Day 14..
A machinery morning, recapping on the fuel system and pin pointing the components on a real tractor instead of a picture - it's so much easier to work out where the fuel goes when you can follow the pipe work! We had a reversing practice session going into man made barns (some cones and wooden pallets!) then carried on hitching and un hitching tractors to a power harrow and a two furrow plough via the three point linkage system.. Team AmyEm absolutely nailed it!
A classroom afters, we began with a more detailed look at foot problems in sheep, focusing on scald and footrot - two very painful reasons why a sheep might be lame. So, if you see a lame sheep it is better to catch it as soon as possible, find the cause, treat it and prevent the risk of any infection spreading across the rest of the herd. Just like humans, animals can get sick too - from bacterial infections and viruses to moulds and yeast attacks, so ensuring your animals health and welfare is vital, with just a 1% rise in temperature being a very serious issue.
* revise and learn the body temperatures of animals *
Cow - 38.5 to 39 oC
Dog 38.2 to 38.7 oC
Horse 38.0 to 38.2 oC
Pig 38.2 to 40.5 oC
Sheep 39.5 to 40.5 oC
And we finished off the day investigating the cereal beef system - also known as barley beef, as that is what's mostly fed! Calves (the boy ones) born to the cereal beef system are usually weaned at 5 weeks old and will be housed indoors on their rapid growth plan between 10 and12 months. They have a 'zero grazing' diet - hence the name and that is to ensure the rumen is developed well so that it can carry out a good FCR - feed conversion ratio, producing a good quality carcase as the end result.
Roll on tomorrow..
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