Boss Bulletin #18: On-farm seasonal updates and tips, Managing lice in sheep, fast fact & more
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THE BOSS BULLETIN
In this edition
New webinar alert: Are you ready for this year's worm season? - How many tools are in your toolbox?
Fast fact - Pour-ons not as effective in goats
Our monthly seasonal focus from the ParaBoss extension team
Spring has sprung and all winter parasite control measures should have been completed.
Remember to keep focus on the judicious use of chemistry that is effective on the target parasite.
Managing lice in sheep: from inspection to treatment
It's important to recognise and identify long term patterns through inspection. Inspecting allows you to work out how long your sheep have been infected and when they got infected.
Learn all about their lifecycle and LiceBoss tools you can use to maintain a healthy, itch-free flock!
Suck? Or bite? It makes a big difference for cattle lice
Lice are a major animal welfare issue and not all treatments work against all types of lice.
Protect your export markets by meeting animal welfare expectations.
Breed and feed for goats resistant and resilient to worms
Improving nutrition makes goats tougher against worms.
Furthermore, selecting worm-resistant goats improves the flock resilience to goats and decreases pasture larval contamination.
Smart grazing for weaner worm control
Weaners are subject to nutritional and social stress and low growth rates in weaners are linked to high death rates.
Ongoing testing and monitoring is important and preparing low risk pastures is critical for weaner survival and performance.
Upcoming events
Webinar | 12 September 2023 | 1 PM
Are you ready for this year's worm season? - How many tools are in your toolbox?
The past seasons have created a perfect environment for worms to 'do their thing' and they have been causing significant headaches in many areas. With a warm start to spring worm numbers are already on the rise.
Join the ParaBoss team for a new webinar where Dr. David Hucker will discuss key strategies and tactics to prevent stock losses (production and animals), keeping worm burdens to a minimum, set up your management to reduce the impact of worms on your livestock, and most importantly what tools will help you with the campaign on worms!
As always, we encourage you to send in any questions to extension@paraboss.com.au or ask them real time in the webinar!
Watch previous ParaBoss webinars
Checkout our latest webinar series below.
Fast fact
Pour-ons are usually made for cattle, which have different metabolism and higher body fat than goats. These basic body features affect how the drug works: it needs to be absorbed through the skin and licked off, then move through the body to reach a high-enough level in the gut to kill worms.
Pour-ons can’t do this reliably in goats - the level they manage to reach in the gut varies.
Worms that see a ‘sub-lethal’ dose of active constituent survive; and worse, their offspring are more likely to be resistant.
Pour-ons usually don’t work in goats, and they can speed up the development of resistance.
(Reference: Baudinette et al. 2022)