Recommended Books
Storey’s Barn Guide to Sheep
In a hands-free format that allows you to hang it on a barn wall for easy reference, this guide covers everything you need to know to safely and effectively care for your sheep. Providing clear step-by-step instructions for common procedures like trimming hooves, shearing, milking, and administering injections, Storey’s Barn Guide to Sheep also includes full-color anatomical illustrations, a lambing calendar, and nutritional advice. You’ll save on veterinary bills and increase your operation’s self-sufficiency as you successfully raise healthy and happy sheep.
https://www.amazon.com/Storeys-Guide-Editors-Storey-Publishing/dp/1580178499
Storey’s Guide to Raising Sheep
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Storeys-Guide-Raising-Sheep-5th/dp/1612129803
Lamb Problems
This sheep farming book shows you how to treat respiratory, scours, feet, prolapse, digestive, and 145 other problems in lambs. Uses the authors unique system of Diagnostic Check Sheets, Symptom Flow Charts, And Treatment Text. Discover how easy it is to: DETECT - Use the Diagnostic Check Sheet to check off the lamb's symptoms. They are all listed. You simply check them off! DIAGNOSE - Use the Flow Charts indicated by the Diagnostic Check Sheet to quickly determine the problems. TREAT - Referring to the text indicated by the flow charts, you know how to treat and what medications to use. The text for each problem has three sections - Symptoms, Treatment, and Cause. In an emergency, you can go straight to the Treatment section and treat the lamb, and come back later and learn the cause of the problem. By following this simple, yet effective, system you can quickly determine the lambs problem, treat it, and understand how and why the problem occurred. Full size 8.5" X 11" and fully illustrated. For anyone raising sheep, sheep farming, sheep breeding or thinking of having sheep.
Managing Your Ewe
This sheep farming book covers preparation for breeding and lambing, lambing, and care of the ewe and lambs after lambing. Some of the things you will learn about are: Ewe & Ram Selection, Lambing Procedures, Ration Mixes, Treating Diseases of Ewes and Newborn Lambs, Handling Difficult Births, Castrating & Docking, and much more. By following the simple system of Diagnostic Check Sheets, Symptom Flow Charts, and Written Text, you can determine a ewes problem, treat her, and understand how and why the problem occurred. Each Written Text section has 3 parts - Symptoms, Treatment, and Cause. In an emergency, you can go straight to the Treatment section and treat the ewe, and come back later and learn the cause of her problem. 382 full size 8.5" X 11" pages, 87 illustrations covering over 120 problems of the ewe and her new born lambs. For anyone raising sheep, sheep farming, sheep breeding or thinking of having sheep.
Pipestone's Veterinary Guide to Sheep and Goats
Harnessing health information and production know-how from over 50 years of experience, the Pipestone's Veterinary Guide to Sheep and Goats is a compilation of historical blogs by Dr. G.F. Kennedy conveniently at your fingertips. Whether its leisure learning or searching for a specific health question, the Pipestone's Veterinary Guide to Sheep and Goats should be a staple in any shepherds toolbox.