Barnyard in Your Backyard

Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep and Cattle Edited by Gail Damerow

Each chapter spotlights a single animal and provides simple, clear instructions on what it takes to keep your livestock healthy and happy. You'll learn what type of housing and how much land your animals need, what to feed them, how to breed them, and how to handle routine health care. There's even a calendar with reminders for daily, weekly, and monthly routine care.

Covering everything from which breeds of ducks are best for eggs and which are best for meat to how to buy beef or dairy calf to where to find a market for manure, this easy-to-use handbook teaches you how to operate a mini farm for fun or for profit, or both.

To learn more about Gail Damerow, listen to our interview with her on the Official Meyer Hatchery Podcast, The Coop.