San Antonio Sheep Skillathon Study Guide

2021 San Antonio Sheep Skill-A-Thon Speech Topics

Juniors – No Speech

Intermediates- Choose one of the following topics and prepare a speech limited to 5 minutes maximum.

1. How have changes in our population and culture impacted the sheep industry?
2. Describe how a necropsy is performed and what to look for in determining common cause of death in lambs.
3. How has COVID-19 impacted the wool and lamb meat industry?

Seniors – Choose one of the following topics and prepare a speech limited to 5 minutes maximum.

Seniors will also be given a thought question after the presentation of his/her speech.

1. How have changes in our population and culture impacted the sheep industry?
2. Describe how a necropsy is performed and what to look for in determining common cause of death in lambs.
3. How has COVID-19 impacted the wool and lamb meat industry?

Possible thought questions:

1. Questions over selected speech topic.
2. Questions dealing with market lamb production.