Grazing BMP animal health and welfare module resources

Productive, profitable and sustainable cattle businesses have good animal health and welfare management. The Grazing BMP animal health and welfare module covers:

1. Health management programs
2. Extreme weather events and predation
3. Biosecurity
4. Animal welfare
5. Transport.

This page summarises the references used to create the animal health and welfare module and highlights additional, complementary resources and activities that you may find useful. Visit the Grazing BMP website to find out more.

FutureBeef staff

Extension activities and workshops

• Presentation by Steve Banney, Steve Banney Agribusiness, Tuchekoi, Queensland.

Publications

• Animal health and welfare module reference manual – under development
• A guide to best practice husbandry in beef cattle: Branding, castrating and dehorning (PDF, 3MB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia (2007)
• Hormone growth promotants and beef production: a best practice guide (PDF, 5MB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia (2011)
• Recommendations for integrated buffalo fly control (Revised edition 2011) (PDF, 507KB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia
• Is it fit to load: a national guide to the selection of animals fits to transport (Revised edition 2012) (PDF, 2MB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia
• Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Cattle, Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines.
• McBarron, EJ 1983. ‘Poisonous plants: handbook for farmers and graziers’, Inkata Press, Melbourne, Victoria.
• Dowling, RM and McKenzie, RA 1993. ‘Poisonous plants: a field guide’, Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane, Queensland.
• McBarron, EJ 1976. ‘Medical and veterinary aspects of plant poisoning in New South Wales’, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales.
• Sackett, D et al 2006. ‘Assessing the economic cost of endemic disease on the profitability of Australian beef cattle and sheep producers’, Final report AHW.087, Meat & Livestock Australia, North Sydney, New South Wales.
• Brightling, A 2006. ‘Livestock diseases in Australia: diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and farm dogs in Australia’, C.H. Jerram & Associates, Mt. Waverley, Victoria.
• Hungerford, TG 1990. ‘Diseases of Livestock’, McGraw-Hill, Sydney, New South Wales.

Fact sheets

• Minimising land transport stress in live export Brahman steers (PDF, 121KB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia (2005)
• Preparation of cattle for live export (PDF, 138KB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia (2008)

Web-based resources

• AUSVETPLAN, Animal Health Australia
• More Beef from Pastures – Module 6: Herd health and welfare, Meat & Livestock Australia
• Risk assessment requirements and process, Livestock Production Assurance
• Seasonal forecast information, Bureau of Meteorology
  
• North Australian Fire Information
• Welfare of drought-affected livestock, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
• Biosecurity measures to protect property and livestock, Farm Biosecurity
  
• National biosecurity reference manual: grazing livestock production (2012), Farm Biosecurity
• A guide to best practice husbandry in beef cattle: Branding, castrating and dehorning (PDF, 3MB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia (2007)
• Managing cattle in dry conditions: Pastoralists’ options and animal welfare responsibilities (PDF, 684KB), Department of Agriculture and Food (2010)
• Australian Standards and Guidelines for the Land Transport of Livestock, Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines
  
• Is it fit to load: a national guide to the selection of animals fits to transport (Revised edition 2012) (PDF, 2MB) – download from Meat & Livestock Australia