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The Fleece and Fiber Source Book
By Deborah Robson and Carol Ekarius. This one-of-a-kind photographic encyclopedia features more than 200 animals and the fibers they produce. It covers almost every sheep breed in the world — from the longwool breeds of the United Kingdom to the Tasmanian merino, the Navajo churro, the northern European Faroese, and dozens and dozens more. It also includes goats, camelids (such as alpacas, llamas, and vicunas), bison, horses, musk oxen, rabbits, and even dogs. Each entry includes photographs of the featured animal; samples of its raw fleece, its cleaned fleece, and yarn spun from the fleece; and samples of the yarn knit and woven. You’ll find everything you want to know about each animal and its fiber, including the fiber’s color, density, strength, and staple length, and recommendations for processing and using it. This is the essential reference no fiber-lover can be without. Hard cover, 438 pages, photographs and illustrations. 		$35.00
Storey's Illustrated Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Pigs
By Carol Ekarius. This full-color reference covers 163 breeds of cattle, goats, sheep, and swine including all of the breeds on the ALBC Conservation Priority List as well as common North American livestock breeds. A brief history and details about the animals’ unique qualities and quirks are given for each breed. Comprehensive, colorful, and captivating, this in-depth guide is informative enough to aid farmers in breed selection, but beautiful enough for fanciers to browse as a coffee-table book. Soft cover, 303 pages, illustrated. 		$24.95
NEW OFFERING - Barnyard in Your Backyard
By Gail Damerow. When is the right time to shear a sheep? Is there a market for manure? What time of day is best to collect eggs? What is the correct way to milk a goat? What does a duck eat? Can a cow and a sheep share the same pasture? The perfect book for anyone who has ever dreamed of having that little place in the country, Barnyard in Your Backyard offers tried-and-true, expert advice on raising healthy, happy, productive farm animals: chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, goats, sheep, and cattle. Each chapter focuses on a different animal, discussing the pros and cons of raising the animal, housing and land requirements, feeding guidelines, health concerns, and a schedule for routine care. Soft cover, 408 pages, black and white, illustrated. 		$24.95
NEW OFFERING - The Backyard Goat: An Introductor Guide to Keeping Productive Pet Goats
By Sue Weaver. Goats aren't just for farmers anymore. More and more people are keeping goats as pets. They're also raising them for milk and fiber and keeping them as driving goats, pack goats, and companion animals. With minimal space and housing needs, goats are a practical choice for people with small backyards who want to explore the beneftits and pelasures of keeping livestock. This is the perfect resource for anyone looking to raise a goat or two for milk, fiber, or pleasure, this book covers all the essentials of goat ownership. Soft cover, 215 pages, illustrations and photographs. Black and white with some color photographs. 		$16.95
Storey Guide to Raising Dairy Goats (New Edition)
By Jerry Belanger & Sara Thomson Bredesen. With minimal space and housing needs, dairy goats are a practical choice for the small or backyard dairy farmer. Dairy goats require a smaller investment than cows and produce easily digested milk that is much in demand for making yogurt, cheese, and other dairy products. New and expanded features: * More information on pygmy goats * Updated information on desease diagnosis and treatment * More information on breeeding, milking, dairying, and cheesemaking. Soft cover, 296 pages. 		$19.95
Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats
By Maggie Sayer. Offers valuable information on every aspect of acquiring, caring for, managing, and marketing meat goats, including: selection, behavior, nutrition, disease prevention, health care, transportation, handling, breeding, showing, and competition. Soft cover, 337 pages, illustrated. 		$18.95
Storey's Barn Guide to Sheep Storey’s Barn Guide to Sheep
Designed to accompany the farmer into the barn, this book provides clear, step-by-step help, visible from several feet away. Oversized heavy-duty pages illustrate dozens of procedures with simple, straightforward illustrations. A hole on each page allows the farmer to hang it on the wall and still be able to reference it throughout every procedure. Graphic presentations guide farmers through trimming hooves, administering injections, assisting with lambing, bottle-feeding, milking, and every other situation that might arise during the normal course of a sheep’s life. Also features full color anatomical illustrations, a lambing calendar, a feeding chart and a helpful record-keeping section.
Paper with concealed wire-o binding, 96 pages, 12 x 9, illustrated. 		 $29.95
Grass Fed Cattle Grass-Fed Cattle
By Julius Ruechel. As more consumers discover the benefits of grass-fed beef – sustainability, good taste, antibiotic-free – demand continues to grow. For any farmer interested in entering this profitable specialty area, here is the first complete manual on raising, caring for, and marketing grass-fed cattle. Author Julius Ruechel includes advice on herd selection, breeding, pasture management, fencing, winter grazing, diseases, equipment, slaughter, labeling, marketing, and financial planning. Soft cover, 384 pages, 8 1/2 x 10 7/8, illustrated. 		 $24.95
Basic Butchering Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
By John J. Mettler, Jr., DVM. This book is for anyone who hunts, farms, or buys large quantities of meat. The author takes the mystery out of slaughtering and butchering by providing clear instructions including information on meat inspection, and processing and preserving. Also included are tried and true recipes, a glossary of terms, and a table of weights and measures.
Soft cover, 208 pages, 6 X 9, illustrated.		 $16.95
Oxen: A Teamster's Guide  
by Drew Conroy. For anyone involved or interested in training and working oxen, this book offers guidelines for selecting a team, fitting a yoke,bows, training techniques, care of oxen, and using oxen for farming, logging, competition, and public events. Conroy's enthusiasm for oxen is irresistable. Soft cover, illus., 354 p.		 $25.00
May Safely Graze: Protecting Livestock Against Predators  
By Eugene L. Fytche. The information in this book is gathered and presented for a North American context. The text includes useful background on defining and assessing predator risk followed by protection application sections on enclosures; mobile protectors such as guard dogs, llamas, donkeys, and cattle; external protection based on predator-reduction techniques; and management to avoid predation.  Soft cover, illus., 103 p.		  $12.95

Keeping Livestock Healthy
By N. Bruce Haynes, DVM is a Comprehensive Veterinary Guide to Preventing and Identifying Disease in Horses, Cattle, Swine, Goats & Sheep, including the Most Up-to-date Information on Nutrition, Housing, Reproduction and Restraint (4th Edition). This is a completely revised and updated fourth edition and draws on the very latest research from prominent scholars and experts. Learn how to prevent disease in each of the five animals covered — horses, cattle, pigs, goats, and sheep — through good nutrition, proper housing, and appropriate care. Soft cover, 329 pages, 6 X 9, illustrated

$19.95

Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs
By Kelly Klober.  The complete guide to successful small-scale pig raising. Offers valuable information on selection, breeding, feeding, and health, butchering, pork processing, and showing. Soft cover, 313 pages, illustrated.		 $18.95