Introduction -- Chapter 1: Down On The Farm -- Outside help -- Keeping your costs down -- Pitfalls and benefits of raising livestock -- Tips for new livestock owners -- Chapter 2: Starting Small With Chickens -- Chicken breeds -- Preparing for your baby chicks -- Setting up the pen -- Incubating eggs -- Feeding and equipment -- Health concerns -- Behavioral problems -- Nutritional deficiencies -- Parasitic infections -- Infectious diseases -- Putting your investment to work -- Breeding -- Management of layers -- Candling eggs -- Chapter 3: World Of Waterfowl -- Duck breeds -- Geese breeds -- Starting out on the right foot -- Preparing for your new arrivals -- Feeding -- Health concerns -- Handling aggressive ganders -- Breeding -- Using waterfowl for weed control, insect control, and as alarms -- Chapter 4: Keeping Turkeys And Game Birds -- Modern turkey -- Guineas -- Turkey breeds -- Guinea breeds -- Housing -- Confinement -- Turkeys on range -- Partridge, pheasants, and quail -- Incubating eggs -- Housing -- Feeding -- Turkey health -- Other turkey diseases -- Guinea fowl health -- Game bird health -- Chapter 5: Rearing Rabbits -- Breeds -- Housing -- Handling -- Sexing -- Feeding -- Reproduction -- Nest boxes -- Kindling -- Health -- Pregnancy-related problems -- Chapter 6: Curious Goat -- Breeds -- Housing -- Feeding -- Forage -- Grain -- Water -- Supplements -- Using goats for weed control -- Reproduction -- Kidding -- Newborn -- Health -- Other diseases -- Chapter 7: Serene Sheep -- Breeds -- Meat breeds -- Fine-wood breeds -- Long-wood breeds -- Dual-purpose breeds -- Other sheep breeds -- Husbandry -- Reproduction -- Lambing -- Orphan lambs -- Health -- Lamb care -- Ewe health -- Other diseases affecting sheep -- Chapter 8: Pigs: The Mortgage Lifters -- Breeds -- Housing and equipment -- Feeding -- Pigs on pasture -- Reproduction -- Farrowing -- Health -- Diseases -- Parasites -- Chapter 9: Your Beef Cattle Operation -- Breeds -- Housing -- Housing very young calves -- Castration -- Dehorning -- Weaning -- Handling -- Pasturing -- Feeding -- Digestive tract anatomy -- Grain -- Hay -- Other food sources -- Reproduction -- Bull reproduction -- Health -- Vaccinations -- Leptospirosis -- Eye diseases -- Neurological diseases -- Diarrhea-causing diseases -- Chapter 10: Caring For Dairy Cattle -- Breeds -- Housing -- Handling and feeding -- Reproduction -- Dry period -- Calving -- Problems associated with calving -- Health -- Udder anatomy -- Hoof health -- Mastitis -- Preventing and controlling mastitis -- Treating mastitis -- Chapter 11: Medicating Your Livestock -- Administrating the medication -- Injections -- Chapter 12: Butchering Livestock -- Harvesting chickens -- Game birds and waterfowl -- Harvesting rabbits -- Meat -- Pelts -- How to butcher a sheep, goat, pig, or steer -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: -- How to make butter -- How to make cheese -- Resources -- General -- Supplies -- Pen design -- Poultry -- Rabbits -- Goats -- Sheep -- Pigs -- Cattle -- Small farm marketing and finance -- Cheese making and butchering supplies -- Bibliography -- Author biography -- Index.