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Edited by Sarah Guare
Art direction by Dan O. Williams
Book design and text production by MacFadden and Thorpe

Cover illustration and illustrations on pages i-vi by © Michael Austin, Jing and Mike Company Interior illustration credits appear on page 340

Indexed by Andrea Chesman
Expert review of the rabbit chapter by Bob Bennett, the sheep chapter by Carol Ekarius, the turkey chapter by Eugene Morton, and the cattle chapter by Mary Sherman

© 2011 by Storey Publishing, LLC
Sections of this book previously appeared in the following books by Storey Publishing: Barnyard in Your Backyard, edited by Gail Damerow; Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees, by Malcolm T. Sanford and Richard E. Bonney; and Storey’s Guide to Raising Pigs, by Kelly Klober.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The backyard homestead guide to raising farm animals / edited by Gail Damerow.

p. cm.

Includes index.

Previously published as: Barnyard in your backyard. North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., c2002.

ISBN 978-1-60342-969-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Domestic animals. 2. Food animals. I. Damerow, Gail.

SF61.B23 2011
636—dc22

2010051172