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A Rhubarb Juice Recipe for Canning
Add to Favorites (Works well for small children suffering from constipation.) By Maggie Laverman Here is the canning version of a rhubarb juice recipe that is useful for young children suffering from constipation. …
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How To Make Sauerkraut
Add to Favorites By Linda Baccei This is a method I adapted that combines getting things started with dry salting and then using a brine solution as needed. You will need a large …
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Bigger Lambs, Without Drugs & Drudgery
Add to Favorites By Patrice Lewis Wool from Norway is justifiably famous for its fineness and beauty. But for sheep to produce wool, they must start as lambs. And lambs, …
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Spit in the Wind Sheep Farm
Add to Favorites By Alan Harman On a perfect Michigan spring day under clear blue skies you can’t miss them — Polypay lambs running around tree-lined lush green fields, or …
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Helping Stock Dogs Remember
Add to Favorites By Denice Rackley The last series of articles focused on our first few lessons on stock. We have been concerned about the ideal picture we were looking …
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Victorian Farmstead
Add to Favorites By Alan Harman When Adam and Laura Parks were launching their northern California-based meat business in 2010, Twister Hill Ranch owner Bruce McGlochlin sold them their first …
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Paired to Perfection
Add to Favorites By Jacqueline Harp Can flock owners find synergies between the marketing of their lamb or mutton and the marketing done by the wine industry in their locality, …
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Livestock Guardian Dogs & Barking
Barking is a language for all dogs, and Livestock Guardian Dog (LGD) breeds are no exception. In fact, barking is an integral part of what LGDs do.
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Fire In Your Pasture: Friend or Foe?
Add to Favorites Originally published in the March/April 2017 issue of Sheep! magazine. Subscribe for more great stories! By John Kirchhoff, Kirchhoff Katahdins Renick, Missouri Fire in your pasture is …
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RamGo for Your Flock of Sheep
Add to Favorites By Geoffrey Clifford Photos Courtesy of Tecnogen, Mexico City, Mexico RamGo is a revolutionary, new concept in the delivery of frozen semen through the sheep cervix. Sheep …
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Wrap-Around Flock Success — Everything But The Baa!
Add to Favorites See more great stories in the January-February 2017 issue of sheep! magazine. By Jacqueline Harp – At the 2016 OkFiberFest in Okanogan, Washington, there was a vendor booth …
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Sheep Breeds That Pay Their Way
Add to Favorites By Alan Harman – Karen Valley’s flock of 21 sheep, consisting of two sheep breeds (Shetland and colored Cormo cross ewes), tend to stay close to home …
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Cider Vinegar to Treat White Muscle Disease
The summer of 2002 was the first time I encountered White Muscle Disease in our flock of purebred Icelandic sheep. It affected two ewes I had purchased bred in late winter. We were hit had in early June here in Michigan with severely hot and humid weather.
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Raising Sheep: Buying and Caring for Your First Flock
Add to Favorites By Marvin R. Gray – So you’ve moved to the country and have been thinking about raising sheep on your five or 10 acres. Perhaps you have only limited …
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Raising Sheep For Profit: Milking Sheep Offer a Small Farm Alternative
Add to Favorites By J.D. Belanger – Question: Like most homesteaders who weren’t originally interested in raising sheep for profit, I’d love to find a way to earn some money …
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