Animal Husbandry
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Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition: Breed Selection, Facilities, Feeding, Health Care, Managing Layers & Meat Birds
$24.95 Add to cartSerious poultry farmers and backyard bird raisers have relied on this best-selling reference for more than 20 years. The fourth edition of Gail Damerow’s comprehensive handbook is now completely revis… [more below]
- Series: Storey’s Guide to Raising
- Author: Damerow, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1612129307
- Language: English
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Pastured Poultry Profits
$35.00 Add to cartA couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agricultu
- Author: Salatin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0963810901
- Language: English
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The Backyard Chicken Keeper’s Bible: Discover Chicken Breeds, Behavior, Coops, Eggs, and More
$40.00 Add to cartThe Backyard Chicken Keeper’s Bible is anexhaustively researched, clearly written, and profusely full-color illustrated book and the essential volume on backyard chicken keeping.
Chickens are many th- Author: Ford, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1419764136
- Language: English
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The Chicken Health Handbook: A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease
$24.95 Add to cartHealthy chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages. Practical charts identify common symptoms and causes of i… [more below]
- Author: Damerow, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 29, 2015
- ISBN10: 161212013X
- Language: English
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How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say
$17.99 Add to cartBest-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet — fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky,
- Author: Caughey, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 1612129110
- Language: English
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The Independent Farmstead: Growing Soil, Biodiversity, and Nutrient-Dense Food with Grassfed Animals and Intensive Pasture Management
$39.95 Add to cartWith in-depth information on electric fencing, watering, and husbandry for ruminants, poultry, and pigs, plus butchering, dairying, and more
“If we work hard, we sleep well.”
Twenty years ago, when au
- Author: Dougherty, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 1603586229
- Language: English
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What Your Food Ate: How to Restore Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
$18.95 Add to cartDavid R. Montgomery and Anne Bikl? take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotte
- Author: Montgomery, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052104
- Language: English
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Management-Intensive Grazing: The Grassroots of Grass Farming
$40.00 Add to cart“I like to say that when you buy an acre of land you get 43,500 square feet of solar panel. When you start thinking about your farm in these terms, the importance of having every acre covered with gre
- Author: Gerrish, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0972159703
- Language: English
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Kick the Hay Habit: A Practical Guide to Year-Around Grazing
$35.00 Add to cartWith today’s management systems, the cost of making hay far exceeds its value to grazing businesses. Studies have shown that winter feed costs are the largest single factor limiting the profitability
- Author: Gerrish, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0972159746
- Language: English
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Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork: The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering
$34.99 Add to cartSlaughter and butcher your own animals safely and humanely with this award-winning guide. Providing detailed photography of every step of the process, Adam Danforth shows you everything you need to kn
- Author: Danforth, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1612121829
- Language: English
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Man of the Family
$16.95 Add to cartFortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Li
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0803281951
- Language: English
