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Discover whether honey beekeeping is right for you, and find out everything you need to know to keep and acquire bees in this comprehensive guide. Honey Bee Hobbyist, 2nd Edition counsels the beginning beekeeper on all things honeybee related, from observing your first hive to harvesting your own honey.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

While they can be hardy and self-sufficient, sheep require a knowledgeable and dedicated shepherd to care for them throughout the year. With an easy-to-read style and over 200 colour photographs, this book provides guidance on managing a healthy flock.

(Paperback)

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(Paperback)

From hatchlings to adult laying hens, every stage of a chicken's growth is shown and explained in this highly accessible, photographic introduction to the basics of keeping chickens, including behavior, housing, feeding, hygiene, and health care.

(Paperback)

Move over chickens--ducks are joining the backyard flock! This introductory guide is the provides all the information beginners need to raise ducks successfully in the yard or on a small homestead or farm.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

(Paperback)

Fully revised and updated bestselling beginner's bee book, now with info on the Flow Hive and bee-friendly planting plus more on native bees.

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback)

Honey has been an important food for people for thousands of years. Their desire for it led to the, domestication of bees, through crafting artificial beehives and manipulating the bees' food sources. This book is suitable for those who want to find out what a beehive or two will give them, even on such a small scale as the terrace-house garden.

(Paperback)

A beautiful, practical guide to beekeeping with a focus on gardening for bees.

(Paperback)

More and more people are deciding to raise their own meat, from farmers to homesteaders, even chefs. This book begins with general information about food safety, freezing and packaging, tools and equipment, butchering methods, and pre-slaughter conditions before moving into the specifics of slaughtering and butchering cattle.

(Paperback)

More and more people are deciding to raise small animals for meat. This book begins with information about food safety, freezing and packaging, tools and equipment, butchering methods, and pre-slaughter conditions before moving into the specifics of slaughtering and butchering each type of smaller animal - chicken, rabbits, sheep, and pigs.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

First Time Beekeeping is an absolute beginners guide to keeping bees with ease and success.

(Hardback, General)

(Paperback)

Explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets, addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to ensuring proper set-up and sanitary conditions, understanding embryo development, and feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder.

(Paperback)

With contagious enthusiasm and fascination for her backyard chickens, best-selling author Melissa Caughey shares her unique observations of her flock -- how they sense the world, communicate impending danger, and establish pecking order -- along with scientific facts and entertaining tidbits.

(Paperback, Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition)

The second edition of bestselling Keeping Bees with a Smile shows beginner and practicing beekeepers how to attract local bee swarms, keep bees healthy and productive, build simple bee-friendly hives, and harvest honey without stressing bees. Chock-full of techniques for natural beekeeping.

(Paperback)

The ultimate guide to keeping chickens in your backyard. The more obvious rewards of chicken ownership - like delicious fresh eggs daily and fabulous cost-free fertiliser - are well known. Chickens even help keep the number of pest insects in your garden.

(Paperback)

"Author Dalia Monterroso conveys the basics of chicken keeping, with an emphasis on low-cost, natural practices in this entry-level guide designed to empower anyone who's always wanted to keep chickens. Readers will learn how to plan their flock, how to raise baby chicks, what to look for in a chicken coop, how to keep chickens healthy naturally, and more"--

(Paperback, Revised edition)

This fully updated, comprehensive book is an indispensable guide to the management of dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, deer, goats, pigs, poultry, horses and farm dogs in New Zealand.