"Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep is the best-selling, most trusted reference for farmers and backyard homesteaders with any size flock. The fifth edition is now updated with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, including a gallery of the best breed choices for both meat and fiber. With their small size and gentle dispositions, sheep are one of the easier livestock species to raise and offer varied marketing opportunities, including meat, wool, and milk. Detailed instructions and graphics lead readers through every essential procedure, including shearing, building a lambing shed, breeding and lambing, butchering, and marketing."--Amazon.com.
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ISBN:9781612129808
Physical Description:print 356 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:Fifth edition.
Publisher:North Adams, MA :Storey Publishing,[2019]
Starting with sheep -- Breeding and breeds -- Pasture, fences, and facilities -- Herding dogs -- Protecting against predators -- Feeds and feeding -- General health considerations -- Problems of rams, ewes, and lambs -- Flock management -- Lambing -- Products and marketing -- Showing sheep -- Records and animal identification.