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Do you have a small backyard space that is brimming with potential? Have you always wanted to grow your own food and save up money in the process? Are you looking to take a simpler, more self-sufficient path in life? You’re in luck! If you’re looking to create a highly productive, sustainable space that provides homegrown fruits, vegetables, honey, eggs, milk, and meat...then Sustainable Backyard Homesteading for Beginners by D.G. Smith is for you!

The main secret of the success of skilled beekeepers is having the proper book of knowledge. It is the knowledge that helps to create large apiaries, get good yields of bee products, and increase profits. Ignorance only spoils and destroys everything.

Keeping hens is easy. This friendly, chatty book gives you all the everyday information you need to keep your hens happy and safe. It covers all the questions you might have: How many hens to keep? What to feed them? What about a cockerel? Will they get on with the dog or destroy the vegetable patch?

Friedrich Mülln gründete 2012 die Organisation "SOKO Tierschutz" und ist das Gesicht der deutschen Tierschutz-Aktivisten. Es gibt kaum einen Skandal, der nicht von ihm aufgedeckt wurde. Jetzt berichtet er erstmals von seinen Undercover-Recherchen mit versteckter Kamera, Whistleblowern und modernster Technik. Er erzählt von seinen nächtlichen Einsätzen bei Mastanlagen und Großschlachtereien.

Have you ever wanted to know how to raise chickens on your own? Are you curious as to how to keep a flock of backyard chickens? I wrote my audiobook, How to Raise Chickens in Your Own Backyard, all about chicken care and raising backyard poultry for healthy meat and eggs to provide for your family. I believe in the philosophy of natural chicken keeping.

When starting a backyard chicken coop, one of the first decisions you'll have to make is which breed of chicken you will raise. Each breed has specific characteristics and can be used for different purposes. In general, though, chicken breeds break down into three groups: egg layers, meat chickens, and dual-purpose chickens.

Do you want to raise healthy and happy chickens that give you the best, organic, free-range eggs? Are you done supporting factory farming, barren battery cages, and chicken abuse? Do you want to protect your family from consuming antibiotics and other hormones in their food? Here’s a little secret for you: The goal is easy to accomplish. In fact, chickens are some of the best animals for beginners because they’re low maintenance, friendly, and quite resilient.

Willst Du etwas, über die Abstammung von Schafen lernen? Denkst Du darüber nach, Deine eigenen Schafe zu halten? Willst Du erfahren, wie Schafe artgerecht gehalten werden? Lerne in diesem hilfreichen Ratgeber: Woher Hausschafe überhaupt herkommen, welche Mythen, Sagen und Sprichwörter über Schafe existieren, was es Anatomisches beim Schaf zu beachten gilt, welche typischen Verhaltensweisen ein Schaf aufweist, welche gesetzlichen Grundlagen bei der Schafhaltung wichtig sind, pro’s und Con‘s, wenn es um die Haltung von Schafen geht und vieles, vieles mehr!

How to harvest delicious honey in your backyard to give your flowers the boost they need? "Bees," says your friend, casually. The bee colonies they started a couple of years ago have ensured fully pollinated plants and great harvests. Aside from the benefits of a better garden and outdoor activity, it helps the ecology and food supply. If you want to level up your garden and do something epic this year, buy Beekeeping for Beginners today.

Fresh eggs, tasty meat, and the joy of watching life develop in your own backyard...Why wouldn't you keep chickens? Raising chickens comes with surprising benefits for the whole family, from encouraging healthier living, to entertaining the kids, to fertilizing the garden. What’s more, it’s refreshingly easy to do, and once you know the ins and outs, chickens are surprisingly low maintenance. In Raising Chickens in Your Backyard, you’ll find everything you need to know about raising chickens broken down into easy-to-understand steps.

Have you often pondered on what it would be like to have chickens in your backyard, fantasizing about the endless supply of eggs you would have available for your family whenever in need? Do you know of people who raise backyard chickens and admire their work, yet wonder if it’s something you would be able to do just as well as them? Did you use to live or work on a farm and miss the constant contact with animals, but don’t know how to implement this into your daily routine?

How to raise strong and healthy farm animals: three books in one: How to Raise Strong & Healthy Ducks, How to Raise Strong & Healthy Pigs, and How to Raise Strong & Healthy Chickens.

Keeping Chickens for Beginners is for anyone wanting to keep his or her own chickens, whether for eggs, meat, or exhibiting. Keeping chickens can seem very overwhelming at first, and this audiobook provides a clear step-by-step guide walking you through everything from selecting the right breed for your needs to looking after your chickens to breeding them. Everything you need to know to successfully keep chickens and enjoy fresh eggs or meat is in this detailed audiobook.

With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals as food, Fitzgerald provides a holistic picture and explicates the connections in the supply chain that are obscured in the current mode of food production. Bridging the distance in animal agriculture between production, processing, consumption, and their associated impacts, this analysis envisions ways of redressing the negative effects of the use of animals as food.

A first-hand account of how Chris DeRose investigated, and finally busted, some of the most heartless and corrupt federally licensed pet-theft rings in the nation. Facts about our federal and local governments' involvement in the multi-million dollar pet-theft industry. Frontline intelligence to what actually occurs in animal laboratories.

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill

This audiobook will show you how to raise strong and healthy chickens.

The connection between people and companion animals has received considerable attention from scholars. In her original and provocative ethnography Livestock/Deadstock, sociologist Rhoda Wilkie asks, how do the men and women who work on farms, in livestock auction markets, and slaughterhouses, interact with - or disengage from - the animals they encounter in their jobs?

For more than 140 years, the Hash Knife brand has intrigued Western history lovers. From its rough-and-ready-sounding name to its travels throughout Texas, Montana, and Arizona, the Hash Knife sports a romance like few others in the cattle industry. Several outfits have been proud to call the brand their own, and the stories behind the men who worked for these companies are the epitome of Western lore and truth combined.

The Alpaca Breeding Book is an essential tool for the new alpaca breeder. Have success raising alpacas and learn how to get alpacas pregnant easily with proven techniques.Find out why alpacas breed differently than other livestock and why their behavior plays an important role in breeding successfully. Discover different breeding methods and great tips on how to improve your herd. The Alpaca Breeding Book will help you have a better understanding about all aspects of breeding alpacas.