The solution is good farm management and transition to available and more flystrike resistant sheep genetics in order to produce mulesed-free wool.  In other words, instead of cutting off a lamb’s wrinkly skin around their hindquarters, sheep can be bred without excessive wrinkles. These animals are more resistant to flystrike, and render mulesing unnecessary.  The widely held myth that more wrinkly sheep grow more and higher quality wool led to the overbreeding of merino sheep in Australia and consequently to breeding animals who are highly susceptible to flystrike. The pain-free and available solution is for Australian wool growers to transition to sheep without excessive wrinkles, and for brands to source certified mulesed-free wool. More than 3,000 Australian wool growers work with these types of sheep already and therefore do not practice mulesing. According to wool growers that have stopped mulesing, transitioning to more flystrike resistant genetics takes only 3-5 years and does not result in any loss in wool amount or wool quality, while increasing animal welfare. In summary, there are pain-free alternatives which make mulesing and the suffering of over 10 million lambs each year unnecessary.