A medical manufacturer has signed a deal with the wool industry, to help produce an alternative to mulesing.

At the moment, growers use shears to cut away the skin from a sheep's backside, which then scars, leaving no wool for blowflies to target.

Norwood Abbey will build a device that looks like a hand-held drill, to apply a new protein which should achieve the same result.

The company's Bernie Romanin says it means wool growers won't have to use needles to inject the protein.

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Source: abc rural
November 17, 2004

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