If you want to incubate, hatch, and brood chicks yourself, rather than buying them from a hatchery, this is the guide you need. Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets, addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to ensuring proper set-up and sanitary conditions, understanding embryo development, and feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder. This is an indispensable reference for any poultry raiser, whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred.

Authoritative and easy to read, Your Chickens offers children virtually all they need to know about choosing, purchasing, raising, and showing all kinds of chickens.Our friendly and encouraging animal reference series features information on selection, housing, behavior, feeding, health, and showing in a mature yet easy-to-understand language. For ages 9 and up.

Just like houses, chicken coops come in all sizes and styles to meet the needs of every chicken family. Here are how-to drawings and conceptual plans for 45 coops — from strictly practical to flights of fancy — guaranteed to meet the needs of every chicken owner. A 16-page color section shows detailed photos of many of the featured coops.

Homesteaders, gardeners, small farmers, and outdoor living enthusiasts will love these 76 DIY projects for practical outdoor items designed to help you live more sustainably and independently. Expert woodworker Spike Carlsen offers clear, simple, fully illustrated instructions for everything from plant supports and a clothesline to a potting bench, a chicken coop, a hoop greenhouse, a cold frame, a beehive, a root cellar with storage bins, and an outdoor shower. Most of the projects are suitable for complete novices, and all use just basic tools and standard materials.

Do you want to raise chickens but don’t know where to begin? Then you need Chick Days , an entertaining photographic guide that chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from newly hatched fluffy butterballs to grown hens laying eggs. Day by day and week by week, you’ll watch these three chickens grow and change, and along the way you’ll learn everything you need to know about chicken behavior, feeding, housing, hygiene, and health care. The witty writing of Jenna Woginrich (author of Made from Scratch ) paired with photography by Mars Vilaubi (who raised the chickens himself, along with his wife and son) will give every chicken-lover the confidence and enthusiasm to raise a flock.

Imagine a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees. Or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. With The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, even urban and suburban residents can successfully raise chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, goats, sheep, cows, pigs, and honey bees. It’s easier than you think, and it can be done on small plots of land. This essential guide covers everything from selecting the right breeds to producing delicious fresh milk, cheese, honey, eggs, and meat. Whether you want to be more self-sufficient, save money, or just enjoy safer, healthier, more delicious animal products, you’ll find all the information you need in The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals.

MeltDown Near Zero is used extensively by retail consumers, state and local governments and commercial deicing companies as it delivers faster melting speeds and environmentally friendly qualities.

The Thermo Cube® is a unique temperature controlled electrical device.  It operates with any 15 amp 120 volt electric heater or fan and plugs directly into a standard outlet.  It is thermostatically controlled and turns the power on and off automatically, according to outside ambient air temperature.

Trakehner are pure-bred warmblood horses. For many horse fans these elegant animals are the ideal modern riding horse. Trakehner are especially suited as sport horses; they are just as talented at dressage as at jumping. They reach a height of 160 cm to 170 cm at the withers and have many colors.

White-tailed deer graze mornings and evenings. They are herbivores and feed on green plants and nuts. Deer live in small groups, usually only the mother and its calves. The males have magnificent antlers and live in small groups of three or four animals.

Priefert Ranch & Rodeo equipment is a perfect toy or even can be used as a collectable! Pick up this 18-Wheeler toy today.

Naturally protect against UV A, B & C rays with this non-irritating, PABA-free sunscreen. Our unique chemical formula contains all-natural titanium dioxide to give your skin SPF 30 protection from damaging rays that could cause premature aging. Get even coverage from our 95% natural, plant-based ingredients, and feel good about the eco-friendly packaging.

Fly Terminator® Trap is an effective, insecticide-free fly trap that attracts and kills thousands of flies. Each trap includes a 4 oz. bottle of the attractant that contains feeding stimulants plus a sex attractant flies can’t resist.

Includes: 40 panels, 1 roping chute, 4 steers, 2 horses w/ ropers.

Little Buster Priefert Panels.  Even more steel than our already heavy duty panels.  Solid metal and durable.  Designed exclusively by Preifert for Little Buster Toys.

The ALL new Priefert Squeeze Chute Playset.  Made just like the life size model. Front sliding head gates and side exit gate. Set includes Priefert Squeeze chute, 4 Priefert Panels and 1 Priefert Pasture Gate.

If you are responsible for your own water supply, you need this book on home water systems; potential water problems; and practical, money-saving solutions.

From addled to wind egg, crossed beak to zygote, the terminology of everything chicken is demystified in The Chicken Encyclopedia, an illustrated A-to-Z reference that is both informative and entertaining.

Recommended for perimeter use, Giant FlyRelief™ trap catches twice as many flies as the FlyRelief™ trap.  Disposable fly traps come with built-in attractant and are excellent for use around pets, in the yard, kennel and garbage containers.

Bigtime Hunter Deluxe Deer Hunter Toy Set! Complete with a four wheeler, two hunters, two bow and arrows, two riffles, and assorted deer! The perfect toy for your little game hunter.

Medium, White with black speckles. This is a beautiful handcrafted multi-colored metal rooster that will make a beautiful addition to any Country, Italian or French style kitchen.

Large, teal with gold feathers. This is a beautiful handcrafted multi-colored metal rooster that will make a beautiful addition to any Country, Italian or French style kitchen.

Large, black with white speckles. This is a beautiful handcrafted multi-colored metal rooster that will make a beautiful addition to any Country, Italian or French style kitchen.

Prized for their beauty and intelligence, Texas Longhorns are a unique breed with much to offer. Sold for choice genetics, these cows are often bred with others to benefit those breeds with easier birthing or leaner beef. Texas Longhorn cattle have strong instincts and are very tough. They can live in arid areas, feeding on weeds and cactus, for long periods of time. Protected by their mother, these calves are exceptionally strong when born and begin walking very soon after birth.