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Bees in the City - The Urban Beekeepers' Handbook

Beekeeping - once seen as an old-fashioned country pursuit - is increasingly attracting young metropolitan professionals, and new hives are springing up all over our cities. Whether you're attracted to beekeeping because you want to produce your o...

Chicken Coops for the Soul - A Henkeeper's Story

When Julia Hollander agreed to buy her small daughter a rabbit, she had no idea that she would end up with two hens as well. Finding herself at the wrong end of a very steep learning curve, she then had to master the many skills of hen husbandry i...

Spirit of Highland Cattle

Pig Manual - The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Keeping Pigs

The idea of keeping a few pigs has undergone something of a renaissance and never before has it been so popular. "The Pig Manual" is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to getting started - whether your interest is filling your freezer,...

Chickens - The Essential Guide to Choosing and Keeping Happy, Healthy Hens

In "Chickens", poultry breeder Suzie Baldwin offers a practical guide to everything both the beginner and more experienced hen owner needs to know, from whether to buy chicks or hens, what varieties to chose, how to tell if you're buying...

Chickens in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide

Backyard farmers interested in having a readily available source of eggs and meat are provided with nontechnical information on housing, feeding, raising, and butchering chickens.

Feeding The Dairy Cow

The Secret Life of Cows

Cows can love, play games, bond and form strong life friendships. They can sulk, they can hold grudges, they can have preferences and can be vain. In this insight into this secret life of cows, the author argues that compassion in farming makes so...

The World of Sheepdogs - A Photographic Tribute

Caring for Llamas and Alpacas - A Health and Management Guide

Beekeeping For Dummies

The fast and easy way to start and maintain a hiveBeekeeping For Dummies is a practical, step-by-step beginner's guide to beekeeping. It gives you plain-English guidance on everything you need to know to start your own beehive, from buying the rig...

The Illustrated Guide to Chickens - How to Choose Them - How to Keep Them

The Illustrated Guide to Chickens covers the 100 most familiar breeds of chickens in Europe and North America. The breed profiles are written in engaging text that covers the history of each breed, its main characteristics, and information about l...

The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl

With just a little land and available water, you can raise a variety of domestic fowl, from friendly ducks and characterful geese to guineafowl, dainty quail, placid turkeys or even peafowl. Illustrated with the author's charming watercolour paint...

Cows - A Portrait of the Animal World

An informative series about the natural world which aims to provide a general introduction to the subject.

A Chicken in Every Yard - The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping

This colorful, nuts-and-bolts guide to selecting and raising backyard chickens offers everything a first-time keeper needs to know, from the experts at the Urban Farm Store in Portland, Oregon. Portland's Urban Farm Store stocks everything today's...

Pocketful of Poultry - Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys

Poultry in a pocket-size book? Why not, when the birds in question are neatly corralled into an appealing little volume, just right for gift giving, easy browsing, or tucking into a bag or pocket for quick reference at a poultry show or auction. M...

Starting Colts - Catching, Sacking Out, Driving, First Ride, First 30 Days, Loading

Aimed at both the expert and novice horseman and woman, this is a practical guide to mastering horse-training skills. Kevel's philosophy is simple: stimulus-response-reward, then repeat. You apply a stimulus until you get the desired response, the...

Get Your Goat - How to Keep Happy, Healthy Goats in Your Backyard, Wherever You Live

It's all about back to basics: consumers are rejecting consumption and looking for more and more ways to reconnect with the earth, the community, and their food sources. Many people who have tried keeping chickens, toyed with turkeys, or even just...

The New Complete Guide to Ferrets

Now fully revised, The New Complete Guide to Ferrets covers all aspects of ferrets and their use as working animals in pest control, and as family pets. The book also gives details of the ferret's origins and its history of domestication. There is...

Goats - A Guide to Management

This title is aimed at small-scale operators and hobbyists, designed to cater for the needs of those who have only limited resources, in terms of time, money and land. Covering all aspects of goat husbandry, and written in such a way that it is ac...

Cow

From the milk we drink in the morning to the leather shoes we slip on for the day, to the steak we savour at dinner, our daily lives are thoroughly bound up with the cow. Yet there is a far more complex story behind this seemingly benign creature,...

Camel

A distinct symbol of the desert and the Middle East, the camel was once unkindly described as half snake, half folding bedstead. But in the eyes of many the camel is a creature of great beauty. This is most evident in the Arab world, where the cam...

Pig

Curly tails, snouts, trotters, 'oinks', mud and unpleasant smells - these are the cliches of the pig. With their varied roles as sources of food, as pets and in medical testing, pigs have been materially and culturally associated with humans for t...

For the Love of Donkeys

Guide To Traditional Pig Keeping

Comprehensive reference book covering all aspects of traditional pig husbandry. Colour and b/w photos and diagrams.

Sheep - The Remarkable Story of the Humble Animal That Built the Modern World.

Despite everyday beliefs, civilization, as we know it, couldn't have existed without the humble sheep. The sheep's importance in providing meat, milk and wool, the basis of our food and clothing for millennia, has never been appreciated....

Know Your Cattle

Jack has researched 41 of the breeds of cattle which you would be most likely to see grazing Britain's farms. They are presented here in a handy reference guide. For each animal, he gives a description of their appearance, a brief history and cons...

Kitchen Garden Estate - Traditional Country-house Techniques for the Modern Gardener or Smallholder

* Inspiration for the modern gardener or smallholder from Britain's great country estate and their kitchens gardens. * This practical guide gives a fascinating glimpse over the kitchen garden wall and into the orchards, vegetable beds, fishponds, ...

In Sheep's Clothing - A Handspinner's Guide to Wool

Essential reading for handspinners, wool growers, and other fiber craft enthusiasts, this indispensable reference book provides a comprehensive review of the characteristics of wool from 100 breeds of sheep. Actual fleece locks are shown in full-s...

Beekeeping For Dummies

The fast and easy way to start and maintain a hive Beekeeping For Dummies is a practical, step-by-step beginner's guide to beekeeping. It gives you plain-English guidance on everything you need to know to start your own beehive, from buying the ri...