A SURVEY CONCERNING CATTLE TICK CONTROL IN QUEENSLAND#

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This paper reports findings concerning property management from the 1977-1978 survey of tick control in Queensland, which could effect efficient tick control. A profile of the cattle industry in the tick infested areas at the time of the survey is also given. The average property size was 400 h and the average number of cattle on the properties was 726.4. Larger properties tended to have crossbred Zebu cattle. The average number of paddocks/property was 7.2. The most popular stabilized crossbred Zebu breed was Santa Gertrudis but the most common type of cattle was crossbred Zebu, which was on 30% of properties. There were negligible numbers of crossbred Zebu cattle on dairy properties. Control of other external parasites may result in additional dippings in areas where they occur. Although fence maintenance is carried out, the effectiveness of tick control measures, such as pasture spelling and dipping, which depend on clean musters, could be affected by the occurrence of fire, floods and other natural disasters on 1/2 the properties in the tick infested areas. There is no evidence that attention to other farming activities (mainly cropping) prevents producers from paying sufficient attention to tick control. Cropping often provides the opportunity for producers to rotate cattle around pastures.

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