Welcome to Zapp's Lice Smart management tool

Working with a group of key industry experts from around the country, Bayer Australia has compiled a list of the key risk factors for lice infestation. By measuring your own property against these risk factors, you can assess your risk of infestation and where necessary take the appropriate steps to protect your income.

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Answer Yes or No to the following questions and you will be able to determine what risk you have to lice and what appropriate management steps you should undertake to reduce that risk and increase your wool clip and profit.

This should take about 10 minutes.

Section 1: External Factors
Yes
No
N/A
01. Have you purchased rams or introduced sheep to your property?
02. Did you inspect and treat sheep for lice when they arrived on your property?
03. Do you quarantine introduced sheep for one month?
04. Did your introduced sheep have more than four months of wool?
05. Have stray sheep been known to enter your property?
06. Have the stray sheep ever been known to have lice?
07. Do your neighbours run sheep as opposed to other non-sheep activities?
   
 

Section 2: Shearing
Yes
No
N/A
08. When shearing, do you always achieve full muster?
09. Did you shear and treat your stragglers within four weeks of the rest of the flock?
10. Do you split shear (shearing lambs or wethers and/or ewes at different times during the year)?
11. If split shearing, do you keep sheep shorn at different times separate?
12. Are you lambing in the period up to six weeks prior to shearing?
13. Do you shear and treat sheep such as pets and killers?
14. Would you rate the quality of your shearing as moderate (Yes) or less (No)?
   
 

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Section 3: Lice Treatment
Yes
No
N/A
15. Has the person applying the lice treatment ever done so before?
16. Are there unshorn lambs at the time the flock is treated for lice?
17. Did you treat your sheep for lice 12 months ago?
18. Did you treat your sheep for lice 12 to 24 months ago?
19. Do you weigh your sheep before treatment?
20. Has your stock and station agent ever mentioned your sheep are lousy?
21. Do you visually inspect mobs for lice at crutching?
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What season do you shear? (Choose all that apply)
Spring Summer Autumn Winter
   
 

What number of sheep do you run?
Sheep weight
Number of sheep
Potential cost of lice
Up to 10 kg
$ 
10.1–20 kg
$ 
20.1–30 kg
$ 
30.1–55 kg
$ 
55.1–75 kg
$ 
75.1–85 kg
$ 
85.1–95 kg
$ 
Total
$ 
   
 

Property size (Choose only one)
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