![]() All relate to livestock or poultry including pigs, goats, sheep, cattle, chickens, donkeys, llamas and alpacas. ![]() She’s also written eleven books, four in the Hobby Farms series for i-5 Publishing and seven for Storey Publishing. Since then she’s written hundreds of articles, first specializing in horse magazines, then publications affiliated with Hobby Farms magazine. Sue Weaver began writing professionally in 1969 when her first article was published in The Western Horseman magazine. Tips for troubleshooting potential problems and warding off diseases, parasites, and predators Recommendations for ways of capitalizing on your livestock’s output, from selling eggs, milk, fiber, and so forth Special chapters devoted to the breeding and raising of young animals Detailed how-to chapters on the care, handling, feeding, health, and safety of each animal Extensive sections devoted to the seven major farm animals, including profiles of the most popular breeds and varieties With exhaustive detail, the authors offer complete coverage of chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, cattle, pigs, and rabbits, including the housing, health-care, special needs, advantages and challenges of each. Whether you’re contemplating adding a small herd of sheep or goats to your existing hobby farm or you’ve always wondered about the benefits of raising angora rabbits or Muscovy ducks, Livestock for Your Hobby Farm provides the kind of guidance you need to begin a herd or flock and expand your pens and fencing. A single information-packed volume with everything a hobby farmer needs to know about farm animals, this new comprehensive manual to selecting, caring for, and breeding livestock brings forth the expertise of six hobby farmers, each of whom has real-life on-the-farm experience with the animals she discusses. No hobby farm is complete without critters possibly a small herd peppering the field or a microflock flapping around the hen house or pond. Learn more on the Discover Ipswich website here.Eggs, meat, milk, wool, fur, feathers, and some priceless bucolic bliss. Whether you’re keen to connect with wildlife or channelling your inner farmer, the City of Ipswich has an animal encounter to suit. Or, for a fee, you can join a guided tour to meet dingoes, quolls, wallabies, bilbies, lizards, emus and a whole parade of Aussie natives. The zoo – based in Queensland’s oldest heritage park – is free to explore on your own. Penny and Dave like to keep numbers manageable – so prior bookings are essential.Įwe-nique Hobby Farm is closed for the month of February but is reopening on the 4 th of March, so be sure to visit them on the first week of March.Īs far as we know, Old MacDonald didn’t have native Australian animals on his farm – but the Ipswich Nature Centreat Queen’s Park is practically teeming with them. You may even be lucky enough to meet newborn lambs if the season is right.Īs Dave helps children get to know, pat and feed the animals – Mum and Dad can take a seat on nearby hay bales and enjoy fresh coffee and home-baked morning tea, served up by Dave’s wife, Penny.Įwe-nique Hobby Farm is just 45 minutes from Brisbane making it a great day drive option for the family. ![]() If more traditional farm animals appeal, drop into Haigslea Ewe-nique Hobby Farm for a family outing to remember.įarmer Dave will introduce you to a whole paddock of critters – from sheep and goats to alpacas and geese. ![]() Visitors can feed the animals – or choose a gentle walk across the property with a friendly llama by their side. Owner, Shane Hancock, opens his farm to families by appointment – and all proceeds go back into feeding and caring for his menagerie of animals.Īpart from 70 llamas (every one of which he knows by name!), Shane also runs miniature horses, donkeys, camels, Flemish Giant rabbits and turkeys – a Doctor Dolittle assortment of animals, happily grazing across his 80-acre farm. It’s home to the biggest privately owned herd of this strange-looking but surprisingly gentle South American natives. The Llama Farm at Pine Mountain is the perfect place to start. According to the much-loved children’s song, Old MacDonald pretty much cornered the market on farmyard animals – but we say he’s got nothing on the City of Ipswich!įinding your inner farmer is fun and easy when there are llamas, camels, ducks, geese, goats, sheep and cows to meet at family-friendly tourist locations across the region.
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