The New Zealand Veterinary Association is delighted and thanks the Ministers of Agriculture and Immigration for their announcement today that the government has granted a border class exception for an additional 50 general practice veterinarians .
This first purchase order from the Thai livestock producer followed several trials with sows and piglets that confirmed Avivagen s OxC-beta Livestock consistently outperformed any and all competitive alternatives. The real-world evidence of the benefits of our product are leading to more customer wins and growing adoption of our OxC-beta Livestock product, stated Avivagen.
With annual livestock feed production in 2020 of 21 million tonnes, Thailand s largest livestock export market is the European Union, where AGPs (Antibiotics as Growth Promoters) have been banned since 2010.
The initial 200-kilogram order is similar in size to past introductory customer orders, many of whom later become repeat customers at larger quantities.
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Horses are well-known for having teeth that erupt continuously. Their dentition does, however, has a finite lifespan and is still at risk of disease and damage. With recent advances in dental care, a wide variety of treatment options to manage equine dental abnormalities exist, which contributes to a horse’s overall health and well-being.
“Horses tend to be stoic, frequently hiding even severe dental pain,” said Chris Pearce, MRCVS, specialist dental veterinarian and director of The Equine Dental Clinic, in Witchampton, U.K., who paper “Recent developments in equine dentistry” was published in the
New Zealand Veterinary Journal. “Further, they have the ability to alter their mastication (chewing) patterns to avoid painful regions of the mouth, making it extremely difficult for owners to recognize the often subtle signs of dental disease.
Friday, 23 April 2021, 10:27 am
Saturday 24 April marks World Veterinary Day and this
year New Zealand veterinarians find themselves facing
another year of significant stress and challenging
workloads.
There are many reasons for this including
the fact that veterinarians were classified as essential
workers during the COVID 19 lockdown often working under
extreme conditions which added to the stress they were
already suffering due to an often physically and emotionally
demanding job. Part of what contributes to
veterinarians’ emotional loads is wanting to do the very
best we can for our patients - with a number of constraints.
We know animals are sentient beings and have feelings like