Book Reviews

• The Shepherd’s Rug: A Braided Wool Rug From Roving

Breeds

• Super-Hardy Damara Sheep
• New U.S. Breed: Low Input-High Returns
• Hog Island Breed: Goats in Sheep’s Clothing
• Cruisin’ With Lincolns
• Hardy, Handy Gotland Sheep
• Reclaiming Old-Style Merinos: A New Wrinkle At Firestone Farm Living History Museum
• True Blue Calling: The Bluefaced Leicester In America
• Herdwick Sheep: Sturdy & Scrumptious
• “Down Under” For Cormos (And We Mean Really “Down Under”)
• A Special Breed Can Pay Its Way While Preserving a Priceless Heritage
• The Rare, Ancient Soay Small, Tasty, Easy-Care Sheep
• Karakul! Tradition Of Luxury
• Hoarding Faded Genes: Feds & Non-Profits Team Up To Store Rare Breed Remnants For Future
• America’s First Sheep Breed: Lost Treasure Regained
• Benefits Trump Braggadocio: Easy Care Breed Now A Half-Million Strong

Breeding

• Making New Bloodlines Using the Ram You Have
• Campylobacteriosis in Ewes (Vibrionic Abortion)
• Facts About Lambing With Hair Sheep
• Which Lamb Should Be Bottle Fed?
• Successful Indoor Lambing: Winter Methods
• Ovine Abortion
• Enzootic Abortion of Ewes
• Preserving Ram Semen
• Cut Work Loads with More & Healthier Lambs
• Book Review: Breeding Stud Sheep
• Multi-Births Galore In 2009
• Card Grading Advantages Building A Breed’s Genetic Excellence
• Top Genes Via Record-Keeping
• A Grass-Roots Breed Improvement Model
• Breeding A Better Flock It’s All In Your Records
• Lambing Time Success Tips
• Improving Flocks Through Artificial Insemination

Business

• Dual Purpose Sheep Breeds Can Increase Profits
• Building a Wool Business
• Tawanda Farms Romney Success
• New Profits, Old Breed
• Bed & Breakfast, Sheep=Good Business
• Specialty Wool: You Can Fill a Widespread Need
• Sheep Gone to The Dogs?
• Diversify Your Sheep Farm: Grow Pumpkins
• Teaching Crafters To Buy Your Wool
• Sheep Adoption Earns $120 Per Fleece
• Sheep Fests Enhance Flock Success
• Dairy Sheep Big Opportunity
• The Lamb Shoppe: Serving Top Buyers
• How Retail Flock Profits Are Made
• High-Tech Record Keeping: Electronic ID Boluses
• Money In Wool! Sell Shrink-Proof Fibers Now
• Outfitting New Buyers (At Low Prices) Sells More Wool (At Top Prices!)
• Well-Paying Sheep Dairies: Always Have Apt Equipment
• Milk Sheep For Profit: Dairy Sheep Symposium Shows & Tells How
• Teen Spins Wool Into Gold: Brains, Effort & Sheep Add Up To Success, Part I
• High-Paying Wool Production: Demands Proper Growth & Handling
• A Profitable Fiber Guild: Beginning & Growing Your Own
• Big Success with Local Lamb! North Carolinian Shares Great Profit Tips
• Herd it Through the Grape Vines: A Flock in the Vineyard
• Wyoming Lamb Makes Money: Better Meat & Methods Gain Better Prices
• 14 Flock Secrets: To Cut Your Costs & Save You Time
• Dealing With Wool On A Small Farm
• Blystone Farm Direct-To-Consumer Pays
• Wide Product Variety, Even On A Small Farm
• 21st Century Marketing From a 19th Century Farmstead
• Handspinner Wool Production in Paradise: Working With Nature’s Limitations
• The “Maine Event”: Yankee Ingenuity Pays Big At Fleece Tent
• On-Farm Fiber Processing: Help Is Available
• People Learn, Farmers Earn! Educating Buyers At Rising Meadow Farm
• A Consumer-Driven Start-Up: “Find Needs & Fill ‘Em”
• More Than Double Your Acre-Yields! Managed Grazing Boosts Productivity; Cuts Labor
• “Felt” Big Demand For Your Wool? “Go-To” Event In Growth Market Owned By Wool
• Mountain Meadow Wool Wyoming’s Place To Process Wool
• Internet Lamb Sales Open A Larger Market
• Northland Sheep Dairy A Collaboration With Nature
• “No Show” Moving On Up To Production Flock Status
• Playing For Profit, The (Sheep) Numbers Game
• Breaking Out Of The Mold, On A Gourmet Sheep Cheese Farm
• How Sheep Recording Software Adds Profit
• Farmlink Local Sheep Goods Sell Even Before Harvest!
• Private Schools Potent Opportunities For Nearby Sheep Farms
• Wool Pays! Niche Biz Adds Profit
• Setting Up A New Fiber Event Putting Your Wares Before The Public
• Team-Building The Fun Way, Blending Recreation, Discovery & Flock Profit
• Profits your way a visit with Michigans Laurie Ball-Gisch

Community

• Margarito: The Life Of A Shepherd
• Pennsylvania Shepherdess Turns TV Icon
• Cattleman Takes Ewe-Turn
• The Reluctant Shepherd
• Faithful Shepherds Share Flock Wisdom
• Lambtown USA: City Folks Love Seeing & Buying Real Sheep Stuff
• Don Bailey, D.V.M.: 25th Year With
• Hopping Acres
• Base Flock: Serving Time at Ft. Leavenworth
• Rousie Recollections: Inside A New Zealand Sheep Station
• Old-Time Sheep Pioneers: Fading Treasure Of Americana
• New Sheep Breed Registry For Trophy Breeds With Horn Genetics
• Art in the barn fleece and fiber festival

Feeding

• Comparison of Pasture Supplementation
• Grow Roots Now For More Lambs Later
• Plant Triticale: Cut Hay Bills, Boost Lamb Profits
• Evaluating Grazing Forage Electronically
• Time of Feeding Can Affect Your Bottom Line
• Winter Feeding Strategies After A Drought
• Hay Analysis: Looks Like Greek To Me!

Health

• A Cider Vinegar Miracle Cure
• 4 New Inventions Help Cut Sheep Stress
• The Horns They Wear
• Cutting Stress: Boosting Survival
• Serum Antibodies: Protection & Treatment
• Contagious Ecthyma
• Vet Check
• Basic Vaccinology
• Vet Check
• Stinting Singlers: Old-Time Ways Of Beating “Pulpy Kidney”
• Vet Check: Broken Legs In Lambs, Toxoplasmosis Abortions, Ewe Gives Birth Twice, Two Weeks Apart, Prolapse
• Cyclopia: New Evidence More Flocks At Risk!
• Vet Check: Undefined Lameness, Does Testicle Size Matter?, Epididymitis: To Vaccinate, Or Not?, Dietary Copper, Pizzle Rot
• Colostrum Help Saves Lambs
• The Killing Fields: Managing Sheep To Prevent Bloat
• When The Rumen Goes Awry
• Heat Stress & Sheep
• How To Rid Sheep Worms Without Drug Dependence
• When Sheep Limp And It’s Not Footrot
• Vet Check: “Fixing” Mean Rams, Natural Suckling Instinct
• Vet Check: Scar Tissue In Udders; Best Breeds For Oregon; Twinning, Teasing, Worming, Knots; Coughing Feedlot Lambs
• Vet Check: Locked Knuckles, Too Many Teats, Sore Joints & Screwworms
• Pre-Pubic Tendon Rupture
• Bluetongue In The West
• Vet Check: Repair Of Broken Horns, Will Castration Stop A 4-Year-Old Ram From Butting?, Strangely Lame Ewe
• Vet Check: Off-Feed: Entropion, Near-Amputated Tongue
• Vet Check: CDT Vaccines Seem Ineffective, Johne’s Disease In Sheep, Nasal Discharge In Newly Brought-In Ewes, Sheep Unable To Gain Balance
• Learning About Umbilical Hernias
• Vet Check: Poisoning by Oak Leaves, Lyme Disease From Deer, Castration, Mastitis Ewes Good To Eat?
• Cutting Wormer Dependence
• Vet Check: Age-Related Incoördination; Prolapse Ewes & Cripple Lambs
• Cache Valley Virus, Next Lambing-Time’s Losses Caused In Autumn
• Honey Cured Leg Of Lamb: Stopping Infection When Antibiotics Failed

Helpful Hints

• Reaping More With Less: Katahdin Secrets
• Rams: Respect Them But Don’t Fear Them
• Crutching for Better Lambing
• Inverted Eyelids? Try An Alligator Clip
• Soil Affects Sheep & Wool
• Power Shearing: Doing it Right
• eWood^TM Fences: Office Machines Into Corrals
• Mid-Pregnancy Shearing Pays
• Taking The Work Out Of Working Sheep
• Thistles: The Shepherd’s Thorn
• Sheep Dog Secrets: Good Dogs Save Time, Effort & Money
• Shearing the Biggies: How To Clip Difficult Sheep
• New Small-Scale Fiber Processor Spins & Plies on a Single Machine
• The Shocking Truth: About Electric Fences, Part 1
• Save Lambs: Keep “Good-Mom” Ewes
• Rigged Shears Two-Pack For Two Jobs
• Sheep Covers: An Ancient Secret To Futuristic Profits
• A Hand Spinner’s Primer Using Suffolk Wool

Make It Yourself

• Cutting Labor With Homemade Portable Feeders & Sheds
• Lamb Cradle
• Feeder Invention Stops Injuries to
      Frenzied Pregnant Ewes
• A Lambing Time First Aid Kit: Checklists For Barn & Field
• A Heat Lamp Safety Shield
• A Handy Sheep Hauler From Discarded Lawn Tractors
• Make It Yourself: Homemade Troughs For Feeding Pellets, Grain or Salt to Sheep in the Pasture

Shearing

• Shearing Notes
• Shearing Notes
• Shearing Notes
• Shearing “By The Book” And Progress Toward A Faster Clip!
• Australian Shearing Tips

Sheep May Safely Graze

• Llama Hints For Economical Flock Protection
• Karakachan Livestock Guardian Dogs

Shows / Showing

• What About Showing Sheep? Pros & Cons

Voices

• Free Speech: Should Farmers Have it?
• The Invisible Hand: Remaking The Old American Sheep Industry
• Nat’l Animal ID System: Threat to Personal Privacy
• Feds: “Outlaw Buying/Selling” Unless Beasts Receive Mark/Number
• USDA Treachery Proved! Even Good Staffers Taught Harmless Growers Cruel Lessons