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Sheep Keeping, The Professional Smallholder (01) by Phillipa Page .. EPUB

Sheep Keeping is a practical guide to common problems seen in small sheep flocks. It is suitable for experienced smallholder sheep farmers, but also relevant to new and prospective ones. As a sheep keeper, have you ever wanted to go into more depth with your vet and gain expert advice that will keep your flock healthy and happy?

This guide provides in-depth veterinary information to complement local veterinary consultations. Advice is offered on everyday issues, such as: feeding and nutrition; housing; organ systems and their function; disease and treatments; and sheep behavior. Each chapter guides the reader through different sheep keeping systems, organ biology, correct diet and nutrition, lambing time, and the many problems that can occur at this time of year. Helpful photographs and diagrams will help readers identify and describe diseases, including recognizing abnormal behaviour and the signs of disease in their sheep. The chapter on routine husbandry procedures will help readers prevent diseases through good practice.

The Professional Smallholder Series

The Professional Smallholder series provides expert veterinary level information to small-holder farmers, backyard animal keepers and animal enthusiasts on a wide range of topics to help keep your animals happy, healthy, productive and well cared for. Pigs, poultry, sheep and goats and other commonly farmed animals are covered as well as less commonly farmed animals such as camelids.

The books in the series are written by vets and experts for animal keepers, with the aim of providing higher level follow-on information. The books are accessible and the content is practical and current, including subjects like behaviour, health management, anatomy, reproduction and breeding, diseases and disorders, equipment, business matters and organic farming.

The level of the content is directed at the informed owner and is suitable for experienced animal keepers and new farmers. It is also relevant to people with a few hobby animals and more extensive livestock keeping systems. The coverage is useful to and of interest to animal keepers worldwide.

Informed and informative to read, with personal insights from the authors, these books will be beneficial to smallholder farmers of large and small enterprises, agricultural students and potential smallholders.

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