Designed to hang on an inside wall of a barn like a calendar, this original reference provides hands-free instruction and advice on almost every aspect of raising sheep,from breeding and lambing to shearing and marketing.
Like a condensed and illustrated textbook, the guide briefly covers a wide range of topics like trimming hooves and giving injections, toxic plants and feed requirements, abnormal births and raising orphans, hand-carding and evaluating wool. For more detailed information, refer to the guide's companion volume, Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep or Living with Sheep.
Uniquely useful features in the guide include a rotating lambing calendar and lambing schedule chart, a step-by-step illustrated instructionals on shearing and lambing and inserting stomach tubes, and schematics for building a warming box.