Displaying items by tag: Breeding
Dairy breeds for climate change
With the threat of climate change confronting New Zealand dairy farming, CRV Ambreed says their tropical dairy breed may provide a solution.
Now is the time to decide on hogget breeding
April is the month when farmers need to make the final decision about hogget breeding for the year.
Sheep sex – not an Australian joke
Australian researchers say the reason ewes produce many more lambs of one sex in one year than in others is traceable back to their diet in the leadup to joining.
Breeding values set to change
Liveweight breeding values for dairy cattle are to improve as a result of data analyses by NZ Animal Evaluation Ltd (NZAEL), a subsidiary of DairyNZ.
Top jersey bull leaves his robust legacy around world
CRV Ambreed's highest ranked Jersey bull died this month. Pukeroa TGM Manzello produced 467 daughters in 173 herds in New Zealand alone. He died from a progressive illness.
Indexes aim at breeding healthy cows
Dairy farmers wanting to produce healthier and more efficient animals can now make this part of their breeding programme, says herd management firm CRV Ambreed.
Getting heat detection right
New Zealand's seasonal dairy system brings a need to maximise the number of days in milk, and this season the pressure is greater than ever upon farmers to achieve that.
Selling semen and loving it
IT'S THE stuff animal breeding sales representative dream of - selling 70,000 semen straws in a season.
Can we breed better cows?
A LEADING geneticist says he thinks the breeding of cows could go further in New Zealand.
Trials of sheep breeds
A PERENNIAL challenge for sheep breeders is knowing what market they are breeding for, a leading New Zealand sheep geneticist says.
