Prime Lamb Helpline
Congratulations on taking the first step to increasing the productivity and profitability of your prime lamb enterprise. The White Suffolk is an Australian breed developed for Australian conditions. Their performance is consistently increasing profitability for lamb producers in the market place - can you afford not to be using them?
The AWSA has collated the following list of resources that will provide valuable information and tools for you. This page is a work in progress and it will be continually updated on a regular basis. We have listed the resources under the following topics:
Thanks to our State Departments of Primary Industries and MLA for providing much of the following information on their website.
TOPICS
- Health & Welfare
- Production & Nutrition
- Breeding & Genetics
- Marketing
- Industry Compliance
- Industry Programs
- Research & Development
- Resources
Health and Welfare
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Vaccination programs for sheep
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Cheesy gland
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Quarantine drenching – don’t import resistant sheep worms
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Photosensitisation in stock
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Foot abscess in sheep
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Bacterial arthritis in lambs
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“Eryvac”vaccine- control polyarthritis in lambs
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Buying sheep can be a health hazard
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Chemicals registered to treat lice and flystrike in sheep
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Ovine Brucellosis
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Ovine Johne’s Disease
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Ovine Johne’s Disease – the vaccine
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How to calculate your total ABC OJD points
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Sheep worms control and management
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Hypocalcaemia in sheep (milk fever)
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Production and Nutrition
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Feeding, finishing and nutrition
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Full hand feeding of sheep
Feeding management
Management
Quantities
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Grain poisoning in sheep
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Feedlotting lambs
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Fatscoring sheep and lambs
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The role of liveweight scales in sheepmeat production
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Breeding and Genetics
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Fertility testing of rams
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Ewe management and body weight at joining
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Pregnancy scanning
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Genetics and breeding
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Visual sheep scores booklet
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Lambplan
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Stockscan
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Sheep infertility from legume pastures
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Marketing
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Industry Compliance
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Industry Programs
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Making More from Sheep
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) have joined forces to develop Making More From Sheep, a best practice package of information, tools and learning opportunities for Australian sheep producers.
Almost 250 leading sheep producers and technical experts helped develop the 11 linked modules in the manual, which cover subjects ranging from soils and pasture to wool and meat marketing, animal health, genetics and farm sustainability.
This website contains all the content within the Making More From Sheep manual and cd-rom, and also gives you information about upcoming Making More From Sheep forums, workshops and other learning activities.
www.makingmorefromsheep.com.au
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Managing Grass Seeds
Winning against seeds (1.4MB)
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Research and Development
- Sheep CRC - www.sheepcrc.org.au
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Sheep CRC / Information Nucleus
- http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/about/information-nucleus-overview.php
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Resources
Artificial Breeding Techniques
Murray Long has compiled tips and tricks and information shared at the 2009 Annual Conference of the AWSA in Albury 2009.
State Agricultural sites
NSW: www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture
WA: www.agric.wa.gov.au/
SA: www.pir.sa.gov.au/livestock
VIC: new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture
TAS: www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Home/1?Open
