MULES' OPERATION.

Contributions by veterinarians in developing the Mules operation for control of breech flystrike in sheep

JWH Mules was an Australian stockman, who had been an overseer at Clare in South Australia, A cattle stockman at Cooper Creek, Queensland, a property owner in central New South Wales then in Queensland where he was victim of the 1914 drought. He returned to South Australia as a property manager and was able eventually to acquire a small property where he reared Peppin Merinos for stud. He exper...

A benefit-cost analysis of the mules operation to the Australian sheep flock

This paper reports a benefit-cost analysis of the value of mulesing to Australian sheep producers. It was estimated that the average Australian sheep producer receives a benefit of approximately $1.84 per sheep each year from mulesing their lambs. If flocks did not routinely mules their lambs, it was predicted that they would need a significant increase in on-farm labour. The high cost of this ...

Mary Shortridge Mules

Nutrition of Horses and Mules

THE PRINCIPLES of the nutrition of horses and mules ^ fundamentalh^ are not unlike those of other domestic livestock. Thus^ for body building and maintenance, for growth, and for production, the horse and mule have need for protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins, much as these essentials are required for similar vital processes by cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry. The relative im...

Rice MULEs Transpose in Yeast

Named for their mutational effect, Mutatorlike transposable elements (MULEs) in plant genomes transpose frequently and can also acquire pieces of genomic DNA, forming Pack-MULEs; movement and recombination of genomic fragments by Pack-MULEs can alter the regulation of existing genes and may form new genes (Jiang et al., 2004; reviewed in Chénais et al., 2012). MULEs have terminal inverted repea...