Worm resistant sheep bring pasture benefits

SELECTING for worm resistance is a good strategy for reducing worm burdens in sheep, but research in northern New South Wales has shown it can also be used to reduce worm burdens in pasture with flow-on benefits to less-resistant sheep. By Jill Griffiths.

27 June 2016
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ParaBoss Executive OfficerDr Lewis Kahn said the researchcompared the effect on pastureworm burdens from grazingwith Merino ewes from a worm-resistantselection line against ewes from anunselected

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