Manejo e conservação de ovinos da raça Morada Nova, variedade branca

Abstract

The internship for completing the course took place at the Mandarim farm, where sheep are raised for their own consumption and conservation of the Morada Nova breed, white variety. The care of the herd was carried out by employees of the property and the control of technical activities was carried out by a veterinarian accompanied by students in extension actions, such as general control of the herd, genetic selection and feed, health and reproductive management. During the internship, several activities were carried out, such as visually evaluating racial characteristics, selecting animals suitable for reproduction, developing management and nutrition techniques that suited the property's routine and improvements in the system for better management of the herd, we performed the insertion of mineral supplementation, reproductive control, improvements in installations and evaluation of desirable racial and productive characteristics. We carry out sanitary management from birth, with the creation of a vaccination protocol based on the age and need of the animal, to the proper disposal of carcasses, we were also able to carry out several studies, such as sperm evaluation of males, egg count per gram of feces (OPG) and artificial insemination, with genetic material from animals from other herds, always accompanied by undergraduate students, masters and doctors who helped us in these activities.