Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
NEW South Wales Police’s Rural Crime Prevention Team is investigating the theft of almost 300 sheep near Harden recently…Read More
Sheep Central, December 12, 2022
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
THE importance of tail length and best practice pain relief in sheep to minimise breech flystrike and other animal health issues was highlighted at a recent seminar at Dunkeld in Victoria…Read More
Lisa Warn, project manager for the MLA PDS project 'Towards non-mulesed sheep', December 7, 2022
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has been called out on its lack of targets on mulesing, non-mulesed wool production and sheep welfare, in an animal welfare group submission to the Australian National Audit Office…Read More
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A VACCINATION in early spring with a booster soon after is looking like the delivery method for a vaccine to counter flystrike being developed by CSIRO…Read More
Liz Wells, August 18, 2022
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
QUEENSLAND sheep and wool producers have been urged to remain vigilant for flystrike as La Niña weather conditions continue…Read More
Sheep Central, February 4, 2022
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S sheep industry is being asked to help oppose a move by veterinarians to retain prescription control over the lamb and calf castration pain relief medication NumOcaine…Read More
Terry Sim, January 26, 2022
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
THE journey of New South Wales Pooginook Poll and Merino studs to no breech modification will be outlined in a webinar next week…Read More
Sheep Central, June 18, 2021
MERINO breeders selecting for high follicle density can breed a high wool and meat-producing dual purpose sheep that would not need to be mulesed, according to South Australian breeder Andrew Michael…Read More
Terry Sim, March 31, 2021
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S wool growers could be faced with making submissions to a review of the National Wool Declaration without access to finalised research results on the sheep freeze branding process…Read More
Terry Sim, March 24, 2021
FINAL preliminary results of a sheep freeze branding trial undertaken by the University of Melbourne will be fast-tracked for the Australian Wool Exchange’s National Wool Declaration review…Read More
Terry Sim, March 22, 2021
PRELIMINARY research results indicating sheep freeze branding is a painful procedure for lambs, even when using available pain relief, have been published by the University of Melbourne…Read More
Terry Sim, March 19, 2021
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
STRONG demand pushed working dog prices to a new level at the annual Jerilderie auction on Saturday, with almost half the dogs making $10,000 or more…Read More
Terry Sim, March 1, 2021
