An explanation of everything you need to know to manage sheep and keep them healthy. From choosing and buying, housing, feeding and routine management, to breeding and lambing, Kim Cardell offers advice based on her experience. Topics covered include: where to begin; fencing, shelter and housing; moving, handling and transport; breeding and genetics; nutrition; grassland and crops; wool and shearing; keeping the flock healthy; lambing and lamb rearing; and marketing and business.
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The daughter of a Cornish sheep farmer, Kim Cardell studied agriculture at Lincoln University in New Zealand and also trained as a newspaper reporter. She was associate editor of the magazine Livestock Farming and, having worked as a freelance for various farming journals and radio and television programmes, became editor of The Sheep Farmer, holding the post for fourteen years. She runs a flock of early lambing ewes at her home in Cornwall.
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Traditionally sheep and Man have a symbiotic relationship - each dependent on the other. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Traditionally sheep and Man have a symbiotic relationship - each dependent on the other. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Wool Marketing Board, Useful Addresses New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Handbook for the Sheep Clinician by M.J. Clarkson in Back Matter
- Improved Grassland Management by John Frame in Back Matter
- Practical Sheep Dairying by Olivia Mills in Back Matter
- Planned Sheep Production by David Croston in Back Matter
- Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers by David C. Henderson in Back Matter
- Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and His Achievement by Leofranc Holford-Strevens in Back Matter
- The Smallholder's Manual by Katie Thear in Back Matter
- Practical Lambing and Lamb Care: A Veterinary Guide by Andrew Eales in Back Matter
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