Help Stop Killing Healthy Cows

$1,300 donated

Given by 6 generous donors in around 6 months

Help us to prove that this disease can be beaten by increasing the cow's immunity by changing the conditions which are creating the disease.

Nationwide

Our mission is to minimise the culling of dairy cows by gathering funding to research alternative approaches.

Biological Consultant, David Law, has developed a product that treats chronic mastitis where an antibiotic is not effective. He firmly believes that with some small alterations, this product could be used to prevent the spreading of Mycoplasma Bovis. This will result in saving thousands of dairy cows on a global scale.

Mycoplasma Bovis is a bacterial disease found in cattle. It is a small bacterium with no cell wall, and because antibiotics rely on cell wall synthesis, they don’t work! This disease is currently spreading throughout New Zealand and under the present MPI eradication scheme, if a cow is found to test positive for M. Bovis then the whole herd is culled! At this stage, the number of cows to be culled is estimated to be around 150,000.

As you can understand, the affected farmers are totally devastated and heartbroken that they are forced to send their whole herd of mostly healthy cows to be slaughtered. This approach of culling whole herds is a terrible waste and many farmers agree it’s not the right way to treat the problem.

David and the team are obtaining permission from authorities and setting up to trial his product on high risk and infected cows.

At present David is providing all the funding but has asked if people out there wish to donate to a worthy cause, then this is the one! Milk testing is the most reliable indication of whether a treatment is working. MPI has suggested that we need to test every day for 30 days. We will be trialling 2 specific treatments, which means 2 tests per day for 30 days on 2 groups of cows. The lab tests are $100 per test, so that means a total treatment cost for that farm trial of $6,000, which doesn’t include travel or staffing of the trial.

Come on New Zealand, let’s come together and support our farming industry.

Imagine, you could be a part of saving thousands of lives!

Check out Davids interview on Newshub 22/05/2018

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/mycoplasma-bovis-cattle-disease-may-be-too-far-gone-expert.html

Forward Farming Consultancy Ltd's involvement (page creator)

Forward Farming Consultancy Ltd has developed a system looking at the big picture of farming as a Bio-Circle. It shows the biological interaction and the conditions which create the optimum environment to give the best health, production and profit on a farm.

The particular points of the system focus on the soils as a starting point, the grass grown in these soils, the cows’ health from eating that feed and the effluent pond which is the end result of the system. This is all documented in our website www.forwardfarming.co.nz.

Forward Farming has established that the diagnosis of an effluent pond on its own can measure the efficiency of the system and can also indicate the ability of the cattle to fight disease through the strength of her own immunity.

Use of funds

Funds will be used for testing new products and the costs associated with the testing. Any surplus funds will go to registering this product as a licensed animal treatment