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Farming Articles

Herding Articles

Farming Articles

Articles about sheep farming I wrote for Small Farm Quarterly:

Pasture Bloat in Sheep

Managing a Sheep Breeding Season

Managing The Lambing Season

How to Get Started with Sheep

Raising and Finishing Lambs on Pasture

When do Sheep Need Shelter?

Weaning Age of Lambs

Marketing sheep and lambs

Part I: Does Raising Sheep Pay?

Part II: Does Raising Sheep Pay?

Internal Parasite Management In Sheep

Choosing A Breed for a Pasture Based Sheep Farm

Electric Netting for Sheep

Livestock Guardian Dogs

In Defense of Specialization

Winter versus Spring Lambing

Articles about sheep farming I wrote for Farming Magazine:

Breeding Season

Lambing Season

Grazing Sheep

Internal Parasites

Perfect Pasture

State Of Grass Farming

Herding Dogs

Yearly Cycle

Marketing

Birds on the Farm

When to Start and When to Finish Grazing

Grafting Lambs–The Head Gate

Herding Articles

History of Tending In Germany

The Origin of the GSD

The Tending Pup

The Instinct Test

Beginning of Training

Advanced Training

Moving The Flock

Teaching The Exit From The Pen

Teaching The Bridge

The Traffic

Teaching The Re-pen

The Placement

Working One Versus Two Dogs