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v.5, no 1, February 2005

• My Welsh Mountain Pony - Juliana West
• Chinese New Year - Year of the Roster - Ian Mullins
• Terra Madre - Fiona Chambers
• Walers - Alison Jowett
• Rare Breeds International - Fiona Chambers

v.4, no 6, December 2004

• Meat Marketing Launch - Anthony Dufty
• Worth Saving?
• Xmas Turkey - Ian Mullins
• Autosexing Poultry Breeds - Ian Mullins
• Collecting Samples - Peter Still
• Poultry Registration
• Making it with Pigs
• Resource Collection - Val Smith
• Old Poultry Breeds & Strains we have found - Ian Mullins
  

v.4, no.5, October 2004

• Real Taste Traditional Meat -Meat Marketing Scheme Plan & Guidelines - Anthony Dufty
• Executive Summaries from the Status of Rare Breeds in Australia Report 2004 - Fiona Chambers
• Auditor's Report

v.4, no.4, August 2004

• Guidelines for Membership Groupings
• Rare Hints - Light the Enemy when Hatching Chickens?
• Plymouth Rocks - Bred to the Australian Standard - Adrian Kuys
• Bendig's Small Poultry Abattoir - Ian Mullins
• Trust Promotion - Warwick Turner
• Why I Love Pork - Anthony Dufty

v.4, no.3, June 2004

v.4, no.2, April 2004

v.4, no.1, February 2004

• English Longhorns - Donald Cochrane
• Welsh Black Cattle - Jane Dawe
• Central Victoria's Farmers Markets - by Ian Mullins
• White Ants - Dennis Barr
• Conservation Biology - Anthony Dufty
• New Members List
• Wiltshire Horn - Dr David Horton
• Coffin Bay Ponies Need Rescuing

v.3, no.6, December 2003

• New Cattle Coordinator - Barry Rockford
• Ethel Stephenson recognised - Heather Gregg
• Farmers Markets, by Warwick Turner
• The Dartmoor Pony
• Australian Shire Horse History
• East Winds Open Day
• The Timor Pony
• Highland Ponies
• Bendigo Show A Success
• Conservation biology: part 2 - Demographic and Genetic Management, by Anthony Duffy
• Luscombe What's Wanted - Shire Horses

v.2, no.10, August 2003

• Rare breeds reflections, by Megg Miller
• Gotland Sheep, by Anthony Duffy
• Rare breed events, by Katy Brown
• Royal Melbourne Show 2003 by Ian Mullins, Director Special Projects
• Eulogy: Australia's tallest horse - Ladbrook Edward
• Jock and the logo, by Katy Brown
• Open Farm weekend, by Christine Ross
• Saving rare breeds, by Ian Gunn
• Conservation biology: part 1: The endangerment process, by Anthony Duffy
• Dead or alive, by Dennis Barr
• International pig judget for Bendigo Show, by Christine Ross
• New Forest ponies embracing new technology
• Some simple genetics, by Tas Coornbusch
• Sheep co-ordinator's report, by Megg Miller

v.2, no.9, June 2003

• Producers have shot themselves in the hoof, by Cherry Ripe
• Cattle on our rare breeds list
• Genetic conservation of White Park Cattle, by Lawrence Alderson, President WPCS, Dynevor herd
• White Parks at Hall (ACT, Australia), by Nelson Quinn
• Taxonomy of the Dexter, by Karen and John Kohut III
• White Park Cattle in Western Australia, by Garry Hodgen
• The Dexter is back by Karen and John Kohurt III
• Why we don't need to grade-up rare breeds, by Richard Lutwyche
• The Texas Longhorn, by Dennis Barr
• New Hampshires, by Wendy Valentine, additional research by Ken Thompson
• RBTA priority list for poultry in Australia - current... but now under review

v.2, no.8, April 2003

• Croad Langshans - the gentle giants of the fowlyard, by Peter Lock and Sonya Humphries
• Barnevelder Breeder - a member's profile - Keith Martin
• Houdan - no.1? Docile and good looking ... but ... by Megg Miller
• The other Dorking challenge - breeding for exhibition? by Susan Stocks
• The Aylesbury Duck, by Jim Sexton
• The Bourban Red Turkey, by Alison Goggin
• Out Cross Breeding, by Dennis Barr
• Behind the scenes at Yarra VAlley Expo - 48 hours in the life of an Events Director! by Katy Brown
• Japanese Bantams, by Richard Lay
• The Wyandotte, by Mark Thompson
• Strong Wool Breeders and Rare Breeds Trust, by Ethel Stephenson
• The Slow Food Ark of Taste, by Ian Mullins
• The Embden - a Goliath amongst Geece, by Marg Arnold
• Guidelines for Acceptance of Poultry into RBTA's priority list

v.2, no.7, February 2003

• The Caspian Horse, by Marilyn Kotnik
• Uses of Rare Breeds: Meat, by Richard Lutwyche
• The Highland Pony, by Katy Brown
• The Australian "Teamster" Donkey, by Pat Emmett
• Buying a Horse - here are some of the things you should consider, by Katy Brown
• Why all those horses, by Dennis Barr
• The Dartmoor Pony, by Marilyn Kotnik

v.2, no.6, December 2002

• Lost sheep breeds, by Megg Miller
• Silver Appleyard ducks, by Dennis Barr
• The Fjord - an ice age horse worth preserving, by Katy Brown
• IGA Community Benefits Scheme, by Katy Brown
• Species Co-ordinator's Report - Horses, by Katy Brown
• Director's Profile - New Treasurer and Director - Jan Duff
• Rare Breeds Open Weekend, by Jan Macilwain
• Bendigo Show was a pig hit! by Fiona Chambers
• Secretary's Report, by Anthony Duffy
• Managing Director's Report, by Ian Mullins
• Species Coordinator's Report - Poultry - The top ten poultry, by Ian Mullins
• State of financial performance for the year ended 30 June 2002
• Overseas members' profile - BT Farm
• Image Co-ordinator - Peter Still

v.2, no.5, October 2002

• Green Gables Tamworth Pig Stud 1953-2002, by Christine Ross
• Secretary's Report
• Species Coordinator meeting report
• The Tamworth Pig, by Brett Lee
• Notice of Annual General Meeting of members
• Pig Judging, British Style, by Diana Wilkinson
• English farm isolated with possible FMD
• The American Livestock Breed Conservancy Celegrates 25 ears, by Dr Joe Schlitt
• Rare Hints - increasing milk yields in our rare cattle
• Wessex Saddleback pig, by Fiona Chambers
• Classifications of pig breeds in Australia
• Duroc pigs, by Craig Beaumont
• Resource Collection

v.2, no.4, August 2002

• Ain't nobody here but us turkeys! by Ian Mullins
• Rescue Fund
• Secretary's report
• Letter to the Editor
• Wessex Saddleback pigs can be a profitable rare breed, by Richard Creek
• Rare Hints
• Animal Coordinators Update, by Fiona Chambers
• My Three Loves, by Anthony Duffy
• The future of farming, by Dennis Barr
• Five fabulous Friday feasts, by Christine Powell
• Slow Foods and Rare Breeds in Central Victoria, by Ian Mullins
• Small farming for Profit, by Phil Hansen
• Grading up can breed results, by D Phillip Sponenberg
• Rare Breeds in the Film Industry, Christine Powell
• Australian Heritage Angora Goats, by Valerie Donald
• Rare Breeds of Australia Resource Collection, by Val Smith

v.2, no.3, June 2002

• State of Rare Breeds in Australia - focusing on the gaps
• Rare Breeds in Queensland
• Secretary's Report
• Financial Report - May 2002
• Director's Report
• The Africander, by Dennis Barr
• Rare Breeds in Western Australia, by Garry A Hodgen
• Rare Breeds in our corner of NSW - The Central West, by Wendy Valentine
• Heritage Sheep
• Strong Wool Sheep Show - Rare Breeds Feature, Benalla Showgrounds, Sunday 5 May
• Wool facing a dirty PR war
• Rare breeds in Great Britain, by Richard Lutwyche MD RBST
• Report from the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy 2001-2002, by Donald Bixby, ED ALBC
• Rare Breeds of Australia Resource Collection, by Val Smith

v.2, no.2, April 2002

• Australia's frozen animal ark, by Dr Ian M Gunn
• Director's Profiles
• Annual General Meeting no. 1, 2002 Minutes
• Director's Meeting no.1, 2002 Minutes
• Classifying sheep, by Dr Stephen Davies
• The Cheviot Sheep, by Anne Sim
• Shropshire sheep - wool from the tip of their nose to the tips of their toes, by Megg Miller
• Australia's First Poultry Museum?
• An opportunity for local rare breed breeders? Gippsland Organic Livestock
• Recognizing the rare breeds on the show circuit - a personal reflection, by Ian Pollerd - correction to article in v.2, no.1
• Rare Breeds of Australia Ltd Resource Collection
• Events
  • Open Day/Afternoon - Australian Heritage Farm - Elphinstone, Victoria, Sunday April 21, 2002
  • Strongwool Breeders Association Inc. 15th Annual Sheep and Wool Fair, Benalla Showgrounds, Victoria Sunday May 5, 2002

v.2, no. 1 February 2002

• Rare Breeds Farm Project Launch
• Report to members from Directors
  • Chairperson's Report
  • Managing Directors Report
  • Secretary's Report
  • Financial Report as at 20 January 2002
• Directors Profiles
• Recognizing the rare breeds on the show circuit - a personal reflection, by Ian Pollerd
• The Valley's Field Day & Ipswich Enviroplan "Backyard to Bottom Paddock" 25th May 2002
• Marketing our rare breeds a piggy tale, by Fiona Chambers, Fernleigh Farms Produce
• Marketing rare breeds - the importance of a pedigree, by Christine Ross
• Rare Poultry and Economics? by Bruce Pattinson
• Slow Food and rare breeds, by james Broadway
• Rare Hints, by Ian Mullins
• What is a breed? by Denis Barr

v.1, no. 1, December 2001

• Collingwood Childrens Farm Rare Breeds Project
• Newsletter Name and Company Logo
• Secretary's Report
• Report to members from Directors
• Minutes of Directors Meeting held on 9th December 2001
• Director's Profiles
• Bendigo Show 2001
• Notice of Annual General Meeting of Members
• Directors Positions and Roles
• Getting to Know our rare Breeds - the Haflinger, by Wendy Valentine
• Exotic Diseases
• The Large Black, by Megg Miller
• African Geese, by Margaret Arnold
• Rare Breeds at the Perth Royal Show, by tas Doornbusch
• The Belgian Bantam, by Khris Abuid

Last updated 3 March, 2008