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November 4, 2011
Farmers urged to join RPSCA
BY TERRY SIM Stock & Land 26 Sep, 2011 05:00 AM VICTORIAN farmers are being urged to join the RSPCA to influence the organisation’s stance on animal welfare issues affecting primary producers. Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Livestock Group president, Chris Nixon, said “if we join the RSPCA, we could actually bring them back to the …
November 3, 2011
The rules of castrating animals
BEFORE castrating your animals be sure to learn about the method you have chosen. Stuart Barber | November 1, 2011 WEEKLY TIMES Castration of male animals is a common management procedure for breeding herds or flocks. It is widely used to reduce aggression in male animals and decrease unwanted pregnancies. The actual method of castration chosen for …
November 2, 2011
Get ready for flystrike
SHEEP producers were this week warned to rotate fly chemical usage and follow label instructions as the first reports of flystrike come in. TERRY SIM – STOCK & LAND 23 Oct, 2011 04:00 AM After a New South Wales report of suspected fly resistance to the chemicals cyromazine and dicyclanil, at a Department of Primary …
October 31, 2011
Pain management adoption on Australian sheep farms
By Professor Peter Windsor, University of Sydney – The Land October 20th 2011 Whilst growing up in Wagga in the 50’s and 60’s, I was confronted by what I later came to think of as the big 4 in sheep welfare concerns in Australia, being footrot, flystrike, mulesing and rubber ring castration. It was clear …
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