Australian Livestock Scanning Services delivers accurate sheep and cattle scanning operations as part of an efficient and professional service provided at the least possible cost, and aimed at improving the profitability of our clients.

About ALSS

• History
• Mission Statement
• Client Mix
• Staff
• Services Provided
• Sheep
• Cattle

Publicly available pages on this site:

• Sheep
1. Does Scanning Pay?
2. The Benefits and Pitfalls of Scanning sheep
3. Accuracy of scanning
4. Scanning: what can be done and what does it cost?
5. Faster Progress to Higher Flock Reproductive Performance
6. Faster Progress to Higher Lamb Survival Rates
7. Improving Lamb Survival Rates in Your Own Flock
8. Faster Progress to Higher Quality Wool
9. Twinning in Merinos – Ignore it at your own risk

• Cattle
10. Pregnancy Testing Cows using Imaging Ultrasound

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The remaining sections of the website are for ALSS clients only. Technical information obtained from the literature and from ALSS clients has been formulated into practical recommendations and documented in the following pages. This has been done in order to assist ALSS clients to improve the profitability of their operations. In order to access these pages, you must have a username and a password. New pages are added to the website each year, existing pages are updated and ALSS clients are issued with a new username and password (free of charge).

• Sheep
• Faster Progress to Higher Flock Reproductive performance
11. An Annual Program for Increased Flock Reproductive Performance
12. How to Select the Most Fertile Ewes
13. Join the Ewes According to the Best Known Practices
14. Higher Lambing Percentages - A Five point Plan
     
• Faster Progress to Higher Lamb Survival Rates
15. The major causes of Lamb Loss and their Magnitude
16. How to Increase single lamb Survival Rates
17. How to Increase Twin lamb Survival rates
18. How to use Hybrid Vigour to Increase lamb Survival rates
19. How to use Bloodlines to Increase Lamb Survival Rates
20. Step 1 – Raise lamb survival Rates in your own flock
21. Sheep reproduction benchmarks
     
• Faster Progress to Higher Quality Wool
22. A major factor restricting progress to higher quality wool
23. Pregnant maiden ewes, twin bearing ewes and wool quality
24. Pregnancy nutrition & the quality and quantity of wool – the facts.
25. How to grow more and better wool during a drought.
     
• General
26. Yard Joining
27. A simple and Cost effective feeding Strategy  
28. Fine wool Symposium October 2000

• Cattle
• Using Scanning to improve fertility
29. Identifying the most fertile heifers