Handbook For Raising Small Numbers Of Sheep

Storey’s Guide to Raising Sheep is the best-selling, most trusted reference for farmers and backyard homesteaders with any size flock. The 5th edition is now updated to include 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.

This antiquarian book contains a detailed guide to the methods and equipment of livestock keeping, with information on the breeding, rearing, and fattening of sheep. Complete with a detailed illustrations, handy tables, and a wealth of useful and interesting information on breeding sheep, this text constitutes a must-have for discerning farmers, and makes for a great addition to collections of agricultural literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Introductory and Comparative View of the Different Breeds of British Sheep', 'On the Breeding and Management of Sheep', 'Feeding on Pastures', 'The Folding and Sheltering of Sheep', and 'The Shearing of Sheep'. We are proud to republish this vintage text, now complete with a new and specially commissioned introduction on sheep farming.