Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep / Paula Simmons & Carol Ekarius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simmons, Paula.

Ekarius, Carol, author.

Contributor:

Simmons, Paula.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Storey's guides.

Storey's guide to raising series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sheep.

Medical Subjects:

Sheep.

Genre:

Paperback.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

x, 389, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Raising Sheep

Place of Publication:

North Adams, MA : Storey Books, 2001.

Contents:

Foreword / Paula Simmons

Preface

1. Starting with Sheep

2. Breeding and Breeds

3. Pasture, Fences, and Facilities

4. Herding Dogs

5. Predators and Protection

6. Feeds and Feeding

7. General Health Considerations

8. Problems of Rams, Ewes, and Lambs

9. Flock Management

10. Lambing

11. Products and Marketing

12. Showing Sheep

Lambing Calendar

Feed Requirements for Sheep

Composition of Common Feedstuffs.

Notes:

"Breeding, Care, Facilities"--Cover.

Revised edition of: Raising Sheep the Modern Way.

"This new edition has been expanded by 112 pages. Chapter 4, Herding Dogs, was written by Beverly Lambert. All the information in the previous edition was reviewed and revised for this new text, which offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on raising sheep."--Title-page verso.

Publisher's advertisements ([1] page at end) and self-addressed postcard tipped in.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-355) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Related Work:

Simmons, Paula. Raising sheep the modern way.

ISBN:

1580172628

9781580172622

OCLC:

44592685

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