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  • Mulesing warning for lamb producers
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    PRIME lamb producers consider yourself warned – mulesing is a growing issue for some of your overseas customers. Most Australian prime lamb mothers, especially Merinos and first cross ewes, are mulesed once to protect them against flystrike, with discounts applied in store sales to un-mulesed breeding ewe lines. But at a saleyards conference in Horsham last week JBS Australia livestock manager Steve Chapman said some EU customers were demanding that Australian lamb come off unmulesed sheep.
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  • 34% increase in pain relief uptake for sheep
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    Australian woolgrowers have proven they are world leaders in animal welfare choosing to mules with pain relief. The number of lambs mulesed with the pain relief spray has increased by 34% in 2010 over the previous year and according to Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) figures there has also been an increase of 75% in the past year of declared wool bales offered for sale that have been shorn from sheep treated with pain relief at mulesing.
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  • Integrated Parasite Management for sheep
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    Worms, lice and blowflies are the three biggest health problems for the Australian sheep industry and represent more than $700 million in direct and indirect costs to Australian woolgrowers every year. Forecasts suggest that these costs could increase significantly, due to increased parasite resistance to chemical control, impeded market access from pesticide residues, and growing occupational health and safety concerns.
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  • Ewe nutrition is top priority
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    Dr Sue Hatcher, senior research scientist in merino breeding at Orange Agricultural Institute, said a shortage of livestock following the dry means careful pasture management is essential to maximise lamb and wool production this season. "The importance of pasture for ewes cannot be understated," said Dr Hatcher.
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  • Dipsticks take on worms
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    Sheep farmers could soon welcome a quick and easy test for barber's pole worm thanks to research from the Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre. The test, which detects blood in the sheep's faeces to identify whether barber's pole worms are present and to what level, is going into a field validation phase in Spring 2007 and producers who have had problems with barber’s pole worm are being encouraged to participate in the trial.
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