BOOK DESCRIPTION

Through detailed charts, a comprehensive glossary, and fun tips and trivia, this companion edition to Hobby Farm instructs readers in the proper tending of sheep, whether they are being kept as pets or as a business venture. Both neophyte and seasoned sheep keepers will find a wealth of information to ensure their flocks thrive! Readers will discover how to select and purcase the right breed, construct housing and predator-proof fending, keep flocks healthy with a   nutritious diet, breed, deliver and care for newborn lambs, spot symptoms of common sheep diseases, and much more!

About the author:

Sue Weaver is a contributing editor of Hobby Farms^® magazine. Sue maintains a flock of chicks that includes Barred Rock Cochins, a Silver-Laced Wyandotte, a larger brown Cochin, a ed Jungle Fowl, and an assortment of barnies. She also breeds Keyrrey-Shee miniature sheet, American Curly horses, and AMHR miniature horses of the cob type. Sue lives in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas.