Sheep Breeds and Breeding - A Concise Overview of the Breeding Feeding and Management of Sheep Including Chapters on Lambing Prices of Wool Health and Much More

Sheep Breeds and Breeding is a definite guide to breeding sheep dealing with all aspects of the subject including selection feeding management housing illnesses and ailments and much more. Concentrating on the sheep of the British Isles it will be of considerable utility to British farmers and those occupied with breeding sheep for profit or pleasure. Contents include: Breeds and Breeding The Importance of Sheep Farming Classification Origin Improving the Breeds Long-Wools and Short-Wools Medium-Wools Breeds Compared Effect of Soil Climate and Indigenous Herbage Sheep on Arable Land Value of a Strain of Cotswold Blood etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on sheep farming.