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,
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.
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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,
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.
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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,

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,

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,

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,

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603429696
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 03/23/2011
Series: Backyard Homestead
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 8.48(w) x 10.64(h) x 0.98(d)

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.
 

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introducing Backyard Farm Animals
How Many Animals Can You Keep?
Chickens
Turkeys
Ducks & Geese
Rabbits
Honey Bees
Goats
Sheep
Pigs
Dairy Cows & Beef Cattle
Glossary
Resources
Credits
Index

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