{"id":15135,"date":"2015-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/the-quick-and-the-dead\/"},"modified":"2015-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:00:00","slug":"the-quick-and-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/the-quick-and-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The quick and the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Norton believed that nationally Johne\u2019s in deer was largely under control and had followed a cycle similar to what was experienced in the dairy industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt kicked the guts out of deer in the 90s but now there\u2019s a low prevalence on most farms and only a very few with a serious issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trading deer and stress, brought about by weaning, extreme weather and underfeeding were the main ways of bringing on a challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompounding stresses are a reoccurring theme with Johne\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

For that reason Norton recommended letting fawns settle in a familiar paddock after weaning before trucking them off to a new home.<\/p>\n

While JML was there to offer practical help in dealing with the disease it also had available, free of charge to all deer farmers, production figures such as the average kill date, average slaughter weights, average carcaseweights, and lesion rates. These figures could be benchmarked against regional and national figures.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a huge resource sitting there to be mined by farmers \u2013 our aim is to give you the stuff that will be most useful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A do-it-yourself post-mortem is a quick way to confirm or rule out Johne\u2019s disease. At the Southland Focus Farm field day Solis Norton, general manager of JML, showed farmers how to autopsy a deer and look for the tell-tale signs of Johne\u2019s.\n\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not saying short-circuit the vet. If you find two or three animals and can\u2019t explain what\u2019s going on call in a vet, especially if you have a number of animals that aren\u2019t performing.\u201d\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":15136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t