Your Goat or Sheep Unit Plan
The capstone project for Goat & Sheep Farming Business: Breeding, Ram Fattening and the Sallah Market in Nigeria — a free Agriculture course. Pass it and you earn a certificate anyone can verify.
- Free
- 6 steps
- Pass mark 65%
- Graded within minutes
- Beginner-friendly
The project unlocks once you complete the lessons. The workbook is free to download now so you can see exactly what is expected.
What you will submit
One document (Google Doc, PDF or Word, shared with view access) containing all six parts, with the budget, ration and health calendar as tables. Photos of the site, the pen plan and the price survey are welcome.
What to do, step by step
- Part 1 — Model, breed and site (200-300 words): state whether you will run a breeding herd or a fattening cycle and why, name the breed(s) and the reasons they suit your location and market, and describe the real site (compound, plot or farm) with its water source and the rules that apply to keeping livestock there.
- Part 2 — Stock and pen: where you will buy your animals, how many, at what age and price (with at least three dated prices from a market or seller near you), what you will inspect before paying, and a pen design with dimensions, space per animal, materials and a costed bill of materials.
- Part 3 — Feeding: a daily ration for your animals (browse or forage, crop residues, concentrate, minerals, water) with quantities per head, the source of each feed and its 2026 price, and the total feed cost per animal for the cycle or year; for a fattening plan, the 90-day programme week by week.
- Part 4 — Health calendar: vaccination (PPR and any others), deworming, dipping or spraying, hoof care and quarantine rules, dated for your cycle, with the name and contact of the veterinarian or state livestock officer who reviewed it and what they said.
- Part 5 — Selling and cash-flow: your sales calendar (Sallah, Christmas, everyday or a mix) with expected prices from three real buyer conversations (a livestock market trader, a butcher, a pre-order customer or an online buyer) with dates and what they said, then a full naira budget (stock, pen, feed, health, labour, transport, insurance, contingency) and a month-by-month cash-flow.
- Part 6 — Risks and decision (150-250 words): a risk register (disease outbreak, feed price rise, theft or rustling, price collapse after the festival, mortality, land or nuisance dispute) with what you will do about each, and an honest go, wait or no-go decision with the one number that would change your mind.
Files to work with
Project workbook (fill in, then submit)The whole brief, an evidence checklist, the grading rubric as a self-check and the link-sharing steps in one file. Opens in Word, Google Docs or WPS.Word · 7 KBHow it is graded
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| Model, breed and site are justified for the learner's real location and market | 20% |
| Stock plan and pen design are specific, priced and welfare-sound | 15% |
| Ration is quantified, sourced and costed at current prices | 20% |
| Health calendar is complete and confirmed by a named vet or livestock officer | 15% |
| Selling calendar, budget and cash-flow rest on real buyer conversations and sound arithmetic | 20% |
| Risk register and go/wait/no-go decision are honest and specific | 10% |
You need 65% overall to pass. A failed submission comes back with feedback and can be revised and resubmitted.
Before you submit: make your link public
If your work lives in Google Drive or Google Docs, open Share → General access and change “Restricted” to “Anyone with the link” (Viewer). Then paste the link into a private browser window: if it opens without sign-in, you are ready. A private link cannot be graded — it is the single most common reason a good project fails.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to finish Goat & Sheep Farming Business: Breeding, Ram Fattening and the Sallah Market in Nigeria before submitting the project?
Yes. The submission screen opens once every lesson in Goat & Sheep Farming Business: Breeding, Ram Fattening and the Sallah Market in Nigeria is marked complete. The lessons are where the methods, the Nigerian context and the worked examples the project depends on are taught.
How is the project graded?
An examiner scores each rubric criterion from 0 to 100 and weights them as shown on this page; you need 65% overall to pass. Most submissions are graded within minutes and you get written feedback on what was strong and what to improve.
Can I resubmit if I fail?
Yes. A failed project comes back with feedback; revise the weak parts and resubmit. A passed project is final — the certificate is issued and cannot be re-rolled.
What do I actually submit?
A write-up of what you did (under 5,000 characters) plus a public link to your work — a Google Drive folder, Google Doc, spreadsheet, GitHub repository or video. The link must open without sign-in; a private link cannot be graded. The free project workbook on this page walks you through all 6 steps.
Is the certificate real?
Yes. Passing this project issues a certificate with a unique verification code. Anyone — an employer, a client, a school — can open the verification page and see that the certificate is genuine and which project earned it.
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