Last updated 20090821
See links to useful sites in the sidebar (to the right), and below:
Sheep health – incl. internal and external parasites
Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre
ANZDSPs – incl nematodes of ruminants
Please let me know if any links are broken or need updating.
Thanks
SL. 20090821
TO: WormMail (recipients undisclosed) [WormMail 200903261145]
Prime time to hammer liver fluke
Yesterday’s media release
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/news/recent-news/agriculture-news-releases/hammer-fluke
“Strategic treatment during mid to late autumn can prevent a major rise in pasture contamination and significant production losses in stock affected by fluke,” Dr Love said.
“Traditional flukey areas can expect problems now following the good conditions which have boosted survival and spread of snails which host liver fluke.
“Known snail habitats should be avoided for as long as possible, particularly for sheep goats, alpacas and younger cattle.”
According to Dr Love the presence of liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica, can be confirmed by blood tests and faecal egg counts.
“We advise producers to use the most efficient flukicides, triclabendazole-based products or the new nitroxynil, clorsulon and ivermectin one-shot injection for cattle, to minimise fluke carry-over into spring,” he said.
For more information on liver fluke and other internal parasites producers can contact Dr Love, (02) 6738 8519, your local vet or explore WormBoss, www.wormboss.com.au
Liver fluke disease in sheep and cattle
Media contact: Bernadette York, (02) 6391 3936 or 0427 773 785
Extras
WormBoss – some background blurb
For those who came in late:
“Australia is one of the world’s leading producers of lamb. There are 47,296 Australian properties with sheep and lambs (ABS June 2007).
Worms cost Australian sheep producer more than any other disease and for producers; sustainable management and control of sheep worms is essential for future success.
WormBoss represents the national knowledge on sheep worms and their management. It has been developed by the Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre (Sheep
CRC) and Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) to help producers meet worm challenges. There are currently over 2,000 subscribers to the WormBoss website and they benefit from
monthly updates on worm management and enhancing animal productivity.(Nicola Raymond, Currie Communications)”.
“WormBoss is a world first product that attempts to provide Australian sheep producers with a comprehensive information resource available 24/7.The project was a jointly funded exercise by Australian Wool Innovation and The Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).
It was launched in March 2005, and currently attracts between 3000 and 5000 site visits each month WormBoss receives financial and other support from the Animal Health Alliance – a body representing most Veterinary Pharmaceutical Companies and drench resellers.
WormBoss also provides people who subscribe on the website with a monthly “Seasonal Worm Outlook” by email (over 1000, including a large proportion from the industry advisory and service sector) (Arthur Le Feuvre, National WormBoss Team)”.
New quick test for worms http://www.sheepcrc.org.au/news-and-events/press-releases/8-new-quick-test-for-worms.php
Biosecurity website http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurity ‘NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has launched a one-stop biosecurity information website to keep farmers and the community up-to-date with the latest developments in the detection and prevention of pests, animal diseases and weeds in NSW’.
Excerpts from WormMail 20081212 [ male alpacas out do men + Extras: How to speak New Zillund, FECRT protocol, AWI cuts etc]
Male alpacas out do men ?
‘More bad press for men.
If you read Unleashed at the ABC website, you might have come across the article, ‘Man about the house’, on Unleashed 10 December, written by Carolyn Boyd.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2437037.htm
Lest some of you think that Carolyn Boyd is moved by misandry, one of her comments at Unleashed suggests otherwise:
‘The stats quoted in the piece are from couples filling in their own time-use diaries. Research aside, I know plenty of guys who do very little to keep the house running – and quite a few who do plenty. In our house the split is at least 50-50, so I’m not having a go at men per se, more pointing out women’s overall experience. Amongst my own circle of friends, the women report that the split of who does what at home is usually somewhere between 80/20 and 60/40 women/men. I could only find one other woman who reported a 50/50 split.’ - Carolyn Boyd author of the comment…apparently not a misandrist
( Whether Carolyn’s circle of friends is representative of the general population, I don’t know. 
)
However, it is not all bad news for men. Coprology comes to the rescue.
While researching worms in alpaca, I came across this fact (factoid?):
Alpaca Hygiene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca
“To help alpacas control their internal parasites they have a communal dung pile, where they do not graze. Generally, males have much tidier, and fewer dung piles than females who tend to stand in a line and all go at once. One female approaches the dung pile and begins to urinate and/or defecate, and the rest of the herd often follows.”
Extras
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/vetmanual/specimens-by-disease-syndrome/diseases_of_livestock/anthelmintic_resistance
http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/wool/general/which-awi-projects-will-be-chopped/1383689.aspx?src=enews
Christmas cheer for some; Christmas drear for others.
Aussies love Kiwis. Well, mostly. (Except when we play the All Blacks).
Speaking their lingo is a good way to foster better relations.
A Kiwi Kolleague who is currently living and working in Sydney (not Bondi), sent me Media Works Radio’s guide to speaking New Zillund. See towards bottom of this email)
Best wishes to you and your’s for Christmas and the New Year.
SL
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