sheep ranches

An introduction to sheep, how these animals are raised by farmers to grow wool, how farmers cut it off them safely, and how that wool is used to make clothes, as well as how dogs help farmers herd these sheep and keep them safe, and how baby lambs are born.

Charts the lives of two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, who come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom on a desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California.

Explains what it takes to raise sheep on a farm, with information on their eating and sleeping habits, their life on a farm, and the ways they help people.

"Sheep are useful farm animals ... Through colorful photographs and accessible text, beginning readers will learn how these animals are raised by farmers to grow wool, how farmers cut it off them safely, and how that wool is used to make clothes. They'll also learn how dogs help farmers herd these sheep and keep them safe on the farm, and how baby lambs are born ..."--Amazon.com.

Riley, visiting the Australian Outback with his cousin, aunt, and uncle, studies threats to koalas while helping save sheep from a wild dingo.

Text and photographs present the home, work, school, recreations, and day-to-day activities of the King family who live on a sheep farm in the State of Victoria in southern Australia. Also includes general facts about the country.

Emily Williams, a sixteen-year-old American transplant to England, decides to fulfill her work-study requirement by working on her aunt's sheep farm in Scotland for a month, and becomes involved in a competition with her mousy friend Holly for the attentions of a farmhand they have both decided is a "hottie.".

Explains the activities that take place on a working sheep farm, from the perspective of a child who lives there.

Describes the various breeds of dogs used to guard and herd sheep, explains how they work, and discusses the importance of these dogs to the sheep industry.