| PRACTICALS
- Familiarization with farm routines
- Identification of sheep
- Selection of sheep
- Handling of sheep
- Dipping, spraying
- Spotting sick animals, examination for parasites
- Administration of medicine, vaccination
- Grazing/feeding sheep
- Sheep farm records maintenance
- Detection of heat, mating
- Identifying pregnant animals, care of pregnant animals, lambing, neonates and young stock
- Care of pasture
- Judging sheep for wool and mutton
- Shearing, grading and storage of wool
- Marketing of wool, mutton and live animals
- Layout plans of sheep farms of different sizes
- Working out economics of sheep production from the farm records
- Structure of wool and its differentiation from hair fibre
- Determination of staple length, crimps, diameter and strength of wool fibre
- Sorting, packaging and grading of wool
- Recovery of wax from wool
- Scouring centre and carbonization of wool
- Visit to wool production centre and woolen industries
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