A recent study has found that even experienced sheep producers and contractors may unintentionally be administering vaccines incorrectly.
If Hypocalcaemia is recognised early, a simple treatment will help most sheep recover.
Joining ewes as lambs can be a rewarding and profitable practice if you have nutrition and feed budgeting skills.
A simple six-week recovery period maintains maximum lucerne productivity and persistence.
In a recent study, two-thirds of carcases affected by pleurisy needed to have some of their ribs cut away, affecting one of the most expensive cuts.
Lambs need more trace minerals than adults. Testing lambs on fast-growing pasture will make it easier to decide if trace mineral supplementation is necessary.
Faced with increasing seasonal variability, livestock and grain producers are increasingly using soil moisture data to support tactical decision making.
Although Q fever rarely causes clinical disease in livestock, it can affect anyone exposed to sheep, cattle and goats, and their products.
Worms ability to survive climatic extremes makes them one of the biggest diseases, in dollar terms, faced by the sheep industry.
Illustrated guide to the sites of important worm parasites in sheep.
Live weight of ewe lambs at joining has a linear and positive impact on birth weight and weaning weights for Merinos and Composites.
We acknowledge the traditional Aboriginal Owners of Country throughout Victoria, their ongoing connection to this land and we pay our respects to their culture and their Elders past, present and future.
