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An Introduction to Poultry Keeping
Most smallholders start out with poultry, this guide will help you do the same.…
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Selecting breeding stock - the tup
While AI is available for use in sheep breeding, smallholders don’t commonly use it. Most of us the tried and tested m…
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An Introduction to Keeping Cattle
Keeping cattle is something many smallholders consider. In this series we explain how we went about becoming cattle keep…
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Other British traditional breeds
There are 21 traditional breeds of cattle that are not classified as rare…
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Dogs on the smallholding
Dogs can be really useful around a smallholding, as herd dogs, as security and providing rodent control but mostly, I th…
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Injecting Livestock
Most smallholders will need to inject livestock at some time. As well as antibiotics if an animal is unwell, there are r…
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Starting with cattle
If you are smallholding to produce your own food and you have enough land, I think you should think seriously about keep…
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An Introduction to Pig Keeping
If keeping poultry is usually the first livestock enterprise for the new smallholder, then keeping pigs is usually the n…
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Transporting livestock
Most smallholders will need to transport animals at some time or another. Like any other farmer, we are required to comp…
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Other Pig Breeds
If you don't want to keep a British rare breed of pig there are plenty other breeds to choose from.…
