This one time at Lamb Camp.......

"Year 11 Agriculture and Horticulture students learnt a thing or two about sheep farming and the large industry that supports it.

We left on the Thursday morning and started our adventure at the National Wool Museum in Geelong. We discovered the history of Australian wool and watched one of the world's first computers making a woollen rug. Can your imac do that?

We then visited Jim and Brenda's working sheep station and experienced hands-on activities such as drenching, weighing, ear tagging, registering of lambs, immunizing, sexing and banding of lambs' tails.

Later that night we viewed sheep faeces under the microscope and looked for intestinal worms, learning to identify the different types. Fascinating! Especially straight after dinner.

The next morning we were lucky enough to go inside a working shearing shed and watch the sheep shearing and wool baling process before heading to Werribee Department of Primary Industries (DPI). It was there that we learnt more about the science behind meat production and also animal welfare.

We had a chat with some DPI research scientists who talked to us about future careers in the Agriculture - Sheep business and explained the extremely broad range of jobs to choose from.

Lamb Camp was a great success and we learnt so much, we encourage all Padua students to give Ag/Hort a try... they won't regret it!"

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