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The articles are listed by author and each entry shows the issue that they appeared in.
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Frank ARMSTRONG
March 2008: Sheep keeping terms
Alan BEAT
Oct 2009: Moving sheep without a sheepdog
Steve CHILCOTT
Apr 2004: Sheep shearing
Mary CASTELL
May 2007: Early sheep farming - part one
Feb 2007: No white in sight
Jan 2007: Coats of many colours
Jan 2006: Keep an eye on the grass
Feb 2006: Fountains of wool - the origins of longwool sheep
March 2006: Special attention - caring for ewes in mid-pregnancy
April 2006: The lambing season
May 2006: Healthy thriving lambs
June 2006: Preservers of the uplands - Mary Castell celebrates the role of sheep in the history of our open countryside
July 2006: Select your breed
Aug 2006: Keeping healthy - bio security and zoonotic diseases
Sept 2006: Fit for the mating season - prepring for next year's lambs
Oct 2006: Care in pregnancy - advice on caring for expectant ewes
Nov 2006: The story of wool - focus on the fleece
Dec 2006: The Flock in Winter - caring for sheep in colder weather
Jan 2005: Sheep welfare
Feb 2005: For high days and holiday - Herdwick, Portland and Southdown breeds
Mar 2005: Sweetness from salt - Saltmarsh lamb
Apr 2005: New arrivals - advice on lambing
May 2005: Mothers to be - lambing ewes
Jun 2005: Colourful characters - Ouessant, Blue Texel, Zwartbles
Jul 2005: Looking out for the boys - caring for rams during breeding
Aug 2005: Feet and flies
Sep 2005: Good for you and for ewe - creating a suitable holding for both sheep and shepherd
Oct 2005: A worthy beast - how valuable sheep have been
Nov 2005: Wool gathering - Woolfest
Dec 2005: A fine head of horns - why sheep have horns
Jan 2004: Breeding for meat
Feb 2004: Coping with winter weather
Mar 2004: Lambing with confidence
Apr 2004: Lambing and early care
May 2004: The care of growing lambs, shepherd's role
June 2004: True colours - fleeces, breeds with colours
July 2004: No ordinary sheep - how exotic looking sheep became fashionable
Aug 2004: Conservation grazing - role of primitive sheep in managing sites
Sep 2004: Breed Societies and the National Scrapie Plan
Oct 2004: Not just a woolly fleece - preparations for arrival of new flock
Nov 2004: Preparing for tupping - getting the flock ready for the mating season
Dec 2004: Feed for sheep - correct nutrition
Lynn JACKSON
Nov 2006: Tup Prices - buying a ram at auction
Jan 2007: Sheep on show - preparing for the show season
Rebecca JOHNS
Feb 2006: Keeping up with the paperwork
Helen JOHNSON
Apr 2005: 100 Years of Ryland & Wensleydale back from the brink
Oct 2004: Sheeps' clothing - Penny Webb's business, weaving from her flocks' wool
Nikki JONES
Sep 2005: White blaze sheep - Balwen Welsh Mountain
Paul MCAVOY
Dec 2006: Woolless sheep - the virtues of the Wiltshire Horn
Peter MORRIS
Dec 2008: EID explained A guide to the ear-tagging controversy
Myc RIGGULSFORD
Sept 2006: Of mutton, meat, and selling sheep - mutton on the hoof and meat in the freezer isn't that simple
Mary ROSE
March 2007: A different kind of milk - Mary Rose turns to Sheep's milk when asthma struck.
Dot TYNE
Aug 2006: Cymdeithas Defaid Mynydd Cymreig - celebrating the Welsh Mountain sheep
Tim TYNE
April 2010: Good kit guide for lambing
April 2010: Sheep - question time
March 2010: Equipment - shedding race and gates
March 2010: Getting the right gear for a small flock
February 2010: Rules and training
January 2010: Sheep - is your smallholding suitable?
December 2009: Sheep - startng a new flock
September 2009: Portable milking machine
July 2009: High tech tools for sheep ID
April 2009: Shepherd's year
March 2009: Problems when lambing
Nov 2008: Sheep handling
Oct 2008: Sheep: meet the family
July 2008: Sheep - going to the shows
June 2008: Shearing sheep, step by step
May 2008: Preparing sheep for summer
April 2008: Successful lambing
March 2008: Signs of spring - Tim Tyne is prepared for the first lambs and for housing them
Feb 2008: Feeding and housing the spring lambing flock
January 2008: The flock in January - pregnancy scanning and performance recording. Focuses on hill breeds and longwools
November 2007: Sheep in December
Mar 2007: Hurdles, hayracks and happy sheep - Tim Tyne has finished with cobbling together sheep pens.
Feb 2007: School for lambing - running a lambing course
June 2006: Lambing to order - ways to control your sheep breeding