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Practical guidance for successful sheep farming Learn how to manage flocks day by day, season by season, with clear, actionable instructions. This edition blends personal experience with up-to-date veterinary insight to help you raise healthy sheep and improve wool and mutton outcomes.
This book covers the full range of sheep keeping, from choosing breeds and planning a year with the ewes to handling lambing, tailing, and aging a flock for market. It also includes practical advice on the lambing yard, disease prevention, and common problems like foot-rot, malpresentations during birth, and general flock health. Readers will find concrete steps, checklists, and explanations that translate theory into everyday practice.
- Step-by-step guidance on lambing, including signs of parturition and how to assist when needed
- Hands-on approaches to common complications, such as malpresentations and difficult deliveries
- Tools, supplies, and simple at-home treatments to manage injuries and health issues
- Strategies for preventing diseases and maintaining good foot health in a pasture-based system
Ideal for farmers, shepherds, and anyone new to sheep care, this edition aims to be practical, approachable, and useful across seasons and flock sizes. It helps readers grasp the daily tasks that keep a flock productive and healthy, with emphasis on humane practice and efficiency.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book provides a comprehensive overview of British sheep farming and breeding practices in the early 20th century. The author, W. J. Malden, draws on years of experience in handling many breeds in their native districts, as well as those away from them, to provide a detailed and fascinating account of the subject. The book is divided into several sections, each covering a different aspect of sheep management, from indigenous breeds and their modification to a year with the ewes. It also includes a veterinary section written by Captain Harold Leeney, A.V.C., discussing the most common diseases affecting sheep at the time and their treatment. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781334218477_0
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