Displaying items by tag: animal welfare

OPINION: Dairy farmers know better than anyone that change is constant.

A Palmerston North shearer has been sentenced to six months' community detention and 12 months' supervision after being found to have physically abused three lambs while shearing them.

Rearing facilities should be set up and maintained well to ensure calves stay healthy.

On a farm in Tikorangi, North Taranaki, Brent Stevenson is sharemilking 1,400 cows.

An Auckland man has been fined $6,000 for offering to sell illegally slaughtered pigs.

A Rangitikei farmer has been indefinitely banned from owning animals and sentenced to serve 9 months and 3 weeks’ home detention following animal welfare failures that caused the death of more than 140 animals.

Lincoln University Dairy Farm will be tweaking some management practices after an animal welfare complaint laid in mid-August, despite the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) investigation into the complaint finding no cause for action.

Animal rights protest group PETA is calling for Agriculture Minister Todd McClay to introduce legislation which would make it mandatory to have live-streaming web cameras in all New Zealand shearing shed.

The New Zealand Merino Company (NZM) says it will investigate claims of animal cruelty made by animal rights group PETA.

Shipments of live animals by sea should be possible in the second half of next year, according to Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard.