Mitch Cooper
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284 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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You know, put a plan in place.
If you don't have an official biosecurity plan, it's a really good time to think about putting one in place.
We've got guidance and some resources on the DRNZ website, or you can ask Daisy on the DRNZ website to find those resources to just go through and sort of check, you know, have I got this, this, this?
Have I thought about this, this, and this?
A lot of people think about biosecurity as just
animals but it's equipment it's vehicles it's people there are many many aspects to sort of on-farm biosecurity that you can do to sort of just help reduce your risk on a day-to-day basis they're not often significant things you know we're not talking about sort of life-altering massive changes to your farming practices they can often just be relatively simple straightforward activities that you can do day-to-day to sort of generally improve your on-farm biosecurity
Couple of quick examples.
As I said, BVD, you know, one of the biggest things that we would see when I was in clinical practice, when people would get BVD on their farms, is it's come in from somewhere.
It's not necessarily been harboured on the farm and all of a sudden it's got into the milking herd and you've found it.
It has usually come in from somewhere, whether that's a neighbouring
Or whether that, you know, is an animal that's been bought in that hasn't been tested and vaccinated.
So, you know, relatively simplistic things.
Lots of pests and weeds come in from feed.
I think people sort of underestimate the level of biosecurity risk that feed can sometimes come with.
So it's really important to have a plan in place.
for things like feed to make sure that you know they're coming from weed free areas and it's being checked before it arrives on your farm or it's being checked before it's fed out to your cows so that again fairly simplistic things that you can do on a day to day basis just to reduce your risk
So it may seem simplistic, but as a cow that can't stand up, she's down for one reason or another.
And people often associate it purely with metabolic issues, so purely with calcium issue or purely with magnesium issues.
But in a percentage of these cows, it is something else.
We used to see quite a few cows as vets that had really high carvings and some nerve damage.
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