Australian Sheep Veterinary Society AVA conference proceedings : new horizons, 10th-15th May, 1992, Adelaide Convention Centre.
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[North Ryde, New South Wales] :
Pitman-Moore Australia Ltd.,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Trends in wool processing requirements
- Current technological aids to selection of breeding stock within the wool industry
- DNA technology: potential application to wool sheep breeding
- The practical application of genetic principles - how we put it all together
- Cost benefit of artificial breeding for genetic improvement
- How to analyse farm performance - part of providing a farm service
- A recommendation has been made - but is it economic?
- Combining consultancy with veterinary practice
- Feeding management to improve farm profitability
- How can you apply recent developments in fleece testing to make your clients sheep flock more profitable
- A national approach to footrot control
- Cattle transmit virulent footrot to sheep - new implications for eradication programs
- What role will footrot vaccines play in local and national eradication programs
- Eradication options for footrot - how to assess using Footfix
- Eradicating non-benign forms - the best approach
- Footrot diagnosis - does the laboratory have a role?
- Salmonellosis in sheep - is prevention possible and practical?
- Advances in the control and treatment of ovine dermatophilosis
- Caseous lymphadenitis causes wool production loss in three commercial sheep flocks
- Health and production of sheep grazing saltbrush
- Effect of zinc administration on copper and heliotrope poisoning
- Cheap identification systems for traceback purposes
- Reliability of fleece measurements in Merinos at different ages
- Controlling dark fibres
- Transgenesis to increase wool production
- Potential of controlled release systems for the topical application of insecticides to sheep
- Results of sheep lice survey including evaluation of lice detection methods
- The lice detection test - its uses for farmers and epidemiologists
- Resistance to synthetic pyrethroids in populations of sheep lice in South Australia - is it a problem?
- The no dip' policy for lice - how carefully have you considered latent infestations in 'clean' flocks?
- Maintenance of efficient dipping procedures
- Progress in the sheep lice eradication campaign in W.A. - the first four years 1987-1991
- Lice action groups - a new approach to animal health extension
- Potential of Bacillus thuringiensis in the control of sheep lice
- Chemical residues in the South Australian wool clip - now and in the future
- Worm control on the farm - what's not in the book
- Monitoring worm control in sheep flocks using pasture larval counts
- Monitoring faecal egg counts (FEC) instead of a second summer drench
- Drench reversion - myth or reality?
- Worm control for the '90s - a new look at current approaches
- Haemonchosis in S.A. - how does it hang on?
- Control of haemonchosis in winter rainfall environments
- Anthelmintic resistance testing - a social marketing approach
- Safety and efficacy trials of controlled release albendazole capsules in weaner sheep