HoofPrint
Published by: Dairy Cattle Veterinarians Branch 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.
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Volume 40 ( 2022 )
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Volume 39 ( 2021 )
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Volume 38 ( 2020 )
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Volume 37 ( 2019 )
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Volume 36 ( 2018 )
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Volume 35 ( 2017 )
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- HoofPrint - Full Issue
- HoofPrint - Volume 39 - Number 1 - Full Issue
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- HoofPrint, Volume 43, Number 1 - Full issue
- HoofPrint, Volume 43, Number 2 - Full issue
- Editorial and President's Report
- Editorial: Welcome to the June issue of HoofPrint
- DCV Roadshow and drying off decisions coming this February
- Editorial
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- Editorial and President's Report
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- Editorial and President's Report
- President Report
- President's Report
- Presidents Report
- Presidents Report
- Creating a safer environment for artificial breeding services in New Zealand
- Dairy Stream NZVA Conference - Tools for Dairy Vets to help Farmers
- DCV Executive Report
- DCV Executive Report
- DCV Executive Report
- Letter to the editor
- News and updates
- NZVA Centenary - Memories from time on the DCV committee
- President's Report
- President's report
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- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Regional roundup
- Up Front
- Yellow bristle grass as a cause of ulcerative tongue leasions in dairy cows
- DCV online survey results - member's views
- DCV Strategic Statement and Annual Plan
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Editorial
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Regional roundup
- Up Front: NZVA Veterinary Manger (Large Animals); National Reproductive Strategy Group
- Up front: Regional roundup
- Veterinarians Toolkit for dealing with animal welfare issues on farms and lifestyle blocks
- Veterinary Manager's (Large Animals) Report
- A Case of Dermatophilosis in a Friesian Calf
- AMR team update - November 2024
- Animal Welfare: Dairy cow health and welfare - are we there yet?
- Case Study: Osteomyelitis of the olecranon in an alpaca
- Concurrent use of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories
- Dairy Cattle veterinarians of the NZVA 2015 Accounts
- DairyNZ: Research shows New Zealand the world's most emissions efficient
- DCV Executive Report
- DCV Executive Report
- Drench programs and toxicity in calves
- Epizootic haemorrhagic disease continues rapid spread into France
- Executive Report - AGM
- Increase in bovine Salmonella cases
- Introducing Mark Ward, CEO NZVA
- Ischaemic teat necrosis in dairy heifers
- Letter: Humeral fractures in New Zealand dairy heifers
- Norm Williamson - Celebrating a legend of the profession
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- Regional round-up
- Regional round-up
- Up front
- Up front
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- What is the source of Staphylococcus aureus found in dry period mastitis cases?
- Case study: Anaplasmosis in a Thai dairy cow
- Hornex Paste Update
- Introducing our new Head of Veterinary Services, Large Animal
- MPI report released on M. bovis spread in Wakanui
- Regional round-up
- Regional roundup
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- A Practical Tube Feeding Solution
- Animal Welfare: Tail condition scoring guidelines
- Animal welfare: The cull cow recumbency problem
- Celebrating our legends at the DCV dinner
- DCV Executive Report
- Executive Report
- Executive Report
- Executive Report
- Fonterra: Recent changes to the co-operative difference
- LAVT education: The evolution of Large Animal Veterinary Technician education in New Zealand
- Mastitis in New Zealand dairy cows caused by Serratia species
- Minutes of the 33rd Annual General meeting of he Society of Dairy Cattle Veterinarians of the NZVA
- Production efficiency for vets
- Regional roundup
- Stronger together: The power of biosecurity partnerships
- Summary from the World Buiatrics Congress 2016 Dublin, Ireland
- Up Front: New DCT poster
- Update from MPI Animal Health (Endemic Diseases) Team
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report: Business as usual...?
- 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
- Wormwise: New web resource for farmers and veterinarians
- Be part of the future of dairy farming: Attend the Precision Dairy Farming Conference!
- Book review: The Veterinary Book for Dairy Farmers 4th Edition by Roger W. Blowey
- Executive Report
- Minutes of the 34th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Dairy Cattle Veterinarians of the NZVA
- Minutes Summary from DCV Meeting held on May 10th 2022
- Pillars of a Competitive and Responsible Dairy System: Improved Longevity and Reproductive Performance
- Planning requirements under the new Code of Welfare
- Proposed amendments to the Code of Welfare: Dairy Cattle
- Up Front: Vet tech course in limbo
- Case study: Cases of Dropped Hock Syndrome and low copper levels in Northland, New Zealand
- Case Study: Multicentric lymphoma in two first-calved heifers
- Conscious about calf care
- DairyNZ Health Plan: Altering the perspective of animal care during winter
- From Idea to Innovation: The Journey of SoleTech Dehorner
- Improving outcomes for animals and people
- Johne's Checkpoint: Supporting farmers to manage their herd's risk during calving season
- Malignant Meningeal Lymphoma in a Cow
- Managing Parasites in Cattle - Parasite advisory day coming this June
- Meaningful metrics for dairy cattle wellbeing
- New Endemic Diseases Team at MPI
- Reminder on the Regulations for Prescribing and Authorising of RVMs by Veterinarians
- Research: Can cow behaviour influence performance?
- Research: Clinical mastitis in mid-gestation dairy heifers
- Survey highlights evolving role of large animal veterinary technicians
- Tail damage and tail scoring in NZ dairy cows - what is normal?
- Technicians Update
- Update on the MPIVS bobby calf and cull dairy cow programmes
- Use of Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy for Bovine Mastits Treatment
- Working collaboratively to prevent down cows
- New tool to help dairy cattle veterinarians advise famers on M.bovis risk
- Tilting Cows - Good for the Cow and Good for the Vet!?
- Veterinary technicians play crucial role in Mycoplasma bovis programme
- World AMR Awareness Week - 18-24 November
- Animal welfare: Walking the tightrope - Recurring dilemmas of transport certificates
- Antibiotics and Dry Cow therapy. Whats The Problem?
- Avian influenza affects cattle in the US - what does this mean for New Zealand?
- Case report: Metatarsal osseous sequestrum in a four-year-old dairy cow
- Dry-off 2020: on the right track
- How are farmers approaching Facial Eczema management in 2022?
- Inhibitory substance (IS) grades
- Injection Site Lesions: The Problem With Needles in the Rump
- Introducing MPI's new Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Team
- Key messages for Veterinary certification of dairy cattle
- Large atypical bovine fibropapilloma on the udder of a dairy cow
- New fertility focus report - helping farmers achieve their targets
- Off-Paddock Welfare and Husbandry Views Formalised
- Prescriptions and Approved Sellers
- Research: 100 cow shadecloth cover trial, 2019
- Salmonella study launched this spring - we need your help
- So, how's your head?
- The Co-operative Difference
- The Impact of Mastitis on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity in Dairy Cattle
- They Never Had it so Good
- Up for a challenge? Value of ANZCVS membership exams for clinical dairy practice
- Veterinary Manager (Large Animal) Report
- What's your diagnosis? Calf with hair falling out
- High Quality NZ Entries in Global Ruminant Wellbeing Awards
- Wellbeing: Winter wellbeing
- A Case of Phlegmonous Cellulitis in a New Zealand Dairy Heifer
- A new method of administering local anaesthesia for calf disbudding
- A refresher on the pharmacology of NSAIDs
- An outbreak of Bovine Adenovirus in yearling dairy heifers
- Analysis of caesarean section outcomes in practice over a calving season
- Animal Welfare and the Production Animal Veterinarian
- Antibiotic Classification: Should you always go on a green light?
- Case study: Outbreak of salmonellosis in a calf rearing unit in South Taranaki
- Disease update: What's cracking? What we know so far about spontaneous humeral fractures in dairy heifers in New Zealand
- Fonterra's new milk quality framework
- Future of dairy welfare assurance in New Zealand
- Got milk? Got microbes! How DNA sequencing can reveal the secrets of dairy herd health
- How are NZ calves being reared?
- Managing the 'Transition from Pasture to Housing'
- Ongoing association between granular magnesium oxide and salmonella
- Potential benefit from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in severely lame dairy cows
- Salmonella myth busting
- Summer Outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Manawatu
- The clinical pathology of zinc toxicity
- There Really is No Such Thing as 'Stone Bruising'
- Trace elements and dairy cows: looking at some common myths
- Welfare: Disbudding changes: impact on lay disbudders
- Acute Hypophosphatemia in a Manawatu dairy herd
- Humeral Fractures in NewZealand Dairy Heifers. A Request for Help.
- Preliminary Findings from the Nationwide Survey of Dairy Cattle in NZ Investigating Leptospirosis Vaccination Practices and Efficacy
- TSE Surveillance: Help protect New Zealand
- A broken-hearted cow: A case of bacterial endocarditis
- A Case of Encephalitic Listeriosis in a New Zealand Dairy Cow
- A Compendium of Cattle Medicine - historical reflection
- AMR team update
- Biosecurity practices for control of salmonellosis on New Zealand dairy farms
- Case Study: Fodder beet toxicity in cattle
- Case Study: Potential misdiagnosis in a case of neonatal calf diarrhoea
- Clinical Endometritis of Dairy Cattle: Importance of Diagnosis and Treatment
- Cow Monitoring Collars 101
- Dairy-farm fever hasn't gone away: udates on leptospirosis
- Environment: Understanding carbon footprinting
- FIELD EFFICACY STUDY: Cyclase as Diluent for Novormon eCG
- Genetic cause of Jersey neuropathy with splayed limbs identified
- Haemorrhagic bowel syndrome
- How many samples should I take? A quick guide for the practitioner
- IBR outbreak in first calvers 2021
- Minimising Losses of Non-cycling Cow Intervention Sales in Tough Economic Conditions
- Mycoplasma bovis found in New Zealand
- Reproduction: the results for the 2018 reproduction statistics are in!
- Treatment of Serratia spp. mastitis
- Antibiotic resistance focus for trans-Tasman dairy conference
- News: InCalf foundation training and Healthy hoof training from the experts
- An unusually large foreign body in a dairy heifer
- Case of probable skin form of Malignant Catarrhal fever in a dairy cow
- Case study: Bibersteinia Trehalosi (aka Pasturella haemolytica) as an unusual cause of septicaemia and septic polyarthritis in neonatal calves, in the Kaipara District
- Cerebellar hypoplasia in calves and bovine viral diarrhoea
- Comparison of Commercial Oral Electrolyte Solutions for Scouring Calves
- Highlights from MSD Animal Health Technical Symposium 2022
- Idiopathic Multisystemic Granulomatous and Haemorrhagic Disease in Dairy Cattle
- Moving away from blanket dry cow therapy: A veterinary practice's experience
- Photosensitisation in calves grazing pasture infested with Alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) in Northland
- Progressive Upper Respiratory Obsruction Caused by a Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumour in a Heifer
- Round-up from the Parasite Advisory Day - think AIRMED!
- The DairyNZ Healthy Hoof App - for vets?
- The Retro Forelimb Calving Technique
- The role of wearable cattle monitoring technology in the early diagnosis and treatment of a right displaced abomasum in a dairy heifer
- Veterinary business: Build a robust business model
- DairyNZ: Reproduction results reach high in 2019
- Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis - Frequently Asked Questions
- Milk quality snapshot for 22/23
- Salmonella Brandenburg on Canterbury dairy farms
- A practical review of NSAID use for dairy cattle lameness treatment
- A Very Large BVD Outbreak in Yearling Dairy Heifers
- Administering dry cow or teat sealant? Informed consent forms are required this season
- Animal Welfare Update
- Bald Calves - Anagen Defluxion in a Mob of Calves
- Calf wellbeing enters The Co-operative Difference
- Case study: Colostrum uptake in 90 dairy calves
- CATTLE PRACTICE VOLUME 23 PART 2Training Foot Trimming: 90mm is an appropriate claw length for the modern Holstein
- DairyNZ: Every tail tells a story
- Greenhouse gas emissions of New Zealand dairy farms
- Intravenous fluid therapy for calves just got a whole lot easier
- Loss of livestock exports will impact vets and rural communities
- Non-parturient hypocalcaemia in an organic dairy herd
- Polydactyly in an embryo transfer calf
- Recent investigations into parasite control in NZ cattle
- Reversal of xylazine - what are the options?
- Review of Anaesthetic Techniques in Cattle - Nerve Blocks and Beyond
- Review of Anaesthetic Techniques in Cattle - Nerve Blocks and Beyond
- Taranaki Bovine Digital Dermatitis Study
- The miraculous power of cattle to heal
- Thiamine deficiency in an Irish heifer calf
- Treatment of Clinical Lame Cows - Hold Them Up!!
- Udder disease: Prototheca mastitis - the emergence continues
- What is the impact of blanket compared with selective dry cow therapy?
- ZincCheck - a new tool for facial eczema management
- Adverse drug events
- Are you using an "empty" measure
- Case study: A Caesarean section in a Thai cow with a vaginal prolapse
- How to take skin biopsies in cattle
- Research Study: Does calf age effect bovine viral diarrhoea virus test outcomes?
- Abstract: Parasite Management Extension. Challenging Traditional Practice Through Adoption of a Systems Approach
- Animal Welfare: Short-term expected outcomes for animal welfare
- Automated feeding behaviour as an early disease detection tool for dairy calves?
- Broken tails: myths and misunderstandings
- CASE STUDY Ketomax and Calves
- Cattle lameness - the significance of bony exostoses
- Diagnostic test results: Should you believe them?
- Dry off management: New online training options for vets and techs
- Grass Safari 2016
- Laboratory news: Does calf age affect bovine viral diarrhoea virus test outcomes?
- Laboratory news: Emergence of Salmonella Bovismorbificans in New Zealand dairy cattle
- Managing cattle triple drench failure in Northland
- Pre-slaughter Morbidity and Mortality in Bobby Calves at an Export Meat Premises
- Risk factors for lameness in New Zealand
- Student case report: Zinc toxicity in a Waikato dairy herd
- Student case study: An outbreak of salmonellosis in a dairy herd, Taranaki, New Zealand
- Understanding Hyperketonaemia in grazing dairy cows
- Wellbeing plans - beyond compliance
- What's new for Fonterra in the 23/24 season?
- NSAIDs in NZ Cattle Practice: A Pharmacological Review
- What's Your Diagnosis?
- ZincCheck update
- A novel Biomarker in milk to detect liver damage at a herd level
- Advers drug interaction highlighted
- An outbreak of clinical Salmonellosis in dairy cows
- Animal Welfare: Ready for the road?
- Attaching and effacing Escherichia coli in calves
- Awanui FECRTs performed on cattle 2023-2024
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- Bovine Disease: BVD - effective testing for control or eradication
- Dry-off management: Insights from the recent survey on ITS use in practice
- Equine chorionic gonadotrophin: balancing cow reproductive performance and horse welfare
- Indispensable cattle book back in print
- MPI's new bovine disease surveillance report
- NZVA position on Bobby Calf Welfare
- Protothecal Mastitis
- Salmonella Bovismorbificans: Epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility in New Zealand cattle
- Testing for Failure of Passive Transfer: Are all tests made equal?
- The unlucky charm - a complicated case of shamrock and zinc toxicity
- Trace element supplementation in dairy cattle: Selling or science?
- Transporting lame animals and veterinary transport certificates
- Twelve months of science - NZVJ bovine articles for 2022
- An end to tail shortening
- Animal Welfare: New animal welfare regulations delayed
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- Biosecurity New Zealand Surveillance Reports
- Calf Ulcerative Stomatitis - A Request For Help From Practitioners
- CASE STUDY 2 Ketomax 15% and Calves at Disbudding
- Case study: Investigation of neonatal calf diarrhoea in a vaccinated dairy herd
- Case study: Polioencephalomalacia in a group of dairy calves
- Introducing co-opted DCV Executive Members. Chris Morley
- Neil MacPherson New DCV Resource Manager
- NZVA AMR Guidelines - Dairy
- Serratia sp. mastitis in New Zealand
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance Reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance reports
- Surveillance Reports: Biosecurity New Zealand
- Surveillance: MPI's Animal Health Surveillance Programme; how you can help
- Woody the cow
- AGRIHEALTH COMMENT
- DCV executive: Salmonella outbreaks in dairy herds
- The lifecycle of the bovine cryptosporidium
- Accredited mastitis investigators
- Biosecurity New Zealand Surveillance Reports
- Broken tails: an under-appreciated welfare problem?
- Cow-calf separation; is a different model of dairying on the horizon?
- Do High Spore Counts Overwhelm Zinc?
- Final Word: Drought Recovery Advice Fund - veterinary advice included
- Helcococcus ovis - An emerging pathogen in New Zealand?
- In case you missed it - NZVJ articles for 2021
- Laboratory news: The source of Salmonella in outbreaks of salmonellosis in New Zealand
- Lepto: A Changing Scene
- Mycobacterium bovis in a beef herd
- Overcoming Rotavirus Scours on a Taranaki Dairy Farm
- Ruminal Acidosis on a Waikato Dairy Farm
- Summary of recent Theileria orientalis (Ikeda) research conducted at Massey University
- Surveillance Reports - Biosecurity New Zealand
- What's Your Diagnosis?
- Biosecurity New Zealand surveillance reports
- Biosecurity New Zealand Surveillance Reports
- Biosecurity New Zealand Surveillance Reports
- Comparing reproductive performance
- Knowing and addressing the key fertility, production and health issues of your clients' dairy herds
- News: the Co-operative difference and animal welfare plans
- Case study: How to preserve colostrum with potassium sorbate
- Theileria in Takaka
- A calf urethrostomy to relieve a blocked urethra
- Adenovirus: The Underrated Pathogen
- Biosecurity New Zealand Surveillance Reports
- NZVA to Pilot WelFarm
- Zinc toxicity in dairy heifer calves associated with intra-ruminal bolus administration
- NSAID Use on NZ Dairy Farms
- Parasite Advisory Day
- Personal Protective Equipment - The Forgotten Help?
- 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
- Dairy Farming in Kenya
- Synchrony options for dairy heifers
- 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