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This page is maintained with the assistance of Dr Kym Abbott, Associate Professor Chis Maxwell and Associate Professor Peter Wynn of the University of Sydney, Faculty of Veterinary Science.

Information Gateways

NetVet - Small Ruminants, Sheep
This information gateway, part of the larger NetVet site, consists of a collection of useful links to resources pertaining to sheep.

General Resources

The University of Sydney Library Catalogue
Recommended subject headings on the University of Sydney Library Catalogue are listed below. Please check all related subject headings for comprehensive results.

sheep
also see related subjects such as ewes, lambs and rams.

Sheep Health & Production
A course for Veterinary Science V students produced by KA Abbott and WMC Maxwell, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney. Topics covered include farm management, genetics, nutrition, reproduction, and diseases.

Livestock Library
This project was developed and funded by the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies and the Australian Sheep Industry CRC and funded by Australian Wool Innovation Limited. Provides access to beef and sheep industry journal articles, conference proceedings and factsheets. Resources can be searched by Author, Title, or Keyword.

Notes Information Series: Sheep
Collection of Agriculture Notes published by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. Subject areas covered include: breeds, diseases and health, drought, feeding and nutrition, reproduction, and wool.

Australian Sheep Industry CRC
The Australian Sheep Industry CRC is a joint venture between Australia's leading sheep research, education and industry organisations that was established in 2002 under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program. Its website provides news and details of events and research activities and makes its publications freely available.

Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries - Sheep
Collection of resources published by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. Features sections on breeding and genetics, drought, pastures and resource management, production and nutrition, and health and welfare.

Agriculture Western Australia - Sheep information
This site, from Agriculture Western Australia, provides links to all information about sheep published by Agirculture Western Australia.

SARDI - Meat and Wool
The South Australian Research and Development Institute conducts research and development into the food, fibre, and biosciences industries. This section on meat and wool includes resources on genetics and reproduction, health and metabolism, and livestock facilities.

Sheep Resources
Complied by the Animal Science Department of Oklahoma State University. The information has been divided into broad headings: breed associations; breeds and selection information; breeder's lists; publications; diseases; disorders and pests; general information; nutrition and feeding; production and husbandry; reproduction and wool information.

OSU Factsheets - Sheep
Collection of factsheets published by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service at Oklahoma State University. Topics covered include: reproduction, diseases, and herd management.

Sheep and Goat Publications.
Published by The Texas A&M University Animal Science Extension Program Unit, USA, this site offers full text access to a number of short articles on sheep and goats. Subject covered include: anatomy, nutrition, and diseases.

Sheep research and education
Published by the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. This website publishes a collection of resources on sheep.

Emergency Euthanasia of Sheep and Goats
This report is part of the University of California Davis' Veterinary Medical Extension programme. The report offers a summary of the best practices for providing a humane death for sheep and goats in the absence of a veterinarian.

Historical livestock gallery
Hosted by Massey University, New Zealand, this website is a collection of images primarily from the collection of Dr F.W. Dry - a foundation lecturer at Massey Agricultural College - as it was then called. There are six sheep photo galleries as well as a wool gallery.

Anatomy

sheep anatomy

Atlas of the Sheep Brain
Created by John I. Johnson, Keith D. Sudheimer, Kristina K. Davis and Brian M. Winn from Michigan State University, USA, this is an online atlas of the sheep brain. The majority of the atlas is images, with some text.

Sheep Brain Dissection Guide
Authored By Robert A.Wheeler, Anne E. Baldwin, Richard S. Reid, Jennifer J. Quinn, and J. Timothy Cannon, from the Neuroscience Program, University of Scranton, USA, this site is an online virtual Dissection of a sheep brain. The image of the brain being dissected is in the left window, with the dissection instructions and structure details displayed in the right window.

Diseases and Pests of Sheep

See also: Foot and Mouth Disease and Ovine Johne's Disease.

sheep diseases
sheep parasites
also look for specific diseases such as brucellosis in sheep, paratuberculosis, and footrot

WormBoss
WormBoss was developed by the Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre (Sheep CRC) and Australian Wool Innovation Ltd (AWI) to develop programs for the sustainable management and control of sheep worms. The website provides practical information for producers and is divided into sections on worm management, drenches, sheep, and worms.

Flock health and disease
Compiled by the NSW Department of Primary Industries, this site provides links to full text articles and papers on flock health. Includes articles on:

Sheep and Lambs: Health
Published by Agriculture Western Australia the Farmnotes are short one to four page documents produced on a specific topic. There are a number of farmnotes on sheep diseases:

AHA: Johne's Disease
Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne's disease and details of Johne's disease control programs in Australia. These include the National Ovine Johne's Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) and Market assurance Programs (MAPS)

Scrapie Information
Produced by the United States Department of Agriculture Veterinary Service, this site includes a fact sheet on scrapie, a video showing clinical signs, and a slide show. Although Australia and New Zealand are recognised as being free of scrapie, this site is useful for any veterinary or animal scientists planning to practice overseas.

Anthelmintic resistance
Published by CSIRO this is the full text of SCARM Technical Report No. 28. Report of the Working Party for the Animal Health Committee of the Standing Committee on Agriculture. The report discusses anthelmintic resistance in nematode parasites of sheep in Australia. The report is in .pdf format and a little slow to download.

Sheep: Disease Information
This site, by Merial information about sheep diseases. It divides the endoparasites and ectoparasites into their constituent groups, and looks at their biology, damage to the host and control issues.

AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
"AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.

National Animal Health Monitoring System: Sheep studies
"NAHMS sheep studies provide an overview of sheep health, productivity, and management on U.S. sheep operations as well as information on animal health concerns identified by producers, industry allies, Federal and State agencies, and researchers.". Topics covered include: scrapie, feedlot health and management, ovine progressive pneumonia, and biosecurity. Includes results of Sheep 2001, an extensive study on the US sheep industry.

Heartwater
This fact sheet outlines the history, symptoms, transmission and diagnosis of heartwater, a tick-born disease of ruminants. It also gives suggestions for control measures as reccommended by the United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Screwworm
This fact sheet gives basic information on screwworm, an insect that, in its larval stage, lives in the open wounds of livestock. It also talks about he US Screwworm Eradication Program, coordinated by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Wool

Wool and other animal fibres
Collection of articles published by NSW Department of Primary Industries on wool.

Australian Wool Innovation Ltd
AWI's mission is to "drive research, development and innovation that will increase the long-term profitability of Australian woolgrowers". Its website publishes details of its research programs and updates on wool projects.

DAFF - Industry Development - Wool
Part of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry website this page gives brief details of the Australian wool industry and a list of links to government and industry organisations involved in wool production and research.

Guidelines for producing European Ecolabel, low or nil residue wool
Authored by Di Evans, Development Officer - Integrated Pest Management (Wool Residues), Denmark, this Fact Sheet from Western Australia Agriculture outlines guidelines for producing low or nil residue wool.

Commonly used chemicals to treat sheep lice and blowflies
Authored by Di Evans, Development Officer - Integrated Pest Management (Wool Residues), Denmark, this Fact Sheet from Western Australia Agriculture examines the issue of commonly used chemicals to treat sheep lice and blowflies and how the residue from these chemicals can be reduced.

Wool Residue Update
Wool Residue Update is a news letter from the Integrated Pest Management (Wool Residues) Unit, attached to Western Australia Agriculture. The Update is not available on the Web, however anyone interested in being added to the newsletter mail list can contact Di Evans, from Western Australia Agriculture: by email: devans@agric.wa.gov.au or phone/fax her on 08 9848 1756. The Update can be received by email or post. See a sample of Wool Residue Update.

Aglinks: Wool
The wool industry section of the Aglinks Australian Agriculture directory. Sites are judged according to their content, and the directory is updated on a continuous basis.

Genetics breeds and reproduction

Australian Sheep Gene Mapping Web Site
This database is maintained by Jill Maddox of the Centre for Animal Biotechnology. It includes sheep markers, sheep maps and comparisons of sheep versus bovine, goat and human maps.

Sheep Genetics Australia
Sheep Genetics Australia is a national genetic information and evaluation service for the meat and wool sectors of the sheep industry and has been developed jointly by Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) and Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), together with industry. The site provides access to the LAMBPLAN and MERINOSELECT databases.

Sheep genome resources
Website hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information provides access to a collection of sheep genome resources. Includes an interactive viewer for genome maps, sequences, and genes.

UK Sheep Genome Mapping Project
"The project aims to apply genome mapping research to sheep, utilising previous research in sheep (in other countries) and in other species (in the UK and abroad) to the benefit of the UK sheep industry". The site publishes the results of research as well as providing links to other sheep genome publications.

USDA Sheep Genome Mapping Project
Publishes results of a project by US Department of Agriculture Meat Animal Research Center including linkage maps and marker tables. The site also allows the user to search the database for markers by name.

ARK database - Sheep
"The ARKdb database system provides comprehensive public repositories for genome mapping data from farmed and other animal species, providing a resource similar in function to that offered by GDB or MGD for human or mouse mapping data respectively. Data stored includes details of loci and markers, references/papers, authors, genetic linkage map assignments, cytogenetic map assignments, experimental techniques, PCR primers and conditions and any other data pertaining to genome mapping." The database can be accessed by locus/marker, by published reference or by map.

OXGRID - Sheep
Part of the Oxford Grid Project, this site is part of the Medvet and OMIA projects and is hosted by ANGIS. The site shows comparisons between the genome of sheep and other animals.

Breeds of livestock - Sheep
Part of the Oklahoma State University's Breeds of Livestock site, this page is an alphabetic index of sheep breeds. Each entry on a breed has a short descriptive article, a list of further references, and images of the sheep breed.

Sheep breeds in Australia
Part of the Australian Wool Innovation website. Gives a brief description of each Australian sheep breed.

New Zealand sheep breeds
Part of the New Zealand Sheepbreeders' Association website. Provides a list of New Zealand sheep breeds. Each entry contains an image and details about the origin and history of that breed, along with a description and classification.

Sheep - breeding and selection
Collection of articles published by NSW Department of Primary Industries on sheep breeding and reproduction.

Sheep - Breeding and genetics
Collection of resources published by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. Topics covered include ram reproductive health and management, maximising pregnancy rates, ram fertility, oestrus, ovulation, fertilisation and embryo mortality.

Reproductive Problems in Rams
Produced by the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nabraska-Lincoln, USA, this full text document examines possible causes of decreased reproductive efficiency and the prevention of reproductive problems in the ram.

Reproduction
Published by Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, USA. A collection of articles covering several aspects of sheep reproduction. Topics covered include: breeding soundness examinations, fertility testing, and reproductive management

Ovine Female Reproductive Anatomy
Part of the Learning reproduction in farm animals website created by Dr. Rodney D. Geisert of the Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University. The site consisits of several collections of labeled slides.

Ram Reproductive Anatomy
Part of the Learning reproduction in farm animals website created by Dr. Rodney D. Geisert of the Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University. The site consisits of several collections of labeled slides.

Nutrition

Sheep feeding and nutrition
Produced by the NSW Department Primary Industry, this page provides links to a series of full text papers on grazing and nutrition for sheep. Topics covered include: agistment guidelines, drought strategies, ewe management, fat scoring, feed controls, pastures and supplementary feeding of sheep.

Sheep Nutrition
Produced by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, this page provides links to a series of guides relating to sheep nutrition. Topics covered by the guides include:

Feeding Sheep
This fact sheet discusses many aspects of nutrition in sheep, including feeding ewes, lambs and rams. Information relating to types of feed, such as pasture, hay, silage, grain and alternative feeds is also provided. Vitamins, minerals, additives and water are also discussed. The site is authored by Extension animal scientist Steven H. Umberger, and published on the web by Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE), a joint educational outreach program of Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the US Department of Agriculture.

Nutrient Requirements of Sheep, Sixth Revised Edition, 1985
Published by the National Academy Press, this is a book produced by the US National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition. The full-text of this book is freely available online, and can be browsed by chapter or searched by keyword. This book looks at recent research in nutrition requirements for all phases of lamb and wool production. These have been incorporated into tables of energy requirements and feed formulas in both metric and English measurements. In addition, practical husbandry information and descriptions of nutritional deficiencies are supplemented by an extensive bibliography.

Associations / Organisations

Australian Sheep Veterinary Society (ASVS)

New Zealand Society of Animal Production

Sheep Veterinary Society (UK)

The Australian Suffolk Association

Current Awareness / Discussion Lists

SHEEP-L - Sheep Discussion Group
To subscribe: Send an email to: listserv@listserv.uu.se Write in the body of the email: subscribe SHEEP-L Your Name To post a message to the group, send an email to: sheep-l@listserv.uu.se

Recommended Research Databases and Indexes

Recommended research databases and indexes for this area of study are: CAB Abstracts, MEDLINE, AGRICOLA and Web of Science.


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