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Articles and Info Sheets

 

Most of these articles were written by Susan Schoenian. They are organized according to general subject matter. All articles, including pictures, may be reprinted for educational purposes with permission from the author.

Latest article:  Sheep in Ireland
 

My recent trip to Ireland wasn’t sheep-related, but I saw a lot of sheep, which got me interested in learning more about the Irish sheep industry. Ireland is the 4th largest sheep meat exporter in the world. There are approximately 6.3 million sheep in Ireland. This includes Northern Ireland with about 2.1 million head. By way of comparison, the whole US only has about 5 million sheep and doesn’t even rank in the top 10 for sheep meat exports.


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General topics

Healthy animals produce healthy food: antibiotic use in the sheep, goat, and livestock industry
Grassfed lamb and goat
Raising sheep and goats organically
Sheep and goats as pets
Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD): What Does it Mean to Sheep & Goat Producers?

Hair sheep

Hair sheep production and marketing
Perhaps you should consider hair sheep
An update on hair sheep in the U.S.

Health and diseases

Abomasal bloat
CD-T vaccinations
Copper toxicity in sheep
Diarrhea (scours) in small ruminants
General health care of sheep and goats
Heat stress in sheep and goats
Infectious causes of abortion in ewes
Infectious keratoconjunctivitis (pink eye)
Mastitis in ewes and does
Milk fever strikes

Natural and homemade remedies (updated 2023)
An overview of sheep diseases (2015)
Pregnancy toxemia in ewes and does
Rectal prolapses: a complex problem with many contributing factors
Soremouth (orf) in sheep and goats
An update on scrapie
Urinary calculi in sheep and goats
Vaccinating for overeating disease
Vaccinations for sheep and goat flocks
White muscle disease in sheep and goats

Internal parasites

Coccidiosis: Sheep 201
Conflicting information about worm control
Diatomaceous Earth: a Review of the Scientific Literature
[PDF] Livestock parasitology 101
Meningeal worm (Paralaphostrongylus tenius)
Revisiting copper toxicity in sheep:  should you deworm with COWP's?
Slowing drug resistance. Dewormer resistance is inevitable, but the rate by which it develops is not
Tapeworms: problem or not?
Understanding anthelmintics

Which dewormer(s) work on your farm?

International Experiences

Back to the Islands: the British Virgin Islands
Barbados Blackbellies: a national treasure
A bright future: Kazakhstan revisited

The Big Five (South Africa) (2015)

Canarian goats and French sheep

China's Mega Sheep
Dairy goat production in China

Dairy goats in the land of chocolate
A forgotten country: Moldova
Hair sheep production in the Caribbean

Great Yorkshire Dales
Judging sheep and goats in the Dominican Republic
[IMAGES] Memories of the USSR: my first trip abroad
Merino: King of Sheep
Raising sheep in paradise: Trinidad and Tobago
Raising sheep in South Kazakhstan
Sheep and goat production in Egypt

Sheep in Ireland: an American's Perspective (2023)

Six months in Poland with a Maryland county agent
World Sheep Congress (Mexico): a personal account

Management

Composting dead sheep by David L. Greene
Disposing of dead goats by Mark J. Estienne
Docking, castrating, and disbudding | PDF
Efficient handling of meat goats
Getting ready for lambing and kidding
Weaning primer
The welfare of docking and castrating lambs

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