This is a course about sheep farming and management. The course material covers the primary areas of pasture management, sheep products, farm management, sheep management, sheep growth and development, sheep genetics, and sheep industry issues. Lecture material is reinforced through practice in the laboratory in which students run a genetic and economic simulation of a sheep farm, and a hands-on approach is used to teach how to manage sheep, including feeding and care of ewes and their newborn lambs in a small on-campus flock.
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