AS-381 June 1968
Indiana Sheep Production Survey
J.B. Outhouse, K.J. Drewry and H. H. Mayo Department of Animal Sciences
Introduction	counties. The top figure in each county in-
dicates the total number of breeding sheep, A survey of the sheep industry in Indiana the middle figure, the number of flocks and was compiled for each county during the peri- the lower figure, the average size of the od December 1964 to February 1965. This flocks, survey was conducted in conjunction with the
two state and federal sheep scabies inspections	Most of the breeding sheep are located
held during these months. A summary of this in the northeastern part of the state from survey for the state of Indiana was reported Decatur, Shelby and Johnson counties on the in Research Progress Report 195 andincluded south and Putnam, Montgomery, Fountain, in the Annual Indiana Sheep Day Reportofjune Benton and Jasper counties on the west.
12, 1965.	Forty-three counties in this area had
251,054 or 76.7 per cent of the breeding Using the raw data obtained from each	sheep and 10, 952 flocks or 75 per cent of
county, Donald E. Greene of Route 1, Linton, the flocks.
Greene County, Indiana, who was a student in
the Sheep Production class at Purdue Univer-	The top five counties in numbers of
sity during the spring of 1966, compiled a	breeding sheep are given in Table 1.
report showing a county by county comparison
of the information obtained in this survey.	Distribution of Breeding Ewes
The following is a summary of the important
comparisons contained in this report. When	Of the 327,327 breeding sheep, 274,642
no information was reported, the figures for were ewes. Of this number, 250, 224 or 91 that county were omitted.	per cent were commercial native or com-
mercial western ewes and 24, 418 or 9 per
Distribution of Total Sheep	cent were registered ewes. Figure 2 shows
the distribution of breeding ewes by coun-In 1965, Indiana had a total of 14, 762	ties. The top figure indicates the number
flocks of sheep. Information was obtained	of registered ewes, the middle figure is
on 14, 617 breeding flocks totaling 327,327	the	number of commercial native ewes, and
sheep with an average flock size of 22.4	the	bottom figure is the number of commer-
sheep, including ewes and rams. Figure 1	cial western ewes in each county. In genei
shows the distribution of breeding sheep by	al,	the distribution follows the same pattern
lable 1. Top five counties by number of breeding sheep
Cooperative Extension Service, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Lafayette, Indiana