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The essential primer for first-time farmers, each chapter spotlights a single animal. You'll learn what type of housing and how much land your animals need, what to feed them, how to breed them and how to handle routine healthcare.

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Filled with hundreds of fabulous black-and-white illustrations of all types of U.S. and Canadian barns. This is a spectacular tribute to these historically and architecturally important structures that's sure to become a collector's item once again.

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Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted by raising your own chickens. They require only a modest outlay of time, space and food. This 148 page book covers all the basics in a light and entertaining style, from housing and feeding through incubating, bringing up chicks, butchering and raising chickens for show.

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Chickens — why not? Tens of thousands of people in all areas of the country enjoy raising these birds, whether for food or companionship. Of course, you may want to read Living With Chickens just for the sheer joy of it. Straightforward prose and illustrations give any future chicken farmer the tools needed to get started. Jay Rossier draws on his own experiences and those of his fellow poultrymen in discussing everything from feeding and housing the birds to keeping marauders from invading the coop. Personal anecdotes, interesting facts, and lush, full-color photographs round out this indispensable guide. Highly recommended.

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Do you know how, at what price, when and where to sell your grass-fed meats or milk for the highest profit. Farm Fresh offers nearly 100 real farm examples of grass farmers throughout the USA who are direct marketing their products.

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Featuring profiles from more than 20 states and illustrated with more than 200 color photographs, this 163 page book offers a compelling view of a future where farms and ranches are integrated into regional networks of protected wild lands.