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Natural methods are not limited to crops. Grass farmers around the world are turning to low-input grazing methods with animal care based on sound, ecological approaches.
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Livestock:

Transitioning to Organic Dairy WB
This workbook evaluates whether organic dairy is a good option and introduces many of the requirements needed to implement a successful transition. This wb is designed to be used with the companion book, The Organic Dairy Handbook.

Kick the Hay Habit
Subtitled, A Practical Guide to Year-Around Grazing, this book offers a straightforward way for graziers to use today’s grazing management systems to raise livestock without having the high costs of producing and using hay for livestock feed.

The Organic Dairy Handbook
This whole-farm management resource is essential for farmers interested in organic production and those transitioning from conventional to organic dairy production.

4 Newman Turner Classics
Four book set including Fertility Farming, Herdsmanship, Fertility Pastures and Cure Your Own Cattle.

Alternative Treatments for Ruminant Animals
A hands-on reference for anyone at any level of experience who is interested in helping ruminants achieve optimal health naturally.

Backyard Poultry — Naturally
Poultry husbandry, includes herbal medicines, homeopathics.

Cure Your Own Cattle
While the subject of natural veterinary care has grown and matured, Turner's clear and simple systems and advice remind farmers of the true fundamentals that consistently work.

Dirt Hog
A Hands-On Guide to Raising Pigs Outdoors…Naturally

Fertility Farming
The foundation of the effectiveness of nature's husbandry is a fertile soil- and the measure of a fertile soil is its content of organic matter.

Fertility Pastures
In this book, Turner details his methods of intensive pasture-based production of beef and dairy cows in a practical guide to profitable, labor-saving livestock production.

Herd Bull Fertility
Bull breeding manual.

Herdsmanship
Turner explains that livestock illness is a result of bad farming practices and that real livestock health begins with true natural farming disciplines.

Holistic Veterinary Care DVD
Strategies & tools for holistic herd health management.

Holistic Veterinary Care PAL DVD
Strategies & tools for holistic herd health management.

Holistic Veterinary Care PAL VHS
Strategies & tools for holistic herd health management.

Holistic Veterinary Care VHS
Strategies & tools for holistic herd health management.

Homeopathy for the Herd
A farmer's guide to non-toxic medicine for beef and dairy cattle.

Homeopathy in Organic Livestock Production
A valuable resource for organic farmers, this book also includes the most common homeopathic remedies and their specific uses for livestock.

Natural Cattle Care
Animal husbandry with analysis of farming practice.

Natural Goat Care
Goat husbandry incorporating natural practices.

Natural Horse Care
Details ailments, discusses origins, offers natural treatments.

Natural Sheep Care
Coleby draws on decades of experience in natural animal husbandry to provide essential information.

Reproduction & Animal Health
Sustainable cattle production.

Soil Fertility & Animal Health
How soil fertility links to animal & human health.

Soil, Grass & Cancer (book)
Illustrates link between human & animal health & soil balance.

The Keys to Herd Health DVD
Essential foundations for livestock operations.

The Keys to Herd Health PAL DVD
Essential foundations for livestock operations.

The Keys to Herd Health PAL VHS
Essential foundations for livestock operations.

The Keys to Herd Health VHS
Essential foundations for livestock operations.

The Other Side of the Fence DVD
Overview of Albrecht's work. DVD format for U.S.

The Other Side of the Fence PAL DVD
Overview of Albrecht's work. PAL DVD format for Europe & Australia.

The Other Side of the Fence PAL VHS
Overview of Albrecht's work. PAL video format for Europe & Australia.

Treating Dairy Cows Naturally (book)
Dr. Karreman lays out a total strategy for assessing and preventing cattle disease, derived from years of working with organically and conventionally managed dairy herds.

All Flesh Is Grass
The pleasures and promises of pasture farming.

Animal Production Systems for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
Chapters include Animal Ecology and Foraging Behavior, Basic Animal Nutrition, Beef Nutrition and Management, Dairy Nutrition and Management as well as chapters on sheep, goats, horses and finally parasite control.

Anyone Can Build a Tub-Style Mechanical Chicken Plucker
Complete Instructions for the Kimball Whizbang

Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Chicken Scalder
Complete instructions for plucking chickens.

Chicken Coops
45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock

Chicken Tractor
Permaculture guide to raising poultry.

City Chicks
The local foods movement is mushrooming and chickens have become its mascot. City Chicks brings fresh, innovative and new information about keeping backyard flocks of urban chickens.

Comeback Farms
Continuing where No Risk Ranching ended, expands on the cattle operation.

Essential Guide to Calving
Knowledge is power, and that is never truer than at 2:00 a.m., when a calving starts to go badly. This book provides a resource farmers will rely upon again and again to help them handle crisis situations.

Forage Production for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
Covers every aspect of forage production. This book focuses on plant morphology and its effects on management; ecology of plant communities; soils and soil fertility and more.

Forage Utilization for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
Many questions are answered in this impeccably researched volume from the NRAES series on pastured-based livestock production, which includes contributions by 21 authors.

Getting Started with Beef & Dairy Cattle
Raising a cow for milk or beef is easier than you might think.

Grass-Based Dairy Farming
Grass-based farming has caught the attention of many conventional and would-be farmers. The farmers who wrote this book are asked dozens of questions hundreds of times. Their answers are contained in this book.


Transitioning to Organic Dairy WB

Grass-Fed Cattle
Everything a farmer needs to know about raising, managing, & marketing grass-fed cattle.

Greener Pastures on Your Side of the Fence
Pasture management for cattle and plants.

How To Raise Rabbits
Whether the goal is to raise one rabbit or dozens, this book offers expert advice on caring for and showing this popular farm animal.

Humane Livestock Handling
Improve your livestock operations as well as the profitability of your farm by raising healthier, more contented animals.

Knowledge Rich Ranching
How to financially succeed in the cattle business today.

Life Song: In Harmony with Creation
Creating profound relationships with all creatures.

Living with Chickens
Everything you need to know to raise a backyard flock.

Living with Sheep
Everything you need to know to raise your own flock.

Living with Worms in Organic Sheep Production
The purpose of this handbook is to assist sheep farmers in maintaining healthy flocks, reducing economic losses resulting from internal parasites, and reducing economic losses from the loss of organic certification following a prohibited treatment.

Looking After a Donkey
A guide to raising donkeys.

Managing and Marketing for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
The first of a four-part series on pastured-based livestock production from NRAES, this information-packed volume provides fundamental and essential information a producer needs to manage and market a goal-oriented forage-livestock system.

Organic Dairy Farming
Manual for organic alternatives to dairy agribusiness.

Organic Dairy Production
Detailed manual on organic dairying in the Northeast.

Organic Livestock Handbook
Explains principles of organic livestock husbandry.

Pasture Perfect
Details the benefits of grazing animals without supplemental feed.

Pasture Profits with Stocker Cattle
Make money regardless of the price of cattle.

Pastured Poultry Profits (book)
Small acreage income with moveable pens.

Quality Pasture
Low-cost tactics create high-energy pasture.

Raising Milk Goats Succesfully
Covers husbandry & the dairy goat business.

Raising Miniature Livestock
A comprehensive handbook containing essential instruction on all aspects of raising miniature goats, sheep, donkeys, pigs, cows, horses, cattle and llamas.

Raising Poultry Successfully
Quality meat & eggs in most cost-effective, time-efficient manner.

Salad Bar Beef (book)
Innovative prototype for small cow herd operation.

Seaweed: A User's Guide
Understand & learn to utilize seaweeds.

Small-Scale Livestock Farming
Grass-based approach to health, sustainability profit.

Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats
Meat goat production is one of the oldest and most widespread of the animal enterprises in the world. At this point, it is the fastest growing animal enterprise in the U.S.

Storey's Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep Goats Cattle and Pigs
Comprehensive, colorful, and captivating, this guide is informative enough to aid in breed selection, but beautiful and browsable enough to keep on the coffee table.

Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds
Presented here, breed by breed, are more than 120 barnyard fowl! Enough information is provided to satisfy both the dedicated browser and the serious farmer.

Storey's Working Animals Livestock Guardians
Well-trained hardworking dogs, donkeys, and llamas are an increasingly popular and effective solution to livestock predation. These guardian animals protect sheep, goats, and other livestock from wolves, bears, coyotes, and many smaller predators.

Success with Baby Chicks
Everything you need to know about raising chicks.

Texas Range and Pastures
Insights of a veteran grazier.

Textbook of Veterinary Homeopathy
An introduction to homeopathic medicine.

The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm & Stable
Exhaustive materia medica botanica.

The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog & Cat
Natural rearing, treating & preventing common ailments.

The Donkey Companion
Why donkeys? People keep donkeys for adventure, as a business, or to protect vulnerable animals like sheep, alpacas, and goats. Donkeys are friendly, dependable, intelligent, and easy to care for.

The Mating & Breeding of Poultry
Details all of the elements to become a successful poultry breeder.

The Polyface Farm DVD
Profiles all aspects of the Salatins' Polyface farm.

The Sheep Book
Handbook for the modern shepherd.

Toward Saving the Honeybee
Facets of beekeeping in relation to honeybee's health.

Traditional Feeding of Farm Animals
The classic treatise - now back in print.

Treatment of Cattle by Homoeopathy
Outline of common diseases.

Wild Predators? Not in My Backyard!
This book provides sound advice and sensible strategies for farm operators seeking protection from many species of wild predators.

You Can Farm
Entrepreneur's guide to family farm business.











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