Louise Riotte has taught thousands of gardeners how to plant and harvest in harmony with the astrological calendar. Now she offers her expertise to help improve the health and well-being of your domestic and farm animals. In her endearing style, Riotte provides practical animal-care advice as she explains the astrological calendar sign by sign. Learn how to use seasonal changes to increase the milk production of your goats and cows, improve your hens' laying, judge when to shear a sheep, and properly time your animals' breeding. Her guide to the therapeutic properties of herbs will help you keep your animals healthy throughout their lives. Raising Animals by the Moon is a delightful blend of whimsy and hardworking, practical knowledge that can come only from Louise Riotte. Beloved author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. During her life, she wrote twelve books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes. Her father taught her how to practice astrology, while her mother was an herbalist. Together they greatly influenced her life and her books, including Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and Raising Animals by the Moon. Riotte was an artist as well as a writer, and her own drawings appear in all of her books. She took great pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma. When we learn the laws of nature--what to do and when to do it--we have the proper tools for strengthening both ourselves and our stock and curing or preventing many ills. --Louise Riotte Louise Riotte has taught thousands of gardeners how to plant and harvest in harmony with the astrological calendar. Now she offers her expertise to help improve the health and well-being of your domestic and farm animals. In her endearing, conversational style, Riotte provides practical animal-care advice as she explains the astrological calendar sign by sign. Learn how to use seasonal changes to increase the milk production of your goats or cows, improve your hens' laying, judge when to shear a sheep, and properly time your animals' breeding. Her guide to the therapeutic properties of herbs will help you keep your animals healthy throughout their lives. Raising Animals by the Moon is a delightful blend of whimsy and hard-working, practical knowledge that can come only from Louise Riotte. Chapter 1: Cosmic Clocks of Fur, Fin, and Feather Chapter 2: Capricorn, or Getting Your Goat Chapter 3: Venus, the "Bee Star" Chapter 4: Libra, for Beautiful Birds Chapter 5: The Rabbit, Symbol of the Moon Chapter 6: The Sign of Leo for "Little Lions" Chapter 7: Sirius, the Dog Star Chapter 8: The Square of Pegasus Chapter 9: Taurus, the Bull Chapter 10: The Sign for Swine Chapter 11: Aries, the Sign of the Ram Chapter 12: Neptune Rules Pisces Chapter 13: Medicinal Herbs for Animals Appendix Index

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