Owl Farm case study - Animal well-being plan

This page from Owl Farm, the Waikato demonstration dairy farm run jointly by St Peter's School and Lincoln University, sets out the animal well-being plan the farm writes each season with its vet team at Cambridge Vets. The plan covers nutrition and body condition, health issues such as mastitis, lameness and mortality, and how the farm prepares for extreme weather and heat stress.

It also covers how future breeding choices, including traits like polled genetics or heat tolerance, will shape herd improvement. The farm gathers its own results alongside farm and industry targets, and submits them to Fonterra each year under The Co-operative Difference.

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