in NZ dairy cows - what is normal?
- Use of Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy for Bovine Mastits Treatment
- Malignant Meningeal Lymphoma in a Cow
- Reminder on the Regulations for Prescribing and Authorising of RVMs by Veterinarians
- Technicians Update
- Veterinary technicians play crucial role in Mycoplasma bovis programme
- New tool to help dairy cattle veterinarians advise famers on M.bovis risk
- Tilting Cows - Good for the Cow and Good for the Vet!?
- Large atypical bovine fibropapilloma on the udder of a dairy cow
- Introducing MPI's new Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Team
- How are farmers approaching Facial Eczema management in 2022?
- What's your diagnosis? Calf with hair falling out
- Up for a challenge? Value of ANZCVS membership exams for clinical dairy practice
- Animal welfare: Walking the tightrope - Recurring dilemmas of transport certificates
- Salmonella study launched this spring - we need your help
- Research: 100 cow shadecloth cover trial, 2019
- Dry-off 2020: on the right track
- New fertility focus report - helping farmers achieve their targets
- The Co-operative Difference
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- Inhibitory substance (IS) grades
- So, how's your head?
- They Never Had it so Good
- Off-Paddock Welfare and Husbandry Views Formalised
- Injection Site Lesions: The Problem With Needles in the Rump
- Prescriptions and Approved Sellers
- Antibiotics and Dry Cow therapy. Whats The Problem?
- Wellbeing: Winter wellbeing
- High Quality NZ Entries in Global Ruminant Wellbeing Awards
- A refresher on the pharmacology of NSAIDs
- Got milk? Got microbes! How DNA sequencing can reveal the secrets of dairy herd health
- An outbreak of Bovine Adenovirus in yearling dairy heifers
- The clinical pathology of zinc toxicity
- Future of dairy welfare assurance in New Zealand
- Disease update: What's cracking? What we know so far about spontaneous humeral fractures in dairy heifers in New Zealand
- Salmonella myth busting
- Fonterra's new milk quality framework
- Summer Outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Manawatu
- Trace elements and dairy cows: looking at some common myths
- Antibiotic Classification: Should you always go on a green light?
- Ongoing association between granular magnesium oxide and salmonella
- Case study: Outbreak of salmonellosis in a calf rearing unit in South Taranaki
- Analysis of caesarean section outcomes in practice over a calving season
- A new method of administering local anaesthesia for calf disbudding
- Welfare: Disbudding changes: impact on lay disbudders
- Potential benefit from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in severely lame dairy cows
- Animal Welfare and the Production Animal Veterinarian
- A Case of Phlegmonous Cellulitis in a New Zealand Dairy Heifer
- Managing the 'Transition from Pasture to Housing'
- There Really is No Such Thing as 'Stone Bruising'
- Acute Hypophosphatemia in a Manawatu dairy herd
- Preliminary Findings from the Nationwide Survey of Dairy Cattle in NZ Investigating Leptospirosis Vaccination Practices and Efficacy
- Humeral Fractures in NewZealand Dairy Heifers. A Request for Help.
- Haemorrhagic bowel syndrome
- AMR team update
- How many samples should I take? A quick guide for the practitioner
- Cow Monitoring Collars 101
- A Case of Encephalitic Listeriosis in a New Zealand Dairy Cow
- Dairy-farm fever hasn't gone away: udates on leptospirosis
- IBR outbreak in first calvers 2021
- A broken-hearted cow: A case of bacterial endocarditis
- Environment: Understanding carbon footprinting
- Case Study: Fodder beet toxicity in cattle
- Case Study: Potential misdiagnosis in a case of neonatal calf diarrhoea
- Reproduction: the results for the 2018 reproduction statistics are in!
- A Compendium of Cattle Medicine - historical reflection
- Mycoplasma bovis found in New Zealand
- Minimising Losses of Non-cycling Cow Intervention Sales in Tough Economic Conditions
- FIELD EFFICACY STUDY: Cyclase as Diluent for Novormon eCG
- Clinical Endometritis of Dairy Cattle: Importance of Diagnosis and Treatment
- News: InCalf foundation training and Healthy hoof training from the experts
- Antibiotic resistance focus for trans-Tasman dairy conference
- Moving away from blanket dry cow therapy: A veterinary practice's experience
- Case of probable skin form of Malignant Catarrhal fever in a dairy cow
- Highlights from MSD Animal Health Technical Symposium 2022
- Veterinary business: Build a robust business model
- Cerebellar hypoplasia in calves and bovine viral diarrhoea
- The DairyNZ Healthy Hoof App - for vets?
- Case study: Bibersteinia Trehalosi (aka Pasturella haemolytica) as an unusual cause of septicaemia and septic polyarthritis in neonatal calves, in the Kaipara District
- An unusually large foreign body in a dairy heifer
- Comparison of Commercial Oral Electrolyte Solutions for Scouring Calves
- Idiopathic Multisystemic Granulomatous and Haemorrhagic Disease in Dairy Cattle
- Progressive Upper Respiratory Obsruction Caused by a Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumour in a Heifer
- The Retro Forelimb Calving Technique
- Milk quality snapshot for 22/23
- Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis - Frequently Asked Questions
- DairyNZ: Reproduction results reach high in 2019
- Salmonella Brandenburg on Canterbury dairy farms
- Administering dry cow or teat sealant? Informed consent forms are required this season
- A practical review of NSAID use for dairy cattle lameness treatment
- Intravenous fluid therapy for calves just got a whole lot easier
- Loss of livestock exports will impact vets and rural communities
- Calf wellbeing enters The Co-operative Difference
- ZincCheck - a new tool for facial eczema management
- Treatment of Clinical Lame Cows - Hold Them Up!!
- Greenhouse gas emissions of New Zealand dairy farms
- Reversal of xylazine - what are the options?
- Udder disease: Prototheca mastitis - the emergence continues
- DairyNZ: Every tail tells a story
- Case study: Colostrum uptake in 90 dairy calves
- Bald Calves - Anagen Defluxion in a Mob of Calves
- The miraculous power of cattle to heal
- Non-parturient hypocalcaemia in an organic dairy herd
- Polydactyly in an embryo transfer calf
- Review of Anaesthetic Techniques in Cattle - Nerve Blocks and Beyond
- Review of Anaesthetic Techniques in Cattle - Nerve Blocks and Beyond
- Thiamine deficiency in an Irish heifer calf
- Animal Welfare Update
- CATTLE PRACTICE VOLUME 23 PART 2Training Foot Trimming: 90mm is an appropriate claw length for the modern Holstein
- Taranaki Bovine Digital Dermatitis Study
- A Very Large BVD Outbreak in Yearling Dairy Heifers
- How to take skin biopsies in cattle
- Research Study: Does calf age effect bovine viral diarrhoea virus test outcomes?
- Are you using an "empty" measure
- Case study: A Caesarean section in a Thai cow with a vaginal prolapse
- Adverse drug events
- Dry off management: New online training options for vets and techs
- Diagnostic test results: Should you believe them?
- What's new for Fonterra in the 23/24 season?
- Wellbeing plans - beyond compliance
- Laboratory news: Does calf age affect bovine viral diarrhoea virus test outcomes?
- Student case report: Zinc toxicity in a Waikato dairy herd
- Broken tails: myths and misunderstandings
- Laboratory news: Emergence of Salmonella Bovismorbificans in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Animal Welfare: Short-term expected outcomes for animal welfare
- Student case study: An outbreak of salmonellosis in a dairy herd, Taranaki, New Zealand
- Automated feeding behaviour as an early disease detection tool for dairy calves?
- Cattle lameness - the significance of bony exostoses
- Pre-slaughter Morbidity and Mortality in Bobby Calves at an Export Meat Premises
- CASE STUDY Ketomax and Calves
- Grass Safari 2016
- Abstract: Parasite Management Extension. Challenging Traditional Practice Through Adoption of a Systems Approach
- ZincCheck update
- NSAIDs in NZ Cattle Practice: A Pharmacological Review
- What's Your Diagnosis?
- Dry-off management: Insights from the recent survey on ITS use in practice
- The unlucky charm - a complicated case of shamrock and zinc toxicity
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- A novel Biomarker in milk to detect liver damage at a herd level
- MPI's new bovine disease surveillance report
- Attaching and effacing Escherichia coli in calves
- Bovine Disease: BVD - effective testing for control or eradication
- Animal Welfare: Ready for the road?
- Indispensable cattle book back in print
- Equine chorionic gonadotrophin: balancing cow reproductive performance and horse welfare
- Advers drug interaction highlighted
- An outbreak of clinical Salmonellosis in dairy cows
- Protothecal Mastitis
- Testing for Failure of Passive Transfer: Are all tests made equal?
- NZVA position on Bobby Calf Welfare
- Twelve months of science - NZVJ bovine articles for 2022
- Transporting lame animals and veterinary transport certificates
- Serratia sp. mastitis in New Zealand
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance Reports: Biosecurity New Zealand
- Surveillance Reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance: MPI's Animal Health Surveillance Programme; how you can help
- Animal Welfare: New animal welfare regulations delayed
- Case study: Investigation of neonatal calf diarrhoea in a vaccinated dairy herd
- Case study: Polioencephalomalacia in a group of dairy calves
- Woody the cow
- An end to tail shortening
- NZVA AMR Guidelines - Dairy
- CASE STUDY 2 Ketomax 15% and Calves at Disbudding
- Calf Ulcerative Stomatitis - A Request For Help From Practitioners
- Introducing co-opted DCV Executive Members. Chris Morley
- Neil MacPherson New DCV Resource Manager
- DCV executive: Salmonella outbreaks in dairy herds
- The lifecycle of the bovine cryptosporidium
- AGRIHEALTH COMMENT
- In case you missed it - NZVJ articles for 2021
- Surveillance Reports - Biosecurity New Zealand
- Laboratory news: The source of Salmonella in outbreaks of salmonellosis in New Zealand
- Accredited mastitis investigators
- Final Word: Drought Recovery Advice Fund - veterinary advice included
- Cow-calf separation; is a different model of dairying on the horizon?
- Mycobacterium bovis in a beef herd
- Broken tails: an under-appreciated welfare problem?
- Lepto: A Changing Scene
- Summary of recent Theileria orientalis (Ikeda) research conducted at Massey University
- Ruminal Acidosis on a Waikato Dairy Farm
- Overcoming Rotavirus Scours on a Taranaki Dairy Farm
- Do High Spore Counts Overwhelm Zinc?
- What's Your Diagnosis?
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- Comparing reproductive performance
- News: the Co-operative difference and animal welfare plans
- Knowing and addressing the key fertility, production and health issues of your clients' dairy herds
- Case study: How to preserve colostrum with potassium sorbate
- Theileria in Takaka
- Biosecurity New Zealand Surveillance Reports
- A calf urethrostomy to relieve a blocked urethra
- Zinc toxicity in dairy heifer calves associated with intra-ruminal bolus administration
- NZVA to Pilot WelFarm
- Adenovirus: The Underrated Pathogen
- Parasite Advisory Day
- Personal Protective Equipment - The Forgotten Help?
- NSAID Use on NZ Dairy Farms
- Case study: Serratia mastitis outbreak in a small South Island dairy herd
- Animal care pub quizzes
- High digital claw amputation - the method and a discussion
- Synchrony options for dairy heifers
- Dairy Farming in Kenya
- Calving a hydatidiform mole (or how to confuse a dairy veterinarian)
- Early vs late metrichecking - over diagnosis or missed opportunity?
- Use of Parenteral AntibiIndicators of bedding quality and cow welfare in hybrid off-paddock facilitiestic Therapy for Bovine Mastits Treatment