Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

Department of Agriculture Western Australia

Publication Date

12-8-2003

Keywords

cost effective, site selection, water quality, feed source, minerals, wether trials, benchmarking, progeny testing, breeding, sheep, selection, worm resistance, scouring, stubbles, sheep, risks, monitoring, wrinkles, tail docking, mulesing, flystrike, nutrition, bodyweight, condition score, management

Disciplines

Animal Diseases | Biosecurity | Genetics | Nutritional Epidemiology | Parasitology | Sheep and Goat Science

Abstract

This session covers seven papers from different authors:1. Setting up a successful, low input feedlot Paul Barrett, ‘Bimberdong’ Jerramungup 2. Effective mineral supplementation of sheep Kevin Bell, Sheep Management and Production Consultants, Kojonup, WA 3. Genetic benchmarking for WA sheep producers J. Greeff, L. Butler, S. Brown, K. Hart and A. Gray Department of Agriculture Western Australia 4. Does selecting sheep for low WEC reduce scouring? John Karlsson, Johan Greeff and Paula Coombe, Department of Agriculture Western Australia 5. Summer quarters for sheep - stubbles Ron McTaggart, Department of Agriculture Western Australia, Albany 6. Thinking about breeding Easy Care Sheep? David Scobie, AgResearch PO Box 60 Lincoln, 8152, New Zealand 7. Increasing lambing percentages and lamb survival Sandy White, Department of Agriculture Western Australia, Jerramungup

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