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Where to Find Blackbelly Sheep Breeders
Care and Maintenance
General Sheep Information
American Sheep
Industry Association (ASI) If you own sheep, this is the organization
that represents you. Although geared primarily for wooled breeds,
this site has good information on disease, marketing, production,
regulatory and legislative information. Click the Sitemap link at
the upper right for easiest navigation.
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The
Sheep Book, by Ron Parker Everything you need to know about
raising sheep. Ron has generously put his entire book online as
a PDF file.
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Illini
SheepNet—The Online Resource for the Sheep Industry
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Manitoba
Sheep Association Although this site is designed primarily for
Manitoba producers, it provides a wide range of information and
links of use to all shepherds, producers, veterinarians, livestock
specialists and others to access the vast amount of sheep related
information available on the web.
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Maryland
Small Ruminant Page Has one of the most extensive collections
of information links for sheep on the web.
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Virginia
Cooperative Extension Great articles about sheep health, management,
marketing and economics, nutrition, and reproduction.
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National Sheep
Industry Improvement Center This site helps U.S. sheep and goat
industries to strengthen and enhance the production and marketing
of their animals and products.
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The
Stackyard Agriculture on the Web.
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SHEEP-L
Support A group of regular contributors to the listserv SHEEP-L
started this site to house a ton of great information about sheep.
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An
Update on Hair (Meat) Sheep in the U.S. by Susan Schoenian
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Oklahoma
State University Virtual Livestock Library Breeds and selection
information;, commercial information; collections of publications;
diseases, disorders and pests; nutrition and feeding; production/husbandry
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Barbados
Blackbellies—A National Treasure by Susan Schoenian
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Line
Breeding—an Ancient Breeding Tool Barbara Webb does an
excellent job describing the principles of line breeding in layman's
terms.
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FSpeed—Fast
Inbreeding Computation Software Windows program for rapidly
computing the inbreeding of all individuals in a breeding population.
Free version available.
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Ethnic
Calendar Use this calendar to help you pinpoint the best times
to sell your sheep to ethnic populations who eat sheep as part of
their religious holidays.
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Magazines, Email Groups, Organizations
Supplies and Services
Blackbelly Goodies Store—t-shirts, hats, mousepads, and more!!
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Behlen Country They
sell a lot of good livestock equipment, but my favorite is their
mini-bulk
grain bin (I own two of 'em). You can get them in 1.5-ton and
2-ton sizes—perfect for sheep feed. Their customer service
is exceptional.
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 D-S
Livestock Company sells the Billy Buster platform headgate and
chute. This amazing piece of equipment allows me to trim hooves,
tag, medicate, and otherwise constrain my sheep single-handed. Pricy,
but worth every cent!
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 Udderly
EZ Sheep Milker Now you can easily obtain cholostrum from lactating
ewes with tiny teats. Freeze it for emergency use in icecube trays.
Click
here to read people's testimonials.
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Premier
Even if you never order from them, get their catalog. It is one
of the best learning tools for fencing I've ever read. Premier sells
excellent sheep lambing products and is the only source for the
2X ear tags suitable for blackbelly ears. They are the people to
talk to about your scrapie tags. Excellent customer service.
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Gallagher
Power Fence See their Power Fence Online Manual (http://www.gallagherusa.com/Web3/frame.htm)
for a basic primer on electrical fencing. The site has pictures
of a spring fence using four or five long, electrically charged
springs as a gate.
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Drs.
Foster and Smith They sell the cheapest nylon collars (18"
long x 1" wide) that I've found so far (Item 9N-9003, $4.99
ea available in 12 colors).
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Pipestone Veterinary
Supply Of special interest is their archive
of sheep articles. Pipestone is a good source for sheep vet
products.
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Sydell, Inc.
Sells quality sheep handling systems.
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Pelt
Tanning Companies Comprehensive list compiled by Ron Parker.
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Sheep
Management Computer Software Another comprehensive list compiled
by Ron Parker.
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 Lamb
Lovers Cookbook. One of only two lamb cookbooks vailable in
the entire WORLD! This cookbook contains over 100 mouth-watering
recipes and is fully indexed to make it easy to find recipes by
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 Pen&Ink
drawings from photos. Ann-Cathrine Loo lives in the U.K., but
all she needs is your photograph and an email address to create
exquisite drawings and paintings of your sheep, family, and any
other artwork you may need. She made this line drawing for me to
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Animal Transport
 Delta
Dash Animal Freight Service
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Ron
Keener—Travel with RonK Ron makes several cross-country
trips each year providing door-to-door service (almost) for people
wanting to transport sheep, goats, dogs, and just about anything
else. The way it works is you join his Yahoo group and let him know
you want to ship something. He will tell you when his next truck
run will be. You can follow along via the Yahoo group as he makes
his stops. Everyone on the route posts his whereabouts as he leaves
their farm. I have used Ron's service and he is fantastic. My sheep
were on his truck for 19 days, put on weight, and didn't want to
get off!
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Edgar
Ranch Livestock Hauling Russ Edgar makes custom runs around
the midwest, south, and eastern areas of the U.S. He tries to match
up as many folks as possible for his trips and lists tentative routes
on his Web site.
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First Class
Transport Based in Idaho, they provide several cross-country
animal transport trips each year.
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 UShip.com
is a free pet transport bid site. Animal owners can list any animal
they need shipped--dogs, sheep, goats, whatever--and in turn they
receive bids from feedback-rated pet transporters.
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Sheep as Food
Government
Veterinary/Medical
Pasture and Plants
Building Plans for Barns, Shelters, Feeders, Etc.
Breed Conservation/Preservation
USDA
National Animal Germplasm System will collect semen from your
ram and cryopreserve it to ensure that your bloodlines are never
lose. Their program is free — you donate your ram's semen
to the program.
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SVF Foundation
Rhode Island organization preserves embryos/semen of rare and endangered
livestock breeds
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American Livestock
Breeds Conservancy Pioneer organization in the U.S. working
to conserve historic breeds and genetic diversity in livestock,
including Barbados Blackbelly sheep.
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