You may be contemplating a small herd of beef for your own farm, or you may just want a steer or two to “feed up,” filling your freezer with quality beef. First, you should decide what type of cattle operation you want. Do you want to start with young calves and raise them up to harvest for yourself, or do you want to sell them as fed and finished cattle? This little book is filled with all the answers you need to start your own small-scale beef cattle farm.The Art of Small-Scale Farming with Beef Cattle: A Little Book Full of All the Information You Need provides you with the necessary resources and information needed to get started. You will learn how to raise and care for beef cattle, by choosing the right breed, how to house, pasture, feed and breed them, what to do if they are ill and the butchering process. This book also contains a list resources for all types of livestock farming as well as a special chapter of real stories from real small-scale farmers.
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