"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.
A respected authority on sheep raising for over three decades, author Paula Simmons has written many books and magazines articles on spinning wool, and is the coauthor of Storeyâs Guide to Raising Sheep. Simmons lecturers and conducts workshops in the United States and Canada on the subject of raising sheep and spinning wool for a living. Together with her husband, she has been raising and sheering sheep, and spinning and weaving wool for over 20 years on their farm in Washington.
Carol Ekarius is the coauthor of The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook, The Field Guide to Fleece, and Storeyâs Guide to Raising Sheep, and the author of several books including Small-Scale Livestock Farming, Storeyâs Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds, and Storeyâs Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Pigs. She lives in the mountains of Colorado. Â