Livestock Insurance

Cover for your entire livestock, including beef- & diary-cattle, sheep and horses. 

New Zealand's Livestock Insurance Coverage Options

We understand that no two farms run exactly the same way. That’s why our insurance for livestock is highly customizable. We’ll help you build a single, hardworking policy that protects your individual insurance needs

What is Livestock Insurance?

Livestock insurance is a business policy that cover sudden or accidental death. Drowning due to flood, landslip, lightning strike, impact from vehicles, fire damage (wool shed fires).

What Does Livestock and Cattle Insurance Cover?

When you have livestock insurance the following covers are standard

Accidents to your livestock: Loading and unloading your livestock in transit, electrocution, fire, smoke, explosions.

Natural disasters: Volcanic eruption, natural landslip, and earthquake.

Weather events that affect your livestock: Flooding, lightning, wind and hail.

Collision while in transit (livestock transport insurance): Coverage for your livestock when in transport.

Vehicle impact: animals being hit by vehicles.

Specified animals: If you have high-value animals you want to cover you can list them and the cover can include death by illness.  This is designed for Horses, Dogs and Bulls.  Illness extends the cover dramatically and allows normally excluded causes of death to be covered such as M Bovis and Nitrate poisoning

Livestock Insurance FAQ

The general cover does not include Illness (If you specified an animal it would be covered)  This means for unspecified animals M Bovis and Nitrate poisoning will not be covered by livestock cover.

$200,000, cover starts from $1500, factors such as location and numbers of animals as well as maximum cover per animal change the price.

In the absence of viagra for bulls, the loss of functionality cover can be included for Bulls. 

Your livestock is essential to the success of your farm, so having the right protection for them is just as important as protecting everything else that helps your operations run smoothly.

Request a Farm Insurance Quote with Livestock Cover

Your livestock is essential to the success of your farm, so having the right protection for them is just as important as protecting everything else that helps your operations run smoothly.