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ClassiFly is a one-day workshop to increase understanding and skills in breeding sheep for natural flystrike resistance.

 

simplifly1.jpgClassiFly™ is for any woolgrower that is looking to improve their understanding of what is involved in breeding sheep that are resistant to flystrike, regardless of their climate, and operating and husbandry environments.

The one-day workshop is designed to increase woolgrower knowledge and skills in classing and selection strategies for improved flystrike resistance. Improving a sheep’s natural resistance to flystrike through breeding reduces the risk of flystrike in both mulesed and non-mulesed sheep, reducing labour and reliance on chemical use, mulesing, and crutching. These activities are generally the most labour intensive and costly tools, so reducing reliance on these can improve productivity and profitability, along with improving the lifetime welfare of sheep.

Woolgrowers work through practical activities that enable them to leave with a written breeding objective, specific to their property, that helps further focus their breeding and selection decisions on traits that improve overall animal welfare, profitability and productivity.

 

 

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UPCOMING CLASSIFLY WORKSHOPS

ClassiFly workshops are available from the AWI state grower extension networks. To find out when there is going to be a workshop available near you or to register your interest in a ClassiFly workshop in your region, contact your state AWI grower extension network and sign up to their free newsletters. For contact details and information about AWI’s state grower extension networks visit www.wool.com/networks

RESOURCES USED IN CLASSIFLY

Have you attended a ClassiFly workshop? Links to the publicly available resources that were used or referred to in the workshop are below.

MORE INFORMATION ON FLYSTRIKE

For further information on AWI’s Flystrike Extension Program visit www.wool.com/flystrikeresources

For more detailed information on flystrike management, including access to interactive decision support tools, visit www.flyboss.com.au.  

For information on AWI’s flystrike research, development and extension program, visit www.wool.com/flystrike.

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