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When was the last time you tasted a really fresh egg? Most commercially produced eggs spend time in storage and become stale. There’s a big difference, too, between poultry raised commercially and raised at home. Commercial eating birds live out their brief spans in totally artificial surroundings, but home-grown chickens can result in better flavor and firmer texture.

With the help of this e-handbook, you can have eggs and poultry with a flavor — and at a cost — to be found in no supermarket. Chapters include:

• Chicken Breeds
• Brooding and Early Care
• Henhouse Furniture
• Feeders
• Producing Your Own Feed

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Raising game birds can be fun, educational, profitable and even therapeutic. They also provide your table with delicious, inexpensive meals. If you've decided to try raising game birds, there are some basic rules to follow.

This e-handbook teaches you how to buy chicks, calculate feeding costs, incubate eggs, manage your flock and slaughter the birds. Also included is a list of bird varieties, diseases and types of feed, waterers and pens to use. With this valuable resource, you can feast on wild game such as pheasant, quail and guinea. 36 pages.

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Horses are big, strong, playful, and smart, so finding a way to keep them safe and secure in their pastures and paddocks can be a real challenge. Building strong, safe fencing that is also economical and long lasting is an even bigger task.

Experienced do-it-yourselfers and even handy beginners can build great fences for their horses and this e-handbook shows you how. Chapters include:

• Fencing Tools
• Choosing the Right Fence Posts
• Stringing Wire Fencing
• Post-and-Rail and Post-and-Plank Fences
• Fencing Small and Large Pastures
• Fencing the Small Pastures
• Training Pens

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Properly housed and fed domestic rabbits can provide you with delicious, high-quality meat with little expenditure of time, space, or money. Rabbits are small and quiet, and they can be kept essentially odorfree with the proper approach to their housing and care.

This e-handbook explains what you need to build and outfit a small noncommercial rabbitry and how to do it. Chapters include:

• The All-Wire Hutch
• Two Approaches in Hutch Building
• Self-Feeders
• Watering Devices
• Nest Boxes
• Useful Tools and Equipment

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If you are in the market for a horse, there are many things for you to consider before you make the final decision on which horse you take home.

This e-handbook helps you become familiar with all aspects of choosing and buying a horse, what criteria to look for in buying a horse and what steps you need to take in selling one. 33 pages.

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Guinea pigs have very good temperaments and make wonderful pets, even for children as young as 5 years old. But before you bring a guinea pig home, you’ll want to make sure you choose the right one.

This e-handbook is designed to help guide you through the selection process. Chapters include:

• Choosing Your Guinea Pig
• Guinea Pig Housing and Equipment
• Feeding Your Guinea Pig
• Keeping Your Guinea Pig Healthy

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There is a wide and ever-changing variety of tack and equipment on the market for horsemen. Since every horse activity requires its own specialized equipment, you must know exactly what you need before you buy.

This e-handbook gives you advice on what to look for and how to care for your tack and equipment. Information covered in this resource guide includes buying new and used equipment, storage, selecting and care of leather items, description of nylon and other fiber items, choosing hardware, saddle blanket selection and care, types of rope and a list of grooming tools.

Your dollar investment in tack and equipment can easily equal or exceed the value of your horse. Tack that is kept dry, clean, and in good working order is more comfortable and safe for the horse and rider and lasts longer.

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High prices and availability are just two reasons why you should raise your own ducks and geese, but there are things you should know before you get started.

This e-handbook guides you through the steps you need to take to raise your own ducks and geese. Chapters include:

• Raising Ducks
• The Kinds of Ducks
• Sanitation
• Starting Your Ducks
• Raising Geese
• Breeds of Geese
• Goslings
• Slaughtering and Dressing
• Feed, Water, and Shelter Needs
• Your Own Pond for Ducks or Geese

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Building a horse barn is quite a project — and there is a vast and varied array of plans and books available to help you. But renovating a shelter to make it fit for just one or two horses, or building a sturdy three-sided shelter, can be quite simple, even if you have only basic carpentry skills.

This e-handbook shows you what you need to know to properly construct horse housing. Chapters included are:

• The Fundamentals of Building for Horses
• Tips and Techniques for Remodeling
• Building a Simple Run-in Shelter
• Designing the Layout for a Small Barn Renovation
• Roofing Your Horse Barn
• Building a Stall
• Providing Food and Water in the Barn
• Finishes to Preserve Your Horse Shelter

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Chicken-coop designs are as varied as the people who keep chickens. The best design for you depends on how many chickens you keep, your purpose in keeping them, their breed, your geographic location, and how much money you want to spend.

This e-handbook shows you designs and helpful tips to make your chicken raising experience a successful one. Chapters include:

• Twelve Tips for a Successful Coop Design
• Providing Adequate Ventilation
• Temperature Control
• Choosing the Right Flooring
• Putting Down Bedding
• Installing Roosts
• Nests and Nest Boxes
• Choosing and Siting a Water Source
• Tips and Advice for Keeping Chickens in Cages
• Offering Access to a Yard
• Raising Chickens Free on the Range