Breeding Stud Sheep shows how to establish and manage a successful sheep stud. All aspects of stud breeding are covered, including where and how to buy your sheep, selecting the right breeding stock for your stud, flock management, nutrition, disease control, lambing problems, showing sheep, promotion and marketing, and selling stud genetics. The detailed step-by-step strategies will give the reader the ability to develop alternative approaches that best suit their situation.
It also explains how new initiatives such as performance recording, DNA testing and modern reproductive techniques can be integrated with the old, time-honoured traditions of sheep breeding.
Profiles of highly recognised stud breeders are included, detailing how they started and the strategies they have used to grow their stud sheep operations over many years.
This book will help new breeders avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that can occur when starting a new stud venture, and show how to succeed in what is ultimately a tough but very rewarding industry.
Gives a detailed step-by-step guide on how to establish a successful sheep stud
Provides ideas and strategies gained from those involved in the industry that otherwise may be difficult to obtain
Shows how to integrate new technology with established time-honoured traditions
Gives the reader the opportunity to expand their own ideas and develop a sheep stud enterprise that is individual and fits their particular needs
Wool growers and prime lamb producers, members of breed societies, TAFE college libraries and public libraries. The book is relevant to all sheep breeds and is aimed at new breeders who are considering establishing a stud sheep breeding program.
"This book will help new breeders avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that can occur when starting a new stud venture, and show how to succeed in what is ultimately a tough, but very rewarding, industry." The sheep! Bookstore, 2009
"At last! Here is a volume for which the sheep biz has waited a long time…nothing else focuses on getting a breeding stock operation up and running, as does this book." Nathan Griffith, sheep!, 2009
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