This quick quiz tests your knowledge of sheep and goat parasites and their control.
1. Which age groups and under what conditions are sheep and goats most often affected by coccidiosis?
2. Why is it important to collect and destroy maggots from flystruck sheep?
3. Under what conditions are rubbing sheep unlikely to have lice?
4. How does feedlotting or zero-grazing benefit dairy goats?
Tests worth over $3,500 are currently being offered free this flystrike season (2018/2019) by NSW DPI, with joint funding from Australian Wool Innovation, to test the current level of pesticide resistance in fly populations. >> Read more.
Even worms cannot survive the heatwave conditions currently being experienced over much, but not all, of the sheep raising regions of the country. Most concerning are the summer storms that don’t break the drought but provide microhabitats for worm eggs and larvae in patches of short green pick.
Heads up: details of the Australian Sheep Parasite Survey will be featured on WormBoss next month.
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