Haynes Sheep Manual The Step-by-Step Guide to Caring for Your First Flock

This will add to the existing range of animal titles, including Chicken, Bee, Pig and Smallholding Manuals.  Getting started: legal requirements, identification, fencing, housing.  Breed selection: comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 70 native and continental breeds.  Buying your sheep: the essential guide to choosing healthy stock.  Handling and moving sheep - with and without canine assistance.  Feeding and nutrition at all the key stages of life.  Health and welfare: guide to husbandry, routine tasks, and problems.  Raising for meat: care & nutrition, understanding cuts, and briefing the butcher.  Step-by-step guide to shearing and other essential seasonal tasks.  Breeding: selecting stock, understanding the breeding cycle, and pregnancy.  Lambing: care of the ewe and newborn lambs, birth complications, dealing with orphan lambs, and weaning.  Making the most of your sheep: maximising profits by utilising by-products.  Marketing your produce: rules and regulations, farmers' markets, using agricultural shows as a shop window.

ISBN:	9780857337702
Publisher:	Haynes Publishing
Imprint:	Haynes
Published date:	18 Aug 2015
DEWEY:	636.3
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	187
Weight:	828g
Height:	277mm
Width:	212mm
Spine width:	17mm

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