Introduction to Sheep Keeping Course Notes
This page lists resources for the major subjects we covered during the day. If there's anything missing at all please contact us and we'll add it.
Course materials
- Rosemary's slides (PDF)
- Body condition scoring sheep (PDF)
- Our yearly timetable (PDF)
- Our sheep health and welfare plan (PDF)
- A blank medicine book spreadsheet (MS Excel)
Sheep
- Sheep article index on TAS
- Record-keeping, tags and movement
- Standstill periods
- Sheep forum
- The Sheep Book for Smallholders by Tim Tyne
- Recommended sheep books
- Fallen stock - safe disposal
- Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep - the SCOPS site has really sound information about selecting and using worrmers and flukicides
- www.nadis.org.uk - the National Animal Disease Information Service has good information about disease probablility - for things like Nematodirus - in your area
- NOAH Compendium - lists veterinary medicines, including wormers, flukicides and fly treatments with data sheets that tell you dosing rates, withdrawal periods etc all in one place.
Smallholding
- CPH numbers - see our Starting with Sheep article for info about CPH numbers
- Small is Successful - Creating sustainable livelihoods on ten acres or less (PDF, 7.5MB)
- Recommended books on all subjects
- Magazines
Grassland management
Fencing
- Gripple at Screwfix
- Alternative to wooden strainers and posts - Versalok
Other links and resources
- Smallholding and related magazines - we often have TAS vouchers for money off magazines and post details in the Marketplace forum (see sticky posts at top of page - £10 off Country Smallholding at time of writing)
- Scottish Smallholder Festival - October at Forfar Market, see you there!
- Smallholding Scotland - a new representative body for smallholders in Scotland, please consider joining if you support the aims of the charity.
- Ifor Williams Trailers
Suppliers we use
- GJW Titmuss
- Thompson & Morgan
- First Tunnels
- Coventry for Fencing
- Westgate Labs - worm testing by post
Contact us
If you need any help or we mentioned something on the course you can't remember, just drop us an email:
- rosemary@tas.re
- dan@tas.re
