References

While you read the text at the top of these pages photographs of sheep are downloading below.

Resources that continue to be of value to the management of my sheep are listed here, from which other excellent sources of sheep information can be discovered.

• SHEEP-L, an international discussion list that offers questions and answers pertinent to all levels of sheep management; an excellent place to begin and to continue learning about sheep. To subscribe, send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UU.SE with the following message, "SUBSCRIBE SHEEP-L Your First and Last Name" without the quotes and nothing else in the body of the email.

• Merino Lambplan, a service that assesses the genetic merit of your sheep; it can generate an extensive array of wool trait EBV's to help you in the selection and culling of your stock.   http://www.crt.net.au/~rbanks/papers/23June97.htm

• Australian Sheep and Wool Handbook, edited by D.J. Cottle;  a sheep management handbook featuring the primary sheep of Australia, the merino.  From Inkata Press,  Melbourne,  1991 ISBN 0 909605 60 2

• The Australian Merino, Charles Massy; 938 pages of one man's view of the history of the merino.  From Penguin Books Australia, 1990  ISBN 0 67090121 0

Catskill Merino ewes with lambs in July

Photograph by Eustacia Marsales

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