Sheep and goats

​Support your sheep and goats with medicinal herbs!Discover the healing power of nature for your small ruminants! In her book, medicinal plant expert and alternative practitioner Andrea Tellmann presents the most important medicinal herbs for sheep and goats, their ingredients and their effects.Contents of the book:Effective medicinal herbs: get to know the valuable ingredients and effects.Treatment suggestions: Learn proven home remedies and recipes for acute and chronic ailments.Collecting and storing: Tips on how to properly collect, dry and store wild herbs and medicinal plants.Application: Whether as tea, tincture, powder, salt, fresh or dried - your sheep and goats will love this natural medicine.Stable pharmacy: Recommendations for basic equipment for a well-stocked stable pharmacy.This book offers you a comprehensive guide to the natural care and treatment of your animals. Promote the health of your sheep and goats in a natural way and rely on the proven power of medicinal herbs.Why medicinal herbs for sheep and goats?Medicinal herbs are a natural alternative to chemical medicines and can alleviate a wide range of ailments. From digestive problems to skin conditions and respiratory diseases - with the right medicinal herbs you can do a lot for the well-being of your animals.Get the book now and start your journey into the world of natural animal health! 150 recipes and tips for the stable medicine cabinet. 75 color photos, 160 pages. 

​Practical information for sheep and goat farmersThis book offers comprehensive insights into the requirements and practice of successful sheep and goat farming. You will gain an insight into the working methods of a wide variety of farms and practical tips for everyday life with small ruminants. Specialist information very close to lifeSelection, care and healthProfit through product marketingThe experiences of sheep and goat farmers, from newcomers to veterans, are shared bluntly. These accounts of daily successes and challenges will help you avoid rookie mistakes and succeed right from the start. 124 photos, 9 drawings, 208 pages.

​The basics of sheep breeding and husbandryThis book provides comprehensive knowledge on sheep breeding and husbandry, based on scientific findings and practical experience, with a focus on paddock sheep farming. It deals with the design of optimal husbandry conditions as well as on-farm and off-farm breeding measures. Strategies for marketing lamb and sheep's cheese are also described in detail.Whether you are a professional or amateur sheep farmer, this book offers valuable information and practical tips for anyone interested in sheep farming. 142 photos and drawings, 54 tables, 344 pages.

Are you a pet owner and would you like to reliably identify and assess illness situations? Are you an animal health officer or veterinarian and are you looking for a reference work? The systematics of this book is based on the affected body regions of the sick animals. Recognize the pathological changes that you notice first. The authors describe all clinical pictures in detail and provide you with a basis for making the first diagnosis. 192 pages.

​Whether you are a beginner or an experienced goat farmer - this book offers you compact and understandable knowledge about breeding processes. It covers practical aspects such as selecting the right breeding animals and offers helpful checklists to support you. It also explains the theoretical principles of goat breeding. You will learn how a breeding program works, what breeding value estimation means and how you can apply these values on your farm. Various questions and challenges are explained in a practical way using five fictitious goat farms. 48 color photos, 24 drawings, 15 tables. 136 pages.

Whether you are a professional farmer, a hobby farmer or simply a fan of a more unconventional pet - you will all have fun with goats. With the updated new edition of Gerhard Maurer's guide Goat Keeping Today and its expertly described tips and tricks, nothing can go wrong. You will learn to appreciate the intelligence of the animals, enjoy them and their nature and enjoy the fresh products from goats that you keep yourself: the goat's milk, the curd and cheese made from it, the yoghurt or the meat.Contents:Origin and developmentDairy, meat and mountain goat breeds in Austria, Germany and Switzerland with a focus on organic farmingTips for buying goats< li>Reproduction and rearingDehorning and castrationCoat and hoof careHurt management in stables and pastures, herd protectionFeeding with feed scienceEconomic calculationsAround milk - composition, correct milking, cheesemakingGoat products: milk, meat including further processing and marketingIllnesses - prevent, detect, treatAuthor biography: From a city dweller to a full-time goat breeder on an organic farm Detailed literature and source references

Farm animal with many talents Everything about selection, feeding and careBreeding and products With 19 breed portraits This book offers you detailed information about choosing a breed, its characteristics and needs. Detailed chapters provide you with everything you need to know about housing in stables and free-range systems. Continue to learn what and how much goats eat and how to prevent, detect and treat disease. Breeding, birth and rearing as well as the extraction and utilization of products such as meat, wool and fur are explained.

All the raw materials that the sheep offers.No other farm animal is as versatile as the sheep. In addition to its qualities as a grazing animal and landscape steward, it provides the raw material for essential products for almost all areas of life.This book offers a complete overview of all the raw materials that sheep offer us as a farm animal. With its renewable products milk and wool, it supplies the raw materials for milk and cheese products as well as for warming and insulating textiles in clothing and home furnishings. Its meat is low-allergenic and healthy. The most delicious dishes can be prepared from it. Fur and skin and everything that can be made from them - clothing, shoes, bags and bed linens - have natural properties and advantages that no plastic or synthetic fiber can replace.Numerous photos, instructions and recipes make you want to, to process the raw products from the sheep themselves.

Would you like to treat your sheep and goats homeopathically? This book offers you the basics and the knowledge you need to successfully use homeopathic remedies on your small ruminants. You will find out which homeopathic remedies are suitable for the most common diseases of sheep and goats. But you can also help animals with homeopathic remedies during convalescence, parasite infestation, injuries, poisoning, shock and fright. This book shows you how. With tips for a homeopathic pharmacy and for quick orientation: clear lists of homeopathic remedies and common potencies.

Whether Merino, East Frisian dairy sheep or Heidschnucke: sheep are uncomplicated, useful and rightly popular with hobby farmers and self-sufficient people. This guide presents 14 suitable breeds in detailed portraits and provides comprehensive information about species-appropriate husbandry. Breeding and rearing are described as well as milking and shearing. From his many years of experience, the author reveals numerous tips and tricks that make it easy for beginners to get started.

We want to keep sheep!How to keep your own sheep and do everything rightHobby sheep farmer Willi and his family show what's importantWith the best tips and tricks for healthy sheepDo you want a nature-related balance to your everyday work routine and some country life feeling behind your house? With the gentle and affectionate sheep you are guaranteed to find balance and peace. This guide tells you all the important things that are involved in sheep farming, authentically from Will and his family. Browse and find out almost incidentally what is important in practice.

successful sheep farmer, as well as the trainee or consultant, needs a broad knowledge of sheep. Among other things, he must know the requirements for animal behavior, nutrition, pasture, husbandry, stables and animal health. Outdoor production also requires special skills. The maintenance of cultural landscapes and nature conservation areas is one of the other tasks of sheep farming. You will also find a separate chapter in the book on the current topic of herd protection. The practice-oriented preparation of the content is supported by numerous photos.

You can learn to shear sheep. The author, herself a professional sheep shearer who works worldwide, describes all the relevant sheep shearing techniques for floor and bench shearing step by step. Successful sheep shearers are presented in portraits. A chapter on the end product wool from sheep and health tips for sheep shearers round off the topic.

In this book you will learn everything about preventing illness and keeping sheep and goats healthy. You will learn about the most important diseases of the entire organism as well as the individual organs of small ruminants with images and text. You will also find out which disease is behind which symptoms and how it can be treated. New in this edition: The descriptions of the Blue Tongue and Schmallenberg virus infections.

Calculating feed rations? Developing feeding concepts? With this book you will know everything about modern sheep and goat feeding. Regardless of whether you manage your business conventionally or organically and whether you manage the landscape, produce goat's milk or lamb meat - this book enables you to feed the small ruminants, sheep and goats, systematically. Energy assessment and protein assessment of coarse feed and concentrated feed, feeding of offspring and milk production for direct marketing - the authors deal with the topic of modern sheep and goat feeding for various business sectors and forms of use. 232 pages.