Northern View Ranch Sheep

How to get your lamb to Brace!!

This clip is good for someone who had never even had a lamb before and was getting into it. The clip really doesn't give a lot of showmanship help.  It shows how to get the lamb bracing good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZl_JaMbaI
There are some links on the side of this clip that will give a few extra little tips.  There is some helpful stuff for showmanship for the beginner. Have patience it takes time to get bracing down but if you can ask someone for help it will make it easy.

Merck Manual on line
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp

Nutritional charts

 If you are researching feeds and how rations are changed in composition to modify inputs. These are aimed at commercial flocks but the basic principles will apply. THESE ARE NOT SHOW RATIONS.
http://www.case-agworld.com/cAw.LU.nutr.html

Feed composition table

http://beefmagazine.com/images/feedcomptables.pdf

Found this very useful table online and thought I'd pass it along. It's got the composition of just about anything that can be fed to livestock. It's calculated for cattle, but will be very similar as for sheep.

Scrapie Tag info  APHIS 

Here is the link to the site. You can only get the information on a breeder off the site if the breeder is on the voluntary program.

http://scrapietag.aphis.usda.gov/reports/sisstate.php

Lamb Market reports for the week

 http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lswlamb.pdf

Poisonous Plants to livestock

http://research.calacademy.org/research/library/biodiv/biblio/poison.htm

Toxic plants and compounds for sheep

http://www.pipevet.com/articles/toxicity.htm

Lamb blankets

http://www.judyswesternwares.com

Rectal Prolapse repair

There are directions at http://www.pipevet.com/photos/rectal_prolapse.htm

Sheep USA site

http://www.sheepusa.org/?page=site/text&nav_id=42c985d7b36d445107825b11f21ff35b

Sheep Barn Designs

http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/sheepplans.htm

Blade Sharpening

http://www.newedgesharpening.com/sharpeningservices.html

http://www.sullivansupply.com/texas/searchresult.aspx?categoryid=29

http://www.premier1supplies.com/

Learn to judge Sheep

http://www.onlinesheepshow.com

Hormel Judging Scoring

http://www.worldaccessnet.com/~normans/hormel.html

http://www.calaged.org/caescripts/Judging/Scoring.asp

Video on Livestock TV Channel

http://www.24-7agtv.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_seyret&catid=15&Itemid=1

 http://www.24-7agtv.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_seyret&catid=9&Itemid=1
 

Sheep and Goat Information

sheepandgoat.com] .

Sheep Suppliers

I buy stuff from Valley Vet

                    http://www.valleyvet.com
and Nasco

                   http://www.enasco.com

Sydell Supplies

HONOR SHOW FEED INFO

www.betteranimalsshowseries.com

ANOTHER GOOD LINK

www.tennesseemeatgoats.com

Here is an interesting visual scoring system from Australia.

http://www.sheepgenetics.org.au/merinoselect/archives/Visual Sheep Scores - Sep07.pdf

Feed Dealers

 Feed dealers website. You can check out their products and go to dealer locater to find a dealer nearest you.

Honor Show Chow
http://www.betteranimalsshowseries.com/products_hsc.php

Moormans
http://www.admani.com

 AgResearch SheepMap Database Project

• American Miniature Brecknock Hill Cheviot Sheep Breeders Association
• ASI - American Sheep Industry Association
• Creep Feeding Lambs (NebGuide)
• Foundation for North American Wild Sheep
• Gene Catalog of Ovine Genes of Interest in Endocrinology and Reproduction
• Katahdin Sheep
• Lambing Frequently Asked Questions
• Livestock Improvement Online (University of Georgia)
• Livestock Industries Institute (University of New England - Australia)
• NASSA - North American Shetland Sheepbreeders Association
• National Sheep Database (USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service)
• NebGuide Sheep Index (University of Nebraska)
• New Scientist Cloning Page
• Raising Sheep (The Small Farm Resource)
• Roslin Institute
• Sheep (Irvine Mesa Charros 4-H Club)
• Sheep Brain Atlas (MIT)
• Sheep Brain Dissection Guide (University of Scranton)
• Sheep Breeds (Oklahoma State University)
• Sheep Home Page
• Sheep Information (Virginia Cooperative Extension)
• Sheep Referendum (USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service)
• SheepBASE Sheep Genome Mapping Project
• SHEEP-L (Sheep Mailing List)
• Supplemental Pastures for Sheep (NebGuide)
• USDA Economics and Statistics System (Cornell Mann Library) - Sheep
• U.S. Targhee Sheep Association
• Wool Program (US Code, Title 7, Chapter 44)
• WWW VL - Wool

Yellow-Wood Intoxication in Sheep (OJVR)

Links list last updated 7/23/09

Check back again, we will be adding more helpful and interesting sheep sites for information.