Companionhouse Books: 510 books
Ducks
Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Written by hobby farmer Cherie Langlois from Washington state, Ducks is a fantastic overview of these entertaining and adaptable waterfowl. The author begins by asking What do these water-crazy birds have that make them as much an asset to farms as landlubbing poultry?” She provides many answers...
by Philippe De Vosjoli, Philippe De Vosjoli
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Written by a team of internationally respected herpetologists led by Philippe de Vosjoli, The Ball Python Manual is an authoritative introduction to this popular snake. The ball python is admired around the world for its distinctly African appearance and its relative medium size and tameability. This...
Budgies
A Guide to Caring for Your Parakeet
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A budgie, as the common parakeet is typically called, is the subject of this Complete Care Made Easy pet guide that presents new and experienced bird keepers with insight into every aspect of selecting, caring for, and maintaining well-behaved happy pet birds.
Angela Davids has written an ideal...
The Leopard Gecko Manual
Includes African Fat-Tailed Geckos
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Considered by author Philippe de Vosjoli as the first domesticated species of lizard,” the leopard gecko has fast become the reptilian version of the parakeet or goldfish.” Leopard Geckos takes a close look at the characteristics of this species that have made these attractive lizards so amazingly...
Sheep
Small-Scale Sheep Keeping For Pleasure And Profit
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
These Hobby Farms livestock care manuals will help both experienced and novice hobby farmers realize their own dreams of life on the farm - for pleasure and profit.
Rabbits
The Key to Understanding Your Rabbit
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A Complete Care Made Easy guide to the irresistible rabbit-that big-eared super pet that is cuddly, quiet, full of personality, affordable
really cute and really soft,” in the inspired words of author Virginia Parker Guidry. Illustrated with the beautiful photography of Reneé Stockdale, Rabbits...
Llamas and Alpacas
Small-scale Herding for Pleasure and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
There has never been a better time to add a few camelid comrades to your camp-and in Llamas and Alpacas, author and expert Sue Weaver shows you just how to make it happen! With color photos, advice from experienced breeders and farmers, and a comprehensive appendix on common maladies, you'll learn...
Hobby Farm Animals
A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, and Cattle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Eggs, meat, milk, wool, fur, feathers, and some priceless bucolic bliss. No hobby farm is complete without critters
possibly a small herd peppering the field or a microflock flapping around the hen house or pond. A single information-packed volume with everything a hobby farmer needs to know about...
Project Mustang
The Step-by-Step Restoration of a Popular Vintage Car
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Project Mustang is a complete guide to restoring America’s favorite muscle car, written by auto-restoration guru Larry Lyles, a regular contributor to Auto Restorer magazine. In this detailed 23-chapter volume, Lyles walks the car owner from the in-depth inspection of the vehicle and the beginning...
Motorcycling the Right Way
Do This, Not That: Lessons From Behind the Handlebars
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Expert motorcyclist and author Ken Condon knows there is a right way to hit the road and track when you’re behind the handlebars. In this new book Motorcycling the Right Way, Condon lays out a basic riding course for motorcyclists who are smart enough to acknowledge that you don’t know what...
Healing Power of Horses
Lessons from the Lakota Indians
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Wendy Beth Baker’s The Healing Power of Horses is devoted to the world’s greatest horsepeople, the Oglala Lakota Indians of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She begins the book by sharing the philosophy of these great horse-loving people: There are those who feel the sun rises and sets on the back...
Cloud
Wild Stallion of the Rockies, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Published as a companion volume for public television’s Nature series, Cloud: The Wild Stallion of the Rockies is documentary filmmaker Ginger Kathrens’s personal retelling of her years following the wild horse she named Cloud. Beautifully designed, the book is elaborately photographed and divided...
Cloud's Legacy
The Wild Stallion Returns
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Ginger Kathrens continues the saga of the wild horses of the Arrowheads in Cloud’s Legacy, a companion volume to PBS’s NATURE program. An award-winning wildlife documentary filmmaker, Kathryns is passionate about the plight of wild horses in North America, and it is with great joy that she watches...
by Marc Morrone, Amy Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Made famous on The Martha Stewart Show on television and Sirius radio, Marc Morrone is front and center to answer his viewers’ (and his readers’) many questions about their favorite pets. In Ask the Cat Keeper, Marc’s quirky, entertaining personality shines on every page as he spews out his...