Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, The

Damerow, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603429697 ISBN 13: 9781603429696

Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC, 2011

Targeted to urban and suburban reader who may be new to animal raising, "The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals" is a compendium of information on chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, goats, sheep, cattle, pigs and honey bees - all of which are suitable for small-scale backyard food production. Readers will learn exactly how to raise these animals successfully, from selecting the rights breeds for the space and resources available to producing delicious cheese, honey, milk, eggs and meat. Comprehensive and details, yet readable and fun, the book includes hundreds of helpful line drawings. It also offers an appealing fold out colour section illustrating the breeds most suitable for backyard life, along with breed profiles for each animal.

From the Back Cover:

The Best Breakfast You'll Ever Eat, Courtesy of Your Backyard Animals:

1. Gather fresh eggs for fluffy omelets.
2. Stuff homemade sausages with meat.
3. Fill your omelet with tangy, creamy cheese.
4. Stir sweet honey into tea or coffee.
5. Fry a steak or bacon as a savory side.
6. Top off your meal with a cold glass of milk.

Breakfast isn't the only meal you'll enjoy from your backyard farm...
Imagine the satisfaction of feeding your family wholesome eggs, milk, meat, and honey produced by animals raised organically and humanely in your backyard. On as little land as one-tenth of an acre, you can raise healthy, productive barnyard animals and take a big step toward food independence.

Learn how to:

• Raise chickens in brooder boxes
• Determine the freshness of eggs hidden in the backyard
• Roast a duck or goose to perfection
• Make goat-milk yogurt
• Interpret everyday sheep behavior
• Harvest honey
• Raise your own Thanksgiving turkey
• Manage your beef cattle to produce the best-tasting meat

Includes Full-Color at-a-Glance Breed Guide

The animal-raising companion to The Backyard Homestead.

About the Author:

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including the best-selling Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.