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Backyard Chickens: A Beginners Guide To Raising Backyard Chickens
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO RAISE CHICKENS IN YOUR VERY OWN BACKYARD?Whether you want to learn what you need to get started, what the best breeds are, or understanding your chickens behaviour this book will help you. Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn…Benefits of Backyard ChickensWhat You Need to Get StartedGetting…;
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DO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO RAISE CHICKENS IN YOUR VERY OWN BACKYARD?
Whether you want to learn what you need to get started, what the best breeds are, or understanding your chickens behaviour this book will help you.
Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn…
- Benefits of Backyard Chickens
- What You Need to Get Started
- Getting Setup to Bring the Chickens Home
- The Best Backyard Breeds
- Understanding the Basic Behaviors of Your Chicken
- Medical Issues With Your Chickens
- Making Money With Your Chickens
- Much, Much, More!
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The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market
The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable production requires the producer to consider and tackle many details, ranging…;
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The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable production requires the producer to consider and tackle many details, ranging from animal care to microbiology to good hygienic practices–and, for those with commercial aspirations, business plans, market savvy, and knowledge of the regulations.
Applicable to keepers of cows, goats, or sheep, The Small-Scale Dairy offers a holistic approach that explores the relationships between careful, conscientious management and the production of safe, healthy, and delicious milk. A historical overview offers readers a balanced perspective on the current regulatory environment in which raw milk lovers find themselves.
Included are options for designing a well-functioning small dairy, choosing equipment, and understanding myriad processes―such as the use of low-temperature pasteurization where raw milk sales are prohibited. Whether you have a one-cow home dairy, a fifty-goat operation, or are simply a curious consumer, The Small-Scale Dairy is an accessible and invaluable resource for achieving your goals.
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Beekeeping: Beekeeping Guide from Beginner to Expert (Beekeeping, Homesteading, Self Sufficiency)
Be a King in the Kingdom of Beekeeping! Are you somebody who needs to bring honey bees up in their lawn and make profit while grinding away? Beekeeping is fun as a hobby too and it empowers you to spend more time in nature!. When you read Beekeeping: Beekeeping Guide from Beginner to Expert, you’ll…;
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Be a King in the Kingdom of Beekeeping!
Are you somebody who needs to bring honey bees up in their lawn and make profit while grinding away? Beekeeping is fun as a hobby too and it empowers you to spend more time in nature!. When you read Beekeeping: Beekeeping Guide from Beginner to Expert, you’ll get a better understanding of bees, how they work, how they build their hives, and much more:
- An Introduction to Beekeeping
- Advantages of Beekeeping
- How to Start
- Extraction equipment
- Additional Income: Starting a Small Beekeeping Operation
- Diseases and Treatments
- and Some Extra Advice
This book starts with the presumption that you are a flat out learner in the realm of beekeeping.! Beekeeping: Beekeeping Guide from Beginner to Expert is your essential guide to the wide world of bees! With this essential guide, you will take in a ton about honey bees and their yearly cycle. This book will likewise cover a considerable measure of different points like the basic honey bee illnesses and their medicines, and how you can exploit beekeeping to earn substantial sums of money for yourself. It will likewise depict the instruments of the exchange. Towards the end, you find out about extracting honey bee items, similar to nectar and beeswax. You will discover various sorts of hives in point of interest as well. Get your copy of Beekeeping: Beekeeping Guide from Beginner to Expert right away, and become a honey producer in no time! You’ll be so glad you did!Beekeeping Beekeeping Guide from Beginner to Expert
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Pasture Basics: How to Keep the Grass Green and Your Chickens Happy (Permaculture Chicken Book 2)
Do you want to enjoy healthy eggs and meat from chickens raised on pasture?Pasture Basics starts at the beginning to help you design the best pasturing setup for your flock and for your homestead. Great grazing for chickens won’t be found in the perfect pasture for sheep or cows — you need to tweak your…;
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Do you want to enjoy healthy eggs and meat from chickens raised on pasture?
Pasture Basics starts at the beginning to help you design the best pasturing setup for your flock and for your homestead. Great grazing for chickens won’t be found in the perfect pasture for sheep or cows — you need to tweak your design to match a chicken’s unique behavior and stomach.
Included in this volume are an explanation of chicken digestion and behavior, pasture specifics like size and shape, a rundown on which traditional pasture plants chickens enjoy, tips on maximizing plant growth during rotation, and an explanation of how to establish new pastures and maintain existing grazing areas.
Cut your feed costs with pastured chickens!
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10 Things You Need to Know Before You Get A Goat
So you’re thinking of adding a goat to your farm or homestead, awesome! They are wonderful animals, with a lot to offer a small or large homestead. Before jumping in and bringing home your new goat, consider the following 10 facts we discovered in our first season of having goats on the homestead.
1. Goats are picky eaters.
On T.V goats are often portrayed as eaters of tin cans and old hats. This is not the case, goats are actually extremely picky eaters. They are not grass grazers either, goats are known as ‘browsers’. They prefer brush areas with lots of weeds, leaves and branches to munch on. While goats will graze on pasture if they have to, given half a chance they will head for your favorite fruit trees/bushes and quickly destroy them. In minutes they can eat a young fruit tree – ask us how we know. Keep this in mind when planning where to graze goats.2. Goats are sensitive.
Because goats are ruminants (they have four stomachs), their gut is sensitive. This means any changes in diet must be made slowly and gradually to avoid conditions like bloat (which can kill a goat). Be sure to feed a well-balanced diet. You can read more about properly feeding your goat at this link, Feeding your Goat (an excellent resource from Fias Co Farms for any goat owner).Goats thrive on routine, they like to know when their hay is coming and when milking will be done. Sudden changes in their routine and diet may make for a stressed and unhappy goat.
Goats will need regular hoof care. Once a month you will need to check their feet to make sure they are not becoming over grown, and trim as necessary. They will also need to be wormed regularly and kept up to date on vaccinations. Contact veterinarians in your area to see if they treat goats.
3. Goats need secure fencing.
You’ve probably already heard this one, but it’s worth repeating. Goats will always test a fence, and they will keep testing it until they find a weak spot. Make sure your fence is completely secure and check it often to keep your goats safe from escape and from predators.
You may have also read that electric fencing does not work well for goats, but we use it. Because our goats are used to clear brush and hedges we are constantly moving their grazing pen, the only affordable option for us was to use electric fencing. You can read here, how we trained our goats on an electric fence. This still means we have to check our fence regularly, they will test it and if they know the fence isn’t working they will go through it, (and head straight for those favored fruit trees).
Goats will also ‘lean’ on your fence constantly, regular checks to make sure your fence is withstanding the regular rubbing and leaning is a must.
4. Goats need proper housing.
Goats don’t like to be wet or muddy. Meaning they need a dry place to get out of the wind, rain and snow. They need a draft and damp free environment, especially in colder climates. Depending on the type of goat you choose to bring home they may require different housing. For example, our goats need a warmer shelter to protect their long ears from frostbite during our cold winters.If you live in a colder climate you will also need a warm and safe shelter if you plan on letting your goats kid out. Goats breed in the fall and kid in the early spring. Our does will give birth in March and April when temperatures can still be below freezing in our area.
5. Goats are social animals, be prepared to get more than one.
Goats are sociable herd animals, they do not do well on their own. A goat who is unhappy being alone may ‘cry’ or ‘yell’ all day long, or may try and escape their enclosure causing harm to themselves. Consider getting more than one goat to keep them happy and stress free. Housing and caring for two goats compared to one is about the same, it is the same amount of work and because goats don’t eat a lot the cost of having two is comparable to one.6. Know what breed/type of goat you want, decide what you want to use them for.
There are many different types/breed of goats, and not all are breed to do the same thing. If you are wanting to raise your goats for meat make sure you do your research and choose a meat type breed. Same goes for a dairy breed, if your goal is to be able to make cheese, butter and milk your goat. There are some dual purpose breeds that can provide both meat and milk, and are a great choice for small backyard homesteads.
LaMancha, Alpine, Saanan, Nigerian Dwarf and Nubians are all commonly used dairy goats. Boer goats are a popular choice to raise for meat. Another choice is the Kiko and a good dual purpose (milk and meat) is the Nubian. Pygmy and Fainting goats are popular in our area as pets. Be sure to do your research on the type of goat you choose, all have different breed characteristics that will help determine which will be the best fit for your farm.7. Bucks stink, especially when in rut.
Male goats stink. Their smell is not so bad when they are young, but as they get older the aroma of ‘goat’ can become quite strong. This is especially true in the fall during breeding season when males go into rut. During the mating season bucks start to urinate on themselves, and everything around them. They will pee on their faces and front legs which leaves a smelly sticky mess, but does love it. Keep this in mind when it comes time to decide if you will house your own buck, rent one or buy semen. If you only have a few does, renting a buck for a breeding season may be easier than trying to house one year round. If you are not planning on breeding your goats, consider getting a wether (a castrated male goat), they make excellent pets without the smell.
8. Goats are hilarious and can be very friendly
Not only will your goat give you milk, meat or both depending on the breed you choose, they will provide you with entertainment and companionship. Goats who are raised around people are extremely friendly and curious. They are very playful, we often spend time in the evening watching the goats run around their pen playing with each other.Along with being friendly and curious they are also extremely intelligent, a goat can quickly figure out how to open a gate or trash can. Keep this in mind when it comes time to install gates and store feed, make sure everything is ‘goat proof’. Goats can also be trained to walk on a lead and pull a cart.
9. Goats are amazing weed eaters.
Goats are very good at clearing brush and hedges. If you need a space cleared of weeds, brush and young trees your goats will gladly do the job, and in record time. We are always impressed how quickly our girls clear a fence line of weeds and shrubs. One of the main reasons we bought our goats was to use them as organic weed eaters, they even clear the poison parsnips that grow everywhere in our area. They are so good at clearing brush their pasture needs to be moved regularly to make sure they have enough to eat.
10. Goats can be loud.
A lonely goat is a loud goat, an unhappy goat is a loud goat, a goat in heat is a loud goat, the list goes on. If there are any changes in their schedule a goat will make their displeasure known. Some breeds are louder than others, people claim the Nubian breed is especially loud. In our experience as long as they are happy and have a companion the Nubian’s aren’t overly vocal. The only exception to this is when our buck was in rut, then he was loud until he was able to breed our does.Thankfully we have very understanding neighbors, but if you have close neighbors you may want to make sure your goats are not obnoxiously vocal.
This is our first season with our Nubian goats and it has been a wonderful learning experience. We are excited for spring when we will add to our herd with kids from our does.
Do you have goats on your farm or homestead? What lessons have they taught you?
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On – 10 Feb, 2017 By Twin Acres Homestead
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Chicken Poop for the Soul: Backyard Adventures
In this book, the author describes experiences she and her husband have had with backyard chickens, first with neighbor chickens and then with their own. She explains what they did, how they did it, and why they chose to let their chickens be free-range. Based on several years of observation, she talks about the pecking…;
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In this book, the author describes experiences she and her husband have had with backyard chickens, first with neighbor chickens and then with their own. She explains what they did, how they did it, and why they chose to let their chickens be free-range. Based on several years of observation, she talks about the pecking order dynamics and chicken behaviors towards one another, other animals and people. She also takes a trip down memory lane and tells about the natural progression from her longtime interest in whole foods to backyard chickens and vegetable gardening in their one-acre piece of land in College Station, Texas.
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The New Livestock Farmer: The Business of Raising and Selling Ethical Meat
Including information on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, and goats, and exotics like bison, rabbits, elk, and deer How can anyone from a backyard hobbyist to a large-scale rancher go about raising and selling ethically produced meats directly to consumers, restaurants, and butcher shops? With the rising consumer interest in grass-fed, pasture-raised, and antibiotic-free meats, how…;
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Including information on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, and goats, and exotics like bison, rabbits, elk, and deer
How can anyone from a backyard hobbyist to a large-scale rancher go about raising and selling ethically produced meats directly to consumers, restaurants, and butcher shops? With the rising consumer interest in grass-fed, pasture-raised, and antibiotic-free meats, how can farmers most effectively tap into those markets and become more profitable? The regulations and logistics can be daunting enough to turn away most would-be livestock farmers, and finding and keeping their customers challenges the rest.
Farmer, consultant, and author Rebecca Thistlethwaite (Farms with a Future) and her husband and coauthor, Jim Dunlop, both have extensive experience raising a variety of pastured livestock in California and now on their homestead farm in Oregon. The New Livestock Farmer provides pasture-based production essentials for a wide range of animals, from common farm animals (cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, and goats) to more exotic species (bison, rabbits, elk, and deer).
Each species chapter discusses the unique requirements of that animal, then delves into the steps it takes to prepare and get them to market. Profiles of more than fifteen meat producers highlight some of the creative ways these innovative farmers are raising animals and direct-marketing superior-quality meats.
In addition, the book contains information on a variety of vital topics:
• Governmental regulations and how they differ from state to state;
• Slaughtering and butchering logistics, including on-farm and mobile processing options and sample cutting sheets;
• Packaging, labeling, and cold-storage considerations;
• Principled marketing practices; and
• Financial management, pricing, and other business essentials.
This book is must reading for anyone who is serious about raising meat animals ethically, outside of the current consolidated, unsustainable CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) system. It offers a clear, thorough, well-organized guide to a subject that will become increasingly important as the market demand for pasture-raised meat grows stronger.
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Goats: Goatherd 101: An Introduction To Raising Meat and Dairy Goats (2nd Edition) (goat, meat, milk, shepherd, dairy, homesteading, off the grid)
Start Raising Goats, Today!***Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited – Download Now!***NEW Updated and Revised 2nd Edition Released on 7/28/15Can anyone raise goats? Is it difficult?When you download Goatherd 101: An Introduction To Raising Meat and Dairy Goats, you’ll find out what it means to be a goat herder and how to get…;
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Can anyone raise goats? Is it difficult?
When you download Goatherd 101: An Introduction To Raising Meat and Dairy Goats, you’ll find out what it means to be a goat herder and how to get started started raising them. Raising and caring for goats can be very rewarding.
How do you get started? What equipment do you need? Is it time-consuming?
Goatherd 101 explains the pros and cons raising goats. It also describes the various types of goats, and the different methods of caring for them. You’ll also learn how to choose the type of goat that is right for you.
When you download this book, you’ll also learn about the planning, prepping, and the members types you’ll need for your herd.
Download Goatherd 101 now, and start gaining the benefits that these amazing animals have to offer!
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7 Must Know Tips Before Bringing Goats into a Homestead
If you’ve made the switch to a homestead, then you’re all about living a self-sufficient and independent lifestyle. Let the animals help you out! You might lean toward purchasing chickens for your land since those seem to be the most typical farm animal. What about goats? They are the second most popular animal (after chickens, of course) to have on a homestead. They provide milk, fertilizer, brush control and many other benefits that may have been unknown to you.
If you’re interested in diversifying your animal ownership, then goats might be the ideal addition. What breed do you get? What do they eat? How do you contain them? These are just a few of the questions you’ll need answered prior to becoming a goat parent. We’ve gathered the research to answer some of those questions so that you’re informed and ready for goats.
Let’s take a look at 7 things you need to know before introducing goats to your homestead!
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On – 26 Apr, 2017 By Jordan London
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Raising Dairy Cattle for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Dairy Cattle for Milk and Eventually Meat (Homesteading Freedom)
Raising Dairy Cattle for Beginners A Simple Guide to Dairy Cattle for Milk & Eventually Meat Do you want to produce your own milk? Are you looking to start a small dairy farm? Do you want to know how to keep dairy cattle? Then this book is for you! This book will teach you everything…;
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Raising Dairy Cattle for Beginners
A Simple Guide to Dairy Cattle for Milk & Eventually Meat
Do you want to produce your own milk?
Are you looking to start a small dairy farm?
Do you want to know how to keep dairy cattle?
Then this book is for you!
This book will teach you everything that you need to know about how to start a small dairy farm or just keep one dairy cow. It’s completely up to you, and you’ll learn how to not only care for your cows but to pick the best breed for what you want. This book will take you through everything from figuring out how much land to get, picking your breed, how to store your milk, common health problems, birthing calves and more!
There is no reason to second guess your decision. It can be easy to raise a dairy cow as long as you know the common risks and problems that may occur, and this book makes sure to cover them all. This book will even take you through a few recipes that you can make with the milk that your dairy cows produce.
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The Dairy Goat Handbook: For Backyard, Homestead, and Small Farm
The Dairy Goat Handbook explains everything goat keepers need to know about their animals, from the best ways to keep them healthy to methods for making delicious goat cheese.The Dairy Goat Handbook is a guidebook for those who would like to raise dairy goats – or dream of raising dairy goats and want to know…;
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The Dairy Goat Handbook explains everything goat keepers need to know about their animals, from the best ways to keep them healthy to methods for making delicious goat cheese.
The Dairy Goat Handbook is a guidebook for those who would like to raise dairy goats – or dream of raising dairy goats and want to know how to begin and maintain a successful herd.
There are other books on the business of keeping dairy goats, but none quite like this. Written by a dairy goat farmer, this guide combines a deep knowledge of the animals themselves with fifteen years of experience running a successful business. Fully illustrated with photographs of life on a working dairy farm the goats, the farm, the dairy equipment, and the cheese and milk this book explains as well as celebrates the life of a dairy goat farmer.
The author, Ann Starbard, owns Crystal Brook Farm in Sterling, Massachusetts, where she and her husband raise dairy goats and make fresh goat cheese that they sell onsite, at farmers’ markets, and at restaurants. Ann explains the details of raising goats and running a dairy in simple, clear, easy-to-understand language; this is a book for everyone interested in the business of raising dairy goats.
The Dairy Goat Handbook For Backyard Homestead and Small Farm
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How to Keep Your Homestead Animals Healthy (Chickens, Rabbits, Goats)
Rabbits are quickly becoming a mainstay on many small homesteads and even in urban backyards because they are small, easy to care for, and provide excellent meat. However, sometimes unexpected things can happen, and it’s a good idea to have some knowledge beforehand.
Dana at Piwakawaka Valley Homestead in New Zealand is very experienced with raising rabbits. She created this Rabbit Diseases Reference Guide that is unbelievably complete and interesting! Here is another article she wrote about Rabbit First Aid. Because things just go wrong, sometimes!
Kathryn, of Farming My Backyard, raises rabbits and has written quite a great article on Flystrike and Ear Mites. And, seriously, flystrike is nothing to mess around with—you have to catch it and treat it fast, or your animal can die a painful death very quickly. Mr. V. and I learned this from experience last summer. It’s pretty horrible. She also has a great article on How to Resuscitate Baby Bunnies, Even if They Look Dead…which was REALLY interesting.
Rabbit’s teeth are quite important to their health! Liz, at the Cape Coop, wrote a great article about Caring for Rabbit Teeth! If you are considering rabbits, check it out! She goes into the importance of their feed, among other necessary things to know about dental care for rabbits.
I don’t currently have rabbits, but Mr. V. and I are thinking about adding them to our animal livestock after we get ourselves moved in a few months! These are all good things to know about ahead of time!
On – 17 Aug, 2017 By Heidi Villegas
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How to Keep Your Homestead Animals Healthy (Chickens, Rabbits, Goats)
Rabbits are quickly becoming a mainstay on many small homesteads and even in urban backyards because they are small, easy to care for, and provide excellent meat. However, sometimes unexpected things can happen, and it’s a good idea to have some knowledge beforehand.
Dana at Piwakawaka Valley Homestead in New Zealand is very experienced with raising rabbits. She created this Rabbit Diseases Reference Guide that is unbelievably complete and interesting! Here is another article she wrote about Rabbit First Aid. Because things just go wrong, sometimes!
Kathryn, of Farming My Backyard, raises rabbits and has written quite a great article on Flystrike and Ear Mites. And, seriously, flystrike is nothing to mess around with—you have to catch it and treat it fast, or your animal can die a painful death very quickly. Mr. V. and I learned this from experience last summer. It’s pretty horrible. She also has a great article on How to Resuscitate Baby Bunnies, Even if They Look Dead…which was REALLY interesting.
Rabbit’s teeth are quite important to their health! Liz, at the Cape Coop, wrote a great article about Caring for Rabbit Teeth! If you are considering rabbits, check it out! She goes into the importance of their feed, among other necessary things to know about dental care for rabbits.
I don’t currently have rabbits, but Mr. V. and I are thinking about adding them to our animal livestock after we get ourselves moved in a few months! These are all good things to know about ahead of time!
On – 17 Aug, 2017 By Heidi Villegas
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Aquaponics: The Best Ways to Grow Aquaponic Plants (Aquaponic Gardening, Hydroponics, Homesteading)
Discover The Best Ways To Grow Aquaponic PlantsAquaponics is a great way to grow fish and food together, but the biggest question for most people is how to grow. Since so many plants do well with aquaponics, it’s easy to get over enthused and try and grow everything! With the right set up, you can…;
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Discover The Best Ways To Grow Aquaponic Plants
Aquaponics is a great way to grow fish and food together, but the biggest question for most people is how to grow. Since so many plants do well with aquaponics, it’s easy to get over enthused and try and grow everything! With the right set up, you can do this, but it’s also going to be much harder to have healthy plants if you’re a beginner, so it’s a good idea to start out small. Similarly, even if you’ve picked out plants already growing them in a system that fits your space can be the bigger challenge.
In this book, we’ll look at a few creative ways to grow your plants and tackle the common problems that plague many growers so that your plants will be the best they can!
Within this book, you’ll find the answers to these questions and more. Just some of the questions and topics covered include
- Creative Growing with Aquaponics
- The Basic System
- What Plants?
- Grow Beds
- Strawberry Towers
- Freestanding Z Guttering Wall
- And much more!
Download the book now to learn more about the best ways to grow aquaponic plants
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Homesteading Animals (4): Chunky Chickens For Meat And Eggs (Volume 4)
***RAISING CHUNKY CHICKENS – NO 1 BEST SELLER IN CATEGORY!***Raising Chickens could be considered as a quintessential part of living on a homestead, or living a self-sustainable lifestyle. Whether you are rearing hens for eggs or meat – or even just for company, this introduction to raising chickens offers all the information you will need…;
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***RAISING CHUNKY CHICKENS – NO 1 BEST SELLER IN CATEGORY!***
Raising Chickens could be considered as a quintessential part of living on a homestead, or living a self-sustainable lifestyle. Whether you are rearing hens for eggs or meat – or even just for company, this introduction to raising chickens offers all the information you will need to get started.Over 70 pages crammed with information on homesteading essentials such as the following, will ensure of a good grounding in self-sufficiency and rearing animals on your homestead or even backyard.
What You Will Find In This Book:
1. A glossary of 30 terms relating to the keeping of poultry, that will ensure you of a basic understanding as to what it is all about.2. Keeping chickens for eggs or meat? This is a list of ten of the most popular chicken breeds along with a brief description of the birds and whether they are most suitable for egg production or for the meat.
3. Should you have a static chicken coop, or a chicken tractor – and what is the difference anyway? This is a simple look at what your chicken shed requirements may be, and how to choose the best hut for your hens.
4. Chicken feed – This section will show you what to feed your poultry during the different stages of growth, from baby chick ,to point-of-lay pullet, to full production egg-laying chicken.
5. Dressing Your Chicken. No this is not to do with the latest clothes they must wear! For those interested in keeping poultry for meat, this is all about how to dispatch your chicken humanely and how to prepare the bird for the table – complete with pictures to help illustrate.
6. Last but by no means least – ten top chicken recipes to get your taste buds flowing! Courtesy of F. A. Paris’s book ‘Fantastic Chicken’, available on Amazon kindle books.
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Tiny Homes: Build your Tiny Home, Live Off Grid in your Tiny house today, become a minamilist and travel in your micro shelter!
Learn How To Build and Live in a Tiny Home! Do you want to Live in a Tiny Home, Build your own and become a minamilist? Learn What a Tiny House is and the benefits you can have by living in one. You Will Learn The Following:The Basics of a Tiny HomeThe Benefits Is a…;
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Learn How To Build and Live in a Tiny Home!
Do you want to Live in a Tiny Home, Build your own and become a minamilist?
Learn What a Tiny House is and the benefits you can have by living in one.
You Will Learn The Following:
- The Basics of a Tiny Home
- The Benefits
- Is a Tiny Home for You
- How to live in a Tiny Home
- Much Much More!
Whether you just want to learn more about Tiny Homes or already understand them and want extra help picking out the the perfect tony house for yourself, this book is for you.
So don’t delay it any longer. Take this opportunity by buying this tiny home guide with floor plans now.
You will be shocked by how much you can learn about tiny homes and living off grid.
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Homesteading Animals 4-Book Bundle: Rearing Rabbits, Chickens, Ducks and Geese. A comprehensive introduction to raising popular farmyard animals
REARING RABBITS, CHICKENS, DUCKS & GEESEA Comprehensive Introduction to rearing 4 of the most popular animals to be found around the Homestead or farmyard, with this bundle of 4 books in one.Offered here at a Huge Discount on the individual book price.BOOK 1 – REARING RABBITS1 – Choosing Your Rabbits: With so many rabbits to…;
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REARING RABBITS, CHICKENS, DUCKS & GEESE
A Comprehensive Introduction to rearing 4 of the most popular animals to be found around the Homestead or farmyard, with this bundle of 4 books in one.
Offered here at a Huge Discount on the individual book price.BOOK 1 – REARING RABBITS
1 – Choosing Your Rabbits: With so many rabbits to choose from how do you know what is best for you and your particular plans? Here you will find a selection of the most popular rabbit breeds., whether choosing your rabbits for the best meat production, pelts or indeed as pets!
2 – Caring For Rabbits: If you want to get the best out of any livestock, then you must know how to care for them properly. Invaluable information on how to feed and care for your rabbits for best results.
3 – Costs & Considerations: How much does it cost to set up at rabbitry, and what could be the profitability of such an exercise?
Case study to look at the possible costs and profitability of breeding rabbits, looked at from a commercial and domestic viewpoint. Subjects covered include the numbers to be expected over a 1 year period, as well as start-up costs for 1 Buck and 3 Does using the New Zealand White rabbit a an example.
4 – Killing & Butchering: If you are raising your animals for meat, then information on how to dispatch your rabbit cleanly and efficiently is absolutely essential. Here are details on just how to achieve this with minimal stress to the animal, as well as how to dress or prepare the carcase.
5 – Glossary of Terms: A selection of over 60 popular terms used amongst rabbit breeders. Do you know what Binky means? Or perhaps what to do if your rabbit is Kindling? Check out these and other important terms here.
6 – Rabbit & Game Recipes! A selection of tasty rabbit and game recipes courtesy of F. A Paris from her excellent slow Cooking book “Slow Cooking Heaven.’BOOK 2 – DELIGHTFUL DUCKS:
1 – Duck Care: How to care for your ducks to ensure healthy birds, including shelter, feeding and caring for goslings.
2 – Duck Breeds: A selection of the most popular breeds to keep whether for meat or for eggs. Including popular bantam duck breeds.
3 – Duck Preparation: How to prepare you duck for the table or for sale.
4 – Duck Recipes! Last but not least, A selection of tasty duck recipes courtesy of F. A. Paris from the ‘Slow Cooking Heaven’ recipe book.BOOK 3 – GOURMET GEESE
1 – Caring For Your Geese: How to make sure your animals prosper from gosling stage to full adult, with instructions on proper shelter, feeding routines and health issues.
2 – Keeping Your Animals Healthy: How to be sure that you stay ahead of any potential health problems, and what to do if your animal becomes sick for any reason.
3 – Preparing For The Table: If you are rearing geese for the table then this is an essential piece of information to have. Includes instructions on how to dispatch your animals as humanely as possible, and how to prepare the bird for the table. Includes instructions on the best methods for plucking, cleaning and cooking your goose.BOOK 4 – CHUNKY CHICKENS:
1. A glossary of 30 terms relating to the keeping of poultry, that will ensure you of a basic understanding as to what it is all about.
2. Keeping chickens for eggs or meat? This is a list of ten of the most popular chicken breeds along with a brief description of the birds and whether they are most suitable for egg production or for the meat.
3. Should you have a static chicken coop, or a chicken tractor – and what is the difference anyway? This is a simple look at what your chicken shed requirements may be, and how to choose the best hut for your hens.
4. Chicken feed – This section will show you what to feed your poultry during the different stages of growth, from baby chick ,to point-of-lay pullet, to full production egg-laying chicken.
5. Dressing Your Chicken. This is all about how to dispatch your chicken humanely and how to prepare the bird for the table – complete with picture
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