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Mulesing warning for lamb producers313PRIME 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 sheep306Australian 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. -
Dipsticks take on worms52Sheep 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. -
New pain relief options for lamb marking45With governments working towards requiring pain relief for mulesed lambs, the industry has developed safe, effective and cheap alternatives to help lambs recover in a broad-scale paddock environment. -
Progressing towards a flystrike vaccine53Scientists from the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland (DPI&F), are unravelling the way blowflies are able to strike sheep without the sheep being able to fight back.