Improving overall flock health is the aim of three upcoming workshops to be held at Gelantipy, Swifts Creek and Bengworden this month.
Run by Agriculture Victoria, the integrated worm management practices for sheep workshops will focus on critical strategies like monitoring drench effectiveness, grazing management and breeding for resistance.
The presenter will be the Bairnsdale BestWool/BestLamb group coordinator, Ben Bloomfield, who is also a veterinary consultant from Melbourne University’s Mackinnon Project.
The workshop topics include outcomes of the drench resistance testing undertaken as part of the worm management projects, as well as the importance of quarantine drenching; grazing management to reduce worm burdens in pastures and flocks; breeding for resistance and an update on the demonstration sites in each area.
Dr Blomfield will also speak about his Cattle Worm Producer Demonstration Sites for those interested at the end of the sessions.
The three workshops will take place in the third week of October, the first on Monday, October 13, 9.30am-12.30pm at 58 Saleyard Road, Gelantipy.
The second that same Monday from 5pm-8pm at the DEECA office, 13 McMillan Avenue, Swifts Creek, and the third the following day, Tuesday, October 14 from 9.30am-12.30pm at the Gippsland Ag Centre, 345 Bengworden Road, Bengworden.
For more information contact AgVic’s Keren Walker at Swifts Creek.
Registrations need to be made by October 10.
