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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool: Breeds, Fencing, Feed, Lambing, and Products

Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool: Breeds, Fencing, Feed, Lambing, and Products

Briggs, Hudson

Paperback

Series: The Homestead Starter, Book 40

Agriculture

ISBN13: 9798176649611
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool is a practical beginner's guide to building a healthy, productive flock on a small homestead. It explains how to choose between hair and wool sheep, compare useful breeds, buy sound ewes, and build fencing, shelter, handling facilities, and predator protection that fit real land and budgets.

Readers learn how to manage pasture, hay, grain, sheep-specific minerals, breeding, gestation, lambing, newborn care, weaning, parasites, feet, and flystrike. The book also covers freezer-lamb yield, processing choices, fleece handling, shearing, direct-market considerations, and the practical realities of milking dairy ewes.

With straightforward planning figures and clear safety boundaries, this guide helps new shepherds avoid copper mistakes, prepare for lambing, understand flock records, and decide whether meat, milk, wool, or a combination makes sense for their homestead.

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