Information Resources
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The Alberta Sheep and Wool Commission provides a wide variety of information resources for producers, ranging from management and production advice to information on marketing. You can download the fact sheets below or call the office for a copy. If there is other information you need, call your zone director or the office and we will try to help you.
Producer Information Fact Sheets
The following fact sheets are available as a download or by request from the office:
- Alberta Sheep Centre
- Alberta Sheep Facilities
- ASWC Extension Items
- Composting Dead Sheep & Lambs
- The Canadian Sheep Identification Program (CSIP) in Alberta
- Early Weaning Protocol
- Feed Testing in Alberta
- Feeding High Nitrate Crops to Sheep
- Feeding Lambs – Frequently Asked Questions
- Fencing in Alberta
- Guardian Animals for Alberta
- Having a Plan when Selecting a Terminal Sire
- The Impact of Dog Tapeworms on Your Sheep
- Lamb Meat – Nutrition
- Mastitis in Ewes
- Predator Control
- Questions and Answers for Distributing Meat
- Shearing Your Sheep
- Use Caution When Changing Sheep Rations
- The Western Canadian Flock Health Program
- Wool Quality
- Guide to Footrot in Sheep
Also available by request from the ASWC office are:
- Alberta Sheep Facts
- Better Breeding with Teaser Ram Use
- Managing Ewe Lambs
- Selling Freezer Lambs
- Selling Freezer Lambs at Alberta Approved Farmers’ Markets
- Antimicrobial Use & Resistance in the Alberta Sheep Industry
- Effective Practices in Sheep Production Series - By-product Feeds for Sheep
- Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Bison & Sheep
- Rain, Mud & Limping Sheep
Video & CD Rentals
Videos and CDs are available to borrow by request from the ASWC office for a three week period and include information on:
- Green Certificate Program (15 mins 1997)
- Guardian Dogs/Cutblocks (2000)
- Handling and Feeding Sheep x 6 tapes (12 mins 1998)
- History of Sheepdogs, Breeding,etc.
- Lambing Time Management - The Pre-lambing period (48 mins 1993)
- Lambing Time Management - Lambing (51 mins 1993)
- Lambing Time Management - The post-lambing period (37 mins 1993)
- Livestock Guardian Dogs "Protecting Your Sheep" (14 mins)
- Livestock Watering Systems (25 mins)
- National Sheep Reproduction Symposium "Future Approaches to Sheep Production" (27mins)
- National Sheep Reproduction Symposium "Environmental and Management Factors" (28mins)
- Sheep Extension Network "Who's coming for Dinner?" (1998)
- Sheep-benefiting man and the world he lives in
- Sheep-Extension Network "Sheep-Dairy"
- SPCA "Someone's watching, someone Cares" (26 mins)
- Texel Breed Promotion
- Value Chain Seminar, 3 tapes (2001)
- Wool Preparation and Marketing
- What's The Score? Condition Scoring CD Available
Other Resources
- Western Canadian Sheep Production Manual
Published in March 1999 by the Alberta Sheep & Wool Commission, the Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board, and the South Saskatchewan Wool Growers. From breed selection, how and what to feed, reproduction, to management and treatment of sheep diseases, this manual offers something for new as well as established shepherds. The manual is FREE to Alberta Sheep Producers.
- Highlights of Sheep History in the Canadian West (History book by Grant MacEwan) Many books have been written about the romance of the western cattle industry, yet at the time of writing, nothing existed to describe the history and contributions of the western shepherd. Grant MacEwan changed all that by writing this much acclaimed history book, in cooperation with the Alberta Sheep & Wool Commission. If you are a sheep producer or a history buff this book is well worth a look, a great story with many original photographs.
- Soft Cover $15.00 (plus shipping & handling & GST). - National Sheep Code of Practice
Free to Alberta Sheep Producers - Ewe Record Sheets and Barn Record Sheets
Free to Alberta Sheep Producers - Sheepbytes (Software program for balancing or checking sheep rations)
This program was developed to assist the producer in formulating sheep rations. This easy to use computer software program gives you a quick method for balancing or checking sheep rations. The program allows the user to balance for all the major and most of the micro-nutrients. Sheepbytes can print out the balanced ration, complete with the formula for any batch mixes created, and a summary of several balanced rations.
- $30.00 (plus shipping & handling & GST). - *New Producer Package*
Free to Alberta producers. Our information package contains lots of excellent information to help the new producer get started. It includes the Western Canadian Sheep Production Manual, the National Sheep Code of Practice, the Alberta Sheep News and Views newsletter, information sheets, and much, much more.
