Mulesing is a form of surgery the animal activists consider painful and cruel. Dr Watts said wool from plain-bodied sheep sold well in Japan and Europe and provided a good solution.

The industry said it would end mulesing by 2010, but has not found an easy solution after spending up to $40 million on keeping sheep safe from flystrike. Country Road is already sourcing the wool ...

Mulesing is a surgical procedure performed on-farm on lambs, usually between two and 12 weeks of age, to remove wool-bearing skin from the tail and breech area of sheep in order to prevent ...

Murder mystery North Shore has been in the top 10 shows on Netflix for the past three weeks, but one episode in particular and its discussion of mulesing has farmers up in arms.

Speaking at the Victorian Farmers Federation livestock conference in Bendigo, Wool Producers Australia chief executive Jo ...

MULESING sheep without pain relief will be banned under draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals regulations due to come into effect later this year. Read the Paper Tributes. Rewards.

Mulesing is the surgical removal of wrinkled skin around the breech of the sheep, which protects it from the debilitating and often fatal consequences of flystrike.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian Wool Growers Association chairman Martin Oppenheimer said he expected Australian producers to have found alternatives to ...

Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo is to phase out the use of wool from Australian suppliers who use a controversial method of pest control animal rights activists say is cruel. The declaration comes a… ...

Mulesing is now banned in all major wool-exporting countries — including South Africa, Uruguay and Argentina — except Australia, the world’s largest merino wool producer. The shift follows ...

PRODUCERS in New Zealand have just weeks left before a ban on mulesing sheep comes into effect.The mulesing ban is one of a number of changes to the country’s Animal Welfare Care and Procedures ...

A genetic mutation that has left some Australian sheep with bare backsides could provide an alternative to the controversial practise of mulesing.