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Raising Lamb for Meat and Selling it at the Farmers Market
Raising lamb for meat is a niche market to grow the farm business.
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14 Ways to Cut Costs on the Sheep Farm
Here are 14 cost-cutting and time-saving suggestions for the sheep farm. With spiraling feed costs and unpredictable fuel prices, flockmasters raising sheep for profit are seeking ways to operate their flocks more profitably and efficiently.
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Hyden’s Classic Cheviots
Add to Favorites By Tim King — Dean Hyden, of Chewelah, Washington has been raising Border Cheviot sheep for more than four decades. And after all those years, he continues to …
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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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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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Many Opportunities for Marketing Lamb
Add to Favorites Originally published in the November / December 2016 issue of sheep! magazine. By Gayle Smith – Unique opportunities are out there for marketing the annual lamb crop, but …
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Profits from a ”Lamb Hub” — Hi-Ho Sheep Farm
Add to Favorites Originally published in the September/October 2016 issue of sheep! magazine. By Jacqueline Harp Buying local is a substantial and growing trend among consumers, restaurants, small grocers and …
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Trials In Croppy Country, Getting Into The Game
Add to Favorites Originally published in the September/October 2016 issue of sheep! magazine. By Julia Hollister The overflow crowd at the high school football field grew silent as the participants …
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How Sheep Adopters Sponsor Farm Animals
Add to Favorites By Caroline Owens For a yearly fee, sheep adopters support animal maintenance and enjoy visits, updates, and woolly rewards. Small sheep operations worldwide are finding “adoption” programs …
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How to Make A Homemade Sheep Feeding Trough For the Pasture
It’s easy and economical to make a homemade sheep feeding trough for my flock when they are out to pasture. I’ve been making this type of sheep feeding trough for as long as I’ve been raising sheep.
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Inborn Worm Resistance In Lambs: How To Breed For It
“Parasite resistance in Katahdin hair sheep can be improved by selective breeding. That improved resistance in Katahdins may be able to be passed on to wool sheep breeds through cross breeding.”
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Herding Dog Trainer, Part One (Good, Bad, and Thugly)
How do you determine if a trainer is good? This is especially difficult with your first working dog. Maybe you’ve never even seen a herding dog work and have no idea what you’re aiming for.
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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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