The third book in the organic farming series shows how to produce livestock using organic farming methods, with particular emphasis on sheep and wool.
Contents
- Organic livestock
- Animal welfare
- Parasite problems for ruminants - sheep, cattle, goats and deer:
- Problems and solutions
- Internal parasites, roundworms
- Buy and cull for worm resistance
- Develop a worm-resistant mob
- Nutrition is important
- Stocking rate and worm burdens
- Rotate stock to avoid worms
- Grazing to avoid worms
- Quarantine paddocks
- Monitor your stock
- It's worth recording
- Sheep:
- Maintain good health in a mob
- Are worms the problem?
- Sheep resistance to worms
- Barbers pole worms
- Liver fluke
- Flystrike
- Body lice
- Footrot
- Worm egg counts
- Monitor counts
- The full test
- Storing and transporting samples
- Using the results
- What the farmers say (10 case studies)
- Vealers
- Deer, cattle and sheep
- Prime lamb
- Lamb and beef
- Beef
- Dairy - yoghurts
- The creek and the eggs
- Dairy experience from Bavaria
- Tasmanian seaweed and angus cattle
- Mungalli creek - dairy, factory and teahouse
- Milk, butter, yoghurts and cheeses
- Pigs
- mussels - a marketing potential
- Gippsland dairies
- Turkey
- Wool
- Eggs
Author: Jennifer Laffan
ISBN: 9780731306145 | 90 pages | A4
Catalogue number: B164
Publisher: NSW Department of Primary Industries | 2000