--- product_id: 103592315 title: "The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh ... Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees" price: "$22.56" currency: USD in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/103592315-the-backyard-homestead-guide-to-raising-farm-animals-choose-best store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh ... Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees **Price:** $22.56 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh ... Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees - **How much does it cost?** $22.56 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/103592315-the-backyard-homestead-guide-to-raising-farm-animals-choose-best) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey—or a holiday meal—from your own farm animals, with the help of this homesteading guide. Gail Damerow covers everything you need to successfully raise your own farm animals. Even with just a small plot of land, you can become more self-sufficient, save money, and enjoy healthy, delicious animal products. Also available in this series: The Backyard Homestead, The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects, The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How, and The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food. Review: excellent overview - This book is bigger and much longer than I was expecting. It goes animal by animal, with a few lumped together when it makes sense, and goes over all the basic things you would need or want to know before starting out with that animal. It’s not something that I would use as a reference book or even as a guide once an animal has been acquired but it’s invaluable as a source of information on each animal. It has given me the information I need to make informed decisions as to which animals will be right for our family farm and which might be too much work or wouldn’t thrive on our land. Each section details different breeds, how to acquire them, what to look for in a good animal, what to watch out for in selecting animals, what they eat, how to house them, common diseases and health conditions with their treatments, what types of land they do well and as well as climate considerations per breed, and output as far as power/meat/eggs/milk and other uses like goats used for clearing weeds. It’s very through yet is not written like a textbook. It’s written in an easy to read format where there are blurbs of information separates by pictures and boxes of other info to make the reading anything but monotonous. Review: Love this book! Great for beginners! (and for maybe those more advanced too!) - I am loving this book. Each section is very organized and clear to read. The book gives lots of detail but is still easy for a beginner to read. I feel like after reading some of the sections I could just start now without even picking up another book. I think it would also be helpful for someone who already has a base knowledge of some farm animals but would like to freshen their knowledge or have everything in a concise location. Anyway, it is absolutely perfect for a beginner and I have really enjoyed reading it. It is not filled with a lot of technical information that would perhaps make it a boring read, but instead stays lively and interesting. The author even adds in a little humor at times. I have since bought other books by this author, but have yet to read them. I am trying to think of a con, but I really can't! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #582,904 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #43 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) #57 in Animal Husbandry (Books) #72 in Animal Husbandry (Kindle Store) | ## Images ![The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh ... Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A18f4oExM2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ excellent overview *by L***Z on August 18, 2019* This book is bigger and much longer than I was expecting. It goes animal by animal, with a few lumped together when it makes sense, and goes over all the basic things you would need or want to know before starting out with that animal. It’s not something that I would use as a reference book or even as a guide once an animal has been acquired but it’s invaluable as a source of information on each animal. It has given me the information I need to make informed decisions as to which animals will be right for our family farm and which might be too much work or wouldn’t thrive on our land. Each section details different breeds, how to acquire them, what to look for in a good animal, what to watch out for in selecting animals, what they eat, how to house them, common diseases and health conditions with their treatments, what types of land they do well and as well as climate considerations per breed, and output as far as power/meat/eggs/milk and other uses like goats used for clearing weeds. It’s very through yet is not written like a textbook. It’s written in an easy to read format where there are blurbs of information separates by pictures and boxes of other info to make the reading anything but monotonous. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this book! Great for beginners! (and for maybe those more advanced too!) *by V***A on January 13, 2016* I am loving this book. Each section is very organized and clear to read. The book gives lots of detail but is still easy for a beginner to read. I feel like after reading some of the sections I could just start now without even picking up another book. I think it would also be helpful for someone who already has a base knowledge of some farm animals but would like to freshen their knowledge or have everything in a concise location. Anyway, it is absolutely perfect for a beginner and I have really enjoyed reading it. It is not filled with a lot of technical information that would perhaps make it a boring read, but instead stays lively and interesting. The author even adds in a little humor at times. I have since bought other books by this author, but have yet to read them. I am trying to think of a con, but I really can't! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So informative *by A***A on April 30, 2025* This is a wonderful book to have around the homestead. 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