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Late-spring pasture lambing:
This is the most extensive system with fewer facilities, and less labor is required, because the lambs are born in the pasture and are raised there until time for market.
Organic raising:
Organic raising is not the easiest method, this is because to be certified as organically raised the animal cannot be subjected to commercial worming medications that kill internal parasites which are a challenge to the farmer. Organic certification requires additional expenses coupled with the extra labor of record keeping. This subject will be dealt with later on in the book.
SHEEP BEHAVIOR
The more you understand your sheep the easier it will be for you to detect problems, for example is a ewe is sick or is it that she is about to lamb?
A shepherd should know that sheep are afraid of noise, unfamiliar environments or unfamiliar things in their surrounding and include such simple things as a coat hanging on a shovel. They are also wary of strange people, dogs and water.
Sheep will move easily from a dark area into a light area, also from a confined area to an open area, from a lower area to a higher area, and of course, toward food. They follow one another and move away from people, dogs and buildings, and will cling to a wall in a pen. Should there be a tight corner, you will find them bunched up in them and staying there.
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