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This is a extract of the article written by Y11 Padua Students after attending the science in the sheep industry camp. Photos to follow

Padua College – Mornington Campus
Agriculture & Horticulture Science in the Sheep Industry Senior Research Camp

This one time at Lamp Camp………..

  ….6 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 woolen rug. Can your Imac do that?

1. Carl Peters Drenching

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 bailing 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! Please see Mrs. Nichols or Ms Fenner for further information on what it has to offer, and thanks to both of them and Mrs. Wheeler for a great camp.

Meagan Walpole

Y11 Agriculture & Horticulture                                              
Padua College – Mornington Campus  

The Y11 Padua Student Participants