Module 11 Healthy and Contented Sheep
Introduction
This module presents an effective approach to managing the health and welfare of your flock by:
- Implementing effective health management programs
- Taking a proactive approach to sheep health and welfare
- Having healthy sheep that are exposed to fewer chemicals
- Adopting strategies that minimise chemical use and delay development of chemical resistance by sheep parasites.
The module will give you confidence that sheep parasites and diseases can be managed in a cost-effective manner to maximise enterprise profitability.
Know when each class of sheep needs supplementary feeding to achieve production targets.
Implement preventative sheep health programs.
Apply strategies that keep sheep diseases out.
Know and recognise what causes common sheep diseases.
A range of husbandry factors influence the welfare of sheep.
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