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Books - Livestock Husbandry
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Description
Price/ Quantity
NEW! Storey's Illustrated
Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Pigs
By Carol Ekarius. This full-color reference covers 163 breeds of cattle, goats,
sheep, and swine including all of the breeds on the ALBC Conservation Priority
List as well as common North American livestock breeds. A brief history and details
about the animals’ unique qualities and quirks are given for each breed.
Comprehensive, colorful, and captivating, this in-depth guide is informative
enough to aid farmers in breed selection, but beautiful enough for fanciers to
browse as a coffee-table book. Soft cover, 303 pages, illustrated.
$24.95
NEW!- Storey's Guide to Raising
Meat Goats
By Maggie Sayer. Offers valuable information on every aspect of
acquiring, caring for, managing, and marketing meat goats, including:
selection, behavior, nutrition, disease prevention, health care,
transportation, handling, breeding, showing, and competition. Soft
cover, 337 pages, illustrated.
$18.95
NEW - Storey’s Barn Guide
to Sheep
Designed to accompany the farmer into the barn, this book provides
clear, step-by-step help, visible from several feet away. Oversized
heavy-duty pages illustrate dozens of procedures with simple, straightforward
illustrations. A hole on each page allows the farmer to hang it
on the wall and still be able to reference it throughout every procedure.
Graphic presentations guide farmers through trimming hooves, administering
injections, assisting with lambing, bottle-feeding, milking, and
every other situation that might arise during the normal course
of a sheep’s life. Also features full color anatomical illustrations,
a lambing calendar, a feeding chart and a helpful record-keeping
section.
Paper with concealed wire-o binding, 96 pages, 12 x 9, illustrated.
$29.95
NEW - Grass-Fed Cattle
By Julius Ruechel. As more consumers discover the benefits of grass-fed
beef – sustainability, good taste, antibiotic-free –
demand continues to grow. For any farmer interested in entering
this profitable specialty area, here is the first complete manual
on raising, caring for, and marketing grass-fed cattle. Author Julius
Ruechel includes advice on herd selection, breeding, pasture management,
fencing, winter grazing, diseases, equipment, slaughter, labeling,
marketing, and financial planning. Soft cover, 384 pages, 8 1/2
x 10 7/8, illustrated.
$24.95
Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
By John J. Mettler, Jr., DVM. This book is for anyone who hunts,
farms, or buys large quantities of meat. The author takes the mystery
out of slaughtering and butchering by providing clear instructions
including information on meat inspection, and processing and preserving.
Also included are tried and true recipes, a glossary of terms, and
a table of weights and measures.
Soft cover, 208 pages, 6 X 9, illustrated.
$16.95
Oxen: A Teamster's Guide (SALE!)
by Drew Conroy. For anyone involved or interested in training and
working oxen, this book offers guidelines for selecting a team,
fitting a yoke,bows, training techniques, care of oxen, and using
oxen for farming, logging, competition, and public events. Conroy's
enthusiasm for oxen is irresistable. Soft cover, illus., 354 p.
$25.00 $18.95
May Safely Graze: Protecting Livestock Against Predators
By Eugene L. Fytche. The information in this book is gathered and
presented for a North American context. The text includes useful
background on defining and assessing predator risk followed by protection
application sections on enclosures; mobile protectors such as guard
dogs, llamas, donkeys, and cattle; external protection based on
predator-reduction techniques; and management to avoid predation.
Soft cover, illus., 103 p.
$12.95
Keeping Livestock Healthy
By N. Bruce Haynes, DVM is a Comprehensive Veterinary Guide to Preventing and Identifying Disease in Horses, Cattle, Swine, Goats & Sheep, including the Most Up-to-date Information on Nutrition, Housing, Reproduction and Restraint (4th Edition). This is a completely revised and updated fourth edition and draws on the very latest research from prominent scholars and experts. Learn how to prevent disease in each of the five animals covered — horses, cattle, pigs, goats, and sheep — through good nutrition, proper housing, and appropriate care. Soft cover, 329 pages, 6 X 9, illustrated
$19.95
Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs
By Kelly Klober. The complete guide to successful small-scale
pig raising. Offers valuable information on selection, breeding,
feeding, and health, butchering, pork processing, and showing. Soft
cover, 313 pages, illustrated.
$18.95