Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock

Whether you are raising miniature livestock for meat, milk, or fiber, or keeping them as show animals or pets, you need essential, expert instruction and advice. Storey’s Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock, by Sue Weaver,is the go-to-guide that takes the mystery out of minis. Breeding, feeding, housing, nutrition, and exercise, as well as disease prevention and treatment — this comprehensive guide has everything that new and experienced farmers need to keep minis healthy and productive.

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Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock

Whether you are raising miniature livestock for meat, milk, or fiber, or keeping them as show animals or pets, you need essential, expert instruction and advice. Storey’s Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock, by Sue Weaver,is the go-to-guide that takes the mystery out of minis. Breeding, feeding, housing, nutrition, and exercise, as well as disease prevention and treatment — this comprehensive guide has everything that new and experienced farmers need to keep minis healthy and productive.

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Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock

Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock

by Sue Weaver
Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock

Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock

by Sue Weaver

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Overview

Whether you are raising miniature livestock for meat, milk, or fiber, or keeping them as show animals or pets, you need essential, expert instruction and advice. Storey’s Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock, by Sue Weaver,is the go-to-guide that takes the mystery out of minis. Breeding, feeding, housing, nutrition, and exercise, as well as disease prevention and treatment — this comprehensive guide has everything that new and experienced farmers need to keep minis healthy and productive.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603424813
Publisher: Storey Books
Publication date: 01/06/2010
Pages: 453
Sales rank: 216,180
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Sue Weaver has written hundreds of magazine articles and many books about livestock, horses, and chickens, including The Backyard Cow, The Backyard Goat, The Backyard Sheep, Storey and The Donkey Companion. Weaver and her husband share their ridgetop farmette in the southern Ozarks with an array of animal friends.

Table of Contents

Why Raise Miniature Livestock?

Section 1: Raising Miniature Livestock

1 Before You Begin

2 Which Species?

3 Getting Started: Education, Vets, and Where to Buy

4 Selecting Miniature Livestock

5 Livestock Guardians

6 Facilities and Fences

7 Feeding

8 Health

9 Identification

10 Transportation

11 Breeding

12 Got Milk?

13 The Business End

Section 2: The Species

14 Miniature Cattle

15 Miniature Equines

16 Miniature Goats

17 Miniature Llamas

18 Miniature Pigs

19 Miniature Sheep

Appendix: Emergency Euthanasia

Resources

Glossary

Index

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