Animal breeding
Get creative with beeswax
Die Verwendung eines so ursprünglichen Naturprodukts belastet die Umwelt nachweisbar geringer als der Konsum industriell hergestellter Produkte. Für dieses Buch haben der Imker Falco und seine Frau Anne Tietjen über 50 sorgfältig ausgesuchte Rezepte zusammengetragen und zeigen, was Sie selbst aus Bienenwachs herstellen können. Ganz gleich, ob Sie Ihren eigenen Insektenschutz, Schuhcreme, Holzpflege, Wachstücher, Dekoration, Naturkosmetik herstellen oder mit Kindern Kerzen gießen möchten – für jeden ist bei der Auswahl der Rezepte etwas Passendes dabei.
Goat breeding on your own farm
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced goat farmer - this book offers you compact and understandable knowledge about breeding processes. It covers practical aspects such as selecting the right breeding animals and offers helpful checklists to support you. It also explains the theoretical principles of goat breeding. You will learn how a breeding program works, what breeding value estimation means and how you can apply these values on your farm. Various questions and challenges are explained in a practical way using five fictitious goat farms. 48 color photos, 24 drawings, 15 tables. 136 pages.
Goats - guide to farm animals
Farm animal with many talents Everything about selection, feeding and careBreeding and products With 19 breed portraits This book offers you detailed information about choosing a breed, its characteristics and needs. Detailed chapters provide you with everything you need to know about housing in stables and free-range systems. Continue to learn what and how much goats eat and how to prevent, detect and treat disease. Breeding, birth and rearing as well as the extraction and utilization of products such as meat, wool and fur are explained.
Good things from sheep
All the raw materials that the sheep offers.No other farm animal is as versatile as the sheep. In addition to its qualities as a grazing animal and landscape steward, it provides the raw material for essential products for almost all areas of life.This book offers a complete overview of all the raw materials that sheep offer us as a farm animal. With its renewable products milk and wool, it supplies the raw materials for milk and cheese products as well as for warming and insulating textiles in clothing and home furnishings. Its meat is low-allergenic and healthy. The most delicious dishes can be prepared from it. Fur and skin and everything that can be made from them - clothing, shoes, bags and bed linens - have natural properties and advantages that no plastic or synthetic fiber can replace.Numerous photos, instructions and recipes make you want to, to process the raw products from the sheep themselves.
Help my chicken sneeze- recognize and treat common diseases in chickens
Healthy chickens in your own garden - it's that easy!Chickens in your own garden are trendy! But what to do if a chicken gets sick? In her guide, vet Dr. Katrin Sewerin presents the most common chicken diseases that you as the owner can recognize and treat. Whether it's crop blockage, diarrhea, colds, problems laying eggs, parasites or stress caused by heat and cold - Dr. Sewerin offers practical solutions for every situation.Each disease is clearly presented: General, recognition, causes, prevention, treatment. Individual chicken treatment is particularly emphasized, as often not all animals are affected. The egg diagnosis also explains why some eggs look unusual.With helpful tips for the stall pharmacy and precise dosage information, you are well equipped. 61 color photos, 128 pages.
Home slaughter chicken Sustainable self-sufficiency
With step-by-step photos, detailed instructions and chapters on the necessary tools and equipment, the main food safety measures, the preparation for slaughter and the rapid and humane processing of the animals, the cutting of the carcasses into cuts and packaging and Freezing to ensure freshness, this comprehensive guide provides poultry farmers with the information they need to respectfully make the most of their meat. 176 pages.
Homeopathy for sheep and goats
Would you like to treat your sheep and goats homeopathically? This book offers you the basics and the knowledge you need to successfully use homeopathic remedies on your small ruminants. You will find out which homeopathic remedies are suitable for the most common diseases of sheep and goats. But you can also help animals with homeopathic remedies during convalescence, parasite infestation, injuries, poisoning, shock and fright. This book shows you how. With tips for a homeopathic pharmacy and for quick orientation: clear lists of homeopathic remedies and common potencies.
Idea book chicken coops
Do you keep chickens and dream of a custom-made chicken coop? The twelve models presented here are easy to build, look beautiful and are perfect for family chickens in the garden. All coops offer the chickens comfort and safety. Whether it's a small, mobile chicken coop, a coop with an aviary, a chicken house on stilts or an enclosure specifically for laying hens: the illustrated step-by-step instructions show you exactly how you can easily build your dream coop yourself. You can also find the right building instructions here for the interior design of the chicken house with seating, laying nests and feeding troughs as well as ramps and chicken ladders. 144 pages.
Keep bees healthy
It is always important to take new contexts and changing environmental factors into account. Measures such as those to combat the Varroa mite are constantly being developed. Here you will learn how to manage your colonies well, avert dangers at an early stage and combat diseases efficiently. Dr. Wolfgang Ritter explains when biological and when conventional measures make sense. Proper prevention is just as important to him in order to maintain healthy colonies and residue-free honey.
keep sheep
Whether Merino, East Frisian dairy sheep or Heidschnucke: sheep are uncomplicated, useful and rightly popular with hobby farmers and self-sufficient people. This guide presents 14 suitable breeds in detailed portraits and provides comprehensive information about species-appropriate husbandry. Breeding and rearing are described as well as milking and shearing. From his many years of experience, the author reveals numerous tips and tricks that make it easy for beginners to get started.
Keeping bees
This is how you become a successful beekeeper The most important basic knowledge Producing and marketing your own products Current findings in beekeeping This compact guide is available to help you successfully keep bees with valuable information about the breed, biology and needs of the bee. In addition, the bee year is clearly presented and you will receive tips on keeping bees healthy and the legal basis for keeping bees. The book is specially tailored to beginners to ensure the best possible introduction to this fascinating area.192 pages
Keeping cows
Everything about the correct keeping of cowsThe book conveys the theoretical basics of cattle keeping in a clear and easy-to-read manner. Many practical tips make the book an ideal guide for aspiring cattle farmers and anyone thinking about keeping cows. The following areas on the topic of cattle are comprehensively addressed: animal psychology, anatomy and physiology, breeding, nutrition, husbandry requirements, raising young cattle, milk processing and legal regulations.
Leisure fun with llamas and alpacas
The llama or alpaca walks quietly, gently and inaudibly next to you when you are out in nature with it.This is pure balance and relaxation. Whether for a hike, an adventure children's afternoon, trekking in the mountains or for animal-assisted support, these little Andean camels are a real insider tip as animal companions.In this book you will find out more about the hobby of keeping and caring for them in a species-appropriate manner New World camelids.You get to know their nature and characteristics and the many ways to spend your free time with them.
Our first bees
Do you dream of having your own, naturally kept bee colony in your garden and your own honey? Do you also want to help the bees because you care about nature and healthy food? But how to start and do everything right? In this book you will find out who will help you, which type of beekeeping suits you and how you can get a swarm or colony to start with. It shows the course of the bee year, how you can tell whether your bees are doing well, what activities are necessary month after month to properly look after the colony and keep it healthy. Just get started! Hobby beekeeping will stimulate and inspire you. You'll definitely get excited!
Our first quails
How about a touch of miniature country life in your garden? Quail are adorable mini chickens and keeping them is not difficult. You will find out which types of quail there are, which ones are particularly suitable for keeping and everything that goes into ensuring that the chickens live happily and healthily - from housing to feeding, brooding and rearing chicks to your own quail eggs for the kitchen - you will find out all this in this friendly guide. 96 pages.
Our first sheep
We want to keep sheep!How to keep your own sheep and do everything rightHobby sheep farmer Willi and his family show what's importantWith the best tips and tricks for healthy sheepDo you want a nature-related balance to your everyday work routine and some country life feeling behind your house? With the gentle and affectionate sheep you are guaranteed to find balance and peace. This guide tells you all the important things that are involved in sheep farming, authentically from Will and his family. Browse and find out almost incidentally what is important in practice.
Oxymel Natural remedy and tonic
Find out everything about Oxymel. Book with 160 pages.Much earlier than the famous apple cider vinegar cure, Oxymel vitalized the health of our ancestors as a medicine and elixir of life. Ancient sources already report on the amazing healing powers of sour honey, which was recommended for respiratory diseases and to strengthen Greek athletes, among other things. It was also valued in the Middle Ages. In China it is considered a remedy, and in Russia it is a popular morning drink after getting up.Even today, the medicine made from honey and vinegar has outstanding health potential.The honey-vinegar drink, to which different medicinal herbs can be added as required, is a healthy alternative to alcoholic tinctures. It is used as a remedy and tonic for numerous ailments, but is also an excellent prophylactic against many illnesses.Areas of application for Oxymel:Strengthening the immune systemStrengthening the digestive systemStrengthening the cardiovascular systemStrengthening the nervesGeneral strengthening and supplying the body with vital nutrients
Pedigree poultry compact
536 breeds of chickens, bantams, turkeys, guinea fowl, geese, ducks and pigeons Portrait The entire diversity of breed poultry in one volume! A compact reference work for small animal breeders, hobby pet owners and self-sufficient people. Do you love running ducks or would you like to keep a colorful flock of chickens? Here you will find all breeds of poultry: chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, geese, ducks and pigeons. 536 recognized poultry breeds and colors are presented in detailed descriptions and with 850 color photos. Pictograms with all the information about characteristic properties, benefits, laying performance, show and breeding value make the book an ideal companion for exhibitions and poultry shows.
Pocket Atlas Chickens and Bantams
Indispensable for hobby chicken keepers and those who would like to become one, as well as for small animal breeders and exhibition visitors: This compact reference work presents 182 breeds in 366 color photos. A photo each of a rooster and a hen shows examples of standard representatives of the breed. The handy book provides information at a glance about the breeding history, breed characteristics and all important characteristics, special features, colors, laying performance and use of the different chickens and bantams. 192 pages.
Practical sheep husbandry
successful sheep farmer, as well as the trainee or consultant, needs a broad knowledge of sheep. Among other things, he must know the requirements for animal behavior, nutrition, pasture, husbandry, stables and animal health. Outdoor production also requires special skills. The maintenance of cultural landscapes and nature conservation areas is one of the other tasks of sheep farming. You will also find a separate chapter in the book on the current topic of herd protection. The practice-oriented preparation of the content is supported by numerous photos.
Quail
Find out everything about feeding, husbandry, health, marketing and economics. New findings on animal welfare, animal-friendly husbandry and animal welfare indicators are discussed, as well as the environmental impact, the CO2 footprint or health aspects of eating quail eggs or meat. Even if you are a newcomer, this book will give you the basics that will enable you to be self-sufficient with delicious quail eggs. 144 pages.
Quality cattle fattening in grassland
Here the most natural form - cattle farming in grassland areas - can particularly score points! The specialist book describes how quality beef can be produced in the most diverse areas of cattle fattening in grassland areas. There are valuable tips on keeping suckler cows and young cattle, on fattening oxen, calves and young bulls, on raising young animals and also on fattening old cows for quality products.
Really good chicken feed
Really good chicken feed. Healthy and natural superfood for chickens, quails, pigeons &~ Co. Collect, grow, mix yourself. Whether chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons, quails or other poultry: they all enjoy natural, home-mixed food. The trend is towards local superfoods, which not only offer your poultry variety on the menu, but also strengthen the immune system and the sensitive gastrointestinal tract. From herbs, fruits and vegetables to grains, seeds and nuts to minerals, oils and leftover food - in this book you will find out which superfood is suitable for what and how you can collect it yourself, preserve it and process it. Your poultry will thank you! 120 color photos, 128 pages.
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