Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
THE recent seizures of livestock from three Victorian properties have been highlighted in a warning to all producers from Agriculture Victoria this week…Read More
Sheep Central, April 1, 2025
WESTERN Australian lamb lotfeeder Geoff Bilney prefers non-mulesed Merinos over the more commonly mulesed lambs and can see a day when lamb processors will demand that lambs not have the breech modification…Read More
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
ANIMAL welfare group opposition to lamb mulesing has been ramped up with the practice’s inclusion as a Queensland election issue and the lobbying of King Charles to support the breeding of flystrike-resistant Merino sheep…Read More
Terry Sim, October 18, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
ANIMAL welfare bodies have stepped up government lobbying to phase out the mulesing of sheep in Australia by 2030, releasing a report highlighting the Australian wool industry’s ‘broken promise’ to ban the practice by 2010…Read More
Terry Sim, September 18, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S peak wool grower body has pushed back strongly on a report criticising the lack of progress on ending mulesing in the nation’s sheep flocks…Read More
Sheep Central, September 18, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AN automated sheep catching pen that brings the woolies to the shearer has won the coveted 2024 Henty Machine of the Year at the annual field days this week…Read More
Sheep Central, September 18, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A WEST Wimmera sheep farmer has been fined $10,000 and convicted for cruelty to livestock in the Horsham Magistrates Court…Read More
Sheep Central, September 13, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
TASMANIA’S peak farmer body has called for higher penalties and public help to improve farm security after a recent spate of illegal livestock butchering incidents…Read More
Sheep Central, September 4, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A GIPPSLAND farmer Jeremy Rich has failed recently in his attempt to have his conviction and sentence relating to sheep care concerns overturned in the County Court of Victoria…Read More
Sheep Central, August 28, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
TENS of millions of sheep in Australia could be at risk of compromised welfare from short-docked tails, according to the results of a recent survey and previous research…Read More
Sheep Central, July 31, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S National Heavy Vehicle Regulator is urging livestock supply chain stakeholders to follow safer transport practices, following 14 crashes involving livestock in the first four months of 2024…Read More
Sheep Central, July 15, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A NORTHERN Victorian farmer has pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated cruelty involving sheep, and been fined $2000 and ordered to do 100 hours of community service…Read More
Sheep Central, June 26, 2024