Safety training for you

1. Purchase steel-toed boots to wear while working.
2. Read on-line information about diseases transmissible from humans to sheep.
3. Obtain and read paper handouts provided by Cornell University about diseases transmissible from sheep to humans.
4. Go over safety check list with farm manager or his designee.
5. Do not use any power equipment until you are trained.
6. Know location and use of eyewash station.
7. Wash your hands after handling sheep.
8. Review the sheep farm disaster plans on line or in the notebook in the break room.
9. Review the injury disaster plan on line or in the notebook in the break room.
10. Know location of "right-to-know" documents.

Care of sheep

1. View FASS video on The Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals.
2. View the Cornell STAR video.
3. Read about the routine management program at the Cornell Sheep Farm on-line or read the paper copy in the standard operating procedure notebook in the break room.
4. Read the SOP manual on the care of sheep on line or in the break room.
5. Know the location of the SID Sheep Production Handbook for reference in the break room.
6. Read about the Cornell Sheep Farm diets on-line.

Training log

As you learn new procedures, keep your training log (Word file available as a two-sided document in the break room) up to date in the folder in the filing cabinet or on the clipboard in the break room. In addition to recording that you have reviewed the information on safety training and care of sheep, above, this log records the date and trainer signatures for skills for which you have been trained, including, but not limited to the following:

1. Clean waterers
2. Trim hooves
3. Eartag
4. Dip navels
5. Tail dock with rubber band
6. Mix milk replacer
7. Care for artificially-reared lambs
8. Walk the pens to look for sick animals
9. Weigh lambs
10. Apply chicken rings to eartags
11. Use syringes and needles
12. Take fecal samples
13. Take blood samples
14. Shear
15. Skirt fleeces
16. Bale wool
17. Drench sheep
18. Set up and take down electric fence
19. Operate pickup a
20. Operate tractor a
21. Record lambings in book
22. Record and access data in Cewe