Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781733686624
- 1733686622
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiv, 402 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes index (pages 400-402).
Contents:
- Livestock stewardship
- The animal why
- Biggest pitfalls
- Strategic considerations
- Efficiency
- Layout : Polyface photo gallery
- Water
- Sanitation
- Fertility
- Developing pastures
- Converting woods to pasture
- Management intensive grazing
- Fencing
- Grazing development
- Irrigation
- Laying hens
- Broilers
- Pigs
- Sickness
- Sorting and herding
- Alternative feeds
- Goats and sheep
- Milk cow
- Rabbits
- Urban possibilities
- Regulations and marketing.
Control Number: 3195443
Publisher: Swoope, Virginia : Polyface, Inc., 2021.Subjects:
- Agricultural ecology.
- Animal culture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Family farms -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Farm management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Farms, Small -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Farms, Small -- Management.
- Livestock -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Organic farming.
- Self-reliant living -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Urban homesteading -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre: Handbooks and manuals.
Other Authors: Rhodes, Justin, 1978- writer of foreword.