The average gestation period of sheep is approximately: ((MCAER 2014))

✅Explanation: Docking is the practice of surgically removing the tails of sheep and goats. This is often done for cultural or management reasons, but it has been the subject of animal welfare debates.

📌 Other Options Explanations:
-Option B: Castration is the surgical removal of the testes in male animals.
-Option C: Declawing is a procedure performed on cats to remove their claws.
-Option D: Debeaking is a procedure performed on poultry to prevent feather pecking.

🔑Key Points:
-Docking is the intentional removal of part of an animal's tail or, sometimes ears.
-The term cropping is more commonly used in reference to the cropping of ears, while docking more commonly but not exclusively refers to the tail.
-The term tailing is also commonly used.
-The term arises because the living flesh of the tail, from which the animal's tail hairs grow, commonly is known as the dock.
-Docking is done in sheep, cattle, horse and pig.