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Sheep and Goats
Betsy Hartley
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Sheep Production Guide
Outlines management practices to help sheep producers achieve greater productivity. Includes a sheep management calendar. Discusses flock management, lamb management and nutrition, how to calculate adjusted weaning weight, how to address lambing difficulties, and artificial rearing of lambs. Covers...
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Flushing Ewes: Don’t start too late or stop too soon
Increasing the plane of nutrition for ewes 2–3 weeks prior to and 3 weeks into the breeding season can improve lamb crop in some instances.Latest Resources
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Ecologically Based Integrated Pest Management
Ecologically-based invasive plant management (EBIPM) combines state and transition models and successional management as a framework to make the best management decisions for a given landscape based on ecological principles.
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Rangeland Monitoring
Monitoring is a process that land managers can use to assess how management decisions affect rangeland and natural resource health.
Featured Question
To graze or not to graze that is my question.
I have a small dairy goat farm, and at the moment have 5 adult does plus 2 donkeys. In the winter they are confined to the paddock around the barn, but in spring I begin rotating them between 3 small pastures, one to two acres in size. In July, after hay harvest I let them out onto the 7 acre cut...
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Desert bighorn sheep are crossing Interstate 40 in California
Jun 5, 2018
Desert bighorn sheep are able to climb steep, rocky terrain with speed and agility. New research shows that they can cross a four-lane highway.
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OSU bighorn sheep research sheds light on path of killer disease
Apr 6, 2017
Once a herd is infected, an all-age die-off can occur
