Type: Publication
Date: 2010
Pig Agskills
Practical skills on the care of pigs. Covers pig husbandry, health care, breeding programs for sows and raising piglets. Highlights animal welfare standards for pigs.
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A guide to the basics of handling and caring for sheep, with step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and colour pictures. Includes safety precautions, animal welfare, quality assurance, catching and handling mouthing, drenching, vaccinating, crutching, foot trimming, lambing and individual identification.
- General safety precautions
- Animal welfare
- Quality assurance
- Catch, restrain and throw sheep
- Body condition scoring and fat scoring sheep
- Mouthing
- Foot trimming
- Drenching
- Hand crutching
- Machine crutching
- Problems associated with lambing
- Tail docking
- Vaccinating
- Castrating lambs
- Individual identification, and
- Safe Work Method Statements.
| Title | Sheep Agskills |
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| Author(s) | |
| Pages | 61 |
| ISBN | |
| Catalogue number | B111 |
| Year published | 2016 |
| Publisher | NSW Department of Primary Industries |
| Price | $25.00AUD (inc GST) |
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