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Agricultural Economics

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

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Full-Text Articles in Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health

Weighing Scales For Sheep Do Pay, W D. Roberts Jan 1989

Weighing Scales For Sheep Do Pay, W D. Roberts

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Sheep producers can improve production by using weighing scales and keeping accurate records of weights.

Withiut some objective measurement, such as weighing, producers have no accurate method of identifying the heaviest, lightest and average weight of a group of sheep.

They could try to esstimate weight by eye - but most people are poor judges of body weight.


Worms In Sheep. 4. Drenches For Treatment And Control Of Worms In Sheep, W A. Halhead Jan 1968

Worms In Sheep. 4. Drenches For Treatment And Control Of Worms In Sheep, W A. Halhead

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

PREVIOUS articles in this series have described the species of worms affecting sheep in Western Australia, their life histories and the factors which lead to the seasonal rise and fall in worm burdens.

A programme of strategic (preventative) drenching has been outlined which is based on a knowledge of these seasonal changes in worm burdens.