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Getting Started
Sheep 201 A Beginner's Guide to Raising Sheep-start here!
Thinking of Raising Sheep?
Getting Started in Sheep
Starting or Expanding Your Sheep Flock
Sheep Primer
Sheep Production As An Alternative Enterprise from AL Cooperative Extension, contains info on breeds, stocking rates, space allotments, equipment needed.
Developing a Sheep Enterprise
Sheep Production Essentials: Some Guidelines for Success
Thinking of getting some wool sheep?
Wool Production Basics
Starting/Staying in Business
Illustrated Guide to Sheep & Goat Production an excellent resource for youth and beginning shepherds
Introduction To Sheep Production Sheep Production In Ontario

General Information
Maryland Small Ruminant's Page -The best Sheep site on the web!
The Sheep Book Online
Breeds of Sheep the OK State web site
Sheep 101-Breeds
Small Ruminant Publications and Links Web Site
Virtual Livestock Library Sheep Resources, OSU
Glossary of Sheep Terms
American Livestock Breeds Conservancy working to protect nearly 100 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction
Sheep Home Study Course-Penn State excellent, FREE to view
Sheep Articles from Pipestone Vets
Livestock Updates VA Tech Monthly Newsletters
Sheep @ Purdue original sheep information and extensive links
Agripedia Internet Accessible Interactive Multimedia Instructional Resource, developed by the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture
Sheep Links from North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University
OSU Extra Extension, Research, and Teaching Archive of Oklahoma State University
Cleon's Corner Cleon V. Kimberling, D.V.M. Colorado State University
Canada Plan Services plans for barns, Fleece-sorting Table, Feed Rack, Lamb Creep, etc.
Livestock Behaviour and Design of Facilities Dr. Temple Grandin's website on reducing stress on animals.
THE "Virtual" Veterinary Center
Library4Farming has converted the Yearbooks of Agriculture to web pages that are easy to find and use

Basic Care/Management
VEIN Sheep Health & Production A course for Veterinary Science students by KA Abbott and WMC Maxwell, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney.
Sheep Pocket Guide an excellent resource from North Dakota State University
Montana Farm Flock Sheep Production Handbook nutrition, cross-breeding, sheep selection, reproduction, and management
Body Condition Scoring of Sheep find out if your sheep are too fat or thin
Breeding Ewe Lambs or Getting the Most out of Ewe Lambs, by David L. Thomas, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Development of Replacement Ewe Lambs by Scott Greiner, Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech
Late Gestation Ewe Management
Sheep 101 a shepherd's primer
Raising Respectful Rams by Letty Kline
Articles by Letty Kline on fleece/horn genetics, sheep care
Sheep and Goats Saskatchewan Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization
Sheep New South Wales
Intensive sheep production in the Near East the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Housing
Canada Plan Services plans for barns, Fleece-sorting Table, Feed Rack, Lamb Creep, etc.
NDSU Sheep Plans barns, feeders, sorting and handling system plans.
NDSU Beef Plans barns, chutes, feeders.
Livestock Housing and Equipment Plans
ISU Sheep Building Plans
Colorado State University Plans
Goat Housing and Equipment Plans from Penn State
THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDING and EQUIPMENT PLAN LIST U of TN