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 | | Scobie of AgResearch (2004) observes that “[w]ool quality tends to suffer on wrinkly sheep” and, citing the findings of other scientists, further reports, “Australian research has shown that mulesed wrinkly sheep were just as likely to be flystruck as plain-bodied sheep that were not mulesed.” Scobie et al. |
 | | Tellam and Bowles (1996) write that “[o]ne of the mainstays of the wool industry for control of blowfly strike is the use of insecticides[,]” which can be “used in dressings applied to flystruck areas on sheep” (p 263). |
 | | And Tellam and Bowles (1996) explain that shearing and crutching (“the removal of dags and urine-stained wool from around the breech area”), especially when synchronized with the worst periods of fly activity, decrease “the likelihood of fly strike” by “reducing the attractiveness of this region to the gravid female blowfly” (pp 262-263). |
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