Название: Know Your Hobby Animals: A Breed Encyclopedia
Автор: Jack Byard
Издательство: Fox Chapel Publishing
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 106 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Know Your Hobby Animals is your essential guide to discovering loads of interesting facts about 172 popular breeds of chickens, pigs, goats, cows, and sheep. Hobby farmers have the important role of caring for animal breeds that are popular and widespread, as well as those that are rare and no longer commercially viable. All these amazing animals have a long history of providing people with food, drink, and clothing for thousands of years, and they deserve to be protected and cared for properly.

Inside this expansive compilation of the most popular farm animals within the Know Your... series, you'll learn all about each breed's unique attributes, history, breeding, and personalities. Discover the Dalesbred sheep that are happy to stay in one area without any fences, the agility-race-winning Pietrain pig, the Saanen that is dubbed "The Queen of Dairy Goats," the friendly Piemontese cow whose breed goes back at least 10,000 years, and so many more!