Livestock and Animals
Small Cattle for Small Farms
This book is suitable for anyone considering buying a small farm for lifestyle or commercial purposes - retiring farmers wishing to move from larger holdings to smaller, easy to maintain parcels of land, and those retiring to fulfil their lifetime desire to own some land. It is also suitable for owners of lowline cattle and members of cattle breeds societies. The audience will also include academics and students in the TAFE sector, and public libraries.This book is for the growing number of people seeking to make a lifestyle change to fulfill a life-long dream of owning a small parcel of land on which to run some livestock. The book assumes no prior experience with cattle and covers everything from stocking rates, types of cattle available and fencing needs, to vaccination requirements. More
Bach Flower Remedies for Animals By Judy Ramsell Howard, Stefan Ball
Bach Flower Remedies for Animals is a complete and authoritative guide to using the Bach Flower Remedies to treat pets and other animals. Written by experts, it includes the history behind Dr Bach's internationally acclaimed remedies and explains how the remedies are suitable for animals. According to an animal's temperament, a particular remedy or combination of remedies will prove the most beneficial for it. There is guidance on using the remedies and on reading animal behaviour, drawing on insights from professional animal behaviourists. There is also detailed information on treating animals in the home, horses, and animals on the farm or in the wild. Packed full of helpful advice, there are intriguing case studies throughout. More
Backyard Poultry: Naturally By Alanna Moore
Entertaining and informative and will appeal to amateur and avid poultry farmers alike. The author, Alanna Moore, has drawn on her own extensive experience of herbal medicine and backyard poultry farming to produce a very compact and readable reference book.
Includes information on:
- Housing
- Feeding
- Selection and breeding
- Determining the sex of chickens
- Keeping poultry as pets
- Production
- Natural products for treating lice
- How to handle broody hens
- Preventative and curative herbal medicines and homeopathies.
Keeping Ducks and Geese By Chris Ashton, Mike Ashton
This is a comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to keeping ducks and geese - from what to
consider before buying them, how to house them, their welfare and even egg selection. It includes a detailed section on all of the common breeds of duck and goose, enabling you to make the right decision about which ones to choose. It features extensive information on planning and welfare, helping you to ensure that you have the right type of space and housing, and guidelines on how to deal with any eventuality, such as telling the neighbours, going away on holiday and cleaning. A lavish lifestyle section provides recipes for using the rich eggs, together with activities for all of the family including quill making, fairy stories and folklore and how ducks can help with sheepdog training. "Keeping Ducks and Geese" fuses contemporary lifestyle design and an authoritative text, to appeal not only to those who already keep waterfowl, but also to those who are thinking of having them or even just aspire to the self sufficient lifestyle they represent. More
Choosing and Keeping Ducks and Geese By Liz Wright
Ducks and geese make wonderful pets. Not only will they control the insects in your garden and act as handy lawn mowers and watchdogs, they will also provide you with a constant supply of fresh, delicious eggs. With detailed information on over 40 of the most popular duck and geese breeds, this book shows you how to select the right breed for you, what you need get started and how to care for your birds so that you get the best out of them from the very start. More
Choosing and Keeping Ducks and Geese: A Beginners Guide to Identification, Care, and Husba
ndry of Over 35 SpeciesBy Liz Wright
Choosing and Keeping Ducks and Geese provides a comprehensive overview of care and feeding requirements and all necessary equipment for keeping these popular and easy-to-maintain animals as pets. The all-inclusive guide provides extensive identification sections of 26 duck and 13 goose breeds and outlines how to incubate, hatch, and care for new ducklings and goslings. The author, an expert on ducks and geese, explains how to enter your purebred pet into a show, how to prepare the animal for competition, and identifies some of the standards that judges may be looking for when examining these beautiful birds. The eye-catching photography provides an up-close look at these lively animals throughout the text. More