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Animals enliven your own garden and provide natural food. Dairy goats and sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, rabbits, pigs and even donkeys and alpacas can also be kept in small areas, not only in the countryside but even in urban gardens. But which animals suit the given conditions and can I care for them in a species-appropriate manner? How big is the garden, what do the neighbors say, how much time and effort does each species require? The reasons for purchasing animals can be just as varied: should they provide meat, eggs and milk, should ducks keep the vegetables free of slugs, or do the children want to look after a donkey, which we also use as a fertilizer supplier? 224 pages.The beginner's book for keeping small livestock in your own garden! Which animal species are suitable? Keeping, rearing and care Practical book and atmospheric photo book in one

?Keeping chickens made easy ~Everything you need to know: purchase and care, coop and run, nutrition and health< br>Expert information: origins, behavior, reproduction, anatomy and physiologyPortraits of the most popular chicken breeds: origins, characteristics, colors and special features A fresh egg for breakfast - especially if it comes from your own poultry - is a pleasure. The eagerly scratching chickens with their magnificent plumage convey the feeling of a rural idyll, which is why keeping poultry in the home garden is very popular. You can find out what you need to know to keep chickens in a species-appropriate manner in this comprehensive, well-illustrated guide: Knowledgeable and ~ In an understandable way, you will receive valuable tips and important information on selection and propagation, planning and design of the stable and run, as well as nutrition and behavior of the poultry.Whether you are a beginner or an experienced poultry farmer - you will find everything you need to know in this book about the body structure and organism of chickens, the development from the wild Bankiva chicken to today's domestic chicken breeds as well as the different shapes, colors and markings. More than 50 detailed portraits with the most popular breeds, from meat, laying and dual/dual-purpose breeds to fighting, ornamental and long-tailed breeds, round off the comprehensive presentation. 192 pages. ~

Flower honey from our own bee colony tastes particularly good, isorganic and sustainable. This practical manual gives new beekeepers valuable knowledge about beekeeping.Where is the ideal location for the beehive? What is included in the basic equipment and when is the honey extracted? ~Beekeeping makes a valuable contribution to the preservation of nature. ~

It was not without reason that our ancestors took off their hats to the Hollerbuschen. Popular wisdom was certain: the elderberry had healing powers. Brigitte Klaushofer tells us what is actually in elderberry and what delicacies we can prepare from flowers and berries. She looked around for us on the Holleralmen in the beautiful Salzkammergut for the best recipes and most effective home remedies and put the ancient knowledge about elderberry down on paper. 64 pages.

If you want to harvest juicy apples, pears and plums, you should trim your fruit trees regularly. The experienced arborist and forest educator Erwin Palnstorfer accompanies you with careful summer and winter pruning. You will learn all the important basic rules and the ideal time for pruning fruit trees. This will help you bring your own trees into the optimal healthy balance. 62 pages.

The best 88 recipesNot only the classics of Austrian cuisine, such as apple strudel or milk cream strudel, and recipes from grandma's cookbook, such as meat strudel and mushroom strudel, can be found in this book - also new ones Creative recipes such as pork medallions with sheep's cheese, strudel sweets with grapes or strudel dough rolls with rice and dried fruits.Many strudel doughs can be purchased ready-made in the refrigerated shelves of supermarkets, but you can do this with the step-by-step pictures and instruction videos In this book you can also make all the strudel dough fresh at home! Spicy or sweet, the recipes range from Pannonian green asparagus strudel to Styrian runner bean strudel to ham mousse in a strudel pastry basket, mango-coconut strudel or poppy-seed-strawberry strudel with marzipan.

How can you bake good bread easily and quickly - and how if you have more time and feel like using other ingredients? Christina Bauer collects all the basics about baking bread in this book - with an incredible 128 recipes for every occasion. And has the ultimate highlight ready for you: with bread recipesthat adapt to you. This means you can always find exactly the bread and pastries that suit what you need, what you feel like and how much time you have available. Browse through and find bread classics, party recipes, breakfast rolls and breads to give as gifts. Christina also shows you what you can conjure up from leftover bread - so that not a single crumb is left behind. 352 pages.Detailed basic partSourdough intensive coursewith basic basics on the topic of baking bread

Are you just discovering bread baking and need a real beginner's course that will accompany you on the way to incomparable bread enjoyment? With this bread baking course you will learn from scratch how to bake your own, really good bread. Easy to understand and with lots of illustrated steps, the book guides you through the baking process and increases in difficulty. With know-how about the tools of the trade and the various leavening agents, soon nothing will stand in the way of the fabulous bread, rolls and baguette recipes. Turn your kitchen into a bakery and bake highly digestible breads with little yeast and a long dough process. 160 pages.

​Fish in Carp Ponds – Discovering and Utilizing DiversityThis book is all about pond stocking: 20 fish species that are well-suited for carp ponds are presented in an understandable way.They include well-known species such as carp, tench, pike, and zander – but also catfish, sturgeon, rainbow trout, and even goldfish.Pond farming is becoming increasingly interesting for many people – whether as a hobby,for healthy food from home-grown fish, or as a small supplementary income.The book provides the necessary basic knowledge: It explains how the individual fish species reproduce, what they eat,how to raise them properly, and what to look out for in the event of diseases.The pond itself is also covered – topics such as pond construction, maintenance, and water quality are covered in a practical way.Whether for personal use or direct marketing: This book is a valuable companion for anyone who appreciates fresh fish from their own pond.3rd, completely revised edition. Edition,196 pages, full-color illustrations, hardcover

Handbook for keeping happy chickens - The originalThe alternative to factory farming is having your own chicken in the garden. If you want to breed happy chickens and keep them breed-appropriate even in densely built-up areas, you will find the best guide in this practical book with its easy-to-implement instructions and beautiful pictures.The extensive work deals with all questions about keeping chickens: from the right coop and its optimal equipment, the purchase of chickens, their requirements and feeding through to breeding and rearing. The different breeds of chickens are presented in detail, with old and endangered breeds in the foreground. The authors also go into the ~ Prevention and treatment of chicken diseases. ~The authors' love for these animals is reflected not only in the well-founded texts, but also in the beautiful photographs, which will delight every reader interested in chickens! 208 pages.

Successful with your own farm cheese dairy - Important business data - Learn the craft of cheese making - Over 30 tried and tested cheese recipesProcessing your own milk into cheese can be worthwhile. This book gives you all the knowledge you need. Of course, all criteria that need to be taken into account are taken into account, such as the choice of location, material procurement, business planning and legal regulations. Numerous basic recipes for the production of tried-and-tested types of cheese and suggestions for your own fine creations as well as important information on quality assurance will make you fit to successfully run a farm cheese dairy.

The best recipes from the country, perfect for you to cook and try out. The two leading agricultural trade magazines have selected 180 favorite recipes from Austrian farmers from thousands of submissions. A treasure trove from soup to cake.

After the great success of the Austrian farmer's wife cookbook, you can now find the 150 best desserts, sweets and pastries recipes from the country, submitted by farmers' wives from all regions of Austria. The numerous recipe photos really invite the reader to try cooking again.? ~Sweet main courses such as snow dumplings, wine berry punkel and blackberry sterz...? ~Cake, roulades and slices such as spice-nut cake, red wine or marzipan cake.  ~  ~Fruit cake, pumpkin seed roulade, egg yolk or Waldviertler coconut slices...? ~Cakes: Amaretto cake, yogurt wine cream and buckwheat cake...? ~Small pastries such as apple wedges, corkscrews, choux pastry donuts with raspberry cream...?  ~Sweet desserts such as elderflower mousse, cold almond pudding and chocolate  ~  ~Rum cream...

The history of Fendt tractors in words and pictures. The technically high-quality tractors have a long tradition and have become an integral part of today's agriculture. This book describes the history of the market leader from the founding family to the company's development into an important part of the globally operating AGCO agricultural machinery group. With high-quality photos from the Fendt archive, the decades-long path of development from diesel horse to Vario is described impressively and with love for technology. New edition autumn 2022. 256 pages with 174 color photos.

Essential oils, plant elixirs, fires &~ more ...This book shows that distilling means more than just producing schnapps: In addition to delicious fine spirits, essential oils can also be obtained in this way and even the secrets of alchemy can be learned little ventilation.Kai Mller introduces the art of distilling with the Big Book of Distilling. It is clearly explained how high-quality distillates are created from often simple starting products. The range extends from good, old fruit schnapps and various spirits such as vodka, whiskey, grappa or gin to essential oils and perfumes and even fuels right up to the holistic plant elixirs of spagyrics, an originally alchemical technique with which the soul the medicinal plants are to be obtained. A book that is not only aimed at distillers, but also at everyone who wants to refine products using distillation, for example also at people who want to produce the starting point for their perfumes and cosmetics themselves using the traditional cultural technique of distilling.< br>In this comprehensive book, the firing process is meticulously explained and common errors are pointed out that can negatively affect the quality of the end product.The firing apparatus and its functionality are of course the focus of the explanations. Significant attention is also paid to ensuring that the aromas are retained during the distillation process.The author:Kai Mller, born in Wrzburg in 1964, has been involved in distilling for many years. In addition to the classic distilling of schnapps and other hard liquor, he dedicates himself to the production of essential oils and perfumes. As the managing director of a large distillery supply company, dealing with the necessary equipment for distillation is part of his daily bread and he also runs an aroma and distillation museum.

In this ultimate standard work, fisheries scientist and master smoker Michael Wickert shows how to conjure up smoky, spicy delicacies in simple steps from fresh fish and fire, wood and shavings. A complete overview of smoking techniques and equipment, extensive product information and brilliant expert tips provide up-to-date knowledge for beginners and smoking professionals alike. Over 40 classic smoking recipes and inspiring new creations delight every hobby and top chef. A new classic that transforms the growing trend for fish smoking into a culinary feast for do-it-yourselfers.

Beginner's knowledge in a nutshellThe waters - habitat of the fishEquipment and techniquesNative fish and you Catch The fishing book for beginners is a compact and competent introduction to wet fishing. The book provides beginners with all the important information about fishing and is also a treasure trove of solid information about water, fish, equipment, fishing methods and much more for advanced anglers.

Slow with the young horses? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! The Foal Book by Silvia Christine Strauch is now in its third edition, which as befits a practical book tailored to a rapidly growing market has been newly revised and updated.Equestrian sport is booming . With it, breeding and raising young horses is becoming more important and foal breeding has long since achieved an economic importance within agriculture.The experienced horse book author and horse trainer Silvia Christine Strauch has therefore pooled her extensive specialist knowledge and gives valuable tips for both the breeders of young horses horses as well as for potential buyers of foals. In addition to animal-appropriate husbandry and nutrition and the early recognition of possible illnesses and errors, the correct and sensitive upbringing and basic training of the young horse are treated in particular detail.The chapters of the Foal Book are dedicated to the topics of breeding, health and education, which means a There is a unique guide in this completeness that covers all the essential areas of a young horse's life, from the time of mating to birth and rearing.

208 pages, numerous color illustrations, author: Carsten Bothe.Sausage, ham, roast, brawnHam or brawn, Mettwurst or bacon, liver sausage or fresh bratwurst - it simply tastes better when homemade!Carsten Bothe teaches everything you need to know about home slaughtering, from assessing the quality of meat to correct cutting to handling the equipment, and provides numerous expert tips and background information on sausages, pickling or preserving.< br>Whether you just want to make a few pounds of bratwurst, smoke a ham or venture into sausageing a five-hundred-pound pig, here you'll find out everything you need to know - and more.

Pitch ointment was once the most important wound healing ointment in the Alpine region. Karin Buchart shows how resins can still be collected today without harming the trees and how they are transformed into ointments and extracts with amazing healing effects.

Tiergesundheit im Stall – was Landwirte selbst tun könnenTierarztmangel und steigende Kosten machen Selbsthilfe im Stall immer wichtiger.Dr. Christ zeigt, wie Landwirte häufige Krankheiten bei Rind und Pferd erkennen und behandeln können – mit Hausmitteln, Kräutern, Homöopathie und TCM.Für viele Probleme gibt es wirksame Alternativen zur klassischen Medizin.Doch auch klare Hinweise, wann der Tierarzt nötig ist, fehlen nicht.Im Anhang erklärt der Autor, wie man Kräuterauszüge, Tinkturen und Salben selbst herstellt – einfach, verständlich und mit Zutaten, die jeder besorgen kann.96 Seiten, 15 x 21 cm, Hardcover

Smoke, but how? Anyone who is thinking of investing in a smoker is well advised to read this book for beginners and will certainly be able to decide after reading whether they are more of a smoker or a grill type.The beefy steel giants are already inspiring a bit of respect. Not just visually. The operation is also not intuitive for the average BBQer.So if you are thinking about authentically following the low &~ slow"~ If you want to indulge yourself and don't yet know exactly what a side firebox or cooking chamber is all about, you can find out in this beginner's book whether smoking can become a new passion.The book is for smoker greenhorns among other things:Tips for choosing the right smokerInstructions for different types of lighting Assistance in choosing the accessories.. .and of course lots of recipes!

Do gourds, stinging nettles, Gundermann etc. feel right at home in your carefully tended garden? This book declares war on the top 10 most annoying weeds with a wooden spoon. Because: Weeds are not only annoying, they are delicious! Over 60 simple wild herb recipes make the wild usurers the show stars of the kitchen. From nettle foam soup to plantain rolls to chickweed dessert - use the free vegetables from the garden instead of just being annoyed. And who knows, maybe you'll lose your heart to the uninvited guests after all?

Animal owners are constantly confronted with illnesses in their animals. This comprehensive and richly illustrated practical book describes all important livestock diseases and shows how they can be recognized and treated correctly. Since it makes sense to prevent illnesses from occurring in the first place, a lot of space is also given to possible preventative measures. In addition to diseases of the classic farm animals: cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry, bee and fish diseases are also presented. A chapter in this book is also dedicated to diseases of wild animals, as agricultural wildlife farming is becoming increasingly important. 232 pages. From the content: ~Animal diseases that require notification ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Farm animals and their physiological values ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  ~ ~ ~Cattle diseases ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Sheep and goat diseases ~ ~ ~  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~The most important diseases in pigs, horses, ~  ~  ~  ~  ~ Poultry, farmed game, fish and bees ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Animal welfare requirements