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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

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Edited by Gail Damerow

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On Sale
Mar 23, 2011
Page Count
360 pages
Publisher
Storey
ISBN-13
9781603429696

Price

$24.99

Price

$31.99 CAD

Format

  1. ebook

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $24.99 $31.99 CAD
  2. ebook $12.99 $16.99 CAD

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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.

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • Technology & Engineering
  • Agriculture
  • Animal Husbandry

Series:

  • Backyard Homestead

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.
 

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Backyard Homestead

The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food
The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner
The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner
The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How
The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How
The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects
The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects
The Backyard Homestead
The Backyard Homestead
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