Getting Started With Sheep: What You Need To Know

Whether your interest is hobby farming or raising sheep for profit, you will benefit from this 5 week course. The instructor will share best practices gleaned from more than a decade raising sheep. Katahdin hair sheep will be the primary focus of the course but much of the information will apply to other breeds of sheep as well. Topics covered will include: sheep basics, reproduction/breeding/lambing, health/diseases, predator control/livestock guardians, sheep management, marketing, and economics.