Organic farming - livestock
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Paterson NSW 2421
The third book in the organic farming series shows how to produce livestock using organic faming methods, with particular emphasis on sheep and wool.
Table of contents:
- Organic livestock
- Animal welfare
- Parasite problems for ruminants - sheep, cattle, goats and deer:
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- Internal parasites
- Developing a worm resistant mob
- The importance of nutrition
- Dung beetles and other allies
- The importance of planning
- Some myths of 'clean' grazing
- Quarantine paddocks
- Buying in and selecting stock
- Monitoring your stock
- Sheep:
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- Sheep resistance to worms
- Barbers Pole worms
- Liver fluke
- Flystrike
- Body lice
- Footrot
- Monitoring parasite seed in sheep dung
- Managing the animals you want to test for genetic purposes
- Farming compost worms
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- Compost worm beds
- Feeding
- Reproduction
- How many compost worms?
- Diseases and pests
- Maintenance of beds
- Harvesting
- What the farmers say
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- 10 case studies: vealers, beef, deer, prime lamb, broadacre mised farming, pigs, dairy and yoghurt, poultry - meat and eggs, worms.
- Useful contacts.
Published in 2000, this book is 90 A4 pages (black and white).
Please quote catalogue number B164.
Book details
| Title | Organic farming - livestock |
|---|---|
| Pages | 90 |
| Catalogue number | B164 |
| Year of publish | 2005 |
| Price | $34.00AUD (inc GST) purchase online |