sheep husbandry
sheep husbandry is the processes of handling and maintaining your sheep's health. it is important to follow the main steps of sheep husbandry instructions to keep your sheep in good health and condition. some of the main sheep husbandry processes are listed below.
ear tagging: plastic or metal tag clipped to ear, with identification number, name or electronic chip.
drenching: an oral veterinary medicine administered by a drenching gun (usually an antithetical).
Backliner: an externally applied medicine, applied along the backline of a freshly shorn sheep to control lice or other parasites.
joining: the placing of rams with ewes for mating.
lambing: the process of giving birth in sheep. Also the work of tending lambing ewes.
Lamb marking: the work of earmarking, docking and castration of lambs.
mulesing: a practice in Australia of cutting off wrinkles from the crutch area of Merinos, to prevent fly strike.
shearing: cutting off the fleece, normally done in two pieces by skilled shearers.
Weaner: a young animal that has been weaned, from its mother, until it is about a year old.
ear tagging: plastic or metal tag clipped to ear, with identification number, name or electronic chip.
drenching: an oral veterinary medicine administered by a drenching gun (usually an antithetical).
Backliner: an externally applied medicine, applied along the backline of a freshly shorn sheep to control lice or other parasites.
joining: the placing of rams with ewes for mating.
lambing: the process of giving birth in sheep. Also the work of tending lambing ewes.
Lamb marking: the work of earmarking, docking and castration of lambs.
mulesing: a practice in Australia of cutting off wrinkles from the crutch area of Merinos, to prevent fly strike.
shearing: cutting off the fleece, normally done in two pieces by skilled shearers.
Weaner: a young animal that has been weaned, from its mother, until it is about a year old.