Tail docking is routinely carried out to avoid soiling of the fleece around a lamb’s rear and thus prevent fly strike – a painful condition where flies lay their eggs in the wool, resulting in maggots ...

DOCKING a sheep’s tail is the common practice of shortening the length of the tail. In other parts of the world, it is done to avoid fly strike and to reduce faecal soiling. Fly strike occurs when ...

The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) today launched its "Report on the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs". The report considers the implications of castration and ...

And the latest information correlates with findings from as far back as 100 years ago. The advice comes from Australian Wool Innovation and Meat and Livestock Australia. It’s prompted AWI research, ...

D’amour Ntirenganya is an ardent Smart Harvest reader from Rwanda. I met him during a recent visit to Netherlands for an agricultural forum and we interacted briefly. As we got acquainted, D’amour ...

Sheep in a field in Moscow, Idaho. Long tails often cause health and hygiene problems for sheep. To solve this, a research project at Washington State University aims to eliminate the trait that ...