OSU Sheep Team

SUMMER PARASITE MANAGEMENT
Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
July and August are critical months to control the internal parasite, Haemonchus contortus in pasture based sheep and goat production. Often producers may find that lambs and kids seem to “stand still” during the summer, with little or no weight gain. There can be several reasons [...]

[Read more →]

Ohio Forage And Grassland Council’s Sheep Grazing Farm Tour, will be held Friday, July 11, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Meet at the Athens County Fairgrounds, 280 West Union Street, Athens, Ohio, Cost is $25:00 for OFGC Members, and $30.00 for non-members.
Includes bus transportation and roast lamb lunch

Stops:

Ben and Kelly Kasler [...]

[Read more →]

Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator Athens County
Ohio Sheep Day is scheduled for Saturday, July 12. It will be held on the Cline family farm, located just outside of Albany Ohio in Athens County. Curt Cline was the 2007 Ohio Sheep Improvement Association Environmental Stewardship Award winner and at the recent American Sheep Industry meeting [...]

[Read more →]

Becky Talley, Sheep Industry News Associate Editor
In February of last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) officially announced the discovery of a Nor98-like scrapie case in a ewe from a flock in Wyoming. This was the first case of scrapie consistent with Nor98 discovered in the United [...]

[Read more →]

Jeff Pelc, Wildlife Biologist USDA/APHIS, Wildlife Services, Tim Fine, Extension Program Assistant, Miami County
Black Vultures have become a serious sheep pest in certain areas of Ohio.  This article will focus on the procedures necessary to report a predation loss by black vultures to the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) for reimbursement under the indemnity program.  [...]

[Read more →]

Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
Raising sheep within a pasture based production system presents the manager with two challenges; internal parasite control and summer slump production of cool season pastures.  The use of a warm season annual like sudangrass may offer the pasture based sheep producer a parasite control option while at the same time [...]

[Read more →]

Gary Wilson, Extension Educator, Hancock County; Jonah Johnson, Extension Educator, Clark County; Woody Joslin, Extension Program Assistant, Shelby County; and Tim Fine Extension Program Assistant, Miami County
In September 2007, the OSU Extension Sheep Team traveled to Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia to observe current, cutting edge research in sheep production.  The ten team members [...]

[Read more →]

Jeff McCutcheon, Extension Educator, Knox County
After the dry growing season last year many sheep producers are asking what they could do to improve pasture yields.   Other than improving soil fertility there is one thing you can do during the month of May that will improve yields.  In fact most experienced graziers I know get pretty [...]

[Read more →]

Roger A. High, State Sheep Extension Associate
(Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter April 2003)
As many producers near the end of lactation, it is time to remind ourselves about an appropriate pre-weaning and weaning plan to prevent loss of udders due to poor weaning management.  The current SID book has these weaning recommendations:
1) Dry ewes [...]

[Read more →]

Bob Hendershot State Grassland Conservationist
(Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter April 2003)
What is lambing like, for your sheep flock, hours per lamb or lambs per hour?  The shepherd’s labor and the size of the lambing barn are the two things that limit the size of most Ohio sheep flocks.  Pasture-lambing avoids both of these [...]

[Read more →]