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Caring for Llamas & Alpacas: A Health and Management Guide (2nd Edition)
by DVM and Ingrid Asmus Clare Hoffman  Publisher Comments Spiral bound for easy reference in your Barn! Topics covered: Buying a Llama or Alpaca Congenital Defects Digestive Problems Down Llama or Alpaca Eyes Giving Injections Heat and Cold Problems Herd Health Lameness Lumps and Bumps Mastitis...
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Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
by Judy Pangman Publisher Comments Easy-to-care-for, productive, inexpensive, and full of personality, chickens are popping up in backyards throughout the country— in the suburbs, rural towns, and even on city plots. All it takes to keep a small flock is a bit of land and a properly...
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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
by Gail Damerow Publisher Comments Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more....
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Keep Chickens!: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and other Small Spaces
by Barbara Kilarski Publisher Comments Chickens are hot! There's a chicken-farming boomlet on the rise, with upscale urban and suburban homeowners from every part of the country ordering fancy breeds of chickens, hiring architects to build elegant chicken coops in their backyards, and signing...
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How to Raise Pigs: Everything You Need to Know: Breed Guide & Selection/Proper Care & Healthy Feeding/Building Facilities & Fencing/Showi (How to Raise...)
by Philip Hasheider Publisher Comments No matter if your goal is to raise one pig or a herd, the expert advice in this hands-on guidebook will tell you all you need to know. How to Raise Pigs guides readers through swine operations from beginning to end. With more than 200 color photographs...
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Following the Bloom: Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers
by Douglas Whynott Synopsis Twelve months on the road with America's last cowboys: the migratory beekeepers. In this absorbing work of literary journalism, Douglas Whynott introduces us to the world of migratory beekeeping, a world composed of clandestine state-border crossings...
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey. The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World
by Holley Bishop Publisher Comments Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few...
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Grass-Fed Cattle
by Julius Ruechel Publisher Comments With grass-fed beef popping up on menus across North America, and more small-farm owners venturing into this growth area, the time is right for a comprehensive book on how to raise, manage, and market grass-fed cattle. Grass-Fed Cattle, the newest...
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Extraordinary Chickens
by Step Green Armytage Synopsis The classic introduction to the world of exotic ornamental chickens in a new chunky format designed to be held in the palm of the hand. It features photographs of chickens of all colours, shapes and sizes, including breeds from places as far apart as...
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Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds
by Carol Ekarius Publisher Comments The definitive fish-cooking book, in glorious full-color, from the colorful salt-of-the-sea chef of New York City’ s famed restaurant Esca. Seafood genius Dave Pasternack achieved national fame in 2000, when he served his first plate of pristine...
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Choosing and Keeping Chickens
by Chris Graham Synopsis Do you raise chickens as part of the family or as a livelihood? Are you looking for helpful information to provide the best care for your chickens? Or are you just curious to learn more about this popular animal? Choosing and Keeping Chickens provides...
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Chickens in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide
by Rick Luttmann Publisher Comments CHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARD A BEGINNER'S GUIDE Rick and Gail Luttmann Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens-- endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food. As they...
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Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
by Tammy Horn Synopsis In this enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States, Horn, herself a beekeeper, shows how the honey bee was one of the first symbols of colonization and how bees' societal structures have shaped our ideals about work, family,...
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Pig Who Sang To the Moon (03 Edition)
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson 
Publisher Comments Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained...
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Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
by Ross Conrad Publisher Comments National Review Attention, Off-the-Book-Page Coverage, Consumer Mail Campaign,...
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Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food
by Joel Salatin Publisher Comments Holy Cows and Hog Heaven is written by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic clean good farmer. His goal is to:Empower food buyers to pursue positive alternatives to the industrialized food system.Bring clean food farmers and their...
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Essential Guide to Calving
by Heather Smit Thomas Publisher Comments Every cattle farmer and#8212; from the keeper of a family milk cow to the rancher overseeing a large herd and#8212; will gain confidence and control by becoming more knowledgeable about calving. Healthy pregnancies, safe births, and thriving calves are...
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Oxen: A Teamster's Guide (Storey's Working Animals)
by Drew Conroy Publisher Comments Stalwart and powerful, oxen are employed as working cattle in nearly every country and on six continents. Stronger, steadier, less expensive, and easier to keep than draft horses, oxen can plow fields, haul stones, assist in logging, improve roads, and...
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The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
by Lyall Watson Publisher Comments Not all animals are created equal. For a start, pigs have it, sheep don't; that is, that special quality of intelligence, a sense of play, and a gregariousness that make these tragically misunderstood--yet no less endearing--creatures more like us than...
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Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
by John J. Mettler Publisher Comments This is the book for anyone who hunts, farms, or buys large quantities of meat. The author takes the mystery out of slaughtering and butchering everything from beef and veal, to venison, pork, and lamb. The text is clear and easy-to-follow. Combined with...
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