Artikelname: A Guide to Traditional Pig Keeping
Artikelbeschreibung: As the title suggests this volume covers the less intensive more animal friendly wasy of raising pigs.

Artikelname: A Manual of Lambing Techniques
Artikelbeschreibung: This practical manual takes you through the period approaching, during and immediately after lambing. Advice is given on how to deal with a range of situations, from normal and malpresentations, and the sick in-lamb ewe to abortion and the health of the newborn lamb.

Artikelname: An Introduction to Keeping Cattle
Artikelbeschreibung: Think of getting a house cow or maybe a small herd of rare breed cattle? With the emphasis througout on the conservation of rare and native breeds this book covers all aspects of keeping cattle on a small-scale; the breeds, establishing the herd, housing and pasture requirments, management and handling, nutrition - with the emphasis on grass-fed cattle, health and welfare as well as the house cow, dairying and preparing for shows.

Artikelname: An Introduction to Keeping Sheep
Artikelbeschreibung: For those starting to farm or run a smallholding with sheep, this guide provides information and sensible advice on buying, housing and care of the breeding flock and veterinary advice. The emphasis throughout is on the essential skills and techniques required by shepherds.

Artikelname: Bantams (Barrons)
Artikelbeschreibung: An all-inclusive, lively exploration of more than 50 breeds of bantams, including rare species. Readers will easily understand every aspect of husbandry, housing and day-to-day care. Illustrated with colour photos to provide a close-up look at the similarities and differences among the breeds.

Artikelname: Bantams in Colour
Artikelbeschreibung: The shows 40 breeds of bantam and miniature fowl. This book is a must for identifying different breeds or for choosing a breed to keep. There are over 121 photographs and illustrations. This colour guide to bantam breeds has photographs of typical birds. Each breed has information on its type, classification, origin, colour variations, egg colour, specifications and faults to avoid.

Artikelname: British Large Fowl
Artikelbeschreibung: This book documents the 22 breeds that have been developed in Britain together with their history and most of their colour variations. 92 colour photographs in all.

Artikelname: Build Your Own Poultry House and Run
Artikelbeschreibung: New expanded edition includes house or chicken coop for 6-8 hens, complete with perches, nestbox, pop-hole, door and run.Also includes an easy to make Bantam House for 3-4 birds.

An easy to build house for 6-8 hens, which can also be scaled for a smaller or larger house. It can be simplified for use as a duck or goose house. Arranged on an A2 sized sheet, there is a detailed cutting list as well as timber, fixture, tools and fittings requirements. Ideal plan for DIY chicken coop.

Artikelname: Calf Rearing
Artikelbeschreibung: For specialist calf rearers and farmers rearing dairy replacements, this book offers practical guidance on proven modern practice as experienced in a variety of situations.

Topics covered include: · The four main housed rearing systems ? how they operate and how to choose between them. · General management of calves from birth to twelve weeks. · Basis of calf physiology and nutrition. · How to choose satisfactory designs for conversions or new housing. · Details of housing requirements for each system. · How best to ensure calf health.

Artikelname: Calving the Cow and Care of the Calf
Artikelbeschreibung: Essentially a veterinary surgeon, Eddie Straiton has always specialized in obstetrics. Appalled at the damage done by existing ?brute force? calving methods, he pioneered caesarean section in 1945 ? a technique now practised throughout the world. He followed this up with a study of natural bovine birth ? about which little or no information existed. The results of this study and the techniques evolved from it form the basis of this book.

Now in its fifth edition, Calving the Cow & Care of the Calf features a concise, clear text built around a large number of specially taken photographs.

Artikelname: Caring for Cows
Artikelbeschreibung: For the first time, a guide to cow keeping that places primary emphasis on the welfare of the cow traditionally one of the most exploited of agricultural animals - and on organic principles. There is no need, as the book shows, to put a strain on the cow's udder nor to cause anguish by separating cow and calf almost at birth in order to share the cow's generous milk. Sensible information is included on all aspects of care: feeding, housing, breeding, health, milking and of course dairy produce. Nor does the book evade the question of slaughter, but deals compassionately and practically with the subject.

Artikelname: Cattle Ailments
Artikelbeschreibung: Eddie Straiton is the world?s outstanding communicator of veterinary procedures and animal care. He earned the title ?TV Vet? from the long series of television programmes in which he brilliantly demonstrated animal husbandry to a wide audience.

Following on from television Eddie Straiton became a prolific author, and more than half a million copies of his books have been sold around the world in many languages. Now in its seventh edition, Cattle Ailments ? Recognition and Treatment features a concise, clear text built around a large number of specially taken colour photographs.

Comprehensive yet easily accessible, this is an invaluable handbook for anybody who keeps cattle.

Artikelname: Domestic Duck and Geese in Colour
Artikelbeschreibung: This is a colour guide to most breeds of domestic ducks and geese, also showing most colour variations in each breed, including call ducks and Indian runners. Over 122 photographs.

Artikelname: Domestic Geese
Artikelbeschreibung: This text explains how to look after domestic geese, from setting up with the first birds to breeding, rearing and showing. Topics covered include: breeds, their origin and characteristics; an overview of different enterprizes; management of adult stock and the breeding season.

Artikelname: Ducks and Geese at Home
Artikelbeschreibung: If you are wanting to keep a few ducks or geese, this is the book for you. There are chapters on the different breeds, marketing ducks and geese, breeding, different methods of keeping ducks and geese, hatching and rearing, general management, exhibition and diseases and ailments.

Artikelname: Ducks and Geese:Guide to Management
Artikelbeschreibung: Describing the techniques he employs in the management of his own collection of domestic waterfowl, Tom Bartlett shows how easy and enjoyable it can be to keep ducks and geese successfully. He covers the difficulties involved in breeding the perfect show specimen, and comments on the wide range of breeds he has kept.

Illustrated throughout with many pictures of his own birds and with sections on fencing and equipment, incubation and rearing, routine management, showing, handling, sexing and sickness, this is a thoroughly practical book for keepers of ducks and geese

Artikelname: Exhibition Poultry Keeping
Artikelbeschreibung: Exhibiting pure-bred chickens at officially organised shows is a hobby pursued by thousands of enthusiasts throughout the world.

Exhibition Poultry Keeping provides a detailed, informative and wide-ranging guide to the techniques needed to keep pure-bred poultry successfully.

· Considers housing, equipment, nutrition, the management of broody hens, incubation and chick-rearing · Discusses poultry genetics and breeding systems · Examines show-bird training and preparation as well as show-judging · Written by an acknowledged expert with many years of poultry-keeping experience · Contains over 120 photographs, some in full colour, as well as diagrams and drawings

Artikelname: Extraordinary Chickens
Artikelbeschreibung: An introduction to the world of exotic ornamental chickens. The book contains photographs of chickens of all shapes and sizes, including the Bearded Silkie, the crested Polish and the majestic Phoenix.

Artikelname: Free Range Poultry
Artikelbeschreibung: Very good source of information for beginners and the more experienced poultry keeper. If you require a reference book to keep handy then this is the only one you need buy.

Artikelname: Goat Farming
Artikelbeschreibung: This second edition of a book on goats reflects the increasing interest in these animals as a domestic breed. The book emphasizes the impressive perrformance of the goat - it has the ability to survive in areas of the world that will not support other livestock, and in such environments it will produce products of value to man. Breeds of goats have been developed to yield prodigious quantities of product. For example, on a body weight comparison, a good milking goat produces much more milk than a cow in a comparable environment and the Angora goat grows its fine mohair coat at an impressive rate. On performance alone, it is difficult to understand why the goat has not reached a position of importance in agricultural production before now. Even in the developing countries, where over 65% of the world's goats are to be found, they are rarely considered as desirable as cows. However, this situation is changing, as education in developing countries has shown that it is often best to improve indigenous species' breeds and systems rather than import exotic species or breeds from overseas. In the West the paradox of over-production has forced farmers to seek alternative enterprises, concentrating on products for which the demand is still greater than the supply. All of this adds up to an increased interest in the goat and the justification for writing this book.

Artikelname: Goat Husbandry
Artikelbeschreibung: First published in 1957, this book reflects the increased interest in goats and their agricultural potential. This edition brings the original text up-to-date, including new EC regulations and government Codes of Practice, the production of home-grown cashmere and mohair, as well as the new natural fibre, cashgora, obtained from cross-bred goats. Information on the formation of new societies for breeders and farmers of specialist breeds, the expansion of knowledge of nutritional needs of goats, and the increase in the number of large herds with the resulting availability of goat dairy produce in supermarkets is also included.

Artikelname: Goat Keeping Manual
Artikelbeschreibung: There are well over 200 identifiable breeds of goat in the world with some 13 in the UK as well as many cross-breeds. Distinctive cheese and yoghurt, prime lean meat and highly prized cashmere and mohair fibre are all products of this unique species. In this illustrated manual, the author provides essential information for successful goat keeping. In addition, Hilary Matthews has written a chapter on showing which should give the reader an insight into the world of the show ring. Subjects covered include: characteristics and breeds; breeding and reproduction; kid rearing; milk production and dairy work; goat fibre and production; health and disease; showing; and profitable goat keeping.

Artikelname: Goats of the World
Artikelbeschreibung: This is a valuable reference book for those with an interest in the goat. Describes over 500 breeds and types of goat worldwide.

The breed entries are arranged according to country of origin, and the range covers: dairy breeds of Europe and N America; specialised meat breeds from South Africa and the famous breeds in the Indian subcontinent. Other important types described are the mohair-producing Angora goat from Turkey, the cashmere goats of central Asia, the new breeds from Brazil and finally, the feral goats of America, Europe and Australasia.

Artikelname: Heavy Horses
Artikelbeschreibung: Heavy horses played a pivotal role in the development of western economies, toiling in mines and quarries, at mills, factories and docks, alongside canals and railways and on farms, but with the invention of the tractor and the motor lorry their numbers plummeted, particularly after the Second World War, and some breeds came close to extinction in the 1950s.

But interest revived in the 1970s and today Shires, Clydesdales, Suffolks and British Percherons attract special attention wherever they are seen, their strength, endurance and magnificence ensuring them a place in the modern world. Heavy horses still work in agriculture and forestry, albeit at the margins; they are still shown by enthusiastic breeders and owners at agricultural events throughout Britain; but their new role is chiefly in marketing, promotion and leisure. This book examines the various breeds of heavy horse and their qualities, their historical role, the industry that built up around them and their modern revival, bringing the story up to date and celebrating the work of those whose determination has ensured that heavy horses have a bright future.

Artikelname: Hens in the Garden, Eggs in the Kitchen
Artikelbeschreibung: This book is about keeping hens for pleasure in your garden, about their suitability as pets and the joy of having fresh free-range eggs. The author has kept bantams in her garden for many years and this book is based on personal experiences. The book includes chapters on housing, feeding, egg laying, hatching chicks plus information on breeds and common ailments. The second half of the book contains egg recipes with helpful ideas for surplus eggs and left over yolks or whites. Savoury and sweet recipes include tarts, souffles, mousses, cakes, Swiss rolls, Ice creams, roulades and meringues. The book is illustrated with black and white drawings and with an 8 page colour section.

Artikelname: Incubation at Home
Artikelbeschreibung: This guide to using small incubators in the home or classroom looks at the various types of incubators, the necessary preparation and the actual incubation. It covers the sexing and rearing of the chicks, and possible problems.

Artikelname: Incubation: A Guide to Hatching and Rearing
Artikelbeschreibung: This jargon-free guide to natural and artificial incubation is designed for the small-scale poultry keeper and the commercial breeder. It deals with the process of egg development and the conditions necessary for successful incubation, hatching and rearing, and covers a wide range of bird species, including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pheasants, quail and ostriches. It also includes details of incubators, storage of eggs, sexing and raising young birds, common problems, and a list of equipment suppliers.

Artikelname: Keeping Peafowl
Artikelbeschreibung: A good all round introduction to keeping Peafowl.

Artikelname: Keeping Pet Chickens
Artikelbeschreibung: You are what you eat! When it comes to eggs, what could be better than walking to the bottom of your garden and collecting them daily courtesy of your own chickens? Food doesn't come fresher than this, and the great news is that keeping two or three chickens is really easy. You don't need farmland or lots of special equipment; today's exciting generation of chicken houses means that anyone with a bit of space - a garden, terrace, or simple backyard - can keep chickens. And the added bonus is that chickens make great pets. Low-maintenance and easy-going, provided they are regularly fed and watered chickens virtually look after themselves. No need to take them for a walk, and they come with a lifetime's supply of free eggs. This brilliant new guide to chicken keeping shows just how simple it is to enjoy the pleasure of keeping poultry.

Artikelname: Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock
Artikelbeschreibung: Straightforward text and plenty of clear, detailed illustrations offer advice on everything from choosing the best birds for your needs to suggestions for building a well-ventilated, windowed coop. The book also contains Rossier's field-tested tips on: hatching eggs; raising contented chicks; keeping your birds healthy; homemade versus commercial grain; involving your whole family in this pastime

Artikelname: Modern Free Range
Artikelbeschreibung: A practical guide for the small farmer on free range egg production and sales. There are chapters on integration with other farming interests, costs of 100 bird units, marketing and regulations, types of housing, fencing, feeding, lighting, general management, diseases and ailments.

Artikelname: Natural Poultry Keeping: Free Range and Other Systems
Artikelbeschreibung: Joseph Batty has been writing books on poultry for many years and is well respected within the industry for his informative guides. This book offers advice on keeping poultry using the free range system

Artikelname: Old and Rare Breeds of Cattle
Artikelbeschreibung: A Concise volume giving coverage of the old and rare breeds of cattle with B&W and Colour photos.

Artikelname: Old Poultry Breeds
Artikelbeschreibung: During the 1960s many of the old breeds of poultry almost died out, but there is now a growing interest in these animals. This book illustrates many breeds of chicken, their history and development. There is also a chapter on turkeys.

Artikelname: Organic Poultry
Artikelbeschreibung: This book is for those who wish to keep poultry for the sale of eggs or table birds, or who want to manage a domestic flock in the best way. It aims to clarify a situation where there is confusion about organic standards, as well as to indicate where further help is available. It covers chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowl, with details of what is required in their practical management.

Contents Include:

What is organic?

Land conversion

Pasture

Housing

Feeding

Layers

Table chickens

Ducks

Geese

Turkeys

Guinea fowl

Health

Flock replacement

The organic enterprise

Artikelname: Peacocks: Past and Present
Artikelbeschreibung: This book is written for people who want to know more about peafowl and contains lots of information on peacocks. It includes sections on management and breeding, raising peacocks, on peafowl in the wild, their place in history and their connection with Indian mythology.

Artikelname: Pigeons, Doves and Dovecotes
Artikelbeschreibung: A new book on keeping pigeons in polecotes, wallcotes and aviaries with chapters on beginner's breeds, types of housing, pigeons and gardens, how to set up a breeding colony, breeding and management, pigeon predators and diseases and ailments. There are chapters on the origin of the domestic pigeon and the history of dovecotes, especially from Egypt, together with many colour photographs and illustrations.

Artikelname: Pot-Bellied Pigs as Your New Family Pet
Artikelbeschreibung: Pot-bellied pigs are taking the pet world by storm. Intelligent, friendly, and clean these petite porkers can be great pets---if you know how to care for them properly. Pot-bellied Pigs as Your Family Pet provides all the basics that you need to know to have a healthy, happy piggy. From selecting the right pig to housing, from feeding to breeding, this book covers all aspects of pot-bellied pig care. Written in a clear and concise manner and illustrated throughout, this book provides pot-bellied pig owners with all the information they need and want for their porcine companions.

Artikelname: Poultry and Waterfowl Problems
Artikelbeschreibung: This is a poultry keeper's and veterinary guide to diseases and complaints of hens, geese, ducks and turkeys. It gives the causes and possible cures of most of the ailments common to these birds.

Artikelname: Poultry for Anyone
Artikelbeschreibung: Victoria Roberts began her interest in poultry at the age of four, and has served for many years on the Poultry Club of Great Britain council. With this book, she d escribes the history and characteristics of forty-five poultry breeds.

Artikelname: Practical Poultry Keeping
Artikelbeschreibung: This detailed guide to poultry keeping is designed to enable anyone to keep poultry for profit. It includes: poultry breeds and uses, poultry housing and equipment; breeding and sexing birds; common problems with eggs; natural and artificial incubation and rearing; nutrition and diet; rearing birds for the table; effective planning, management and marketing; and recognizing and preventing common diseases.

Artikelname: Practical Sheep Keeping
Artikelbeschreibung: An explanation of everything you need to know to manage sheep and keep them healthy. From choosing and buying, housing, feeding and routine management, to breeding and lambing, Kim Cardell offers advice based on her experience. Topics covered include: where to begin; fencing, shelter and housing; moving, handling and transport; breeding and genetics; nutrition; grassland and crops; wool and shearing; keeping the flock healthy; lambing and lamb rearing; and marketing and business.

Artikelname: Quail Past and Present
Artikelbeschreibung: This book is all about Coturuix quail, with fascinating chapters on their history and domestication. There is detailed information about keeping quail not only for a hobby but also commercially, with 30 colour photographs including most of the colour variations in Coturuix quail and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations.

Artikelname: Raising a Calf for Beef
Artikelbeschreibung: Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of raising beef, and provides practical advice on selecting, feeding, caring for, and butchering cattle.

Artikelname: Small-scale Livestock Farming
Artikelbeschreibung: This book offers an alternative to systems in which livestock are caged and confined. This method is healthier for the animals, more sustainable for the land, and more profitable for the farmer than conventional methods.

Artikelname: Starting with Bantams
Artikelbeschreibung: This excellent book is written by an experienced bantam and large fowl poultry breeder and show judge. Covering soft feather bantams, hard-feather bantams, true bantams and rare breed bantams, it is an ideal introduction to a keeping bantams.

Artikelname: Starting with Ducks
Artikelbeschreibung: A very good introductory volume for "home farmers" wanting to start keeping ducks for eggs and meat.

Artikelname: Starting with Pigs: A Beginners Guide
Artikelbeschreibung: Written for the novice, small-scale pig keeper, this guide gives clear instructions on the care and management of outdoor pigs, especially rare and traditional breeds.

Artikelname: Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats
Artikelbeschreibung: Presents tips on choosing breeds, feeding, housing, milking, dairying, breeding, and health care for milk-producing goats.

Artikelname: Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs
Artikelbeschreibung: A good detailed introduction to keeping pigs on a small scale or more intensively.

Artikelname: The Best of Breeds: A History of Welsh Black Cattle
Artikelbeschreibung: Within their native country, Welsh Black cattle are renowned and held in the highest esteem. But outside Wales the questions frequently asked are ‘Where do they come from? How long have they lived in Wales? and Who was responsible for their initial breeding? Many take answers like ‘For as long as anyone can imagine’ and ‘From the hills, valleys and lowlands’ for granted. However the author of this book feels that this breed deserves a better explanation as their story is a unique one. Welsh Blacks is one of the oldest species of domesticated livestock to be continuously bred, not only in Wales, but the whole of the British mainland. Over time Welsh Blacks have spread from the hills and valleys of Wales into England and Scotland and also further afield to Canada, America, Europe, Africa and Australia, to name a few. Jenny Buckton’s informative and detailed book looks at the history and evolution of the breed and culminates with the history of the Welsh Society, its members and some of the outstanding show winners. This journey encompasses over seven thousand years and we will discover the roles played by both man and beast, their customs, habitat and environment in order to unravel the history of the magnificent Welsh Blacks. The book includes full-colour photographs of stock, behind the scenes at events, faces of great characters and breeders complement this unique book.

Artikelname: The Complete Book of Raising Livestock and Poultry
Artikelbeschreibung: Backyard farmers interested in having a readily available source of eggs and meat are provided with nontechnical information on housing, feeding, raising and butchering chickens

Artikelname: The Domestic Duck
Artikelbeschreibung: One wild species is responsible for nearly all the breeds of domestic duck: the Mallard. Over centuries it has been developed into egg-laying strains, table birds and pets. In this book, the authors explain how these breeds have been developed and how to look after them.

Artikelname: The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
Artikelbeschreibung: This volume features information on the history, characteristics, qualities and traits of 138 endangered livestock breeds and 53 poultry breeds. It covers where these breeds may be seen today and the degree of rarity of each breed in the USA, UK and Canada.

Artikelname: The English Pig: A History
Artikelbeschreibung: Pigs were an important and integral part of English village life, both visible and essential. Living in close proximity to their owners and fed on scraps, they were the subject of perennial interest. While the words associated with the pig, such as "hoggish", "swine" and "pigsty", and phrases like "greedy as a pig" associate the pig with greed and dirt, this book shows the pig's virtues, intelligence and distinctive character. The pig also has its place in literature from Fielding's pig-keeping Parson Trulliber to Hardy's "Jude the Obscure and Flora Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford".

Artikelname: The Secret Life of Cows
Artikelbeschreibung: This is an Incredible, rich, fascinating, thought-provoking book that challenges preconceptions of farm animals as well as current farming strategies. Now published as a paperback with additional material provided by Joyce D'Silva, Chief Executive of 'Compassion in World Farming.' 'The Secret Life of Cows' clearly demonstrates that cows can love, play games, bond and form strong life long friendships. They can sulk, hold grudges, have preferences and can be vain. On Kite's Nest Farm the cows, sheep, hens and pigs all roam free. There is no forced weaning and no separation of young from siblings or mother. They seek and are given help when they request it and supplement their own diets by browsing and nibbling leaves, shoots, flowers and herbs. Rosamund Young provides a fascinating insight into a secret world - secret because many modern farming practices leave no room for displays of natural behaviour. 'The Secret Life of Cows' is not only a study of family and herd relationships, communication, grieving and playing but makes for a highly readable and poignant study littered with anecdotes that will make the reader laugh, wonder and reflect. Certainly it will make you look at the domestic cow in a different light.

Artikelname: The Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers
Artikelbeschreibung: This is a manual on sheep diseases which offers to increase productivity and profitability by improving the standard of husbandry and upgrading the health status of the flock. Quick reference pages offer action checklists at key points in the shepherd's year.

Artikelname: Turkeys at Home
Artikelbeschreibung: This guide to rearing and keeping turkeys gives a short history of the bird and discusses its characteristics and behaviour. It discusses the various breeds and varieties and their nutrition, breeding, housing, hatching and rearing. The legal aspect is covered, and there are useful addresses.

Artikelname: Wildfowl at Home
Artikelbeschreibung: This beginners' guide to keeping and breeding ornamental wildfowl looks at the choice of bird, and its pond, housing and fencing. It covers the daily management, nesting, incubation and hatching, and diseases and ailments. There are useful addresses and a guide to legislation.