How Do I
Backyard Animals
Raising Bees, Chickens, Goats and more
See also: Wildlife
Selected Books
Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cows
q SF61.B348 2002
If you want to go "whole hog", pick up this beginning primer to raising all sorts of barnyard animals (except pigs). Editor Gail Damerow is author of several books on chickens and a breeder of dairy goats.
q SF61.B348 2002
If you want to go "whole hog", pick up this beginning primer to raising all sorts of barnyard animals (except pigs). Editor Gail Damerow is author of several books on chickens and a breeder of dairy goats.
Belanger, Jerome D.
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying
SF383.B45 2001
So you've become addicted to chevre and want to raise your own dairy goats to make your own cheese, maybe even some Drunken Goat Cheese.
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying
SF383.B45 2001
So you've become addicted to chevre and want to raise your own dairy goats to make your own cheese, maybe even some Drunken Goat Cheese.
Bennett, Bob
Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits: Breeds, Care, Housing
SF453.B462 2009
Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits is as essential to the owner of pet rabbits as it is to the farmer raising rabbits for meat or fur. Breed selection, year-round care and feeding, safe housing, humane handling, and disease prevention and treatment are all addressed.
Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits: Breeds, Care, Housing
SF453.B462 2009
Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits is as essential to the owner of pet rabbits as it is to the farmer raising rabbits for meat or fur. Breed selection, year-round care and feeding, safe housing, humane handling, and disease prevention and treatment are all addressed.
Bloom, Jessi
Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
Can you have a nice garden with free-ranging chickens? Jessi Bloom shows you how in this book from Timber Press.
Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
Can you have a nice garden with free-ranging chickens? Jessi Bloom shows you how in this book from Timber Press.
Childs, Laura
The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals: Raising Chickens, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, and Cows
SF65.2.C45 2010
Small farm owner Laura Childs reveals what it takes to start raising your own animals, including chickens, geese, goats, sheep, pigs, and cows.
The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals: Raising Chickens, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, and Cows
SF65.2.C45 2010
Small farm owner Laura Childs reveals what it takes to start raising your own animals, including chickens, geese, goats, sheep, pigs, and cows.
Childs, Laura
The Joy of Keeping Goats: The Ultimate Guide to Dairy and Meat Goats
SF383.C55 2011
Covering everything from selecting a breed to how to make goat cheese, this guide is for anyone interested in learning more about these multi-purpose animal companions:
The Joy of Keeping Goats: The Ultimate Guide to Dairy and Meat Goats
SF383.C55 2011
Covering everything from selecting a breed to how to make goat cheese, this guide is for anyone interested in learning more about these multi-purpose animal companions:
Conrad, Ross
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
SF523.C75 2007
In the face of Colony Collapse Disorder, Conrad advocates organic, nontoxic beekeeping.
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
SF523.C75 2007
In the face of Colony Collapse Disorder, Conrad advocates organic, nontoxic beekeeping.
Ekarius, Carol
How to Build Animal Housing
"60 plans for coops, hutches, barns, sheds, pens, nest boxes, feeders, stanchions, and much more"
q TH4930.E33 2004
Obviously if you are going to raise barnyard animals in Pittsburgh, you'll need to provide housing for them in the winter, unless you're bringing them inside...
How to Build Animal Housing
"60 plans for coops, hutches, barns, sheds, pens, nest boxes, feeders, stanchions, and much more"
q TH4930.E33 2004
Obviously if you are going to raise barnyard animals in Pittsburgh, you'll need to provide housing for them in the winter, unless you're bringing them inside...
Ekarius, Carol
Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds
"chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, emus, guinea fowl, ostriches, partridges, peafowl, pheasants, quails, swans"
q SF487.E33 2007
Presented here, breed by breed, are more than 120 barnyard fowl from chickens and turkeys to emus and pheasants. For each animal, readers will find stunning color photography, a brief history, and a detailed description.
Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds
"chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, emus, guinea fowl, ostriches, partridges, peafowl, pheasants, quails, swans"
q SF487.E33 2007
Presented here, breed by breed, are more than 120 barnyard fowl from chickens and turkeys to emus and pheasants. For each animal, readers will find stunning color photography, a brief history, and a detailed description.
Flottum, Kim
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
SF523.F63 2005
The Backyard Beekeeper is a how-to guide to the art of beekeeping and how to set up, care for, and harvest your own hives; it is also a honey cookbook with recipes for using honey in cooking, cosmetically and medicinally.
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
SF523.F63 2005
The Backyard Beekeeper is a how-to guide to the art of beekeeping and how to set up, care for, and harvest your own hives; it is also a honey cookbook with recipes for using honey in cooking, cosmetically and medicinally.
Flottum, Kim
The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys
SF539.F56 2009
A truly lush, radiant enthusiast's guide, "The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook" is an insight into the practical, back-to-the-earth beekeeping lifestyle and the artisan cultivation of honey varieties.
The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys
SF539.F56 2009
A truly lush, radiant enthusiast's guide, "The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook" is an insight into the practical, back-to-the-earth beekeeping lifestyle and the artisan cultivation of honey varieties.
Hobson, J.C.Jeremy and Celia Lewis
Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide to Enjoying and Getting the Best from Chickens
SF487.H68 2007x
Colorful, lively characters, chickens have become the hottest new garden accessory. This book shows enthusiasts exactly how to care for these endearing pets.
Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide to Enjoying and Getting the Best from Chickens
SF487.H68 2007x
Colorful, lively characters, chickens have become the hottest new garden accessory. This book shows enthusiasts exactly how to care for these endearing pets.
Ilona (Photographer) and Edward Readicker-Henderson
A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey
SF523.7.I45 2009
There are around 16,000 species of bee but only seven of these produce honey. Even the nonbeekeeper will enjoy A Short History of the Honey Bee as it follows the journey from flower to hive to honey throughout history.
A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey
SF523.7.I45 2009
There are around 16,000 species of bee but only seven of these produce honey. Even the nonbeekeeper will enjoy A Short History of the Honey Bee as it follows the journey from flower to hive to honey throughout history.
Megyesi, Jennifer
The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit
SF487.M42 2009
Farmer and animal expert Jennifer Megyesi discusses all the basic details of raising chickens: general biology, health, food, choosing breeds, and also stresses the importance of self-sustainability, organic living, and the satisfaction of keeping heirloom breeds.
The Joy of Keeping Chickens: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit
SF487.M42 2009
Farmer and animal expert Jennifer Megyesi discusses all the basic details of raising chickens: general biology, health, food, choosing breeds, and also stresses the importance of self-sustainability, organic living, and the satisfaction of keeping heirloom breeds.
Montgomery, Sy
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
QL676.M7585 2010
Even people who don't plan to raise chickens in their backyard will enjoy reading about Sy Montgomery's experiences with her flock of hens and other feathered friends.
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
QL676.M7585 2010
Even people who don't plan to raise chickens in their backyard will enjoy reading about Sy Montgomery's experiences with her flock of hens and other feathered friends.
Peacock, Paul
Keeping Bees: A Complete Practical Guide
SF523.P33 2008
For the beginning beekeeper who seeks practical advice, Keeping Bees is the perfect guide to help in getting started with the hobby
Keeping Bees: A Complete Practical Guide
SF523.P33 2008
For the beginning beekeeper who seeks practical advice, Keeping Bees is the perfect guide to help in getting started with the hobby
Simmons, Paula & Carol Ekarius
Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep
SF375.S56 2001
Haven't you always wanted to raise sheep so that you can make your own feta cheese and spin your own wool yarn? And they should also help mow the lawn.
Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep
SF375.S56 2001
Haven't you always wanted to raise sheep so that you can make your own feta cheese and spin your own wool yarn? And they should also help mow the lawn.
Spaulding, Janice and Ken Spaulding
Goat School: A Master Class in Caprine Care and Cooking
This book will not only tell you how to raise goats but how to make goat chees and cook goat meat.
Goat School: A Master Class in Caprine Care and Cooking
This book will not only tell you how to raise goats but how to make goat chees and cook goat meat.
Trench, Nicki
Creating Your Backyard Farm: How to Grow Fruit and Vegetables, and Raise Chickens and Bees
SB453.5.T743 2010x
Author Nicki Trench, who has created her own backyard farm from scratch, shares with you everything there is to know about growing crops, keeping bees, and rearing hens.
Creating Your Backyard Farm: How to Grow Fruit and Vegetables, and Raise Chickens and Bees
SB453.5.T743 2010x
Author Nicki Trench, who has created her own backyard farm from scratch, shares with you everything there is to know about growing crops, keeping bees, and rearing hens.
Return to the topBrowse the Catalog
For addtional titles, browse the library catalog under the subjects:
- Domestic Animals (mainly juvenile books)
- Bee culture
- Honeybee
- Chickens
- Chicken breeds
- Goats
- Livestock
- Poultry breeds
- Rabbits
- Sheep
Web Sites
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Backyard Poultry Magazine
Backyard Poultry is published bi-monthly in north-central Wisconsin and covers Breed Selection, Housing, Management, Health and Nutrition, and Rare and Historic Breeds -
Community Chickens
From Ogden Publications, the publisher of Grit and Mother Earth News. -
Maryland Small Ruminant Page [sheepandgoat.com]
An information portal for sheep and goat producers, the site was developed and is solely maintained by Susan Schoenian, University of Maryland Extension Sheep & Goat Specialist. -
Meyer Hatchery
This poultry farm in Ohio has chicks, ducks and geese for sale. It's fun to browse through the pages even if you are not buying! -
Mississippi State: Rabbit Production
Includes informations on setting up a backyard rabbitry, including slaughtering. -
Sheep 101
The purpose of Sheep 101 is to teach 4-H and FFA members, students, teachers, beginning shepherds, and the general public about sheep, their products, how they are raised, and their contributions to society.
Pittsburgh Region
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The Bee Hunter: Types of Bees
Jim Abraham removes unwanted bees and wasps but also has information about identifying the various insects. -
Burgh Bees
Burgh Bees aims to introduce beekeeping to Pittsburghers in order to promote bees and beekeeping and in so doing, stewardship of the environment. -
Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association (PSBA)
An association of beekeepers in the state that provides a newsletter and support. -
Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Festival
An annual festival in May, celebrating the Heritage of Sheep, Wool & Fibers in Greene County (southwest of Pittsburgh). If you are interested in raising sheep, you might like to check it out!
