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The Sheep Book Handbook For The Modern Shepherd

.... raise sheep, did I bring with me a background in farmingcountry’s top geology departments to move to Minnesota with my wifehen I quit a perfectly good job as a tenured professor in one of the and raising livestock? I did not. Was my wife from rural roots and full of knowledge of things pastoral? She was not. In fact, we didn’t know a thing about sheep, or very little at least. My wife had taken up spinning and weaving, and we thought we should raise some animals, so sheep it was. I sat in on some courses in the agriculture college at my university, and we read what books we could lay hands on, but we were mighty ignorant of both theory and practice. Oh, we had seen sheep; we had even sheared a sheep apiece at a clinic for 4-H kids, but that was about it

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