Here are some links to documents that may help you.

1. Health
   • Beef Cattle Nutrition – an introduction – click here – Meat & Livestock book
   • Cattle worm control – the basics – click here – a NSW DPI Prime Fact
   • Liver fluke in cattle and sheep – click here – a NSW DPI Prime Fact
   • Pregnancy testing of beef cattle – click here – VIC DPI Information note
   • MLA Animal Health and Welfare – click here
   • Selecting and managing beef heifers – click here – a NSW DPI Prime Fact
   • Condition scoring of beef cattle – click here – VIC DPI note
   • Meat Standards Australia Beef Information Kit – click here
2. Handling Cattle
   • NSW DPI AgFact – click here
   • YouTube video – Ron Gill Beef Extension Agent –  Loss Stress Cattle Handling – click here
   • YouTube video – Temple Grandin lectures on how distractions, lighting and shadows can cause livestock to balk and refuse to move through races, cattle chutes, and corrals – click here
3. Pastures
   • Owning cattle on a small property – WA Dept of Food And Agriculture Farm Note – click here
   • Pasture assessment and livestock production – NSW DPI Agfact – click here
   • Visually assessing pasture condition and availability in drought – NSW DPI Agfact – click here
4. A guide to best practice husbandry in beef cattle – including branding, castrating and dehorning – A MLA document (you have to login to the website) – click here
5. NLIS (National Livestock Identification System)
   • MLA information – click here
   • NSW DPI – click here