Animal Health
BVD
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GeneMark provides a set of effective cattle disease tests to help you identify animal disease issues on your farm.
BVD is probably the most important viral disease of cattle in New Zealand. 90% of dairy herds are infected at some time.
GeneMark offers the most cost effective and convenient range of BVD tests in the market.
Click here to view our sampling/collection options
Click here to find out more about BVD and how you can safeguard your herd
For more information call 0800 436 362
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BVD - Individual Animal
Individual Animal Tests
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Turnaround
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BVD Antigen ELISA – tissue
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3 working days
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BVD PCR – blood
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7 working days
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BVD PCR & EBL ELISA – blood
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8 working days
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BVD - Bulk Milk Monitoring Pack
LIC now offers dairy farmers an inexpensive means of monitoring bovine viaral diarrhoea (BVD) disease within a herd. The BVD Monitoring Pack provides a package of tests conducted over the milking season using samples from the milk vat.
All you need to do is sign up and provide your preferred test dates. There is no sample collection hassle as LIC arranges to re-use sampels already being collected by your dairy company. You can carry on with your day-to-day farm operations and leave the testing to us.
Bulk Milk Tests
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Test
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Sample Type(s)
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Price
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BVD Monitoring Pack
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Dairy company vat samples only |
$325.00
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BVD PCR
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Dairy company or custom bulk milk samples |
$169.50
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BVD Antibody ELISA
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Dairy company or custom bulk milk sample |
$39.00
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Dairy company sampling will be schedules for the requested date. Testing will depend of availability of vat samples. Ten working day turnaround applies from receipt of sample.
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A2*
Milking cows naturally produce a protein in their milking - beta-casein, which comes in two variants, A1 and A2. GeneMark offers an A2 production gene test to identify whether a particular animal carries the specific A2 beta-casein gene. Click here to find out more.
* LIC does no endorse any claims related to A2 milk.
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