DATE: 08 - 09 October 2024
VENUE: Windhoek
FEE: N$1 700

This course deals with the correct handling, management of small stock (goats and sheep) herds to ensure their physical wellbeing, as well as optimal reproduction and growth. The training provides information and practical skills on routine management activities such as vaccinations, dosing, internal and external parasite control, castration, tail docking and other components of the day-to-day care required to maintain a healthy herd and productive animals.

TOPICS COVERED:
• Importance of farm record keeping
• Small stock performance criteria
• Nutritional requirements
• Personal safety
• Body condition scoring
• Small stock dentition
• Tail docking sheep
• Castration of small stock
• Prevention and treatment of sicknesses
• Injecting small stock
• Husbandry tools and their use
• The production cycle
• Internal parasites
• External parasites
• Diseases and remedies
• Basic vaccination programme
• Injection sites for small stock

For more information and course application forms, please send an e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call us on 061 290 9208 or visit our offices at Agra Corporate Office.