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Sheep conformation
Sheep conformation
Article · 2 pages
A "Lamb's Korner" column by Mary Lis offering guidance to hand spinners and weavers on buying sheep. It covers conformation, soundness, wool quality, age, performance records, and health certificates. Line drawings show good and faulty conformation and mouth and jaw configurations by age (lamb through broken mouth), along with guidance on ram-to-ewe ratios and breeding ewe lambs.
Sheep Facility Layouts
Sheep Facility Layouts
Article · 2 pages
The first installment of the new "Lamb's Korner" column in The Minnesota Weaver, introducing a series on keeping a sheep flock for guild members. It gives a checklist for choosing and planning sheep housing: site, construction, floors, insulation, water, light, ventilation, lambing pens, alleys and manure handling. It also briefly covers feeding and refers readers to the Sheep Handbook, with two barn floor-plan diagrams for 30 and 50 ewes.
Sheep Foot Care
Sheep Foot Care
Article · 1 page
A one-page sheep management column from the "Lamb's Korner" series in Minnesota Weaver. It explains why regular foot trimming matters for sheep health, lists guidelines for trimming and foot baths, and briefly describes foot rot, foot abscess and foot scald. It also gives steps for flipping a sheep to trim its feet, with line drawings of trimmed and untrimmed hooves and of handling positions.

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