Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool

Breeds, Fencing, Feed, Lambing, and Products

von Hudson Briggs

66 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool is a practical beginner's guide to building a healthy, productive flock on a small homestead. It explains how to choose between hair and wool sheep, compare useful breeds, buy sound ewes, and build fencing, shelter, handling facilities, and predator protection that fit real land and budgets.

Readers learn how to manage pasture, hay, grain, sheep-specific minerals, breeding, gestation, lambing, newborn care, weaning, parasites, feet, and flystrike. The book also covers freezer-lamb yield, processing choices, fleece handling, shearing, direct-market considerations, and the practical realities of milking dairy ewes.

With straightforward planning figures and clear safety boundaries, this guide helps new shepherds avoid copper mistakes, prepare for lambing, understand flock records, and decide whether meat, milk, wool, or a combination makes sense for their homestead.

• Reihe: Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool
• ISBN: 9798176649611
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Independently published