Lifestyle Factsheets

Yearly animal health planner for your lifestyle block sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, alpaca and their young.

The answers to 5 commonly asked Lifestyle Block questions including appropriate animal numbers for your block size, vaccination, drenching, breeding & rearing.

Every lifestyle block with stock should have stockyards or pens to ensure handling your stock is easier and safer.

Learn the key facts around the internal parasites which affect sheep and the treatment and management practices throughout their life cycle.

Unlike sheep & cattle, goats remain susceptible to internal parasites throughout their lives.

Learn key facts about cattle drenching, including treatment & prevention, when to use and how to manage.

There are 3 main external parasites to watch out for in sheep in NZ – ticks, lice & flystrike. Learn about prevention & treatment.

Many NZ pet sheep are overweight and this can make them prone to a whole lot of health issues.