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Learn everything a hobby farmer needs to know about farm animals!7 popular farm animals - beef cattle, chickens, ducks, goats, pigs, rabbits, and sheep - with extensive sections for each, including information on breeds and varietiesDetailed how-to on the care, handling, feeding, health, and safety of each animalBreeding methods, breeding cycles, caring for pregnant females, caring for baby animals, and raising young animalsTroubleshooting tips for potential problems and warding off diseases, parasites, and predatorsHow to capitalize on your livestock's output by selling eggs, milk, meat, fiber, and feathersRevised edition vetted and updated by Dr. Mark McConnon, DVM, hobby farm professionals, and veterinarians for the most up-to-date information available on the market for shelter, care, health, medicine, nutrition, behavior, marketing, and profitWhat's a hobby farm without a small flock or herd (or several) ?A single, information-packed volume with everything a small-scale hobby farmer, breeder, or homesteader needs to know about farm animals, this updated and comprehensive manual to selecting, caring for, and breeding livestock provides the expertise of five seasoned hobby farmers, each of whom has real life on-the-farm experience with the animals discussed.
About the Author
Sue began writing professionally in 1969 when her first article was published in The Western Horseman magazine. Since then she's written hundreds of published articles, first specializing in horse magazines, then publications affiliated with Hobby Farms magazine. She's also written 13 books for mainline publishing houses: four in the Hobby Farms series and a standalone book about miniature goats for CompanionHouse Books (a.k.a. Bowtie Press, i-5 Publishing, and Lumina Press) ; seven for Storey Publishing, including Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats written under her pseudonym, Maggie Sayer; and a stunning new goat book for for Princeton University Press. All relate to livestock or poultry including pigs, goats, sheep, cattle, chickens, donkeys, llamas, and alpacas. Nowadays she writes and self-publishes ebooks. She is a self-taught writer.Sue was a horse-obsessed child and used her allowance, babysitting money, and berry picking income to buy her first horse when she was 12 years old; 61 years later she's still going strong. Her hobbies include compiling picture pedigrees of her horses and studying equine (horse) , caprine (goat) , and ovine (sheep) behavior. Sue lives on a 29-acre property in the southern Ozarks, along with her husband of 45 years and a huge animal family composed of horses, full-size and miniature; a donkey; a llama; Miniature Cheviot and Katahdin sheep; Nubian, Alpine, LaMancha, Nigerian Dwarf, MiniMancha, MiniMyotonic, and mixed breed goats; a tame razorback hog; chickens; guinea fowl; a passel of dogs, most of which are former rescues; and a feral cat colony. The money she earns from writing is used to support her animals. Thank you for buying her books!