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Sheep Instruction
The sheep are superb models for teaching animal behavior,
characteristics. Thus, livestock management/handling skills,
applicable to all livestock, is taught to novice as well as
experienced personnel. The sheep maintained at the Sheep Unit
are used in numerous phases of hands-on instruction in undergraduate
courses taught by the Animal Sciences faculty. They are also
used by graduate students pursuing degrees in nutrition, physiology,
and food science. Areas of undergraduate learning, that use
sheep, include docking, castrating, internal parasite control,
disease prevention and control, feeding systems, evaluation,
artificial insemination, and harvesting food and fiber. Graduate
students learn digestibility determination techniques, surgical
procedures, pasture management, estrous synchronization, and
food and fiber harvesting in relation to human consumption.
Learning sheep production principles and management/handling
skills provide young people a career-lasting knowledge base
that extends throughout the animal industry.
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