SHEEP HANDBOOK: Housing and Equipment
Published by Prepared and Published by the Midwest Plan Service, 1978
- Softcover
- Used

Seller: The Maine Bookhouse, Oxford, ME, U.S.A.The Maine Bookhouse
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- SECOND EDITION ('Second Edition, 2nd Printing 10M, Jan '78' STATED)- BINDING is ORIGINAL light green pictorial staple-bound softcover with titles in black on cover; binding and text are neat, clean, bright and solid, VG with NO extraneous writings or bookplates. Just light wear to extremities. Overall, a very nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPY of an UNCOMMON AGRICULTURAL GUIDE detailing the CARE and MANAGEMENT of SHEEP. 'SHEEP HOUSING and RELATED FACILITIES are IMPORTANT STRUCTURES: SAVING LABOR, PROTECTING ANIMALS, FEED and EQUIPMENT; and aiding EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT.increases in FLOCK SIZE and CURRENT ECONOMIC and ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS encourage GOOD MANAGEMENT with well PLANNED HOUSING and FACILITIES for EWE and FEEDER LAMB OPERATIONS.' The contents includes: HOUSING (barn styles, cold & warm sheep housing, etc.), BARN and LOT LAYOUTS (open-front barn with lot, slotted-floor confinement barn, etc.), VENTILATION, MANURE MANAGEMENT (runoff control, settling basin, holding pond, etc.), FEEDING (self-feeders, hay & grain bunks, ewe hay rack, salt & mineral feeders, etc.), FENCING, (coyote proof fence, gates, stock guards, windbreak fences, etc.), HANDLING EQUIPMENT (corrals, movable shelter, lambing pens, sorting chutes, ewe stanchion, dipping vat, weigh crate, double deck loading chute, etc.), MATERIALS, FASTENERS, WEIGHTS and MEASURES, and much more. 80 pages complete with INDEX, TABLES, FORMULAS and B&W ILLUSTRATIONS and DIAGRAMS throughout for the information referenced. Overall, a very nice, SOLID COLLECTOR COPY of an UNCOMMON AGRICULTURAL GUIDE detailing the CARE and MANAGEMENT of SHEEP. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- SHEEP HANDBOOK: Housing and Equipment
- Publisher
- Prepared and Published by the Midwest Plan Service
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Seller catalogs
- Animal Husbandry, Livestock, Reference
The Maine Bookhouse
Oxford, ME, U.S.A.
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