Coleby, Pat.
Summary: Natural Sheep Care is a comprehensive guide for breeders and growers of sheep, whether for wool, meat or milk. The author, a longtime commercial livestock farmer who takes a natural approach to husbandry, draws on her wide experience to provide essential information for organic and sustainable farmers. special attention is devoted to breeding for finer wool and meat, land management, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acres U.S.A. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 COLSimmons, Paula
Summary: "Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep is the best-selling, most trusted reference for farmers and backyard homesteaders with any size flock. The fifth edition is now updated with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, including a gallery of the best breed choices for both meat and fiber. With their small size and gentle dispositions, sheep are one of the easier livestock species to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 SIMMurray, Julie
Summary: Introduces sheep, and describes their appearance, the sounds they make, what they eat, their climbing ability, and how they pass their time on a farm. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.3 MURStephenchel, Tora
Summary: A simple story about two white sheep and what they do during the day. This story helps readers learn the words two, white, and sheep. Bright pictures provide visual cues to help the reader. Additional features include a word list, an introduction to the author, and a letter to caregivers and educators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE STEWendt, Jennifer
Summary: You may think that all sheep are the same, but what sets some sheep above the rest? Readers are treated to information from an expert about shearing, market versus performance sheep, and training sheep to ensure that they put their best hoof forward in the ring. From ewes to rams, details about different competitions are also covered. Colorful photographs of sheep being shown and fun fact boxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.3 WENDemonti, Ilaria
Summary: "Discover all there is to know about sheep in all of their woolly mammal glory in Sheepology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: PA Press, Princeton Architectural Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.3 DEMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.3 DENGreenwood, Nancy
Summary: "This . . . guide takes young animal enthusiasts through the basic steps of showing their sheep at the fair. . . . Text helps readers learn how to care for and train their sheep and encourages them to be good sports and make friends at the fair"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.3 GREIvy, Bill.
Summary: A colorful and informative book about the habits, habitat, characteristics, and diet of bighorn sheep and prairie dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 591Cooper, Jane.
Summary: "It was Jane Cooper's passion for knitting that led her to search for rare-breed sheep and their distinctive wool. When she found a 'lost flock' of Boreray sheep--the UK's rarest breed of sheep--it ignited a quest that would ultimately change her life. Uprooting her suburban existence in Newcastle, she embarked on a new adventure as a farmer and shepherd in the faraway Orkney Islands. There, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 COOHerriot, James.
Summary: Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J PictureHerriotSummary: Paul Sorenson has a unique connection with his colleagues: a team of sheep dogs. For 40 years, he's worked to develop smarter and more intuitive training methods for fellow farmers, while grappling with memories of a difficult childhood. Reaching retirement, the veteran dog whisperer passes his knowledge to the next generation of shepherds, and reflects on the sacrifices he's made to pursue his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLDCulliford, Amy
Summary: "Early readers are introduced to sheep and life on a farm. Simple sentences accompany engaging pictures."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2021
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Summary: "Meet the bighorn sheep! Learn about how this horned mammal thrives in the mountains and deserts of North America. Elementary-aged readers will discover how bighorn sheep stay safe from predators by climbing onto narrow ledges. Full color images and clear explanations highlight the habitat, diet, and lifestyle of these fascinating mountain creatures. A folktale explains how the bighorn sheep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Creative Company 2023
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Summary: Explains the activities that take place on a working sheep farm, from the perspective of a child who lives there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.31 WOLFriend, Catherine.
Summary: What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEND, CATHERINE FRIHoward, Martin (Martin J.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HOWSummary: An unsentimental elegy to the American West follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWESimmons, Paula.
Summary: A guide to the choosing, handling, care, breeding, and showing of sheep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.3 SIMSummary: Start your engines for fun and laughter with Shaun the Sheep and his barnyard buddies as they speed off to stir up some mayhem in the meadow. Accelerate the laughter with revved-up adventures, from big races and chases to bikes and boats and everything in between. So buckle up for a wild ride with Shaun, Bitzer, Shirley, Timmy, and those Naughty Pigs next door as fun on the farm shifts into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hit Entertainment 2010
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Summary: Upon moving to Appalachian Ohio with their two small children, Richard Gilbert and his wife are thrilled to learn there still are places in America that haven't been homogenized. But their excitement over the region's beauty and quirky character turns to culture shock as they try to put down roots far from their busy professional jobs in town. They struggle to rebuild a farmhouse, and Gilbert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILBERT, RICHARD GILJackson, Tom
Contents: Fact file: bighorn sheep -- Playful lambs -- Bighorn home -- Meet the family -- Where's the wool -- Sure-footed sheep -- Big horns -- Super vision -- Under attack -- Bighorn bleaters -- Grass guzzlers -- Chew, chew -- Band leader -- Ewe chief -- Into the valley -- Downward trek -- In the snow -- Taking a stand -- Butting heads -- All change -- Born on a cliff -- Climbing high -- Coming of age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier ; Scholastic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.6497 JACKalman, Bobbie
Summary: Introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.31 KALLawson, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LDF Pub. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 LAWRebanks, James
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021