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Animal Safety and Quality Assurance Programs are national programs that provide guidelines and strategies for producers to promote animal quality and safety and ensure safe food for human consumption.

Looking at a group of healthy sheep peacefully grazing while their lambs bounce around the pasture can be a very satisfying experience.

Here you will find common techniques producers use to keep their animals healthy and avoid having to treat them.

When livestock market prices are very good, it's important to be more concerned about newborn lamb survival.

Keeping feed costs low while still supplying the necessary nutrients to keep the flock healthy should be the goal of every shepherd.

To see that your lambs get off to a good start, be sure you incorporate "clip, dip, and strip" in the lambing jug.

Producers often overlook lifetime performance as a production measurement in sheep operations.

Big ones, little ones, fat ones, skinny ones; ewes come in all sizes and shapes. But, which is the most efficient ewe size for your operation?

Pricing meat for direct-to-consumer sales.

A few simple steps preparing for weaning can minimize the stress to both ewes and lambs in your flock.

Numerous tools are available for selecting sheep. The key is to combine operation goals with production benchmarks and visual appraisal to select the sheep best suited for your operation.

Throughout the year, lamb and goat are often the main course at holiday celebrations for many people.

A profitable Pennsylvania sheep milk industry needs three components: customers, processors, and distributors.

Sheep are ideally suited to small-scale and part-time farming operations in Pennsylvania due to their adaptability and nutritional versatility.

Compared to most other livestock enterprises, spring lamb production has lower investment costs and labor requirements, and quicker returns on investment.