The third book in the organic farming series shows how to produce livestock using organic faming methods, with particular emphasis on sheep and wool.

Table of contents:

• Organic livestock
• Animal welfare
• Parasite problems for ruminants - sheep, cattle, goats and deer:
• Internal parasites
• Developing a worm resistant mob
• The importance of nutrition
• Dung beetles and other allies
• The importance of planning
• Some myths of 'clean' grazing
• Quarantine paddocks
• Buying in and selecting stock
• Monitoring your stock
• Sheep:
• Sheep resistance to worms
• Barbers Pole worms
• Liver fluke
• Flystrike
• Body lice
• Footrot
• Monitoring parasite seed in sheep dung
• Managing the animals you want to test for genetic purposes
• Farming compost worms
• Compost worm beds
• Feeding
• Reproduction
• How many compost worms?
• Diseases and pests
• Maintenance of beds
• Harvesting
• What the farmers say
•  10 case studies: vealers, beef, deer, prime lamb, broadacre mised farming, pigs, dairy and yoghurt, poultry - meat and eggs, worms.
• Useful contacts.

Published in 2000, this book is 90 A4 pages (black and white).

Published by the Tocal College