Research and Information

• Southwest Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center - Contact: Dave Notter and Scott Greiner
• Virginia State University - Contact: Stephan Wildeus
• Fort Valley State University, Georgia - Contact: Will Getz
• Louisiana State University - Contact: J. Marcos Fernandez
• University of Wyoming - Contact: Hans Nel
• GrazingLands Research Laboratory, Booneville, AR - Contact: Mike Brown
• Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center - Contact: Joan Burke
• U.S. Meat Animal Research Center - Contact: Kreg Leymaster
• Oregon State University - Contact: Howard Meyer
• North Dakota State University - Contact: Roger Haugen
• University of Maine Cooperative Extension - Contact: Richard Brzozowski
• University of Virgin Islands - Contact: Bob Godfrey
• University of Maryland Eastern Shore - Contact: Niki Whitley

• Potential for Hair Sheep In the United States
• Resistance to Internal Parasites in Lambs of Hair Sheep Composite Breeds
• Growth and carcass characteristics of lambs sired by Dorper and Dorset rams
  
• Effect of supplemental nutrition around lambing on hair sheep ewes and lambs during the dry and wet seasons in the U.S. Virgin Islands
• U.S. Research Institutions and Farms Begin Performance Evaluation of Katahdin Hair Sheep
• Influence of Katahdin Breeding on Feedlot performance and Carcass characteristics of Finishing lambs
  
• Dorper research update - University of Wyoming
• Idaho Dorper Studies
• Growth traits of the Dorper sheep I. Factors influencing growth traits
• Growth traits of the Dorper sheep.II. Genetic and phenotypic parameters
• Estimate of genetic and phenotypic parameters for the Dorper, Red Maasai and their crosses
• Reproductive traits and disease incidence characteristics of Dorper, Dorper x Masai and Masai ewes raised under semi-arid conditions in Kenya

• Hair sheep genetic resources and their contribution to diversified small ruminant production in the United States
• Evaluation of sexual behavior of hair sheep rams in a tropical environment
• Resistance of St. Croix lambs to Haemonchus contortus in experimentally and naturally acquired infections.
• Resistance to Gastrointestinal Parasites in Dorper, Katahdin, and St. Croix Lambs in the Southeastern United States
• Performance of hair sheep composite breeds: Resistance of lambs to Haemonchus contortus
• Environmental and genetic effects on preweaning growth performance of hair sheep in Mexico
  

• Evaluation of Hair Breeds of Sheep for Low Input Management - Small Farms Research News
  
• Perhaps, you should consider hair sheep
• An Update on Hair Sheep in the U.S.
• Hair sheep production in the Caribbean
• Raising Sheep in Paradise
• Hair breed crosses make good commercial ewes
• NDSU Research Explores Hair Sheep Potential
• Start with the best you can afford
• Why Barbados Blackbelly sheep?
• St. Croix sheep vs. Parasites
• Resistance to Internal Parasites in Lambs of Hair Sheep Composite Breeds
• Easy Care Royal White Sheep
• Growth Performance of Barbados Blackbelly Hair Sheep on Forage-Based Diets
• More Profit With Hair Sheep
  

Books and Chapters

• Hair Sheep Production in the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Hair Sheep of Tropical America

Last updated 12-May-2005 by Susan Schoenian