Australia You Have Footrot, Time to Start Breeding Against it!

S F Walkom; K L Bunter; H Raadsma; D J Brown; M B Ferguson

Australia You Have Footrot, Time to Start Breeding Against it!

S F Walkom
, K L Bunter
, H Raadsma
, D J Brown
, M B Ferguson

Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit

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Abstract

Footrot affects all aspects of sheep production and has substantial welfare and economic impacts in the New Zealand (NZ) and Australian sheep industries. Merino sheep managed in high rainfall environments are particularly susceptible. Funding and support from the NZ fine wool industry has enabled development of a breeding value for footrot susceptibility. Currently, breeding values with a reportable accuracy are available for approximately 30,000 MERINOSELECT animals. However, only 97 of these animals are from Australian flocks. The following manuscript challenges Australian sheep breeders to take advantage of the resource developed by the NZ fine-wool industry and consider their own input into improving the outcomes for Australian breeders looking to reduce footrot susceptibility within their flocks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	556-559
Journal	Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Volume	23
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	AAABG 2019: 23rd Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics - University of New England, Armidale, Australia Duration: 27 Oct 2019 → 1 Nov 2019

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