Everyone who has bought the Tim Tyne book sings its praises to the heavens, so if you can pick up one at a price you can afford, that would clearly be a good purchase

You'll see in the book recommendations that I have praised Jane Upton & Denis Soden's Introduction to Keeping Sheep. This was my first sheep book and I cannot recommend it highly enough to the beginner. I still keep it by me. The lambing checklist and descriptions of malpresentations and how to rectify them in particular are as good as any you will find.
I also praise Eddie Straiton's Sheep Ailments - Recognition and Treatment. This is the update to the original TV Vet book and is full of comprehensive descriptions of ailments along with very good pictures of stricken sheep and of applying treatments.
If you stick with sheep you will probably end up owning either both of the ones I recommend, or the Tim Tyne one which covers it all - so you'll spend about the same amount of money either way
