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Expert Glenn Drowns offers all the information and guidance you need to successfully exhibit your poultry at fairs and expositions. Learn how to select the best breeds and birds for exhibition and how to raise them with the proper diet, health care, and handling so that they are at their best by showtime.

(Paperback, Main)

Whether you hope to produce eggs and poultry meat for local sale, or simply relish the joy of eating your own freshly collected free-range eggs, this new edition gives invaluable advice on the type of poultry to choose, housing, feeding, breeding and general management.

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

Covers a wide range of breeds, humane raising practices, pastured feeding methods, organic certification standards, and on-farm processing guidelines.

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Covers 194 of the most significant breeds of cattle, goats, sheep, and swine. This guide includes colour photographs, a brief history, and details about livestock breed's unique qualities and quirks. It is suitable for small-scale farmers, conservationists, agricultural historians, gourmets, biodiversity champions, and animal lovers.

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Temple Grandin extends her expert guidance to small-scale farming operations. Grandin's fascinating explanations of how herd animals think -- describing their senses, fears, instincts, and memories -- and how to analyze their behaviour, will help you handle your livestock more safely and effectively.

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Celebrating the much-loved remake of the iconic series All Creatures Great & Small, and featuring exclusive interviews from the cast and creators, as well as full colour photography from the show. Based on James Herriots memoirs.

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Intended for animal geneticists, agriculturalists and students, this book places Australia's efforts in selected areas of animal biotechnology in the context of research developments occurring internationally. Topics discussed are relevant to animal production industries into the next century.

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A Memoir about Leaving the City Behind for Life on a Farm, For Fans of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and James Rebankss The Shepherds Life

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Goats Giving Birth presents stories, lessons, and reflections from over 600 goat births with insights into the differences between normal births, necessary C-sections, and incidents that may turn deadly serious, giving you the confidence to handle all goat birthing situations.

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Homestead Cows is a comprehensive guide to raising cattle, from a single milk cow to a small farm herd. Offers detailed planning rooted in practical experience, covering breed selection, herd size, whole farm management with cattle, safe handling, finances, housing, health, reproduction, processing, and more.

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Covers the basic standards of husbandry for physiological and behavioural needs of poultry.

(Paperback, Third Edition)

A guide for all people responsible for the welfare of pigs.

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Shows small holder dairy farmers in Asia how to attain optimal growth in young stock.

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A small flock of poultry can supply all of the eggs your family needs during the year. And, after your hens have completed their egg-laying days, there will be meat for barbecuing or roasting.

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Captures the moment in American history when home animal husbandry was giving way to more industrialized meat production. This book offers guidance to the small-scale farmer on all manner of livestock issues, centered around the proper breeding, feeding, and care of pigs.

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A collection of essays on one of the most important environmental and ethical issues: the rise of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, where increasing amounts of the world's meat, dairy, eggs, fish, and seafood are produced. It analyzes and depicts the devastating impacts and conditions in and around factory farms.

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How to raise goats for meat, milk or bucolic...

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A practical guide to keeping and managing horses on small...

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Forms part of a series of 15 books on animal production in the tropics, which are intended to provide up-to-date information for students, extension specialists and farmers, in an accessible manner. The book explains why livestock are an important component of agriculture in the tropics.