Laura Childs

Jennifer Megyesi

Jessie Shiers

Audrey Levatino

Kate Rowinski

Michael Levatino

Imagine putting together a big breakfast using eggs straight from your own chickens and bacon from the pig. This is an ideal that many dream of but few ever get to experience. Now, with The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals, that dream can become a reality, and so much more. In The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals, you will learn how to take care of chickens, pigs, sheep, cows, and other livestock. Each chapter is dedicated to a different animal, and you will learn not only how to take care of them but also what sorts of things you can get from them. If you want to save money, become more self-sufficient, and enjoy healthier, locally sourced food, The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals is the book you need.

A Complete Guide to Raising Chickens, Pigs, Cows, and More

The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals

Michael Levantino

Audrey Levantino

Save money, eat better, and enjoy self-sufficiency with this informative, fully illustrated guide to raising and maintaining livestock. Many people have dreamed of enjoying fresh eggs from their own chickens and meat from animals they raised themselves. Yet the realities of keeping livestock can seem overwhelming. The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals covers everything a first-time animal farmer needs to get started—from general farm safety to essential information on shelters, veterinary care, and more. A handy go-to reference filled with helpful and inspiring photographs, this guide includes chapters on chickens, pigs, goats, birds, donkeys, cattle, horses, llamas, and alpacas.

Steven D. Price

The Lyons Press Horseman's Dictionary is a one-stop comprehensive reference book that defines and illustrates more than 2,000 words and phrases encountered throughout the horse world, including recent additions such as PMU foal, rollkur, and hooking on. This book not only defines and explains the essential terms, but it also offers valuable tips on their correct usage. For example, in the wide and perplexing range of bits, The Horseman's Dictionary tells how each bit works on the horse and the conditions under which it is appropriately used. Among other subjects are familiar and exotic equine breeds, competitive disciplines and activities, tack and apparel, anatomy and health, and training techniques and equipment. All aspects of English and Western riding and driving are covered in easy-to-understand language. Here is an important resource both for novices who want an explanation of unfamiliar terms and for experienced horsemen who are exploring new areas of equestrian sport.

Full Explanations of More Than 2,000 Terms and Phrases Used by Horsemen

The Lyons Press Horseman's Dictionary

Jessie Shiers

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