Sheep
- Feeding and nutrition
Feedlotting, pasture systems, full and supplementary feeding, stock feeds and fat scoring. - Management
Flock management including joining, ram fertility, lambing, buying replacements, aging sheep and livestock protection. - Health and disease
Internal and external parasites, footrot, other diseases including OJD, nutritional disorders, notifiable and emergency diseases. - Breeding and selection
Merino bloodlines, selection indexes and EBVs and prime lamb genotypes. - Welfare
Animal welfare during drought, transport accidents, humane destruction, and Standard Operating Procedures for the use of sheep in research and teaching. - Research
The Sheep Genetics and Improvement Unit researches new knowledge designed to improve productivity, profitability and sustainability of sheep production and quality of products. - Lamb marketing
Prime lamb production and marketing. - Sheep gross margin budgets
A guide to the relative profitability of similar sheep enterprises and an indication of the different management practices used. - Yards and equipment
Yard and shearing shed design, sheep handler selection and lambing paddock planning.
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- NLIS - National Livestock Identification System
- OJD - the new national and NSW approach effective from 31 March 2008
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