COURSE OVERVIEW
This Sheep Farming course offers knowledge into the many aspects of the intensive and extensive sheep farming industry. Sheep are raised widely around the world, for meat, wool and dairy. While no one course can be expected to deal in comprehensive detail with all aspects of the sheep farming industry, this course provides a detailed overview of the necessary subject matter for students who are already in the industry or those who are new to the industry.
This course teaches elements such as nutrition, production, reproduction, and disease recognition, control and treatment, are dealt with in detail whilst providing our students with solid knowledge of the booming wool industry.
COURSE FEATURES
Interact with and learn from senior professionals in the Sheep Farming industry who have helped develop the course, meaning you’ll have the inside secrets on how to become a pro.
With our training and certification, set yourself apart from other candidates when applying for roles or display within your own business to provide clients confidence in your abilities
Accredited through the International Approval and Registration Centre (IARC), be certain of learning skills directly relevant to job outcomes within the Sheep Farming field.
SUBJECTS
- Introduction; Terminology and Breeds
- Factors affecting the choice of breed
- Product and Market
- Rearing and Management System
- Overview of Sheep Breeds
- Sheep Terminology
- Selection and Breeding
- Growth Rate
- Reproductive Efficiency
- Carcass quality
- Wool traits
- Culling old ewes
- Selecting replacement ewes
- Selecting replacement rams
- Commercial Sheep Production
- Choosing a lambing time
- Autumn lambing
- Spring lambing
- Accelerated lambing
- Managing ewes prior to mating
- Using hormones to control reproduction
- Joining methods
- Anatomy of ewe reproductive organs
- Anatomy of ram reproductive organs
- Ultrasound
- Signs of lambing
- Nutrition of Sheep
- Anatomy
- Condition scoring
- When to condition score
- Factors affecting feed requirements
- Feeding rams
- Feeding ewes
- Feeding lambs and fatteners
- Nutrition and wool production
- Diseases of Sheep
- Viral and rickettsial diseases
- Bacterial diseases
- Metabolic diseases
- Protozoal diseases
- Poisoning
- Vaccination
- The medicine chest
- Giving injections
- Disease prevention through sound management
- General Management of a Commercial Flock
- Handling and treatment facilities
- Drenching
- Injecting
- Hoof Trimming
- Shearing
- Tail docking
- Castration
- Blowfly strike
- Care of the Lamb
- Abnormal Presentation
- Presentation: One front leg back
- Presentation: Both front legs back
- Presentation: Hind legs first
- Presentation: Head back, both front feet forward
- Presentation: Breech or tail first
- Presentation: Twin lambs presented together
- Post lambing care
- Drenching
- Rearing orphan lambs
- Lambing records
- Managing the fattening lamb
- Feeding
- Lamb marking
- Wool
- Characteristics of wool
- Types of wool
- Wool classing
- Wool processing
- Factors influencing the estimation of yield
- Piece Picking
- Wool Scouring
- Carding
- The Marketing of Sheep and Sheep Products
- Wool sales
- Sale by private treaty
- The auction system
- Wool futures
- Industry regulatory and marketing authorities
- Lamb and mutton marketing: Paddock sale, Saleyard auction, Over-the-hook sale
- Electronic Marketing, Live Sheep exports, Forward price contracts
- Factors affecting the value of lamb or mutton: Carcass weight, Skin value, Payment basis (hot or cold weight) etc
HOW THIS COURSE CAN HELP YOU
- Farmers looking to start a sheep farm or work at a sheep farm
- Sheep Shearer
- Farmers
- Sheep breeders
- Stock agents
- Those wanting to work in the field
- Those working in the field wanting to improve their career prospects or better run their farms
- Hobby farmers
SUMMARY
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
NIL
DELIVERY
Fully Online, at your own pace.
COURSE DURATION
100 hours
PAYMENT OPTIONS
Pay Upfront and receive a discount on the total course cost OR Take Advantage of our Interest Free Payment Plans
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