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Drenches
Sheep drench figures - a recent snapshot
Pharmaceutical Companies keep on trying to develop new molecules for drenches.
Understanding drenches - mixtures, combinations and both
New product - pour-on for lice and worms (Cooper Maverick)
Quarantine drenching - getting it right!
Choosing drenches
Resistance to ML Drenches - Is it affecting more worm species?
The fit for Startect® in WormBoss regional worm control programs
Reduced efficacy of new drenches? Be alert, not alarmed
Rametin drench update
New and agisted sheep bring resistant worms home
Use the right dose of drench: under and overdosing and implications for drench resistance
Weaners and the First Summer Drench in winter rainfall areas
NAPfix® return keeps OP drench on hand
Drench price—how important is it?
Zolvix™ Plus providing efficacy and easier management of drench resistance
Pre-lambing—drench routinely or WormTest first?
Life after naphthalophos (Rametin): a good time to test drench efficacy
Summer drenching—the key to winter worm control
Top strategies to form the backbone of your sheep worm program.
Drench resistance
Use refugia to prolong drench life
Further reports of monepantel resistance
Monepantel-resistant goat and sheepworms, and drench-resistant cattle worms
National Drench Resistance – should you be concerned?
Drench resistance - so what?
How does drench resistance come about?
Don't import drench resistance
First confirmed case of resistance to new drench in Australia—what does it mean?
Early thoughts on partial flock treatment in summer rainfall regions
Reduced efficacy of new drenches? Be alert, not alarmed.
Drench resistance—a big cost that flies under the radar
Drench rotation does little to combat drench resistance
Reversion: Do worms become susceptible again to drenches not used for years?
Summer drenching in Mediterranean climate regions: two paths to sustainability
Non-chemical management
Barbervax®—a vaccine to protect against barber’s pole worm
Worms have an Achilles’ heel
Barbervax—a new approach to barber's pole worm control
Worm management that works!
Why are lambing ewes susceptible to worm infection?
Why prepare low worm-risk paddocks?
Sheep Husbandry Lectures
Easy steps for breeding worm resistant sheep
Low worm risk paddocks – do it now!
The path to low worm-risk paddocks with worm resistant sheep
RamSelect
Hatching rain foils paddock preparation plans
Replacement of resistant worms with susceptible worms—can we do it and is it sustainable?
Worm resistance breeding values confirmed
Immunity loss at lambing and kidding
Tests
Why test before you drench if you already know the answer?
The value of monitoring for worms and drench resistance
New DNA test identifies sheep worm species
Drench Resistance Tests—as little as 9 cents a sheep
Drench Test choices—too easy!
Larvae on pasture—a view from the laboratory
WormTest weaner lambs and kids in autumn and winter
Individual or bulk worm egg counts: is there a difference?
WormTests for goats—collecting and sending samples to a testing laboratory in your region
Larval cultures and ‘Strongyle’ type eggs
Worms and other parasites
Foxes, the culprit for high levels of sheep measles in Australian sheep?
Do Worm Egg Counts
Black Scour Worm Alert for Tasmania
The Liver Fluke situation
What about tapeworms in sheep?
Want to get the equivalent of a $5.20 price rise/head? Here's how.
The Liver Fluke Situation
Hydatids - they are still out there
Sheep measles cause condemnations
Australian Sheep Vets Conference September 2011
A vaccine against Barber's Pole worm - the reality gets closer
Producer-funded livestock parasite research in Australia
Sheep measles; potentially costly, but easily fixed
I'm crazy...not my fault, not guilty (Toxoplasmosis)
Barber’s pole worm in winter, non-seasonal and Mediterranean rainfall areas
Liver fluke on the NSW Central Tablelands
Liver Fluke: preventing or decreasing liver pathology in lambs at slaughter
ALERT: Conditions favour Eperythrozoonosis
Oesophagostomum columbianum—a view from the laboratory
No, really, frosts don’t kill worms
General
National survey highlights parasite control practices
Worm control under irrigation in Tasmania
National Sheep Health Monitoring Project
MLA project targets New England sheep worms
Just how resilient are prime lambs to worm infection?
WormBoss is now Australia’s goat worm control resource
Warning: wet weather problems
Goats, the same as sheep, but different
Exciting news in faecal egg counts, parasite identification and disease monitoring
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Sheep
Western Australian Winter Rainfall
Introduction
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Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
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Sheep worms
South Australian Winter Rainfall
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Sheep worms
Victorian Winter Rainfall
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Sheep worms
Tasmania
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Sheep worms
NSW Non-Seasonal Rainfall
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Sheep worms
Qld/NSW Summer Rainfall / Slopes and Plains
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Sheep worms
Qld/NSW Summer Rainfall / Tablelands and Slopes
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Sheep worms
Pastoral
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Sheep worms
Goats
Western Australia
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
South Australia
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
Victoria
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
Tasmania
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
NSW central and south and southwest
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
Qld central and south and NSW northwest
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
NSW northeast and QLD Granite Belt
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
Rangelands
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
East coast
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
Australian smallholders
Introduction
Grazing management
Breeding for worm resistance
Worm testing
Drenching
Drench resistance management
Goat worms
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Case Studies
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Greg & Kathie Tighe, Guyra, NSW
Don Perkins, Dirranbandi, QLD
Simon & Penny Foster, Campbell Town, TAS
David & Anne Headlam, Casterton, VIC
Rick & Jenny Robertson, Bengworden, VIC
Wayne Lewis, Esperance, WA
John & Stewart Wallace, Esperance, WA
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General
National survey highlights parasite control practices
The average age of sheep producers has increased from 51 to 56 years, the use of worm egg counts was down and practices that will encourage drench resistance are still widely used. These results were just some from a large national survey reporting the practices used by Australian sheep producers to control worms, flies and lice.
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Worm control under irrigation in Tasmania
Irrigation is frequently used to provide high quality summer and autumn forage for finishing lambs. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of good trial work to know what works and what does not with regards worm control on irrigated pastures.
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National Sheep Health Monitoring Project
The National Sheep Health Monitoring Project (NSHMP), monitors adult sheep in abattoirs for a number of important animal health conditions.
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MLA project targets New England sheep worms
New England sheep producers are being supported to implement the WormBoss program thanks to a 3-year project funded through Meat & Livestock Australia’s Producer Demonstration Sites program.
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Just how resilient are prime lambs to worm infection?
We all know the difficulties that Merino lambs face from worm infection, but meat-breed (often XB) lambs might be a different matter.
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WormBoss is now Australia’s goat worm control resource
WormBoss will include goat information from 1 November 2016. An online resource with up-to-date best practice information, training and tools to improve parasite management.
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Warning: wet weather problems
Continued wet conditions will bring a host of problems.
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Goats, the same as sheep, but different
In general, the parasites that infect goats are mostly the same as those that infect sheep, and the disease outcomes and economic consequences of parasitic infections in goats are similar to those in sheep. However, there are differences.
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Exciting news in faecal egg counts, parasite identification and disease monitoring
INVETUS (formerly VHR + Vetx) is Australia’s largest veterinary research organisation offering a wide range of diagnostic services to the grazier to support animal production and integrate with farm management. See how INVETUS can assist you.
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