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CONTENTS OF SHEEP SUCCE$$:
- COTSWOLD
DAWN: Legendary Beginnings; Luxurious Affiliation; Royal Intrigue.
- CLOTH
OF GOLD: “Golden Fleece;” Phoenicians Break Miletus’ Monopoly;
Arrival in Britain; Sheep Cotes; Roman Cotswolds; Loss of Mid-Eastern
Ancestors.
- SAXON
COTSWOLDS: Early Cotswold Advantages; Medieval Longwools; Rebirth of
Cloth of Gold; Royal Protection; Crossing with Leicesters; Survival of
Uncrossed Cotswolds.
- AMERICAN
COTSWOLDS: Early Flocks; First Major Importations; “Improved”
Cotswolds; ACRA Founded; Remaining Pure British Flocks; Today’s
Cotswolds; Uses for Crossbreeding.
- COTSWOLD
CONTROVERSIES: Fine vs. Coarse Wool Ancestors; Colors.
- ESTABLISHING
A FLOCK: Why Purebred? Reliable Products; When to Start;
Selection of Breeding Stock; Defects; Carcass Conformation; Wool
Character; Reproductive Potential; Determining Age; Size of Flock.
- COTSWOLD
HUSBANDRY METHODS: Adaptation; Water Requirements;
Minerals; Feeding Systems; Golden Rule of Grazing; Dry-Lot Husbandry;
Hay & Grain Feeder Plan; Parasite Control; External Parasites;
Rams; Brood Ewes; Flushing; Gestation; Lambing; Raising Lambs;
Shearing, Sorting & Storing Wool; Hungry Gap; Feeds.
- BREEDING
FOR IMPROVEMENT: Purebreds vs. Crossbreds; Grading Up; Progeny
Testing; Intense Breeding; Linebreeding; In-And-In Breeding;
Prepotence; “Ram Sires” vs. “Ewe Sires;” Outcrossing.
- SELLING LAMB & MUTTON: Flavor; Conventional Sales Outlets;
Carcass Grades; U.S.D.A. Quality Grades; Carcass Yields; Determining
Retail Meat Value; Taste Testing; Promotional Literature &
Samples; Meat Buyers’ Co-op; Ethnic Lamb & Mutton Buyers; Health
Food Stores; Selling Meat for Other Shepherds; Hints.
- SELLING WOOL & BYPRODUCTS: Wool Character; Merits &
Faults; Sorting a Fleece; “Fineness” vs. “Coarseness;” Finding
Wholesale Buyers; Finding Retail Customers; Mail Order; Tools for
Selling Wool; Photos; Wool Samples; Written Words; Processed Wool;
Shearing, Skirting & Sorting; Washing; Picking, Carding, Combing
& Drawing; Markets for Processed Wool; Pricing Wool; Second
Quality Wool; Hides; Manure.
- SELLING BREEDING STOCK: Unique Qualities; Purebred Buyers; How Many
Breeders Can You Supply? How Many Buyers Do You Need? Finding
Prospects; Is It Worth It? Exhibiting Sheep; Selecting to Show;
Fitting Rations; Gentling; Trimming Feet; Sheep Blankets; Show Tips.
- EPILOGUE:
Cotswold vs. Ordinary Sheep—Costs & Returns; Advertising.
- APPENDIX
1: STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE—Scale of Points from 1878.
- APPENDIX
2: CODE OF ETHICS—Breeding Records; Registrations; Excellence;
Reputation.
- APPENDIX
3: EARLY NOTICES—First Mention of Cotswold Sheep By Name; Cotswold
Crosses Attract Attention; Comparisons of Breeds; First Major
Importation; Sotham/Hewer Pedigrees; Early Lincoln Breeders Shopping for
Cotswold Rams; Newspaper Confirmation of First Major Pedigree
Importation Sales; Sotham on “New” Cotswolds; Early Record of Black
“Cotswolds;” Early Breeders’ Notes; Early Discontent With
A.C.R.A.’s Strict Requirements.
- APPENDIX
4: NOTABLE RECORDS: Early Cotswold Achievements.
- APPENDIX
5: A.C.R.A.’s FOUNDING SHEPHERDS.
- APPENDIX
6: COTSWOLD SONG: Words & Music to “My Jolly Friends.”
- SHEPHERD’S
GLOSSARY: A Short Lexicon of Ovine Terms.
- INDEX.
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