Small Ruminants

Course goals

1. farm analysis small ruminants
2. insight into feeding grazing sheep
3. insight into feeding dairy goats
4. handling both sheep and goats
5. performing basic operations such as drawing blood
6. advising on endoparasite control small ruminants
7. insight into main economic animal diseases
8. insight into main zoonoses in small ruminants
9. insight into treatments of the individual animal
 

Content

During this course, we will delve deeper into the health care of small ruminants and camelids. We will cover both preventive and curative components and offer both practical skills and theoretical education. Several farms will be visited to get a good idea of the different sectors in which these animals are kept.