This totally revised and updated book covers every aspect of raising farm animals. You will learn how to care for chickens, from choosing the right breed to raising them for egg production. You will learn how to handle geese and ducks, choosing the correct breeds, feeding, housing, breeding, and selecting the right ones for egg production. You will also learn about egg incubation, maintaining poultry health, and how to raise them for meat. Other animals you will learn how to care for include rabbits, goats, sheep, dairy cows, and beef cattle. Learn about how to purchase, house, feed, breed, record, and butcher animals of all types as well as how to gather milk, use goats and cows for maintaining your fields, and keep records of births and selling babies.

Author: Melissa Nelson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
Published: 07/22/2015
Series: Back to Basics
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781620230091
2nd Edition

About the Author
Dr. Melissa Nelson is a graduate of the University Of Minnesota College Of Veterinary Medicine. She currently resides on a beef cattle farm near Ortonville, Minn."