The Sheep Book : A Handbook for the Modern Shepherd, Revised and Updated

Ronald B Parker; Garrison Keillor; Ron Parker
Ohio University Press
9780804010320
0-8040-1032-3

The Sheep Book carries the reader along through a year in a sheep's life during which sheep and shepherd form a symbiosis. A knowledgeable shepherd manages a flock in such a way as to provide an appropriate.

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environment for all phases of the annual journey from breeding through pregnancy, lambing, growing of lambs, marketing of lamb and wools, and revitalization of the sheep for another cycle.The Sheep Book guides the reader to working with the instincts of the sheeptreating them as animals with special talents and ways of behaving that can be engaged and directed. The reader is encouraged to learn from the sheep, for they are the best teachers of a successful shepherd.