Cart
Free Shipping in Australia
Proud to be B-Corp

The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale Suzie Baldwin

The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale By Suzie Baldwin

The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale by Suzie Baldwin


$36.99
Condition - Very Good
7 in stock

Summary

The Good Life in Real Life is a detailed manual to start, plan and manage your own smallholding.

The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale Summary

The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale by Suzie Baldwin

The Smallholder's Handbook is a detailed manual to start, plan and manage your own smallholding. Suzie explains the level of work involved, how much space you need and how to prepare your land. There are chapters on keeping poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese), as well as pigs, goats and sheep, cows and bees. She also explains why having a variety of animals makes the best use of your resources and how many of each type to keep. Comprehensive advice includes choosing breeds, transporting, feeding, housing, daily care and wellbeing, as well as international legislation that applies to livestock.

The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale Reviews

You don't need acres of space to keep enough livestock to live the good life [...] Suzie Baldwin's new book The Smallholder's Handbook tells you all you need to know to get started.' -- Bunny Guiness * The Sunday Telegraph *
A practical introduction to people interested in setting up a smallholding.[...] Based on her personal experience and interlaced with anecdotes and tips, she has produced a helpful and extremely easy-to-read guide on keeping chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, geese, cows, pigs, sheep and goats, and covers aspects such as choosing a breed, housing, feeding, health and specific issues relating to the poultry and livestock' * NFU Countryside *
Start, plan and manage your own smallholding with the very useful The Smallholder's Handbook, Suzie Baldwin's manual to keeping poultry, pigs, sheep and bees. * Country Living *

About Suzie Baldwin

Suzie Baldwin grew up on a farm in Devon, where from an early age she cared for a menagerie of animals, including chickens, sheep, ducks, horses and even ferrets. She has kept chickens for more than 20 years and has recently moved to her own smallholding in Surrey.

Additional information

GOR007717902
9780857832726
0857832727
The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale by Suzie Baldwin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Octopus Publishing Group
20150528
224
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - The Smallholder's Handbook: Keeping & caring for poultry & livestock on a small scale