Whether you are thinking of keeping a few chickens in your backyard, or whether you are interested in a self-sufficient lifestyle, this book will answer all your questions. Not only will it give practical guidance on how to start off such an enterprise, but it will also be a constant source of help whenever a crisis arises. Chickens: poultry-keeping systems, housing and equipment, feeding, eggs, breeding, incubation, rearing, health and disease. Ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigeons for squabs, quail. Rabbits: housing, equipment, feeding, breeding. Goats: feeding, milk. Sheep: breeds, feeding, wool, meat and milk, rearing. Pigs. Cattle: handling, feeding, breeding, rearing. Horses: stabling, breaking, training, breeding, lameness, asses or donkeys.