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Latest Flystrike Publications

AWI's latest breech flystrike prevention research and publications.

 

AWI's latest publications on flystrike prevention. Click the links below to navigate to the publications in each section.

 

Flystrike Program Overview
Analgesia and Anaesthesia
Management Practices
Breeding and Selection
Education, Extension and Promotion
Woolgrower Surveys
Most Recent RD&E Technical Update
Other Publications and Links
 
Flystrike Extension Program
Managing Chemical Resistance
 
 

 

Flystrike Program Overview

Flystrike Research Update
Resources for woolgrowers to assist in managing flystrike


15/11/2022 AWI Flystrike RDEEC Strategy 2022/2023 – 2024/25

01/11/2022 AWI Flystrike Extension Program on a Page – Nov 2022

04/04/2022 More AWI resources to help woolgrowers beat the blowfly – March 2022 Beyond the Bale

16/12/2021 AWI investing more on fighting flystrike – December 2021 Beyond the Bale article

16/11/2020 Flystrike R&D progress - Beyond the Bale June 2020

02/09/2019 A Review of Predisposing Factors for Breech Flystrike - Final Report

23/11/2017 AWI Breech Strike RD&E Program – Improving Lifetime Welfare presentation
Breech Flystrike Causal Web

During a review of breech flystrike research, a team of flystrike experts were asked to identify the risk factors for breech flystrike and their interactions with the other risk factors.  This work led to the development, by Ausvet Pty Ltd, of the Causal Web of Ovine Breech Flystrike in Australia.

The Breech Flystrike Causal Web is available here.

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Management Practices

Industry Communications on Management Practices

16/12/2021 Combatting chemical resistance – December 2021 Beyond the Bale Article

16/12/2021 Managing Chemical Resistance – factsheet

19/03/2021 Vaccine researchers striking back against flystrike – March 2021 Beyond the Bale article

08/12/2020 Blowfly Population Sampling Project Update - December 2020 Beyond the Bale article

08/12/2020 Blowfly Insecticide Resistance Project Update - December 2020 Beyond the Bale article

13/03/2020 Flystrike Vaccine Research Update March 2020 Beyond the Bale article

09/09/2019 Dags, don’t get caught up S**t Creek - September 2019 Beyond the Bale article

10/06/2019 Insecticide Resistance Strategy to Maximise Flystrike Control - June 2019 Beyond the Bale article

08/03/2019 Flystrike Treatments during drought - March 2019 Beyond the Bale article

12/03/2019 Flystrike Vaccine Research underway - March 2019 Beyond the Bale article

11/03/2019 Your chance to influence Parasite Research - March 2019 Beyond the Bale article

08/03/2019 Tail docking – don’t cut it short - March 2019 Beyond the Bale article

04/02/2019 Manual - Managing Breech Flystrike - February 2019

10/12/2018 What’s bugging you? - Dec 2018 Beyond the Bale article

07/09/2018 How well performing are your blowfly and lice treatments? - September 2018 Beyond the Bale article

07/09/2018 Making the transition to a ceased mulesing flock - September 2018 Beyond the Bale article

 

Project Reports on Management Practices

15/11/2022 Project Final Report – ON00624 Informed Development of a Flystrike Vaccine UoM

18/05/2022 Project Final Report – ON-00590 Nanotechnology Project

18/01/2022 Project Final Report – ON-00651 Development of a Model for Flystrike Resistance Management

31/05/2021 Towards the Commercialisation of New Environmentally Friendly Insecticides, including those Targeting Sheep Body Louse and Blowfly Ecdysone Receptors

19/03/2021 Project Final Report – ON-00485 Evaluating methods for conducting faecal egg count reduction tests in sheep using McMaster technique, Mini-FLOTAC and pooled counts

20/11/2020 Project Final Report – Sheep Blowfly Resistance Update 2018 -2020

21/07/2020 Project Final Report - 200717 ON721 Identifying T.cylindrosporum

08/07/2020 Project Final Report – Control of Fleece Rot and Lumpy Wool by Vaccination: Feasibility Review and Options

02/06/2020 Project Final Report – New Chemicals for Sheep Blowfly Control

12/08/2019 Project Final Report – A Review of Sheep Blowfly Pathogen Control - August 2019

06/08/2019 Project Final Report on CRISPR Phase 3 – Developing gene knockout technology in the sheep blowfly

02/11/2018 Final Project Summary Report – ON-00373 Genetics of Blowfly Parasitism November 2018

17/09/2024 Final Report - Genetic analysis of dicyclanil and cyromazine resistance mechanisms in Australian Sheep Blowfly

17/09/2024 Final Report - Wolbachia for Lucilia cuprina control

01/05/2024 Final Report - Vaccine for Control of Flystrike.pdf

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Breeding and Selection

Industry Communications on Breeding and Selection

07/02/2023 Introduction to Stockmanship

07/02/2023 Introduction to Merino Visual Classing

07/02/2023 Merino Genetic Trends

07/02/2023 Welfare and production ASBVs

04/04/2022 AWI and AGBU partnering for genomics and the MLP analysis – March 2022 Beyond the Bale

16/12/2021 Breeding productive naturally flystrike resistant Merinos – December 2021 Beyond the Bale article

26/05/2021 Moving to NM in Rangelands Forum

19/03/2021 Breeding for natural flystrike resistant Merinos – publications - March 2021

31/08/2020 Rate of Genetic Gain in Reducing Breech Flystrike – Forbes Brien

31/08/2020 Planning for a Non-Mulesed Merino Enterprise

31/08/2020 Breeding and Selection – Industry Trends – Geoff Lindon

04/06/2024 Visual Sheep Scores – Producer Version 4 - 2024

01/06/2020 Breeding Naturally Breech Strike Resistant Merinos, Part 1 - June 2020 Beyond the Bale article

02/09/2020 Breeding Naturally Breech Strike Resistant Merinos, Part 2 - September 2020 Beyond the Bale article

06/03/2020 Sheep Flystrike Risk Factors March 2020 Beyond the Bale article

09/09/2019 Can Genomics assist with reducing the risk of breech flystrike? – September 2019 Beyond the Bale article

07/06/2019 Low Wrinkle-High Fleece Weight - June 2019 Beyond the Bale article

07/06/2019 Genetically Reducing Breech Flystrike - June 2019 Beyond the Bale article

09/06/2017 Breeding lower wrinkle and dag June 2017 Beyond the Bale article

03/07/2017 DAFWA Breech Strike Resistance Newsletter Issue 7 - July 2017

07/11/2016 CSIRO Armidale Newsletter Issue 7 - November 2016
Project Reports on Breeding and Selection

16/03/2021 Project Final Report on Explanatory modelling – Exploratory data analysis of two research flocks

26/08/2020 Project Final Report on Breeding for Breech Flystrike Prevention by CSIRO – August 2016

26/08/2020 Project Final Report on Breeding for Breech Flystrike Prevention by DAFWA – June 2016

02/07/2019 Project Final Report on Genotyping of Breech Flystrike Resource - Update - July 2019

06/06/2019 Project Report - Rate of Genetic Gain in Reducing Breech Flystrike - Update June 2019

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Analgesia and Anaesthesia

Industry Communications on Analgesia and Anaesthesia

19/03/2021 Analgesics and anaesthetics deliver on-the-ground-benefits – March 2021 Beyond the Bale article

30/07/2024 Anaesthetics and analgesics at lamb marking - factsheet

06/12/2019 Anaesthetics and analgesics including FAQs - Beyond the Bale article

10/12/2018 Numnuts numbs nuts (and tails)! - Beyond the Bale article

08/06/2018 Pain relief research for mulesing - Beyond the Bale article

08/06/2018 Observed benefits of using Buccalgesic® with Tri-Solfen® - Beyond the Bale article

07/12/2017 Buccalgesic® formally approved for mulesing Beyond the Bale article
Project Reports on Analgesia and Anaesthesia

12/06/2020 Project Final Report on Gap Evaluation of Pain Alleviation

26/06/2019 Metabolism study to determine the quantity and identify the nature of parent compounds and metabolites in ovine tissue and fluids following the topical administration of TRI-SOLFEN - Final Report

29/05/2018 Welfare assessments of analgesic options in female lambs for surgical mulesing and its alternatives

Further information on Analgesia and Anaesthesia is available here.

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Education, Extension and Promotion

Industry Communications on Education, Extension and Promotion

04/04/2022 Fleece rot and lumpy wool are not the same - March 2022 Beyond the Bale

03/09/2021 Fleece rot and lumpy wool are not the same – a fact sheet

19/03/2021 Flystrike Webinar a practical and timely guide – March 2021 Beyond the Bale article

01/02/2020 Plan Prepare Conduct Best Practice Lamb Marking Training Guide

06/08/2019 Dealing with Dag Fact Sheet

06/08/2019 Dealing with Dag – Advisor Manual

10/09/2018 Fashion Giant Learns about animal welfare - September 2018 Beyond the Bale article

01/03/2018 Planning for a non-mulesed Merino enterprise
Project Reports on Education, Extension and Promotion

08/12/2020 Evaluation of the anthelmintic efficacy situation on member farms of the Tablelands Farming System (TFS): Project ON-710 Final Report

20/04/2020 Putting Wormboss into Practice: Project ON-493 Final Report

 

Woolgrower Surveys

04/01/2023 2021 AWI Merino Husbandry Practices Survey

31/10/2022 Trends in mulesing, tail docking and castration practices of Australian woolgrowers: Results of the 2021 AWI Merino Husbandry Practices Survey

10/08/2020 2018 Benchmarking Australian Sheep Parasite Control Survey

27/02/2019 2017 AWI Merino Husbandry Practices Survey

03/02/2014 Benchmarking Australian Sheep Parasite Control – Cross-Sectional Analysis Report

04/02/2014 Benchmarking Australian Sheep Parasite Control – Longitudinal Analysis Report February 2014

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Most Recent RD&E Technical Update

The following are presentations from the latest AWI Flystrike RD&E Technical Update held on the 10th August 2022.


17/08/2022 1. 2022 Flystrike Forum Welcome & Intro – Bridget Peachey

17/08/2022 2. 2022 Flystrike Forum Supply Chain Engagement – Emma Gittoes

17/08/2022 3. 2022 Flystrike Forum Industry Strategy Plans – Scott Williams

17/08/2022 4. 2022 Flystrike Forum NWD Update – Mark Grave & Kerry Hansford

17/08/2022 5+6. 2022 Flystrike Forum Genetic Trends & Genomics – Geoff Lindon

17/08/2022 7. 2022 Flystrike Forum Nanotechnology – Peter James

17/08/2022 8. 2022 Flystrike Forum Flystrike Vaccine – Tony Vuocolo

17/08/2022 9. 2022 Flystrike Forum Blowfly Chemical Resistance – Trent Perry

17/08/2022 10. 2022 Flystrike Forum Blowfly Chemical Resistance – Narelle Sales

17/08/2022 11. 2022 Flystrike Forum Blowfly Chemical Resistance – Brian Horton

17/08/2022 12. 2022 Flystrike Forum Flystrike Extension Program – Emily King

17/08/2022 13. 2022 Flystrike Forum ParaBoss for Producers – Adam Pate

17/08/2022 14. 2022 Flystrike Forum MLA Flystrike Projects – Michael Laurence

Presentations from past Flystrike Prevention RD&E Updates are available here.

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Other Publications

Wool Market

13/11/2020 NWD Wool Market – September 2020 Beyond the Bale article

11/09/2018 Premiums and discounts for mulesing status - September 2018 Beyond the Bale article
General Sheep Health & Welfare Publications
Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines

National Animal Welfare RDE Strategy

National Animal Biosecurity RDE Strategy

Sheep Sustainability Framework

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Articles That Might Interest You

Current Flystrike Research
An overview of the AWI flystrike program and its progress. Read more
Breeding and Selection for Flystrike Resistance
Breeding for more flystrike resistant sheep plays a critical role in controlling flystrike in non-mulesed flocks as well as reducing the risk of flystrike in mulesed sheep. Read more
Analgesia and Anaesthesia
Options for alleviating pain associated with surgical husbandry practices. Read more
Flystrike Management Practices
Welfare improved management practices to reduce the risk of flystrike. Read more
AWI Flystrike Extension Program
AWI’s Flystrike Extension Program supports woolgrowers in improving the lifetime welfare of their sheep, reducing their reliance on mulesing and crutching, optimising chemical use and increasing whole farm profitability through the provision of practical information and tools and access to accredited advisor support. Read more
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