Research

Griffin, J.F.T. (1991) Immunological Markers of Stress and Well-Being in Domestic Animals.

Wilson, P.R. (2001) Immunological responses to vaccines in deer effect of multiple vaccines

Reviews a number of issues related to use of multiple vaccines and describes a study looking at single and multiple vaccination

Griffin, J.F.T. (2001) Immunological strategies in vaccine development.

This paper outlines the critical variables that need to be taken into account when developing a new vaccine

Thompson, B.R. (2017) Impact of post weaning growth rate on farm profitability

Walden, S., Ward, J., Asher, G., Realini, C., Ross, A., Bain, W., Mills, J., Jacob, N., Dixit, Y., Hitchman, S., Somerton, J., Henderson, H., Morton, J., Mason, S., Schreurs, N., Craigie, C. (2019) Impacts of Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) supplementation on venison quality attributes

The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) as a supplementary feed in the New Zealand deer farming system on the meat quality attributes and the overall consumer acceptability of NZ farm-raised venison.

Campbell, A.C. (1993) Implementation of the Velvet Harvesting Code of Conduct

Mackintosh, C.G. (1993) Importance of infectious diseases of new Zealand farmed deer.

Beatson, N.S. (1998) Improving Deer Velvet Profitability through New Technology

It has become important to select for future antler production at an earlier age but are there indicators of future velvet production.

Fennessy, P.F. (1992) Improving productivity in deer.

Stevens, D.R. (2003) Improving Spring Growth of Weaner Deer Using Supplemental Roughage

A study to investigate the role of monocotylendous (grass) fibre sources during spring. Roughage offered as barley straw or meadow hay during November had no significant effect on intake or weaner liveweight gain

Asher, G. W. (2000) Improving the reproductive performance of red deer hinds.

This paper discusses a range of factors which may be responsible for relatively static reproductive performance in the deer industry and identifies issues which, if addresses may assist with improve reproductive performance.

Issues covered include: farmer inexperience due to the constant influx of new farmers into the industry, increasing intensification, hybridisation, weakness in systems of information transfer, perinatal calf mortality, mismothering, dystocia, misadventure and infection

Hunter, J.W. (1984) Improving Veterinarian:Deer Farmer Relationships

Skerritt, J.W. (1999) In deer fininshing the optimal slaughter weight will increase as the genetic performance of the herd is improved

This paper examines the interactions of feed requirements, market premiums, growth rates and strategic drafting systems whith the hypothesis that changes in the mean genetic merit of the deer hard will alter the optimal production strategy that should be employed

Berg, D.K. (1994) In vitro culture of early cleavage stage embryos recovered from superovulated red deer

An article which outlines a study which compared the efficacy of two superovuation protocols for producing early cleavgae stage red deer embryos and three systems for their ability to support further embryo development

Fukui, Y. (1991) In vitro maturation and fertilisation of red deer (Cervus elaphus) oocytes.