Product Description: With a new epilogue to carry the story to the present, Paul Carlson engagingly chronicles the development of the range sheep and goat industry from Spanish times to about 1930, when widespread use of mesh-wire fences brought an end to the open-range management of sheep and goat ranches in Texas...read more

Defines common and specialized architectural and construction terms and major terms used in such associated fields as structural engineering, urban planning, landscape architecture, and the building trades

Product Description: Acknowledgements xi 1. Recent Trends in the Wool Industry and Some Long-Term Policy Issues 1 R. Richardson STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HAIR FOLLICLE 2. Morphogenesis of the Hair Follicle during the Ontogeny of Human Skin 15 KA. Holbrook, C...read more

Product Description: First published in 1984, this volume comprised a broad synthesis of contemporary research on sheep reproduction conducted in Australia. Australia is internationally recognized for the excellence of its research in this field, and heads the world in areas of the neuro-endocrine control of reproduction, reproductive behaviour, artificial insemination and manipulation of reproductive performance, to name just a few...read more

Product Description: This classic novel, first published in 1906 and based on Mary Austin's own experiences, captures the way of life of shepherds in the Sierra. Austin blends natural history, politics, and allegory in a genre-blurring narrative, championing local shepherds in their losing battle against the quickly developing tourist business in the Western Sierra during the nineteenth century...read more

Product Description: Many mistakes are made by new stud breeders and, in today's climate, these can be expensive and ultimately result in a loss of enthusiasm for new breeders. This book explains all aspects of stud breeding, from the decision to establish a sheep stud through to purchasing breeding stock, advertising, promoting and selling stud stock...read more

Product Description: An artisan who captures Maine’s summer air in her sun-and-sea-dyed yarns. A weaver and a poet whose Buddhist stupa sits near the barns of their Massachusetts farm. Two scientists turned sheep farmers whose flock grazes in the shadows of Montana’s Bridger Mountains...read more

Product Description: The history of a large but remote sheep station in the central North Island of New Zealand comes to life in this collection of stories from the people who lived and worked there. Combining personal narrative with exhaustive research this account tells the fascinating tale of a challenging but exhilarating way of agrarian life that was a large part of New Zealand's past...read more

A memoir of the author's family life on a remote sheep farm in Wales offers a first-person evaluation of the natural world that traces the author's unconventional mother's decision to leave London society to raise sheep in a challenging new home. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Before Horatio Clare was born, his parents fell in love with a place -- a remote sheep farm in Wales, physically and in every other way far from the lives they were forging as young professionals in London. The farm was high up a mountain, nearly impassable in winter...read more

Defines common and specialized architectural and construction terms and major terms used in such associated fields as structural engineering, urban planning, landscape architecture, and the building trades

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Product Description: This revised and updated version of Outline of Clinical Diagnosis in Sheep now covers the whole field of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and poor production of sheep. It is aimed at the non-specialist veterinarian and fills a niche between the large, comprehensive books on sheep and the shorter texts aimed at farmers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is the most complete source available on the subjects of sheep and goats. It is scientific, yet practical, and will be of assistance to anyone interested in producing quality animals. This newly revised edition reflects recent technological changes and scientific advances that influence the industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Long before Mendel's ground-breaking discoveries about heredity, sheep breeders in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were transforming the appearance and qualities of their livestock by combining various traits of body and wool into new patterns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Sheep Book carries the reader along through a year in a sheep's life during which sheep and shepherd form a symbiosis. A knowledgeable shepherd manages a flock in such a way as to provide an appropriate environment for all phases of the annual journey from breeding through pregnancy, lambing, growing of lambs, marketing of lamb and wools, and revitalization of the sheep for another cycle.The Sheep Book guides the reader to working with the instincts of the sheep — treating them as animals with special talents and ways of behaving that can be engaged and directed. The reader is encouraged to learn from the sheep, for they are the best teachers of a successful shepherd. (view table of contents)