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Title: Sheep: Everything About Housing, Care, Feeding, and Sicknesses/Special Chapter : Milking and What to Do With the Milk, Shearing and Processing the W by Hans Alfred Muller, Gunther Marks, Paula Simmons ISBN: 0-8120-4091-0 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great for kids, prime candidate for free ebook!
Comment: A subtitle on the front cover claims this is a complete owner's manual. Well.....I guess the operative word is manual, not book or text.
Having said that, I must admit the booiklet would be a great gift idea for one's son or daughter, niece or nephew, or grandchild who might be considering sheep in a Future Farmer's of America (FFA) project or who might just be curious. Then, the prospective youth might whet his or her appetite sufficiently to choose a more complete book.
I did find the illustrations and photos to be helpful, but if the cost for such artwork resulted in shrinking the font size down to a barely legible size, then probably some of the pictures should be removed. Even many youth will have trouble reading such small type!
The booklet covers a lot of ground with brevity. Thus, it is a quick read,
However, although the potential for sheep raising for milk production is heavily promoted in the advertisement, our kind author does a great disservice regarding milking sheep on page 52:
"The teats of sheep are much smaller than those of cows and goats. This makes milking them harder because you can use only a couple of fingers rather than the entire hand (see colr photo on page 55). There is no point in describing in detail how to milk a sheep because it is a skill that must be acquired through practice."
Illustrations and photos and a bit of imagination could have seized a golden opportunity here. If it is that difficult to explain that is precisely what the author should have tried.
Although I did find the book not to be informative enough for me, I do think it would be a great e-book for a free download. Perhaps a short video clip could be included to show how sheep are milked. As such, the PDF could serve as a loss-leader in attracting readers to purchasing more complete books on sheep and livestock production.
Again, this book is best thought of as a FFA gift for teens interested in raising sheep on a small scale. Otherwise, surf the net for free information that can be gleaned in a couple of hours!
Rating: 5
Summary: A GREAT book for beginners interested in purchasing sheep.
Comment: Would highly recommend this book to anyone who has no experience in the sheep industry. For the beginner who has yet to purchase sheep, it covers everything from how to make your first purchase, care and housing, feeding, illnesses, breeding, products of sheep and more. A small, inexpensive, yet informative book that will give the reader an idea of what sheep require in order to remain healthy.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very Little Information about each subject.
Comment: I felt this book did not give enough information about the subjects they were to have special sections for. It gave just enough information on each subject to get many beginers in trouble. I bought the book for the special section on shearing. There was one paragraph and a referance page to see a picture the was not even on that page. This book was deffinatly a disapointment.
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Title: Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep: Breeds, Care, Facilities by Paula Simmons, Carol Ekarius ISBN: 1580172628 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: 08 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Sheep Raiser's Manual by William K. Kruesi ISBN: 0913589101 Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company (VT) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1984 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Sheep Book: A Handbook for the Modern Shepherd by Ron Parker, Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0804010323 Publisher: Swallow Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Raising Sheep the Modern Way by Paula Simmons ISBN: 0882665294 Publisher: Workman Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Beginning Shepherd's Manual by Barbara Smith, Mark Aseltine, Gerald Kennedy ISBN: 081382799X Publisher: Iowa State University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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