Sheep Information and Resources

To help readers find additional sheep information I often recommend a book or a website throughout the content of my site. However, since this site has grown into numerous pages of content it can be a chore to come back to find that book you were interested in earlier.

This page puts all my favorite raising sheep related resources in one place and it will continue to grow with additional valuable resources as I find them.

It is not my aim to create a lengthy list of as many links as I can. There are countless books, sites and blogs available, what is here are a few of my best picks.

The books listed here sit on my own shelves or have been borrowed and read.

The websites are ones I find myself returning to on repeated occasions.

The blogs are ones that speak to me for one reason or another.

Sheep Information

• Natural Sheep Care by Pat Coleby

• The Sheep Book:Handbook for the Modern Shepherd by Ron Parker

• More Sheep, More Grass, More Money by Peter Schroedter

• Sheep Canada Magazine

• Sheep 101

• Sheep 201

• Univeristy of Maryland Small Ruminant Page

• Sheep Health and Diseases Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

• Southern Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Control

• Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board

Sheep Handling

Websites

Planning Your Facility

• Government of Saskatchewan Farm Structures and Handling Equipment. Lots of ideas here for small or large scale. Note: When you get on this page you need to scroll down to the section on sheep information.

• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Criteria and Considerations plus some yard designs

Portable and Permanent Yard Designs

• ProWay-Prattley Portable Sheep Yards Completely portable sheep yards for working on pasture

• Sheep Yards and Equipment - Australia Large scale yard design ideas

• Magnus Australia More yard design ideas

Pasture Management, Grass and Grazing

There are so many books in this topic area, it is very difficult to keep this list to only a few. You will find many books, including these, at The Stockman Grass Farmer, Holistic Management and Acres USA websites which I encourage you to explore (links to all three below).

• Quality Pasture by Allen Nation

• Management Intensive Grazing by Jim Gerrish

• Holistic Management by Allan Savory with Jody Butterfield

• Grass-Fed Cattle by Julius Ruechel (Amazon)

• Small Scale Farming by Carol Ekarius (Amazon)

• All Flesh is Grass by Gene Logsdon

• Grass The Forgiveness of Nature by Charles Walters

• Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine

• Small Farm Canada Magazine

• The Stockman Grass Farmer Articles

• Acres USA

• Holistic Management

• National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

Livestock Guardian Dogs

• Livestock Protection Dogs by Orysia Dawydiak and David Sims

• van Bommel, L (2010) Guardian Dogs: Best Practice Manual for the use of Livestock Guardian Dogs Invasive Animals CRC, Canberra

Stock Dogs

• Herding Dogs by Virgil Holland

• StockDog Savvy by Jeanne Joy Hartnagle-Taylor and Ty Taylor

• Herding on the Web

• Working Aussie Source Stockdog Library

Great Blogs and Other Stories

• Ranching With Sheep Blog

• Crooked Fences Newsletter

• Raven Wood Farm Tails

• Farm Fresh Forensics

• Just Another Day on the Prairie

• Throwback at Trapper Creek - Ranching and Rotational Grazing

• The Shepherds Watch by David Kennard

• Dogs of Windcutter Down by David Kennard

• Buffalo for the Broken Heart by Dan O'Brien

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