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Storey's guide to raising sheep : breeding, care, facilities / Paula Simmons & Carol Ekarius.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781612129808
- Physical Description: 356 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: Fifth edition.
- Publisher: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Sheep. Sheep farming. |
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- 2 of 4 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Fort St. John Public Library | 636.3 SIM (Text) | 35211000566143 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nakusp Public Library | 636.3 SIM (Text) | 35160000785882 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| McBride | 636.3 Sim (Text) | 35191000385647 | Adult Non fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-11 |
| Quesnel Branch | 636.3 SIM (Text) | 33923006159424 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-04 |
