Know how

Article categories

Grow your own

Whatever the scale of your ambitions or plot you'll find something useful here.

Make your own

Reduce your footprint by making your own, from knitting to soap-making to adorning your home.

Livestock and pets

Find out about rearing livestock from the farm to the garden, and doing the best for your pets.

Energy efficiency and construction

Discover how to adapt, change and even build your own home to enable you to tread more lightly upon the planet.

Cooking, preserving and home brewing

From the home brewery to ambitions of chefly grandeur. Find out how to do it all here and really taste the difference.

Wild food

Subsidise the larder in a sustainable way. From fishing, to shooting, to foraging safely, find it among these articles.

Conservation and the environment

Conserve our world for future generations. See how you can help in these pages.

Marketplace

From shopping with a conscience to building your own enterprise. Find advice and encouragement among these pages.

Everything else

Sometimes the diversity of downsizing can throw up an unusual topic.

Editorial

Past editorial items from the downsizer front page.

You are here: Home arrow Articles arrow Livestock and pets

Livestock and pets

Find out about rearing livestock from the farm to the garden, and doing the best for your pets.

How to castrate and tail a lamb
Birth presentations in lambs
Medicine dosages for acute problems in sheep and lambs
Hay Net Holder Opener
Hatching and raising chicks
How to clip a chicken's wing
Home Slaughter - Killing with Confidence
Why Guinea fowl?
Keeping Rabbits for Meat
Rat Control
Organic Poultry Production Standards
All About Eggs
Bird Flu Basics
Pig In A Day - DVD Review
How I got the best bacon in the world (or, an Eejit’s guide to beginning with pigs)
Lambing for beginners
Beekeeping - What is it?
A yarn about the Kerry Hill…
Keeping Geese…..easy as pie!
Building your own incubator
Chicken Concerns, Problems and Ailments
Eggonomics or the maths for keeping chickens
Feeding Chickens
Chicken Keeping
 
<< Start < Prev 1 Next > End >>
Results 1 - 24 of 24