Commercial Sheep Production

This course focuses on How to Get Started with Commercial Sheep Production.

Main Points covered in this Course are:

- Sheep industry information

- Breeds used for domestic production

- Housing requirements for extensive, semi intensive, intensive systems

- Nutritional requirements for optimum production and reproduction

- Health and Disease conditions

- Animal behaviour and welfare

- Socio economic considerations

- Primary, secondary and tertiary made products

- Fodder production, silage making and pelleting

- Integrated farming systems

- Profitability of sheep production

- Alternate revenue streams

- How to obtain quality lamb and mutton

- On farm production parameters

- Difference between lamb and mutton