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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
By Gail Damerow
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The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals by Gail Damerow is an informative resource that provides guidance on raising a variety of farm animals in your backyard. It covers essentials on care, feeding, and habitat requirements for animals like chickens, ducks, sheep, and goats, aiming to help readers establish a productive and fulfilling mini-farm environment at home. Ideal for beginners, it blends practical advice with easy-to-understand instructions for raising healthy and happy animals.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in sustainable living and want to learn how to raise various farm animals right in your backyard. It's a perfect fit for hobby farmers and those keen on producing fresh, homegrown food while gaining practical insights into animal care and management.

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The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals

Companion to Storey's best-selling The Backyard Homestead, this book delves deeper into raising animals for meat, milk, eggs, cheese, and other dairy products.

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Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees, or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. Gail Damerow covers everything you need to successfully raise your own farm animals, from selecting the right breeds to producing delicious fresh milk, cheese, honey, eggs, and meat.

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, and The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781603429696

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 March 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 278.0mm

Weight: 1125g

Pages: 360

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Gail Damerow Non-Fiction Science & Nature

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.

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