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Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive

By: Tanya Phillips

Price: $34.95

Publisher: USA, Alpha: 2017

Seller ID: A1315

ISBN: 1465454535

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Beginning Beekeeping is a simple, straightforward approach that gives you the basics to get started with beekeeping, while following a balanced, objective approach that weighs the pros and cons of conventional and organic methodologies. Featuring more than 120 beautiful color photos, this guide will help you will learn how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant hive colonies, as well as to incorporate the various techniques and practices for keeping bees using conventional as well as more natural practices. In addition, you will learn how to troubleshoot and treat potential hive issues such a...
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Humane Livestock Handling : Understanding Livestock Behaviour and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals

By: Temple Grandin

Price: $39.95

Publisher: USA, Storey Publishing: 2008

Seller ID: 9781603420280

ISBN: 1603420282

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Temple Grandin, one of the most influential advocate of humane livestock treatment, has spent her life developing stress-free facility designs and standards of humane management. In an environment of growing concern regarding large factory farming practices, Grandin is a voice of reason explaining the benefits of keeping animals calm through every phase of their lives - benefits that include safer working conditions, higher yields of marketable meat, better-quality meat, and, of course, more humane conditions for the animals.The first half of "Humane Livestock Handling" reviews the natural beh...
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Temple Grandin's Guide to Working With Farm Animals : Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm

By: Temple Grandin

Price: $29.95

Publisher: USA, Storey Publishing: 2017

Seller ID: 9781612127446

ISBN: 1612127444

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Knowing how to safely and effectively lead, restrain, and otherwise handle livestock in the field and in farm facilities is critical to being a successful livestock farmer. Renowned animal behaviorist and best-selling author Temple Grandin's guide to livestock handling for small farmers includes her own unique understanding of what motivates the behaviors of cows, pigs, goats, and sheep. She explains herd dynamics, pecking order, and what species are compatible with others in the field. She also explains the distinctive fears, instincts, and memories of each species and then applies this under...
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The Australian Native Bee Book : keeping stingless bee hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey - Updated 2018 Edition

By: Tim Heard

Price: ~~$34.95~~ $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Sugarbag Bees: 2016

Seller ID: 9780646939971

ISBN: 0646939971

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Winner of Australian Book Industry Association (ABIA) 2017 award for Small Publishersâ€™ Adult Book of the Year. The Australian Native Bee Book by Tim Heard. This complete guide to native stingless bees is written by Australia's foremost expert. Keeping native stingless bees is a hot topic in Australia for commercial, environmental and recreational reasons. This comprehensive guide covers bee biology, behaviour, nesting, social life and foraging; how to build a native bee hive; how to transfer a bee colony to a hive box and propagate hives; all about sugarbag honey, including how to extra...
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Building Chicken Coops For Dummies

By: Todd Brock and David Zook and Robert T. Ludlow

Price: $30.95

Publisher: UK, For Dummies: 2010

Seller ID: 9780470598962

ISBN: 0470598964

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

As the popularity of urban homesteading and sustainable living increases, it s no wonder you re in need of trusted, practical guidance on how to properly house the chickens you re planning (or have already begun) to keep. Building Chicken Coops For Dummies gives you the information you need to build the most cost-efficient, safe, and easy-on-the-eye enclosures for your backyard flock. This practical guide gives you easy-to-follow and customizable plans for building the backyard chicken coop that works best for you. You ll get the basic construction know-how and key information you need to desi...
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Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment

By: Tony Pisano

Price: $29.95

Publisher: USA, Storey Publishing: 2013

Seller ID: 001536

ISBN: 1612120598

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Beekeepers keep bees for three reasons: bees are pollinators and their presence increases a garden's productivity; there is a fascination with how they live, collect food and colonise; and they produce honey. Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment offers 35 building projects for everything from hive components to frames to swarm catchers, all illustrated with step-by-step instructions. Many require only simple hand tools and can be made using recycled materials at a fraction of the price charged in stores. Beekeeping continues to gain popularity among not only rural people living self sufficientl...
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Raise Happy Chickens : How to raise healthy chickens and other poultry in your outdoor space

By: Victoria Roberts

Price: $29.95

Publisher: UK, Teach Yourself: 2018

Seller ID: 9781473679481

ISBN: 1473679486

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Is this the right book for me? RAISE HAPPY CHICKENS is a quickly accessible but authoritative guide, suitable for total beginners, that provides all the information you need to start keeping your own chickens. Telling you which breed of bird lays best and providing useful guidance on housing, equipment and the necessities of day-to-day care, it meets all the needs of anyone who dreams of a garden full of happy, clucking birds. It also goes beyond just chickens to other types of poultry, and gives advice and practical guidelines on housing, with full explanation of key areas like welfare, behav...
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Category: Agriculture & Farming

Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive

Humane Livestock Handling : Understanding Livestock Behaviour and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals

Temple Grandin's Guide to Working With Farm Animals : Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm

The Australian Native Bee Book : keeping stingless bee hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey - Updated 2018 Edition

Building Chicken Coops For Dummies

Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment

Raise Happy Chickens : How to raise healthy chickens and other poultry in your outdoor space