Stock Handling & Animal Welfare

WA saleyards and processors get ready for sheep and goat EID

WESTERN Australia’s saleyards and processors will start scanning electronic identification ear tags in sheep, lambs and goats next week as part of the national traceability system rollout…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

ABC Muster Dogs’ Kim and Banjo to star at Casterton Kelpie Muster

ABC Muster Dogs series stars Kim Dodson and her Kelpie Banjo will be special guests at the 29th Australian Kelpie Muster at Casterton this weekend…Read More

Sheep Central, June 6, 2025

Agriculture Victoria warns livestock owners on welfare duties

THE recent seizures of livestock from three Victorian properties have been highlighted in a warning to all producers from Agriculture Victoria this week…Read More

Sheep Central, April 1, 2025

WA lotfeeder puts the case for non-mulesed Merino lambs

WESTERN Australian lamb lotfeeder Geoff Bilney prefers non-mulesed Merinos over the more commonly mulesed lambs and can see a day when lamb processors will demand that lambs not have the breech modification…Read More

Terry Sim, March 7, 2025

Anti-mulesing push in Qld election and with King Charles

ANIMAL welfare group opposition to lamb mulesing has been ramped up with the practice’s inclusion as a Queensland election issue and the lobbying of King Charles to support the breeding of flystrike-resistant Merino sheep…Read More

Terry Sim, October 18, 2024

Animal welfare groups take mulesing ban plan to governments

ANIMAL welfare bodies have stepped up government lobbying to phase out the mulesing of sheep in Australia by 2030, releasing a report highlighting the Australian wool industry’s ‘broken promise’ to ban the practice by 2010…Read More

Terry Sim, September 18, 2024

Live animal cutting report doesn’t cut it with WoolProducers

AUSTRALIA’S peak wool grower body has pushed back strongly on a report criticising the lack of progress on ending mulesing in the nation’s sheep flocks…Read More

Sheep Central, September 18, 2024

From Ram to Ewe – the best Machine of the Year at Henty

AN automated sheep catching pen that brings the woolies to the shearer has won the coveted 2024 Henty Machine of the Year at the annual field days this week…Read More

Sheep Central, September 18, 2024

Victorian sheep farmer fined $10,000 and convicted for cruelty

A WEST Wimmera sheep farmer has been fined $10,000 and convicted for cruelty to livestock in the Horsham Magistrates Court…Read More

Sheep Central, September 13, 2024

Call for help with livestock security in Tasmania

TASMANIA’S peak farmer body has called for higher penalties and public help to improve farm security after a recent spate of illegal livestock butchering incidents…Read More

Sheep Central, September 4, 2024

Gippsland sheep farmer fails to overturn sheep care charges

A GIPPSLAND farmer Jeremy Rich has failed recently in his attempt to have his conviction and sentence relating to sheep care concerns overturned in the County Court of Victoria…Read More

Sheep Central, August 28, 2024

Survey indicates widespread short tail-docking of lambs

TENS of millions of sheep in Australia could be at risk of compromised welfare from short-docked tails, according to the results of a recent survey and previous research…Read More

Sheep Central, July 31, 2024

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