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Många drömmer om att skaffa sig får som kan hålla landskapet öppet och ge råvaror till både mat och kläder. Och visst är det roligt att se lammen leka i hagen, men nogsamt akta sig för att komma alltför långt från tackan! Men de är inte fullt så l...
Kokvinnorna
Bokvideo finnsKokvinnorna Inger och Britt är något så ovanligt som handmjölkerskor och förmodligen de allra sista som levererar sin handmjölkade mjölk till mejeriet. De har båda viljor av stål och är färgstarka personligheter som det har varit ett rent nöje att...
Goat Keeping Manual
There are over 200 identifiable breeds of goat in the world with some 13 in the UK. Cheese and yoghurt, prime lean meat and cashmere and mohair fibre are all products of this unique species. In this illustrated manual, the author provides essentia...
Compassion, by the Pound - The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare
This highly readable book is aimed at anyone with an interest in the food they eat. In conversational tone, and avoiding academic jargon, it provides an honest and objective account of the consequences of food consumption choices and policies, thr...
The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
The hardy, multipurpose Dominique chickens that came to the New World with the Pilgrims and later travelled in pioneer saddlebags to help settle the West were once too numerous to count, by 1990 a mere 500 hens survived. This is but a single examp...
The Practical Guide to Keeping Chickens, Ducks, Geese &; Turkeys - A Directory of Poultry Breeds and How to Keep Them: with Step-by-step Techniques and More Than 650 Colour Photographs
This comprehensive and practical guide provides all the information that you need in order to start keeping poultry. A buyer's guide shows you what features to look for in healthy poultry as well as the best sources from which to buy them. Essenti...
Extraordinary Chickens
An introduction to the world of exotic ornamental chickens. The book contains photographs of chickens of all shapes and sizes, including the Bearded Silkie, the crested Polish and the majestic Phoenix.
Extra Extraordinary Chickens
With gorgeous colour photographs and informative text, Stephen Green-Armytage surveys many breeds around the world, capturing with his camera chickens of all sizes, shapes, and colours and illuminating gorgeous feather patterns, elaborate wattles ...
Extraordinary Pigs
From the author of Extraordinary Chickens comes the newest extraordinary animal-the pig. Extraordinary Pigs shows the many varieties of swine, from tiny KuneKunes and wrinkled Meishans, to spotted Gloucester Old Spots and curly coated Mangalitzas....
Goat Farming
This second edition of a book on goats reflects the increasing interest in these animals as a domestic breed. The book emphasizes the impressive perrformance of the goat - it has the ability to survive in areas of the world that will not support o...
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...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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....
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, ...
The Urban Beekeeper - A Year of Bees in the City
At a time when the UK bee population is in decline there's no better way to make a difference than to start up your own beehive. Steve Benbow's enormous success with urban beekeeping show's how easy it is to keep bees, whether you're in the city o...
The Camel and the Wheel
Why, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study explains this anomaly. Drawing on archaeology, art, technology, anthropology, linguistics, and camel h...
Times Past in the Countryside - Everyday Life in a Bygone Age
Relive the days gone by in the countryside with this nostalgic, lavishly illustrated look at life in the British countryside from the Victorian era through to the 1960s. Explore every aspect of rural life, from the practicalities of growing and re...
Recognition and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals
Guidelines for researchers, committees formed to oversee animal welfare at universities, and the general public on diagnosing pain and non-pain stress by animal behavior, and the various values and methods to be considered in reducing discomfort. ...
The Quotable Farm Animal
A trusty cow may say little more than "moo" or a chicken little more than "cluck," but these animal's presence in barn and pasture speaks volumes about a time-honored way of country life.
The Meat Goat Handbook - Keeping Goats for Food and Profit
Longtime goat rancher Yvonne Zweede-Tucker draws on twenty years of hands-on experience to help you raise your own meat goats. Illustrated throughout with color photography, this instructive handbook includes advice about breeds, feeding, housing,...
The Horse in the City - Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundri...
