The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale (Paperback)

Suzie Baldwin (author)

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Paperback 224 Pages / Published: 28/05/2015

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Synopsis

The Smallholder's Handbook is a detailed manual to start, plan and manage your own smallholding. Suzie explains the level of work involved, how much space you need and how to prepare your land. There are chapters on keeping poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese), as well as pigs, goats and sheep, cows and bees. She also explains why having a variety of animals makes the best use of your resources and how many of each type to keep. Comprehensive advice includes choosing breeds, transporting, feeding, housing, daily care and wellbeing, as well as international legislation that applies to livestock.

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780857832726
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 800 g
Dimensions: 238 x 208 x 20 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

You don't need acres of space to keep enough livestock to live the good life [...] Suzie Baldwin's new book The Smallholder's Handbook tells you all you need to know to get started.' -- Bunny Guiness * The Sunday Telegraph *
A practical introduction to people interested in setting up a smallholding.[...] Based on her personal experience and interlaced with anecdotes and tips, she has produced a helpful and extremely easy-to-read guide on keeping chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, geese, cows, pigs, sheep and goats, and covers aspects such as choosing a breed, housing, feeding, health and specific issues relating to the poultry and livestock' * NFU Countryside *
Start, plan and manage your own smallholding with the very useful The Smallholder's Handbook, Suzie Baldwin's manual to keeping poultry, pigs, sheep and bees. * Country Living *