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Salatin, Joel,

Polyface micro : success with livestock on a homestead scale / by Joel Salatin ; foreward by Justin Rhodes. - First edition. - xiv, 402 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes index (pages 400-402).

Livestock stewardship -- The animal why -- Biggest pitfalls -- Strategic considerations -- Efficiency -- Layout : Polyface photo gallery -- Water -- Sanitation -- Fertility -- Developing pastures -- Converting woods to pasture -- Management intensive grazing -- Fencing -- Grazing development -- Irrigation -- Laying hens -- Broilers -- Pigs -- Sickness -- Sorting and herding -- Alternative feeds -- Goats and sheep -- Milk cow -- Rabbits -- Urban possibilities -- Regulations and marketing.

The author adapts the procedures of his successful Virginia farm to the scale of small land owners and city dwellers.

ISBN: 9781733686624 1733686622

LCCN: 2021911577

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC261328 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020546063 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Farms, Small--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Family farms--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Livestock--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Urban homesteading--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Animal culture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Farm management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Self-reliant living--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Handbooks and manuals.