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Non-chemical management

Barbervax®—a vaccine to protect against barber’s pole worm
A year after its release, is the Barbervax vaccine the answer to problems with barber’s pole worms? Click here to view this article »
Worms have an Achilles’ heel
Worms have a requirement for certain temperatures and moisture in order to hatch and survive on pasture. Knowing a little about their climatic likes and dislikes lets you control them more easily. Click here to view this article »
Barbervax—a new approach to barber's pole worm control
The release in October of the new ‘Barbervax’ vaccine against barber’s pole worm gives the sheep industries a new weapon in the fight against an old foe. This provides a major alternative to drench-based control, and will help manage drench resistance. Click here to view this article »
Why are lambing ewes susceptible to worm infection?
Adult sheep typically have reasonable levels of immunity to most types of round worm with their greatest struggle often being immunity against Barber’s Pole worm. Click here to view this article »
Worm management that works!
Many of you will know of, or heard about, the value of grazing management in lowering the number of infective worm larvae on pasture. Click here to view this article »
Why prepare low worm-risk paddocks?
While many producers across Australia are coming up to lambing or weaning, when low worm-risk paddocks are valuable, other producers are in a position now to think about preparing these paddocks. Click here to view this article »
Sheep Husbandry Lectures
Prepared by Dr Allan Cunningham (CMG), Principal and DS Thompson, Instructor in Sheep Husbandry Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia. Circa 1947 – principally to assist returning Diggers taking up land. Click here to view this article »
Easy steps for breeding worm resistant sheep
If you’ve decided to get serious about breeding worm-resistant sheep, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3. Click here to view this article »
Low worm risk paddocks – do it now!
Whether summer or winter rainfall areas, or prime lamb or wool production systems, now is a key time to be taking action on low worm-risk paddocks. Click here to view this article »
The path to low worm-risk paddocks with worm resistant sheep
Worm resistant sheep have lower worm egg counts and it makes sense that, when compared with more susceptible sheep, this would result in fewer infective larvae on pasture over time. But how big is this effect? Click here to view this article »
RamSelect
RamSelect.com.au is an exciting new web based tool that combines the power of Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBVs) with the latest in design and analytics to simplify the process of selecting rams. It can be used for Merino, Terminal, Maternal or Dohne rams. Click here to view this article »
Hatching rain foils paddock preparation plans
Understanding the concept of “hatching rain” is useful if you are preparing low work-risk paddocks. Click here to view this article »
Replacement of resistant worms with susceptible worms—can we do it and is it sustainable?
This article by Melissa George, Bovine Dynamics, asks whether a drench-resistant worm population can be replaced by a susceptible one, and describes the research she undertook to investigate this. Click here to view this article »
Worm resistance breeding values confirmed
A recent analysis shows worm resistance can be bred relatively rapidly with little effect on other important traits. Click here to view this article »
Immunity loss at lambing and kidding
Immunity loss at lambing/kidding Click here to view this article »
BioWorma® and Livamol® with BioWorma®—biological control of roundworms in sheep, goats and cattle
A commercial Duddingtonia flagrans fungus product is now available for biological control of worms. It kills worm larvae when they emerge from worm eggs in the dung, resulting in fewer infective worm larvae on the pasture. Click here to view this article »
Lamb marking—are you using best practice?
Lamb marking is an important time for worm and flystrike management and a number of questions arise during this time. Do your lambs need drenching, are you assessing your lambs for breech strike susceptibility, and what breech strike prevention procedures are you using at marking? Click here to view this article »