A sheep handling day

Am I ever going to be competent in animal handling? 2 weeks ago I had trouble pulling a horse's tongue out of its mouth. Today it was problem drawing blood from the jugular vein of the sheep. Sure, animal handling practicals are interesting, but boy are they damn stressful, to me. I wish the course was organized in such a way that they teach less each session but more frequently. Right now they are trying to pile up heaps of information and techniques on us in what.. 3 hours? For city people like Singaporeans, I consider learning how to catch a sheep in 4 different ways, tie up the sheep's legs with reef knots and what not, clipping hooves and drawing blood and putting on a ram harness, to be an afternoon of information overload. And yet, sheep are supposed to be the easiest animal to handle out of pigs, horses and cattle!

I can't seem to wash off sheep smell on my fingers...... wonder how is it going to be like with cow dung in two weeks' time?

and I feel so sorry for the sheep that was being poked around by me and my lousy needle techniques... imagine someone trying again and again to draw blood from your neck! I've got to admire human medical students... where are they going to get enough "guinea pigs" to practise drawing blood from, till the point they can be confident enough to get it on their first try?

I need to start building up muscles in order to develop strength in lifting 50kg sheep. Haven't felt this much pain in the arm since wushu days.. ha.