The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh Eggs, Collect Fresh Milk, Make Your Own Cheese, Keep Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees

Gail Damerow

ISBN 10: 1603429697 / ISBN 13: 9781603429696

Published by Workman Publishing, 2011

About this Item

A guide to raising farm animals. It offers information on chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, goats, sheep, cattle, pigs and honey bees. It helps readers learn how to raise these animals successfully, from selecting the rights breeds for the space and resources available to producing delicious cheese, honey, milk, eggs and meat. Num Pages: 264 pages, full colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: TVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1014. . 2011. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh Eggs, Collect Fresh Milk, Make Your Own Cheese, Keep Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603429697
• ISBN 13: 9781603429696
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey—or a holiday meal—from your own farm animals, with the help of this homesteading guide.

Gail Damerow covers everything you need to successfully raise your own farm animals. Even with just a small plot of land, you can become more self-sufficient, save money, and enjoy healthy, delicious animal products.

Also available in this series: The Backyard Homestead, The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects, The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner,The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How, and The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food.

About the Author

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What’s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.